The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1906-11-29
NORTHWEST NOTES

1oW Sh 10 lne GreenWater district IN
Nevada an automobile overland scr.
vice IS to be established at once in
connection with the Salt Lake route
The Las Vegas and Toncpah rail.
road company is making good pro
gress In laying the rails Of the road
from Beatty to Rhyolite. and Bullfrog
expects to be connected up by the
nrst CT the coming month.
The Ute Indians who have been
travelling through South Dakota into
Wyoming in defiance Of the gov.
ernment's orders, have arrived at
Fort Meade, accompanied by the
Sixth United States cavalry.
Sixty lives were lost and nearly a
score Of vessels we're swept to de-
struction on trcacherous reefs and
sand bars Of the Gulf and River st.
Lawrence during the season Of navl.
cation now drawing to a colse.
Az the quarterly meeting on the
9th OF December. at Cheyenne, wyo.,
OF the State Board Of Medical e..
aminers. the board will begin the
preparation Of its report TO Governor
Brooks and the state legislature.
Coroner Carroll, Of Seattle. has
signed a certificate stating that Mrs.
Maude Crehield, wife Of the leader of
The Holy Rollers" who died suddenly
in the county jail came to her death
by suicide from strychnlne poisoning.
Tho people Of Port Blakely have ap.
pealed to the government authorities
at Seattle for permission to use dyna.
mite in order TO blow up the wrecked
steamer Dix, so that the bodies Of
those who drowned in the cabins may
be recovered.
Con Lopez shot and killed his
paramount, Therese Repossa, in q
house Of ill.fame at Newman, Cal.
Lopez than shot himself through the
head, falling dead across the body of
his victim. Jealousy was the cause
Of the tragedy
The Las Vegas & Tonopah rail-
way company. which is incorporated
under the laws Of Utah, filed an
amendment to its articles OF incorpor.
alton with the county clerk at Salt
Lake City last week, which will per.
NIT of its building aline to the Green
water mining district in Inyo county,
Cal
The identity OF Mike Kelly, who
committed suicide in the county jail
at Colorado Springs, has been dis
covered and the discovery practically
proves the theory that he was one Of
the three divide bandits. Kelly wat
known for many years at Colorado
City and in the Ute pass region al
Kelly the Robber."
After jury had been drawn In Z
suit brought by United States Dlstrlc'
Attorney Burke against the Burning
ton railroad in the United States dis
trlct court at Cheyenne, for violation
Of the safety appliance law, tie al
torneys for the railroad confessa
judgment TIE suit was civil ac 10
md a fine of 800 and costs was I'M
posed by the court
Charles A. Smith, proprietor Of {
drug store In Billings. Mont, Is In ?
critical condition as a result of beinl
shot through the shoulder and CROFT
by Daniel F, Watts. Watts also sh,
Oscar Colburn, prescription clerk, l
the back Of the head. He will re
cover, Watts had been discharge,
for short-changing the register.
The demurrer of the defendant II
the action Of 100000 damages brought
by Charles H. Meyer, president Of the
Western Federation of Miners, against
former Governor Peabody, former Ad-
jutant General Sherman Bell and Ad,
jutant General Buckley Wells, Ia sus.
tanned in an opinion returned by
Judge Robert e. Lewis of the United
states district court al Denver. Meyer
alleged wrongful Imprisonment by the
military.
Material is being assembled at
Caliente. Nevada, for the Phoebe
branch Of the Salt Lake route About
half the rails are already unloaded al
Caliente and enough ties will be on
hand within the next sixty days or SC
to cover the line.
IAnemen at Laramie have begun
stringing a copper wire in the new
line to connect New York and San
Francisco already leased to a New
York brokerage concern. The wire il
OF copper, 21O pounds 20 the mile
cost % cents pound.
Since the destruction of the round
house at Winnemucca, Nevada. by
hre short time ago, the Southern
Pacific has decided to make Emley
station midway between Humboldt
House and Mill City. a division point
instead of Winnemucca.
Al Trosses, a brakeman on the o
r. & NJ, was killed few miles from
Huntington, Ore. He was setting
brakes on car on siding. In some
manner he fell from the car, and