The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1902-10-09
NORTHWEST NOTES.

Denver on October LIST.
The benefit held in Butte last week
for the striking miners Of Pennsyl-
vania netted in the neighborhooe of
$1,000.
A Chiuaman who had leased the SAL
mon creek plscers. near Baker City,
Ore, found . gold nugget last week
worth $1,000.
Two trains collided on curve be-
tween Columbus aud Park City, Mont,
two men being killed and the engine
and mail cars wrecked.
Patrick Kelly of Helena, aged 65
years, fell dead in the hallway Of tho
first floor at the Fiplen hotel at Butte
on Friday as a result OF heart failure.
An eighteen.year- old boy who was
miles east OF Cheyenne has been identi-
fed as Albert Trudeoo OF Sioux City,
Iowa.
Henry Breitenstein, editor of the
Labor News and Socialist candidate for
governor, has left Wyoming, and the
Socialists will have to find another
candidate.
Thomas Mccormick, a rancher living
near Laurel, Mont, was thrown from
his horse and dragged a considerable
distance, receiving injuries which may
prove fatal.
While Charles Booth, aged 8, was
playing on the railroad tracks at Great
Falls, Montana, he was struck by "a
| switch engine and instantly killed, be-
ing badly mangled.
A man entered a saloon at a railroad
camp near tarlin, Nevada, and ordered
the proprietor to throw up his hands.
Instead, the proprietor whipped out a
revolver aud shot the would be hold-up,
killing him instantly.
John W. Burns, Labor party candi-
date for sheriff and for thirteen years
miner in the Rocky Fork mines, was
killed at Deer Lodge. Mont, by falling
from a ledge of rock to the floor of the
room, Il distance of eight feet.
The ordinance recently passed by the
Cheyenne council making gambling a
misdemeanor punishable by fine or i'm
prisonment was last week enforced for
the first time when three proprietors Of
gambling houses were fined 500 each.
The coroner's jury that investigated
the Union Pacific wreck that occurred
at Rawlins, Wyo., in which four men
lost their lives, returned u verdict that
the wreck was due to gross carelessness
on the part of the railroad. The wreck
was caused by the failure OF the air
brakes of freight train to work
Hop-pclting ia Washington is now
practically over. Hop-growers are
disappointed over the yield, which is
ope-tifth below what was expected
Dry weather prevented the hops from
maturing. Oregon crops are just re-
versed and will reach $4,000 to 30, 2O(
bales, as compared with 10000 las,
year.
A resolution has been introduced in
the Portland city council allowing
gambling houses, slot machines ano
disorderly houses to run under police
regulations. 1t is claimed that the
revenue which the city will derive from
these various sources II the resolution
is passed will be in excess Of 5,0Ot
per month.
A riot occurred at Fenelon, Nevada
one day last week, as Q result Of which
j. Q. Sullivan sustained a serious gun
shot wound. The riot occurred be
tween about thirty Greeks and Sulli
van, who is a sub-contractor. Thu
trouble arose over . misunderstan q int
about wages. The Greeks attacked
Sullivan. and In the melee he was shot
Boyd Kirk, an engineer at the elec
trio light house at Rawlins, Wyo wa
instantly killed by an electric shock
No one was in the room with him a
| tue Jlme OF the hcciutnJ, anu IL ls no
known just how it happened. 1t i
thought that Kirk, in making tn
switch, had taken hold of the rods will
both hands aud received the full fore
of $500 volts through his body.
The Colorado & Southern has com
menced the strengthening OF tn
bridges OF its Wyoming division pre-
paratory to the hauling Of heavie
shipments OF ore from the mines a
Sunrise to the works Of tho Colorad
Fuel. & Iron company AZ Pueblo. A
present about $50 tons = day ar
hauled, but after November LIST tn
output is to be increased to 1000 tons
day.
: A family Of Poles living At Grea
Falls. Montana. lost 5000 in . peculia
manner. The family, whose name