The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-01-05
NORTH WEST NOTES

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trayersed by four mountain ranges
that have a north-south trend and all
Of which are heavily mineralized.
In q duel with gums near Loyelock
New, A. Killaberw and william Wal
ker were killed. Killabrew was shot
fourteen times Bg h p1en were ranch
ers Family trouble ls given as the
cause Of the fight.
Rev. Father Joseph B Thompson,
pastor OF st. Josephs church, and one
of the best known priests In Montana,
died al Butte, Thursday, OF cancerous
affection, following an Illness which
dates from September.
While dressing a goose for Christ.
mas dinner, Mrs. Harry Todd of Chey-
enne found three gold nuggets in the
craw The goose was bought from a
farmer near Grow creek, the scene OF
a gold excitement years ago,
Or. r. e, Button, formerly promi.
nent Billings, Mont, physician, shot
and killed his wife at Livingston, and,
| after drinking q quantity of poison,
shot himself, dying instantly The But
tons had been divorced for some time.
He is believed to have been insane.
Immediately after the funeral of
Dan Anderson, the Assiniboine ranch
| er who was murdered near his home,
his eldest son James, 10 years of age,
was arrested upon an information
filed by the county attorney at Havre,
Mont, charging him with the crime.
] A Carey act project is now being
shaped up to reclaim 5000 acres of
land In Steptoe valley, about thirty
miles from Ely, New, which is attract
Ing much attention. Many applications
have been received from persons de.
string to make homes for themselves.
! Captain G, Palmer. 70 years of age,
organizer of the Butte & Boston com.
pany, and one of the best snown min.
Ing men of America, die& Wednesday
morning at his home in Atlantic City,
N. J. Captain Palmer came to Butte
in 1888 from the Lake Superior cop
per district
At the close of the preliminary
hearing at Oregon City of Nathan B.
Harvey, charged with the murder of
four members of the family of William
Hill at Ardenwald, Ore, last June
Justice Sampson discharged the de,
PENDANT, generating him from all com.
plicfty in the murders.
Mrs. Emeline Pankhurst, English
suffragist addressed Montana club
women at luncheon arranged by
them in her honor at Butte on Wed.
nesday. In the afternoon she was es-
corteds over Butte at the head of an
automobile parade, in which were
prominent women of the state.
Raising of sheep for wool and NUT
ton is one of the largest industries in
| White Pine county, Nevada. Many
thousands Of sheep are owned and
grazed In the county while some of
the valleys are regular winter ranges
for sheep from Utah and Idaho. An
CORA goats are also raised with good
success.
The supreme court of Montana has
reversed the district court of Dawson
county and granted Max M. Leakey,
convicted If first degree murder and
under GsNtence to be hanged, a new
i trial Leakey shot and killed Frank
/ Nelson in Wibaux when the latter
took horse which the former had
hired at a livery stable.
District Judge ]. H. Teller has issued
a writ of mandamus to compel Mayor
| R. W. Speer and other city officials
of Denver to call special election on
amendments to the city charter pro-
viding a commission form of govern
ment, including the preferential sysl
tenn of voting and the headless bal
lot.
After breaking into and out of the
burglar proof vault of the county
! treasurer, six prisoners escaped from
the county Jail at Bozeman, Mont, and
are still at large. The prisoners es-
Fcaped from the Jail cage" by prying
off lock on the main door with an
iron bar. and digging through the
walls.
The report of wholesale starvation
of elk in the Yellowstone park seems
to be without foundation. The super
intendent of the park reports that the
elk are thriving and doing as we'll if
not better in any other portion of the
country. The most conservative esti-
mate places the number of elks in the
park at 10000
Sending his wife on an errand to a
neighbor. a man named Brock, living
on homestead at the head of Cora
creek, about twelve miles from Belt
Mont, killed his two babies with a
rifle and then ended his own life by
the same means.
I Dan Anderson, an old freighter, was
shot and killed from ambush near
Hayre, Mont. He had delivered load
of hay at a cattle camp and his dead
body was found in the bottom of the
hayrock by his wife upon the return OF
the team to his home.
Guilty of murder in the first degree
with a recommendation of life i'm
! prisonment was the verdict returned
by the jury at Golden, Colo, in this