The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1906-07-26
NORTHWEST NOTES

chartered as city in 1874.
Near Aberdeen. Wash, Fred Wren,
while hunting, mistook Mrs Louise
Lecass for a cougar and shot her dead.
G. F. Hayes, an Oregon pioneer. met
death by falling down a shaft in the
Union Companion mine. near Baker
city, ore.
At Collins Hot Springs, Wash, John
e Lueth OF Vancouver, Wash, gave
his wife carbollc instead of her medl-
line. She died in ten minutes.
The city of Rock Springs, wyo., has
population of about 5000, and It is
laid there is no place in the United
states where greater variety Of Ian.
guages 10 spoken.
At Clealum. Wash, Mrs. ID. B. Blu
ham was thrown from a buggy I'M
Ter the horses hoofs and kicked TO
ieath. She was the wife OF the pro
)rietor of the Hotel Reed.
The jury. after celebrating seven
cen hours. failed to agree in the case
II the United States against Joseph
T. Carroll Butte lumberman, who
vas charged with illegal fencing near
suite, and he was discharged.
BY the collapse Of the east wall OF
The Butte hotel, which toppled over
IN and crushed the Southern hotel, q
property loss of 100000 was caused
No one was injured, as all the guests
rot out OF the buildings when the
walls began to crack.
4 large force of men is still in
search of the little Brattain boy who
disappeared from Tall Gate, walla
Walla county, Washington. Evidence
accumulates that instead Of being de
voured by a cougar the child was kid.
mapped by a sheep herder.
That a general strike OF the union
street car men of Portland must be
he result OF the present situation Is
conceded by the officials of the Port
land Railway, Light g. Power com
Dany The oficials of the union say
here will certainly be general
strike
Warner Moody, town attorney Of
shoshone, Wyo.. was shot and killed
about midnight July 20. He was a
son of the late United States Senator
Moody Of South Dakota. Frank An
derson, on hearing the shots, ran Out
o. his tent and was shot in the shoul
der. He is not seriously wounded
The assassin escaped in the darkness
George A. simonds, one OF the per
;onal conductors of the Raymond
Whitcomb excursion party bound fol-
llaskan points, committed suicide al
Seattle by shooting himself in the
read, while standing on the wharf
'ust as the two steamers carrying the
.embers Of his party had pulled away
rom the dock,
Two girls, travelling from Laramie
% Ogden, we're found in an empty
>ox car at Fort Steele. wyo. The
5iiis were very dirty. but carried dress
7uit cases filled with clean linen and
;heir other worldly possessions They
said Laramie was too slow for them
md they had set out to make Ogden
In box car.
Custin Lse. an aged man, who re-
emily arrived in Billings. Mont, from
Kansas City en- route to Seattle, IL
missing and is believed to have lost
iis life in the Yellowstone river. His
raveling companion, Glenn Smith, a
young lad, stated to the police that
lee had gone to the river to battle,
md no trace Of him could be found.
Contracts have been let by the Ore
yon Railroad & Navigation company
o Spokane contractors for bridges on
he main line OF the company between
Portland and Huntington. This Inn
/ orovement is in line with the heavy
construction work now being done
with view to bringing the road uI
o frstclass condition.
Dan MCGOWAN, a ranchman livine
aear Cutbank, Mont, has been con
5ieted Of murder in the second degree
or killing Charles Arnold. on March
II last. Jealousy because OF the
ieceased's attention 10 his half-breed
wife is believed to have prompted the
crime
W. W. Flat OF Smith Brothers
sheep company pleaded guilty in the
United States court at Helena to n
egally fencing public lands in Maa
cher county, Montana, and was fnel
$500 and sentenced 10 the county iall
'or twenty-four hours by Judge Wolv
erton.
The mills at Butte OF the Montans
Zinc company. a New York corpora
lion. we're totally destroyed by fire
starting from a defective electric wire
The plant is in the old silver mill Of
the Alice Mining company, the oldes,
mill OF the sort standing in the state
OF Montana
A party CT surveyors for the Short
Line on the Snake river has had q
! rather exciting experience at Wild
Horse Rapids, 100 miles below Hunt
ington. Their boat upset and every,
thing Il contained was lost The men
| u the boat at the time escaped with