The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-02-10
NORTHWEST NOTES.
UTAH.


Francis G. Newlands has been elected
senator from Nevada, the vote being
AZ for Newlands and for Hawley.
At Livingston Mont, last week Mrs.
Jennie Ballard was granted divorce
from her husband and two hours later
was married again.
I. K. Carey, a brakeman. was SER
tously injured in caboose In the yards
ht Rawlins, Wyo. The brake failed to
hold, knocking him against the end OF
the car.
Owen Thorn, the Aspen, Colo, mer-
chant charged with the murder OF
James Coutts, who was found dead in
Thom's store, has been discharged
from custody.
jesse Jensen, air brake inspector,
was fatally injured while repairing an
air hose between freight cars at
Cheyenne. The train suddenly started
while he was underneath the cars.
Levi Ankeny, the millionaire banker
and farmer Of Walla Walla, was elected
United States senator on joint ballot at
the session Of the Washington legisla.
ture on the Goth, to succeed Senator
George Turner.
The bill providing for the removal OF
the state soldiers and sailors home
from Cheyenne to the old Fort McKin-
ney military reservation near Buffalo
was favOrably reported in the Wyo-
ming house last week.
The mine owners In the vicinity of
Baker City, Oregon, are making de.
termined fight against the repeal OF the
one mile limit law, which prohibits the
opening OF q saloon within one mile of
any Incorporated mine.
The United States Potash company,
capital 100000. and with $40, 1000 ex-
ploration fund, has been organized by
Detroit, Mich, men to mine for potas-
SUM chloride at the Du Maris hot
springs, near Cody, Wyo.
The jury in the Maher- Dineen 81, 1000
damage suit at Cheyenne failed to
agree and was discharged. The case
was a peculiar one. Maher was injured
dn runaway accident while driving
horses belonging to Dineen.
The Spokane Rod and Gun Club has
instructed its secretary to extend an
invitation TO President Roosevelt to
stop In that city during his proposed
trip to the Pacific coast and take bear
hunt under the clubs auspices.
The Oregon legislature has passed q
bill prohibiting the employment OF
children under IA years of age, in fac.
tories, shops, mines, or in telegraph,
telephone OF. messenger service, or in
any employment during school hours.
Arrangements are being made for
the extension OF the telephone line
from ThermOpolis, Wyo., to Billings,
Mont. The line will be completed
by July l, and will be the first
line across Wyoming from south to
north. |
While George Peterson was throw
Ing out dynamite at the coal mine
near Lewiston, Mont, the stun ex-
ploded. Peterson was instantly killed
and heavy anvil that was nearby was
blown to pieces by the force OF the
explosion.
Louis Benan, q miner of Sunlight,
Colo, has been arrested charged with
threatening to blow up tunnel OF the
mine and kill some of the miners. He
declares the charge is unfounded and
was brought by fellow employees In o
spirit of revenge,
The bill providing for the establish
ment Of an agricultural college at
Lander, Wyo., was killed by large
majority. This measure has been in.
PRODUCED in every legislature since the
creation OF the state and each time
JAILED of passage.
The fight over the wolf bounty bill In
he Wyoming house of representatives
8 becoming very warm. The bill calls
Tor an appropriation Of S35, 900 to pay
bounty on predatory wild animals and
'aises the bounty ON wolves to IS and
IN coyotes to Sl25.
There is much alarm among stock.
men OF northeastern Montana owing to
he heavy snowfall which has hardened
m the top so that the stock can not get
It the grass. The snow is crusted 30
lard that it will bear up wagon, and
is feared the loss will be enormous.
Thomas A. Cosgriff of Rawlins, a
member of the firm of Cosgriff Bros,
which is extensively interested In the
general merchandise and
heep business in Wyoming and Utah,
as purchased controlling interest In
he First National bank Of Cheyenne.
At Davenport, Wash, Charles Hill, a
armer, while drunk shot Joseph Hoy,