The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1910-12-23
NORTHWEST NOTES

smoothly worn iron door and re
ceived broken leg, Chris Bliskey
has started suit against the city OF
Butte. asking S6,475 as damages.
d. H. Moffat, president of the First
National bank of Denver, and ]. A.
Thatcher, president of the Denver Ma
tional bank, have issued a joint state
! ment denying reports that the two
banks are to be consolidated January l.
An ordinance prohibiting smoking at
polling places on election day was
passed by the city council of Seattle
last week. The ordinance is the direct
result of the adoption of the woman
suffrage amendment to the state con
stitution.
Charles Lansing, whom the officers
believe to be one of the cleverest for.
gers in Montana, has been arrested
and brought back to Lewiston from
Roundup, Mont, and placed in the
county jail for passing worthless
checks.
Many of the applicants for forest
reserve homesteads in the Kootenai
valley and its tributaries have already
moved on their land, but the majority
of the applicants will wait until spring
before beginning residence on their
| homesteads.
Cultural maps are now required to
be flied with the state engineer by all
users Of water under permission
granted under the terms of the state
laws Of Nevada, relating to the appro-
priation and use of water for irrigation
and other purposes.
A. L. Peterson of Fort Dodge, Ia,
was instantly killed, and c. K Wei
lington fatally injured at Walcott
Wyo., when the hand-car on which
they were riding was struck by a work
train. Both men were connected with
the engineering department OF the
Union Pacific.
Mike Manailovic, an Austrian,
against whom On indictment was ne.
turned Isl The last grand jury for ceus.
Ing rc ous riot at McGN, Neva ..
+ seEw D. has been permitted To
plead guilty 10 q charge Of simple as-
a1uit anl VIII serve FIVE months in
the county jan
rolert IT. Armstrong, Seattle man
as5 Of the United Wireless com any
has been arrested ana furnished
$500 tail for his appearance in EeN
York january 30, to testify in tha gov
ernmcats case against Colonel G. C
Wilson, president OF the United Wire
less company, who is accused of using
the United States mails to defraud.
Denver police have about reached
the conclusion that the murder OF Mrs.
Dorinto Cellanto, whose mutiiated
body was found on a farm six miles
from Denver Sunday, was a part Of
the work Of murderous gang. They
associate it with the deaths ana dis
appearances of several other persons
in the north side foreign colony OF
Denver
According to complete official re-
turns, the plurality of Governor John
A. Shafroth, Democrat, at the recent
election was 17,7S3. OF this Denver
county gave him a plurality of 1861
The heaviest snowfall of the season
was general throughout Montana, on
November Is, the precipitation in
Butte reaching more than fifteen in
ches after a storm lasting practically
all day. Helena enjoyed fall of eight
teen inches.
Mrs. c. d. Smith of Hulet, Wyo.,
who was charged with killing her hus-
band by shooting him through the
heart with rifle while he lay asleep,
has been acquitted by jury at Sheri-
dan, Wyo. The judge instructed the
jury to bring in a verdict of first de-
gree murder or acquittal.
1t is reported that black wolves,
nearly extinct, are reducing the herds
Of cattle near Kremmling, Colo. The
Grand Valley Cattlemen's association,
10 which the cattle raisers around
Kremmling belong. is offering a boun-
ty of $55 per head for wolves, with
the promise of all assistance possible
% hunters.
The avalanche at Millington, Wash,
IN March l last, which carried two
Great Northern passenger trains into
persons. was an act of Providence,
against which the railroad company
could not guard, according to a de-
,ision handed down by Superior Judge
w w. Black. at Everett, Wash.
One Of the last CT the line of the
famous old Nevada pioneers and en-
pire builders who made western his 4
tory. in the days of the Comstock
mother lode, H. NJ. Yerington, super
intendent of the Virginia & Truckee
railroad, died at his home in Carson
City on November 25. He was 81
years old and had been in active ser.
vice until few weeks ago.
A dispatch from Sheridan, Wyo.,
rays that Alonzo w. Cotton was shot
and killed at his ranch, one mile over
The southern Montana boundary, by
George Harris, a neighboring ranch
man, presumably in a dispute over
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