The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1904-08-27
NORTHWEST NOTES.

Dave Nevins of Melville, Mont, is
suffering from badly laccrated foot.
caused by the accidental discharge OF
gun.
Judge Bell in the superior court Of
King county, has decided that the
eight.hour law passed by the last leg.
islaure of the state of Washington If
void
Forest fires are ravaging valuable
standing timber two miles west OF
Barlow Pass, on the Monte Cristo rail.
road. in Washington. The fire was
started by sparks from a passing on.
CINE
Charles Johnson, the freak character
who has twice escaped from the Jail at
Hamilton, Mont. by digging his way
through the brick wall has turned out
TO be an escaped lunatic from the asy.
lum at Warm Springs.
ScoabZi Serapino, an Italian boy, 10
years old was drowned at Bozeman,
Mont. He had gone swimming in the
West Gallatin river, and venturing too
far out in the stream, and being IN.
able to swim, he was drowned.
Jack Campbell, who was arrested at
Helena on suspicion of being the man
who furnished Gravelle with a revolver
with which he did such fearful execu.
tion during his attempt to escape, has
been released from the county jail for
lack of evidence.
Between August 81 and September
IL, inclusive, 1i6 cars bearing 2,294
people will pass through Portland en-
route to and from the twenty-ninth
triennial conclave of the Knights TEN.
plars, which convenes in San Fran.
cisco September 6.
A cloudburst washed out the track
at Mimic, ten miles east OF Caliente,
Nevada. The westbound train was de-
layed four hours. There was no dam.
age to train or passengers. Six miles
below Caliente two work trains col
lided and six laborers were injured
It is officially announced that Com.
missioner Eva Booth the daughter Of
General William Booth, who for seven
years has been in command Of the
Salvation army work in Canada, Alas
ka, eastern Washington, Montana and
W N IN ~ mr.
work
| A Bellingham, Wash, special says
the mystery surrounding the disap-
4 pearance of William Mckenzie, who
was last seen two weeks ago In com
pany with Miss Kate Bast, has been
cleared away by the discovery Of both
the bodies floating in the water Of
Lake Whatcom.
There is great excitement over the
discovery of free gold on Whistler
mountain, thirty miles from Lake
Chelan, Wash This Is stated to be
the first free gold ever found in that
district. A rich ledge twenty feet
wide, which has been hidden by snow
and ice, is reported to have been un.
covered.
Michael Collins and Roy Owens
were killed in the Minnie Healy mine
at Butte by falling from the 500 to the
900 level. A blast had been prepared
on the 500 and the two men made a
rush for the ladder running to the SOC
level, when one of the men missed his
footing and came down on the other
both falling about 100 feet,
Samuel Creswell, while driving home
from Shohomish, Wash, met with q
strange and serious accident. On the
road near Machias his team dropped
through the logs forming the road for
nation into a bed of live Goals left
by forest fire One horse was burned
to death and the other frightfully
| burned. Creswell himself was painfully
burned and the wagon completely de
stroyed.
A most distressing accident, result
ing In the death of a young boy named
Uno Blom as the result of a hunting
expedition of three lads, all under II
years of age, took place near Rec
Lodge, Mont. One of the boys fel
and his gun was discharged, practically
blowing off the face Of young Blom.
A special from Cody, Wyo says {
company financed by Denver and east
ern capitalists will shortly undertake
the construction of a plant at the falli
of the government dam being built OF
the Shoshone river Power will be gen
Grated for a smelter and will also b.
transmitted to the mines at Kirwin
Lewiston has been growing rapid!
under the stimulus OF the development
of its tributary country. 1t now ha
some 5000 population, while, jus
across the Snake in the Charleston set
Element, are $500 more. The people
Of the latter section are settled mainl.
upon small tracts of fruit land.
Among the improvements Of the pas
year at Lewiston are the suprem
court building and the Carnegie Il
brary. Another new building is tn