The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1904-09-23
NORTHWEST NOTES.

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Angus, Koch. restaurant proprietor.
was ruL down and Killed by South
orn Pacific train within the city limits
Of Portland.
II was unanimously decided at a
meeting OF the Butte Butchers union
b raise the boycott on all Of the pro.
ducts OF the eastern packers.
James Miles Of Hoqulam. wash
shot and killed the woman with whom
he lived. and then fatally wounded Ole
Sand. logger and ended the shooting
by killing himself
Robert Williams. a bar boy In the
Copper King saloon, was shot and ser
iously wounded at Butte by Jerry
Thompson. a negro. ~ the result OF
n row over 10 cents
Freddie Dardlne. aged years. was
shot and killed In a cabin near Nook.
sack. Wash. An old man who alone
Inhabited tho cabin may be held re-
aponsIble for the lads death
Sally RRuhelm. a well known mining
engineer Is dead at his home In New
York City He was Identified with the
opening and development OF many i'm.
portant copper properties in the Mon.
tAna field.
Five masked men held up and
robbed the saloon Of George Cooper In
Butte and secured sii4 In cash Bar.
tender s. J. Cummings was hit over
tho head with a gun and suffered a &c.
we're scalp wound
The oficial figures OF the spring
salmon pack of Columbia river for
1904 we're made public last week The
statement OF the pack is based on
four dozen oncpound cans TO tho case.
The total number Of cases Is 3O2.75O.
Tho remains OF the murdered man
found back Of kirkland Wash. have
boon identified as those OF Alfred u.
Plummor, siopson Of Col T. NJ. Fisher.
tho local Chinese inspector. No motive
ia assigned. The young man was 20
years old.
The general land Office has directed
tho withdrawal from all forms OF dis
posal OF $40 acres OF public lands IN
the North Yakima district In Wash.
ington for irrigation purposes. The
withdrawal r. In connection with the
clallum reservoir site.
James s. Nosbet, once brilliant
politician. wanderd away In at OF de.
montla and was lost In the Idaho
mountains. says Butte special. After
a long search his friends found tho
body. A faithful dog stood guard over
the corpse for several days.
A contract for tho grading OF the
Moffat rea~oaa frum Arrowhead. aev.
enty miles west OF Denver. 10 Hot
Springs twenty-five miles beyond. has
been let, and the work will begin oo-
tober l. The contract calls for an ex-
pendlturo Of nearly half a million dol.
lars
According to the figures OF State La
Dor Commissioner o. r. Koff. the pop
ulation OF Oregon Is at present 47O,O2i,
against li3.526 In 1900. an increase OF
bS.4Ss. In making his computation
tho commissioner found that the mum.
Dor OF children OF school age who arc
not attending school Is increasing at
an alarming rate.
A dispatch from Niehart, Mont.
says that. mistaken for a deer. Charles
VITA was instantly killed by Matt
Sands. Tho two men were members
OF camping party, and wlttala,
thinking TO bag an animal In the early
morning. was leaving camp when
Sands. aroused by his friends move
ment. and thinking him to be deer
In the uncertain light blazed away
with a rife sending a bullet clear
through wittala's head.
II. F. Bennett, sawyer, shot him
seld In the head at Tacoma last week
and died few hours later Dlscour.
aged with inability to secure work,
and with IA wife and two daughters 10
support. II Is thought the mans mind
gave way TO dependency and led him
to the fatal deed.
From all indications. the forest ires
west OF Anaconda, Mont, will con.
tluue TO burn for long time TO come.
Tho fires are sweeping over the thick
~ wooded sections Of tho mountains
northwest OF Anaconda and at this sea-
son Of the year there Is small chance
Of q heavy rninstorm.
A coroner's jury investigating tho
murder OF Gus Breuer the Portland.
Ore, saloonkoeper who was killed on
Thursday night OF last week. has ro-
turned verdict that Breuer came to
his death from pistol shots fred by
unknown persons, Five Italians who
we're playing cards In Brouors place
at tho time OF the murder and who told
stories directing suspicion ON n car
pointer named Lewis, have been ar
rested, evidence having been dlscoy'
cred pointing TO an unknown member
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