The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1899-04-29
NORTHWEST NOTES.


woman's Baptist Foreign Missionary
Society Of the West.
Lieutenant Gustave Nickel OF the
First Montana regiment has arrived
home from Manila and will receive an
honorable discharge
Frank Smith of Pueblo, Colo, driver
OF soda water wagon, shot and killed
his wife and himself as the outcome of
a divorce suit recently brought by the
woman.
II is said that money has been Sc
cured for the building OF the air line
from Denver to Salt Lake City. Col
orado people have been talking of this
line of road for years.
The employees in the train and yard
departments OF the Midland Terminal
company OF Colorado are on strike
for shorter hours. About 200 men are
affected The road Is tied up.
Governor Thomas OF Colorado will
veto the bill passed by the general as
sembly at its recent session providing
for the indeterminate sentence with
parole privileges for prisoners.
William Harris and John Tell were
fatally burned by an explosion Of gas
in the Colorado Fuel and Iron com
pany's mine at New Castle, Colo. The
mine is considerably damaged.
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Dan Lucy, charged with the murder
OF Patrick l.. Regain, near Butte, in
September, 1898, has been landed In
the Silver Bow county Jail, he having
been captured in Cripple Creek, Colo
An insane man, Richard willis, con-
fined in the Yuba, CAL, courthouse,
managed to fire the building, and was
himself burned to death. The county
Jail, adjoining, was also completely de.
stroyed.
The citizens of Meanwhile, Ore,
have petitioned the president 70 dis
charge the soldiers from that town
now serving in the Philippines, and
protest against their retention in that
country.
Floods caused by melting snow In
the mountains near Sheridan, Wyo.,
did an immense amount of damage In
that city. Five buildings were washed
away and the main supply pipe of the
water works broke, shutting off the
water supply.
Paride Fransoi, miner, was killed
In the Union Pacific coal mine at Rock
Springs on the Goth, by a fall Of coal.
His partner escaped the same fate by
going out of the room for some oil for
his lamp moment or two before the
coal fell.
A fight, is on in Grand Junction,
Colo, regarding licensing saloons. All
licenses expired on the 18th, and the
new council has refused to grant Ii
censes, the marshal being instructed tc
close all saloons. The matter will bt
settled In court.
Harry Brasure, aged 40, was drowned
In Bitter creek, Wyo., last week. lie
had been gambling and drinking and
was last seen alive at 10 o'clock in the
morning. Two hours later his body
was found in the creek. There Is som,
suspicion that he was robbed anC
thrown into the creek.
A Cheyenne woman applied to the
district court one evening last week
for divorce from her husband and In
less than twenty hours after fling the
application the case was tried the
woman granted divorce, with 81, zoo
alimony. This breaks the record In
divorce proceedings in Wyoming.
The management of the Globe Smelt
ing company, at Denver, declares that
the plant will not be closed down, but
that on the contrary more men will bt
employed than ever before, and that
Che old scale will be paid, but the mer
will not receive as much for eight
hours work as they did for twelve.
Two colored miners, Henry Moore
and Mark Miller, quarreled at Rock
Springs last week, ind Moore sho,
Miller through the thigh, infiicting a
dangerous wound. AS u sequel to the
first shooting, William Shortridgt
(colored) attempted to kill his wife
because she visited Miller after he was
shot, jealousy being the cause of all
the trouble.
The loss OF stock throughout the
northwest is not nearly so large al
was at first supposed, all owing to tn,
excellent condition OF stock when tn,
bad weather came on. The stock a
present are in good condition and ar,
doing well.
Not only is there an increase in in
terest in the mines of Nevada this year
but farmers from all over the state re
port indications Of good crops NevadI
is fast forging to the front as an agri
cultural state, as well as a magnifcen
mining commonwealth.
Six of the soldiers of the Second vol
unteer cavalry who lost their lives IL
the south last summer were buried a
Fort Russell, Wyo., on the 10th inst.
with imposing military ceremonies
The names of the deceased are Richar,
Clark, Archie Sackett, Samuel John
son, William C. Comstock, Charles A
Pierson and Lemuel Smith. Two los
their lives in railway accidents Will
their regiment was on its way to tn
front, and four died in southern hos
pitfalls from fever contracted while 4