The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1906-07-28
NORTHW EST NOTES

1868, was incorporated In 1859, and
chartered ~ a city in 1884.
Near Aberdeen, Wash. Fred Wren,
while hunting, mistook Mrs. Louise
Lecass for cougar and shot her dead.
@. 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
r. Lueth Of Vancouver, Wash, gave
his wife carbolic instead of her medi-
cine. She died in ten minutes.
The city OF Rock Springs, Wyo., has
a population of about 5000. and 1t is
said there is no place in the United
States where greater variety of Ian.
guages IS spoken.
At Clealum, Wash, Mrs. ID. d. Blu
cham was thrown from a buggy I'M.
der the horses hoofs and kicked to
death. She was the wife of the pro-
prietor of the Hotel Reed.
The jury, after celebrating seven
teen hours. failed to agree in the case
of the United States against Joseph
T. Carroll, Butte lumberman, who
was charged with Illegal fencing near
Butte, and he was discharged.
BY the collapse Of the east wall OF
the Butte hotel, which toppled over
on and crushed the Southern hotel, a
property loss OF 100000 was caused.
No one was injured, as all the guests
got out OF the buildings when the
walls began to crack.
A 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 cougar the child was kid
naped by a sheep herder.
That a general strike of the union
street car men OF Portland must be
the result of the present situation is
conceded by the officials of the Port
land Railway Light & Power COM
pany. The officials of the union say
there 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 shot, ran out
o. his tent and was shot In thc shout
der. He Is not seriously wounded.
The assassin escaped in the darkness.
George A. Simonds, one Of the per-
sonal conductors Of the Raymond.
Whitcomb excursion party bound for
| Alaskan points, committed suicide al
Seattle by shooting himself in the
head, while standing on the wharf,
Just as the two steamers carrying the
members Of his party had pulled away
from the dock.
Two girls. travelling from Laramie
to Ogden, were found In an empty
box car at Fort Steele. Wyo The
girls we're very dirty, but carried dress
suit cases filled with clean linen aud
their other worldly possessions They
said Laramie was too slow for them
and they had set out to make Ogden
In box car.
Custin Lee, an aged man, who re
Gently arrived in Billings, Mont, from
Kansas City en- route to Seattle, IL
missing and Is believed to have lost
his life in the Yellowstone river. His
travelling companion, Glenn Smith, Q
young lad, stated to the police that
Lee had gone to the river to battle
and no trace OF him could be found.
Contracts have been let by the Ore
gon Railroad 4 Navigation company
to Spokane contractors for bridges OF
the main line Of the company between
Portland and Huntington. This i'm
provement is in line with the heavy
construction work now being don,
with view to bringing the road NJ
TO first.class condition.
Dan MCGOWAN, ranchman living
near Cutbank, Mont, has been con
victed OF murder In the second degre,
for killing Charles Arnold, on Marcel
II last. Jealousy because OF tn,
deceaseds attention to his halfbree,
wife is believed to have prompted thi
crime.
w. W. Flat OF Smith Brothers
Sheep company pleaded guilty In thu
United States court at Helena to II
legally fencing public lands in Mea
CHER county, Montana, and was finet
$500 and sentenced to the county jai
for twenty-four hours by Judge Woly
erton
The mills al Butte of the Montan
Zinc company, New York corpora
ton, were totally destroyed by fire
starting from a defective electric wire
The plant is In the old silver mill O
the Alice Mining company the oldes
mill Of the sort standing In the stat
OF Montana.
A party OF surveyors for the Shor
Line on the Snake river has had
rather exciting experience at VIII
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