The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1906-08-25
NORTHWEST NOTES

FRANK A. hoperts mas been appoints
ed postmaster at Thayne, Uinta coun.
ty, Wyoming.
The city hall, city Jail and FIVE Of
the principal business houses of Farm.
ington, Wash, we're destroyed by fire
last week.
Before 5000 to 10000 spectators,
Brigadier General Funston on Sunday
reviewed the troops of his command
In Camp Tacoma.
John Gorst. one of the pioneers OF
Port Orchard, Wash, accidentally
shot and killed himself while hunting
bear near that town.
Little Pitt. one of the three escapes
from the Nevada state prison, was
captured at McKinney's, Nevada, by
Indian Dick Bender and Indian Jim.
Fire destroyed the saw mill and all
the other buildings at Parkersburg,
Ore, on the Coquille river, except the
residence of Manager Kronenburg and
one other.
Fire, which is believed to have been
started by careless tramp, destroyed
about $4,000 worth of property at
Waterville, Wash. M. ID. Bergeson
was severely hurt.
Joseph 7. Carroll OF Butte, one OF
the most prominent men OF the state,
was found guilty in the United States
district court at Helena of illegally
maintaining fences on the public do.
main.
The annual session OF the grand
lodge, Knights Of Pythias, Of Wyo-
ming, was held in Laramie last week.
T. H. Butler of Hanna was selected
as grand chancellor for the ensuing
year.
A man whose name Is supposed to
have been D. A. Smith of Seattle at
tempted to board a moving car as IL
was leaving a pleasure resort at Port.
land, and was thrown under the trucks
and killed
Congressman Joe M. Dixon Of Ms.
soula, who has represented Montana
in the lower house for two terms, has
announced that he is a candidate for
United States senator to succeed Sen.
ator w. A. Clark.
The Republican state committee of
Montana has called the state conven.
ton to meet at Helena, September Is.
The only nominations to be made are
for congressman and associate Justice
OF the supreme court.
Archie A. Cook. president Of the
Travellers Protective association of
Oregon and Washington, a well-known
commercial traveller. died at st. Vim.
cents hospital. Portland, Of appendi.
citis. His age was 36 years.
The sensational report of jobbery In
connection with the turning over of
the water rights to private company
on the Shoshone reservation by the
state OF Wyoming are positively de-
MED by the state authorities.
The police believe they have clue
in the case of Charles Smith, found
murdered in his cabin at Tonopah, Ne.
vada, and have a man and woman un.
der arrest, but conceal their identity
and connection with the crime.
w. e. Stark, an engineer In the EN-.
ploy of the Short Line, was drowned
IN the Box canyon of the Snake. below
Huntington, Oregon. He was working
in dangerous place and slipped from
the rocks upon which he was perched.
An open switch at Barratt's Siding,
near Dillon, Mont. resulted in a pas.
senger train crashing into the rear end
of freight train, Conductor Ewalt
of the freight train being killed and
the engineer, fireman and one passen-
ger of the passenger train injured.
The bureau of animal industry of
the department of agriculture, having
refused to disregard government GER
tifcates issued to sheep brought to
Wyoming and treat them according to
the Wyoming laws, the state board of
sheep commissioners will employ a
force Of inspectors and quarantine and
treat all imported sheep.
1t is considered probable that a
state tournament will be held at Lara
ME, Wyo., during the coming county
fair by the different gun clubs of the
state, under the auspices of the Lara.
ME Rod and Gun club, with clubs rep
resenting Cheyenne, Rawlins, Hanna,
Douglas, Evanston, Rock Springs and
perhaps Ogden
Ownership of almost one one.
hundredth part of the state of Oregon
changed hands last week, when the
old Oregon Central military road grant
was transferred to a syndicate oom-
posed OF eastern and California capt.
talists.
Thomas G. McEwen, who lost his
right leg in a railroad accident in
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