The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1906-11-01
NORTHW EST NOTES

The president has issued a procla
nation naming Thursday. November
20, as a day of thanksgiving.
Alexander p. McKillop was found
dead In bed in room at a lodging
house In Butte. II Is thought the man
committed suicide
The strike of grain handlers at
| Portland has been settled, the strikers
agreeing to return TO work providing
the police we're withdrawn from the
docks.
An innocent bystander. Jim o'Far
rel was struck by bullet In pistol
duel at Goldheld, Nevada, between Bill
Tanner and Frank Timlln, two gam
blers. neither of whom was touched.
f. A. Harndon, OF Rock River,
Wyoming, lost $50 sheep in the recent
storm, the sheep becoming frightened
and punching, that number being
smothered in the bottom OF the heap
The secretary Of the interior Is adj
vertising for proposals for furnishing
high pressure gates for the storage OF
water for the ehoshone and North
Platte irrigation projects in Wyoming
Charles Smith. negro. Is in a Butte
hospital with bullet in his side as the
result Of a shooting scrape The shot
was fred by George Stewart, another
negro Both men claim the affair was
an accident
Nellie Doyle OF Portland was killed
by Henry Hose. formerly soldier in
the United States regular army. Hose
cut the woman's throat with a razor
and then surrendered himself to the
custody Of the police.
Box manufacturers of Oregon and
Washington held meeting in Tacoma
to confer on trade conditions and or
ganize an association. Representa-.
tives were present from Portland, Ia.
coma, Moquism and several other
places
A 16-year-old Indian boy was killed
while at work at a sawmill near Ian.
der, Wyoming. The fatal accident
was caused by the breaking of large
saw. piece of which struck the
youth, splitting his head open. He
died in few minutes.
The secretary Of the interior has
executed contract with the Billings
Construction company of Billings.
Mont, for construction Of the Ccrbett
dam and auxiliary structures under
the Shoshone irrigation project in
Wyoming. The Corbett dam is about
eight miles northeast of Cody, wyom-
ing
Henry QuIrk and C. j. Heating of
Denver are believed to have met with
some III fortune while prospecting on
the uintah reservation. in Utah last
summer. The men left Denver last
spring and their friends heard from
them until about four months ago,
since when all track Of them has been
lost
Northern Pacific passenger train
running between Helena and Butte,
crashed into the caboose Of freight
at Logan. Mont Conductor worellin,
Of the freight train, was crushed and
burned to death in the flames which
consumed the wreckage of the caboose.
Engineer Ross OF the passenger was
injured
G. c. Rose and Mrs Winnie
Wheeler. leaders of the Brotherhood OF
Light, which conducts a home for poor
children on farm near Arboles, Colo.
were arranged last week on the
charge OF manslaugnter in connection
with the deaths OF six babies on the
place They waived examination and
we're remanded TO Jail.
Patrick Green was found dead in a
woodshed at the rear OF the family res,
idence in Butte. One hand clutched a
bloody razor. while the head rested in
pool OF blood that had gushed from
the wound. He was a spanish-Ameri-
can war veteran.
A surveying party discovered the
body of Jens p Knudsen hanging by
the neck to tree one mile from Clln.
ton, Mont. Identification was made by
letters found in the dead mans peck.
cts. He was formerly with the Second
cavalry at Fort Bowie, Ariz,
A lone robber committed three
burglaries at Auburn, Wash, and was
robbing Ingles Bros, livery barn Of
nee when discovered by Waterman
Arthur Russell. In a pistol duel which
followed Russell's right arm was shat
tered. The robber escaped
Tom Maloney. we'll known miner,
shot Jack Maher. also a miner for
asking payment of debt. In front Of
the Club saloon at Goldheld. Nevada.
Maher kicked Maloney in the nose and
then hred twice His wounds win
prove fatal Malopey was unarmed