The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1906-09-20

nine at Rhyolite. Ney1ut into SER de-
-conding on the buclSetn railroad 1,
cot beyond control Of thu day b,
fell to tho bottom. Awe SEES. =,
State Senator Franklin Pierce Mas,
ex.Reprcscntltiye Willard l.. Jones
and George sorenson we're convicted
in the Blue Mountain land fraud case
ried at Portland. The defendants
will ask for a new trial
John Mcintyre, wantc,l at Portland,
Seattle, Tacoma and Spokane In con
nection with charges of counterfeit
ing, escaped from Deputy United
States Marshpls w b. Grihiths and
T. b. Foster near John Day. Ore.
David Eccles. II. II. Rolapp. Adam
Patterson, M. s. Browning and job
Plngree. all of the Amalgamsted su-
gar comp ny, ere in Montana looking
for a site for new sugar factory. 1t
is likely that it will be located al
Bozeman.
saltwater Bill. Gates, the Alaska
miner who has gained national no.
toriety as a spendthrift, filed poti-
ton to be declared a bankrupt In the
federal court at Seattle last week.
Gates set up his assets as $500 in
cash, wearing apparel worth 500 and
watch and chain. Court judgments
amounting to nearly 100000 were
given as his liabilities.
A sensation was created In Gold.
field. Nevada, last week by the at
tempted arrest of Wing b Allen, man.
ager of the Nevada Office of the Daily
Mining Record of Denver, and. former.
ly of Salt Lake. on the charge of at
tempting to extort money from G. G..
Rice, one of the principal owners of
the Sullivan Trust company, promi-
nent mine promoters
Deputy sherif W. S. Johnson of
Wapanuka. l. T.. has arrived at Raw.
Inns. Wyo., having in custody ] b.
Hickman who has confessed to the
murder of Thomas Irvine and his
young son, Archie, while they were
travelling overland on the Continental
divide near Rawlins last June Kick
man In his confession implicated his
cousin. Hush Hickman, for whom the
officers are now searching.
One man killed. another dying and
three more CT less seriously injured Is
the result of a shooting ARRAY which
took place in a saloon at st. Paul, Ore,
the outcome of a brawl between a
crowd of roughs and Town Marshal
A. Krechter and posse. Marshal
KTechter is dead and an unidentified
stranger is MORALLY wounded Alfred
Lambert of st. Paul. Ore, one of the
marshal's posse, was shot in the arm
Two other strangers were shot.
H. T. Phelps, a Boise nurseryman.
admonished John Evans, at In
Grande, Ore, when the latter had sat
three hours in saloon while his chill
dren were shivering in a buggy out
side Evans reply was TO knock
Phelps, who is aged Go years, down
and kick him In the face. The nur
seryman rose with knife and stabbed
Evans twice in the right arm. almost
severing the muscles. Phelps was
arrested.
]. G. Sullivan and Frank Mulyaney
fell distance of scventy-fye feet
from bucket In the Townsite shaft
at Rhyolite, Nevada. both men being
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OF broken bones, but viii recover
Two men, giving their names as
Smith and Green, were arrested at
Laramie last week as deserters from
the Eleventh infantry, at Camp Islay
the supply camp of the Grow Creek
maneuvers. Green was under arrest
for stealing and selling government
supplies. and Smith had been guard.
ing him, when both men deserted
George Roberts, wanted in Seattle
TO answer a charge of robbery, was
ordered discharged from custody by
the superior Judge at San Francisco
last week. The records of the case
against him we're destroyed In the
April conhagration.
The Ash Meadows Water company,
organized at Portland for the purpose
OF owning, developing and operating
water power and privileges in the
states of Nevada and California, hled
its certificate OF incorporation AT Au-
gusta, Me, last week.
The Prohibitionlsts of Washington
held their state convention at Seattle
last week. with delegates from all
parts of the state. For congress A. s.
Cation OF Olympia, William Everett Of
North Yakima and /. NJ WillSin OF Sc.
attic were nominated without contest.
Two gangs OF thugs held up four
teen men In two different sections Of
Butte within two hours In one in
stance, during a division of the spoils,
two Of the highwaymon Quarreled and
one shot the other. indicting a wound
from which the bandit cannot recover.