The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1907-10-12
NORTHW EST NOTES

OF Colorado October g. FIVE persons
killing themselves and one other max.
| ing an unsuccessful attempt.
Herbert r. Morton, an Australian
millionaire, slipped on the steps of
the Vancouver, p. c., opera house ana
fractured his skull and will probably
| die
Because an engineer and a brake
man were found taking a drink in
saloon at Tonopah and discharged, the
trainmen on the Tonopah G. Goldfeld
railroad went on strike tying up the
system.
The laying of steel on the Borie-
Athol Hill cutoff Of the Wyoming
division of the Union Pacific was COM
menced last week The intention of
the company is to place the line in
commission about the first of the year.
A reunion of the hand.cart veterans
was held in Salt Lake City last week,
when several hundred of the veterans
who crossed the plains to Utah In the
hand.cart brgades listened to pro-
gram consisting of speeches and must
| cal numbers.
General superintendent Stewart OF
the Laramie, Hahn's Peak & Pacific
Railway company announces that the
| extension of the line from Centennial
| TO Walden and to the coal fields of
| North Park will he completed within
| the next year
All the hotels in Laramie, Wyo.,
| which have b,rn charging 25 cents
| for meals have entered into an agree
ment to increase the price to 30 cents,
| due, it is claimed, to the increased
cost of provisions and expenses OF
| serving meals.
II. B. Perham, national president OF
| the Order OF Railway photographers,
| arrived in Denver last week to take
! personal charge of the grievance OF
! the telegraphers against the Denver IL
Rio Grande railroad, acting as adviser
to the committee.
Al ID. Meyers, the millionaire mining
man of Goldfeld and Los Angeles, is
credited with having lost close to $780,.
| 900 at roulette at Goldfield the past
few days. Meyers dropped 100000 in
one play at the Northern, and various
smaller sums at other houses.
p. II. Cook, charged with stealing
rifle and revolver from Albert Cook,
not related. but who befriended him,
pleaded guilty in the district court at
Laramie, Wyo., and was sentenced to
eighteen months in the penitentiary.
Cook was arrested in New Mexico.
Because he failed to heed signs for
bidding the hunting Of ducks. Chris
Stanisich, a 19.year.old Servian boy,
was shot and instantly killed by Sofus
Nelson at the Mac White ranch, four
miles south of Butte. Hunters who
witnessed the shooting declared the
killing to be unprovoked and very COW.
ardly.
A large American eagle rested on a
live electric wire passing through the
Davis ranch at Bakersfield, Cal, and
was slowly roasted When II fell to
the stubble field below. mass OF
burning feathers, II started blaze
which burned over 1000 acres OF
grain and stubble before it was con
luered
Hon. Eli Crnmrine of Laramie, Wyo.,
state senator from Albany county,
has written n letter to Senator Phil
ander c. Knox OF Pennsylvania. con
graduating him upon having been
mentioned as a possible Republican
candidate for president next year ana
assuring him his support In case he
Is nominated,
The Topeka Copper company. hav
ing one of the most promising claims
In the Centennial mining district, In
Wyoming assays from the ores OF
which have shown a value OF $3.50 In
gold to the ton, Is sacking 100 sacks OF
ore to be sent to "A smelter at Denver
for treatment to determine the tutipe
of the property.
Two hundred and fifty members OF
the National Wholesale Druggist asso'
citation were In attendance when Pres
ident John b. Carey called the con
vention to order in Denver last week.
Among the most important questions
discussed were the effect of the ma
tional pure food law as applied to
drugs and proprietary medicines.
| JACQUES LuGHille chapter, Ddubh'
ters OF the American Revolution,
which last year offered prize
of $40 for the best essay on
"The Overland Trail" has offered an
other prize of the same amount for
the best essay by IA student OF the
University of Wyoming on THE Re
lation of Fort Laramie to Pioneer
Wyoming"
AS the result of investigations by d.
X. Babcock, a special agent of the
United States treasury department
sent to Vancouver when the anti-Jap
anese riots occurred, a force OF fed
eral officials will be installed at the
international boundary line to keeI
back the scores OF Japanese who are
daily crossing the border into the
United States.
Merton tombstone. an electrician, q
years old was electrocuted severa
| ,,ilns nf nutta anI foil from