The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1906-11-08
NORTHWEST NOTES

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w. s. johnson. Of Tonopah, Nevada
Is working to secure the Gans-Herman
eight for that city. II Is understood
that $4,000 has already been raised
The citizens Of Tacoma, Wash,
raised one hundred end ATTY thousand
dollars in fhirty-day canvass for ne
new Y. NJ c. A. building, the first
coast city TO do So
J. p. Howe. the veteran coast the.
strlcal. manager. has associated with
him Fred J. I1itel and Hans Peterson
sor the erection of fourteen story
.'.'ater building IN Seattle.
Two passenger trains on the Union
Pacific railroad. collided head-on ut
Ridge. west Of Medicine Bow, wyo..
snd the engines were demolished, but
no passengers were injured.
Buffalo Bll9 and his party have
arrived safely at the IT. b." ranch rs
miles from Cody. wyo. All Of the
party are in good health and report
fair success in the hunt for big game
Three enlisted men of the battleshlp
Wisconsin are dead at Seattle, and
two are seriously injured as the re-
suit of drunken debauch in which
bay rum was the liquor that was con.
simed
In battle near Kennewick. Wash.
between a posse and Robert Barker,
an 1s-year-old desperate. four men
we're killed Barker finally surren-
dered and was taken TO Prosser TO pre-.
vent a lynching.
Henry Phillips. aged 81. an old time
resident Of Butte, committed suicide
W cutting his throat from ear to ear.
Phillips had become respondent as
the result OF inability TO secure relief
from Bright's disease.
In violent at OF coughing shortly
before bis death at st. vincents hos
pital. Portland. H. L. Mills of Hubbard.
an oregon pioneer OF 1876 and
nephew OF General Robert z. Lee, com
uaander OF the Confederate army,
raised from his lungs a buckshot that
ne carried in his body ever since the
civil war.
Joe Cans. lightweight champion of
he world met kid" Hermann, Of Chi
'.ago, in Cincinnati. on the Bird, and
signed articles to fight twenty rounds,
n to a finish. as the club may desire,
On New Years day. before the Tono-
bah. Nevada, Athletic club. The purse
to be $4,000. winner TO get so and
oser 40 per cent
John welch, OF Reno, Nevada. who
las been prospecting In the Walker
AXE mining district. was shot and
seriously wounded by James Hale. his
companion, while driving from Haw-
horne to Thorne. The bullet entered
welch's back and It Is feared that he
viii die. Hale claims the shooting
was accidental.
A statement issued by the reclama.
ion service shows that the national
exclamation fund on June 80. 1895,
amounted to ss2.s5s. 1872, of which 81.
ss2,OS4 was contributed last year.
North Dakota leads. having contributed
l5Os,sse; Utah, $7o,2lij wyoming.
S2s4.744: New Mexico, S2O2.si5; Mon.
ana, $500 TAO, and Idaho 1901 ,2s4
jefferson f. Howell is the latest OF
several prospectors who from time to
ime have believed they have found
he site OF the old Breyfogle gold
nine in southeastern California OF
southwestern Nevada. To substantiate
his claim Howell has float that is al
most pure gold and identical in ap
,earance with samples displayed by
srsyfogle.
Man Hop, one Of Seattle's largest
chinese merchants, declares that the
chinese associations in Seattle and
Cortland are gathering evidence prior
o the sending Of formal demand to
he Chinese legation at Washing for
he removal from once of Moy Back.
ain, Chinese consul at Portland, who
aas the district composed of Oregon,
Washington. Idaho and Montana.
Scores OF horses that made the race
rom Hawthorne and down the noun.
,ain sides to the Walker Lake reser-
ration in Nevada. were shot and killed
he following morning TO end their
suffering It was found that the ami
mails had been entirely untitled for fu-
lure work. having either been crippled
in the run over the rocky country or
having had their lungs permanently
weakened
Mrs r. w Esgate, living near Occur
fAlene. Idaho. placed gun outside
he house IN readinaHs IN kill a covota