Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-01-14
|NORTHW EST NOTES

failing loss of $25 900.
A new postorice named Taft has
been established in Uinta county, wyo.
1t viii be served from Kemmerer. 2S
miles south. Marie Isenhart is post.
mistress.
State officials are asking game |
wardens of Washington to scatter
grain for quail and other birds. I'm
less this is done most of the game
birds win be killed by the snow and
cold
The report of the state board of
equalization of Montana shows that
the value of the realty is s124 ,32s,449,
of which s49,5SS,S SIG is in farm lands,
while city lots are assessed at $685.
014,040.
A special from Lewiston, Montana,
says that in a battle between Deputy
Sheriff All Morgan and John Pflager,
in the Snowy mountain district the
latter was killed. Morgan has been
on Players trail for several days.
The seventeenth general assembly
OF Colorado met at noon on January
6. Both branches are Democratic, and
TIE election of Charles ]. Hughes. Jr.,
of Denver, to the United States senate
to succeed Henry NJ Teller. is assur~
red.
Representatives of all train service
railroad organizations in Montana, held
a meeting in Helena last week and
selected a Joint executive board for
the purpose of securing desired legis-
lation at the hands of the eleventh leg
islative assembly.
All hope that Butte would be open"
for boxing and gambling, entertained
by the liberal element, which elected
Sheriff O'Rourke, was dissipated when
that officer, who took his seat last
week, announced that he means to en-
force the statutes.
Five Frenchmen who left Stony
Plain for Macleod river three days
previous were frozen to death three
miles west of the Nine-mile house on
the Grand Trunk-Pacific railway sur
vey, according to a dispatch from Ed
monitor. Canada.
The suit brought at Reno, Nevada,
by Warren Miller, formerly vice-presi
dent of the corporation, to dissolve the
Nat c. Goodwin Brokerage company.
and asking 100000 damages, alleging
fraud and mismanagement of funds,
has been dismissed
Patrick ]. Graham, native of Ire
land and pioneer of Minnesota and
Montana, died at Butte last week OF
senile debility. The exact date OF Mr..
Grahams birth is not known, but
members of his family claim he was
over 100 years of age.
Frozen feet are seldom heard OF IN
Los Angeles. but Joseph Robinson, a
! 17-year-old negro, was taken from the
brake-rods of an incoming Southern
Pacific train suffering from that cause
He had come fl ON Ell Paso and the
cold of the desert had frozen his feet
William Thompson, 80 years old
was found dead in his room in Seat
tie with bullet hole in his heart, a
revolver clutched in his hand, and a
Bible open at the twenty-third Psalm
as if he had been reading the passage
The Lord is my shepherd l shall
not want. He maketh me to lie down
in green pastures"
The charges brought by James
May, the Nevada gambling king
against Harry Macmillan, the Nevada
mining man, that Macmillan had
passed worthless checks to the
amount Of $4,000, have fallen to the
ground. Macmillan was charged with
having given the checks in payment
for gambling debts.
Joe Sullivan, who led a plot to tun
mel from the cells in the Montana
state penitentiary nine years ago, and
when discovered made a hard fight
was released from prison through al
error last week, and Immediately dis
appeared, although the officers are
searching for him, and hope to effec
his capture.
The report of the secretary of tn
state board of stock commissioner
of Montana shows that there wer
shipped from Montana during the yea
, 1908 a total of 241 800 head of cattle
OF this number 219,891 were shippe
to the eastern markets, 1927 to tn
, coast market, 1912 to Canada, an
/ IT is estimated there were used b.
local consumption 5000 head.
Leo Little, who died at Goldfield las
week was one of the first to ente
; Dawson, when the gold fever was a
, its height and built the first cabin i
Nome. After a residence OF severa
, years in Alaska he went to GoldfielC
, where he had been for the past tire
} or four years.
a Edward Barrett, machinist wa
literally ground to fragments, and +
! p. Fitzgerald severely bruised in tn
. Steptoe valley smelter at McGill, New
' when power clutch propelling tn
i machinery slipped. and it started 1
motion. The men were engaged 1