The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1902-07-11
northwest NoFEs.


In Portland, Oregon. bv order Of the
chic Of police, all gambling houses in
that city have been closed.
August schievie was hanged AZ ST.
Helena, Or. last week for the murder
OF Joseph SchulkowslSi on December
Goth last.
lone hishwsjinan held UP gamB.
ling house at spokane, Wash, last
week and secured about 81 600 from
the gamblers banks. The robber left
no clue as TO his identity.
Articles OF Incorporation Of the Mon.
tana Smelling and Refining company,
under the laws OF the state OF South
Dakota, have been Aled in Butte. The
capital stock is 81, 100000.
disappointment In love affair and
In her ambition to become an actress
caused Miss Pauline Dawson, aged 20
years, TO commit suicide at Denver.
Colo. last week with chloroform.
Judge Loud Of the district court has
rendered most important decision
affecting the wool growers Of Montana
The judge ruled that the warehouse
companies can incorporate under the
law Of the state.
James Birch, a miner from Erie.
Colo, attempted TO board moving
train at Redding, Cal, one day last
week and met horrible death. His
headless body was found between the
rails near the depot.
John Valentine, OF Butte, Mont,
was convicted OF gambling in Judge
McClernan's court and fined $3.50 by the
court. This is the first conviction OF n
defendant accused Of gambling out Of
nearly twenty trials.
In southern Wyoming threatening
clouds have obscured the sun for the
past twenty-four hours and snow has
fallen the greater part OF that time,
accumulating In the mountains to
depth OF several inches.
Fire at Carson, New, last week de-
stroyed the State Orphans home. The
fire is supposed TO have started from
fireworks used by the children. No
lives were lost. The loss to the state
will be $40, 900, covered by insurance.
In street car accident at Boulder,
Colo, one woman was killed aud
twenty persons Injured. The cars
we're heavily loaded and the brakes
failed TO hold the train. II rushed
down the hill with tremendous veloc-
ity, the train oVerturning at a bend In
the track.
In wreck on the Montana Central
railway, seventeen miles east OF Great
Falls, Mont, Engineer Charles Peck
and Fireman William McCameron were
Instantly killed. The wreck was caused
by a washout due to the heavy rains,
and both the engineer aud fireman
were horribly mangled and crushed In
the crash.
The annual report OF the Collector
OF Internal Revenue, Dunno, for the
district Of Oregon, Washington and
Alaska for the fiscal year ending July
LIST, shows that the sale Of revenue
stamps amounted to sl,OOi ,ss5. After
July LIST the district will be divided,
w. ID. Croker OF walla walla having
been appointed collector for Washing
ton aud Alaska.
John Henderson, famous soldier
aud scout, died ut Havre, Mont, Sun
day, aged rs years. Henderson was n
scout in the Indian campaigns and
went to the northwest for the Cana
dian government as representative in
that capacity. Henderson assisted in
the capture OF Louis Reil and later
hanged that balf-breed at negiua.
A most diabolicAl attempt was made
at Butte, Mont, last week to chloro-
form family OF seven persons with
the object, II is presumed, OF abduct-
ing Eva McGaffrey, a quarter-breed
Indian girl. The perpetrator OF the
deed s. said To have been Peter Demp-
sey the condemned murderer who es-
capped from the county Jail about
year ago. Dempsey is known to have
been enamoured OF the Indian girl |
prior TO his arrest
As result Of cutting scrape at
Denver, Colo, last week, one man will |
likely die and one man may lose leg.
William and Eli FArris were horribly
cut about the arms and hands, the
former also being stabbed just below
the heart and will not recover. Frank
Foster, who did the cutting. was ter
ribly beaten and had his leg broken In
two places, so that Rmpu tatlou Is nee
eshary. The trouble started by Foster
insulting one Of the Farris brothers.
In Phoenix, Ariz., last week Alex
ander o. Brode took the oath Of office
before Chief Justice Kent In the exc
cutive chamber Of the capitol building
and Immediately entered upon the dis
charge OF his duties as governor OF
Arizona.
In the state circuit court at Portland,
Or, Judge Frazer signed an order re.