The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1905-10-19
NORTHWEST NOTES

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James A. Gravity, aged a years
was found dead in the Diamond mine
at Butte. his death being due to sui
location.
Two Butte miners. named O'Niel and
Anderson. were caught in cave-in in
the Spectator mine. and instantly
killed, both bodies being badly man
gled.
A jury has found Herbert Amber
guilty of holding up Cosgriff Bros
store at Laramie. wyo.. on the night
of June and taking goods and money
amounting to $451 rs.
A Dillon, Mont, dispatch says Owen
Ellis. Big Hole valley rancher. was
shot and killed in Ellis saloon at Wis
dom by Sid Houk. gambler. after an
encounter in which Houk had the
worst of IT, Houk gave himself up.
Definite announcement has been
made by F. j. Haines, president of the
Monida & Yellowstone Stage com.
pany. that a new hotel. to cost $3.50.
co, is to be built in Yellowstone park,
II is stated that the structure will be
strictly a product of the Yellowstone
country, and that It will be completed
June /, 1906.
Robbers drilled a hole in he safe OF
Mill & Malsom's real esate Office at
Moore, Mont. and. pouring in nitro.
glycerine, wrecked the strong box
but secured only S25. The Citizens
bank is temporarily located in the
building and the robbers evidently
thought they were breaking into the
bank safe.
John }. Hogan, OF Chicago, gave
himself up to the Portland. Ore, police
and confessed that he delivered the
blow which killed Mrs. Louise Jen.
kins. in a resortin the restricted dis.
trict of Portland According to Ho-
gan's story, he struck the woman &C.
cidentally while intoxicated and did
not know that he had harmed her.
The control of the State Savings
bank. of Butte, one of the most prom
inent banking institutions OF the
northwest, has passed into the hands
of f. Augustus Heinze and M. Sellers
Largely. Thomas M Hodgens. cashier
ond ono ~ tha fo,,ndar. 80 tha to,,t,
and his brother, j. o. Hodgens. dis
posing of three-hfths of the stocks of
the institution.
When the gates of the Lewis and
Clark exposition closed at / O'Clock
Sunday morning a total attendance
for the day had been registered OF
$1,000, making the grand total for the
entire fair period 2.545,5O9. The at
tendance for the last day ranks third
in point OF numbers, Portland day
and Fourth of July being the only
greater days.
A corpse found just west OF Great
Falls, Mont, near the Great Northern
right OF way, has been Identified as
that of Douglass Catnick. an EN-.
ployee of the Bowers Brothers ranch.
He has been missing for three weeks.
II is believed he was crossing a tres
tie and was struck by train. throw.
ing him TO the ground, eighty feet be.
low and breaking his neck.
The supreme court at Helena has
denied the motion of the plaintiff for
a rehearing in the famous case of the
Nipper company. owned by f. A.
Heinze, against the Anaconda and
Washoe companies of the Amalgamat.
ed Copper company. action to quiet
title and involving the ownership OF
the Nipper vein. in which the supreme
court last July reversed the trial
judge and ordered the case back for
a rehearlng.
The cornerstone OF the Federal
building in Laramie, Wyo.. was laid
last week, by the Grand lodge of Wyo-
ming Masons. with Grand Master M.
r. Johnston present, and Congress.
man F. W. Mondel as orator OF the
lay.
Otto Chenoworth, who, a few years
ago, was one OF the most dreaded OF
all horse thieves and outlaws that in.
tested the country to the west and
northwest of Casper, Wyoming, is
said to have returned to Natrona coun.
ty less than month ago.
The Pacific & Oregon Eastern Rail.
way company. capitalized at $780,
OOO filed articles of incorporation, at
Salem, Ore, last week The purpose
is stated to be TO build a railroad
from Huntington. Baker county. Ore,
TO Alturas, Modoc county, Cal
Edmund Hackett, an old settler OF
Kalispell, Mont. former government
scout, and first mayor of Bismarck,
N. d., in 1873, died on the trail thirty
miles west of Kalispell while return.
ing from his claim on Fisher creek.
There is no suspicion of foul play
The Auclnir saloon at Butte was
held up by two masked men and 1925
in jewelry and money was taken from