The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1903-10-23
NORTHWEST NOTES.

RUSSIA ana Japan.
Fifteen cars Of an o. r. a N. freight
train went into the ditch near Huron.
Ore. but no one was killed, a brake.
man being slightly injured.
Isaac Grpvelle. the ringleader who
attempted to dynamite a Northern
Pacific train near Helena, Mont. has
been captured and lodged in jail
Chemists have analysed the wator
which caused the Illness OF sixty.eight
milltiamen at Cripple Creek. and de.
clare that poison was placed in the
water.
+. J. Nash and wife, convicted in
Cheyenne Of check raising. having
raised check from 81 to $40. have
been sentenced to one year each in
the penltentiary.
Governor Peabody Of Colorado has
instructed Colonel Edward verdeck.
berger. the officer in command OF tho
troops at Cripple Greek. to reduce tho
force there to 500 men
The telephone lines running out Of
Rawllns, wyo, which were almost to
tally destroyed by winds. are now
serviceable again. A large force OF
men have boon employed.
Mrs Kate Lonegan. with her 2.year.
old son Francis in her arms, lost her
way on the prairie near Denver. Colo,
last week In n snowstorm and fell into
an irrlgatIng ditch, where both wero
found dead.
"Purest kind OF bosh and absolutely
nothing to IT," said Governor Peabody
with reference 20 the report that he
had been advised by President Roose-
welt to reduce the military force in
Cripple Creek.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles NJ. Patterson
Of Portland. Ore, were fatally burned
in FIRE at that place last week Tho
building they were occupying caught
on Ere and before they we're aware OF
tho fact the flames reached them.
Mrs. p. Nellie Of Havre. Mont. nc.
cidentally shot herself with a 32-cal
ibre pistol. the ball passing through
the body Just above the heart, and It
is feared she cannot recover. It is
claimed the shooting was accidental.
Charles Haon, the 17.year-old boy
who has confessed TO being one OF the
gang who attempted TO rob n train
near Corbott, Ore. declares he was
an unwilling participant In the at
tempt. but that he was afraid TO leave
the gang. for fear they would kill him.
Tho formal transfer OF the Markell
hotel property at Rawlins. wyo., has
been made to the Union Pacific Hotel
company. The new dining hall viii
be completed in ten days. and It IA
understood the old structure will be
converted into a club house and read.
ing room for the railroad men.
At Butte. Mont, on the 18th. VIII.
liam scallon. president of the Anacon-
da Copper company, gave the $500
employees Of the company a holiday
on full pay. A feature OF the day
was monster street parade and a
barbecue at which four steers. 10000
sandwiches, 90 barrels Of beer and 49,
900 union label cigars were served.
The people OF Hamilton. Mont, are
wild with excitement over a great gold
discovery made on Owl creek. few
miles from the town. A regular STAN.
pede is on for the new fields. At the
discovery point II is said the ledge is
fully 1900 feet wide and that there
is enough ore In sight to keep fifty.
stamp mill running for ten years with
out doing any underground mining.
Assays run from s1O7 to 81 1000 in gold
to the ton.
convlcts J. II. Wood and Joseph
Murphy, who participated in the break
at the Folsom state prison, Sacra-
mento, Cal, which resulted in the
killing by one or more Of the convicts
of Guard cotter, we've held to answer
for murder.
A gang Of horss thieves who tried
to run horses off the Fort Peck res
ervatlon, Montana, last week, were
ambushed and two OF them killed. Tho
Indians engaged in a running fight
with the outlaws. driving them of the
reservation.
Porter Elliott OF Minnesota, who
was arrested at the White House on
the 9th inst, and who made a violent
attack on the officers who had him in
custody, has been officially adjudged
insane and removed to st. Ellzabeth's
insane asylum.
At Glendlve, Mont. John KInahan
was sentenced to life imprisonment,
and John Wilson TO fifteen years in
the penitentiary for the murder OF
two box car tourists on n moving
Northern Pacific train near Wibaux,
n few Wootfc npn