The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1905-09-14
NORTHWEST NOTES

President Alec Fairgrieves OF the
Montana Federation of Labor, adj
dressed 5000 union men at Butte on
Labor day There was the usual pa
rade.
John Hancock. the murderer OF DR.
Englebrit and man named Edmond
sen. on the Nevada desert. was hanged
At the state penitentiary at Carson.
Nevada Friday OF last week.
Fire has again broken out in the
forests east OF Mill City. Mont. A
logging camp in the Cascade noun
tains burned last week. The men
barely escaped from the camp with
their lives.
Fire destroyed the Warner hotel,
Robertss general store and ware
house. and the postofiice at Cascade,
about fifty miles from Helena. The
loss is estimated at $4,000. with
81 900 insurance.
j. F.. Barnes. who shot and killed
Patrick Hanley at Butte, and to lynch
whom a mob attempted to storm the
silver Bow county Jail but we're driv-
en- Off by officers. has been taken to
the state prison for safe keeping.
James Reed, a horse thief. was shot
and killed by officers near Malta.
Mont. Reed had been surprised and
relieved OF his weapons. when he at
tempted to escape by running, and
was shot down by one of the officers.
The federal government has begun
to take testimony in fourteen cases
OF alleged violation of the continuous
residence feature OF the homestead
law by commuters in Skagit county,
| Washington. The evidence is taken
before the superior court OF Mount
Vernon, and forwarded to the depart
ment.
Emil Rude was found dead in Ia
coma. having apparently fallen from
a window on the second floor OF the
Grand Central hotel His feet were
pulled through the armholes OF a vest.
which the police think he had mis-
taken for trousers, and In trying to
put them on. stumbled and fell
through the window.
Two violent deaths OF little ones
have occurred in Burns. Ore. the past
week. Eight-year-old Ruth Tetreau,
prompted probably by curiosity. ate
the contents OF a bottle Of strychnine
and died In great agony. Three-year-
old Della Thornburg In some manner
accidentally set fire 70 her clothes and
was so badly burned that she died.
Moritz Tohmsen, president of the
Centennial Mill company, Seattle. es
Inmates that California will use 5000.
900 bushels of Washington wheat this
year. He also states that orders for
approximately $4,000, 900 bushels have
been received from the United King
dom. The present harvest in Wash.
Ington is estimated at 35.000.000 bush.
els.
A special from Livingston. Mont
says DR.. Coventry, travelling eye
specialist OF Deadwood, S. d.. while
hunting bobcats near Clyde Park, is
miles from Livingston, accidentally
shot and killed his wife. She had fol
lowed him unknown to him and was
approaching in the brush when he
mistook her for wild animal and
fired.
+. r. Chase was arrested in San
Francisco as he landed from the
steamer Spokane from Portland, a
charge OF embezzling 5000 having beer
lodged against him. IL is asserted BY
the Portland police that he is pos
sessed OF important information re
garding the shooting of Kaspar Var
Dram, q saloonkeeper, and also the
killing of Mrs. Van Dram.
A fire in the mountains near NIL
City, Oregon, burned three farm
houses and spread into the timber II
the mountains. A large amount o.
wood and several culverts on the Cor
Wallis & Eastern railroad were
burned.
More Americans have visited thu
Yellowstone national park this sum
mer than ever before, according t
NJ. II. Albin, manager OF the Monida
Yellowstone stage line. Fully 10000
persons have visited the park since
the season opened.
A human skeleton. the bones OF al
animal. presumably bear, and re
mains OF an old-fashioned rifle fount
in the woods four miles north of Aber
deem, Wash, by woodsmaD tell tn
tale OF an encounter which ended II
death to man and beast.
Fully $4,000 people Witnessed tn
sham naval battle at the Lewis an
Clark exposition last week. The spec
tacle was a reproduction of the due
between the Merrimac and Monito
during the Civil war There were fou
imitation battleships in the fight
The newly-completed $4,000 labo
temple was dedicated in Seattle i'm
mediatsly following the Labor day pa
rade. the largest affair of its kind eve
seen in Seattle. After the dedlcator,