The Citizen. [volume] (American Fork, Utah) 1903-1912, 1907-09-28
NORTHWEST NOTES

| Cerardo Carnival, a market gardener.
was shot through the head and killed
| when returning to his truck farm in
the outskirts of Denver.
Representatives Of certain corpora
| tons In Seattle are cited to appear be-
fore the Central Labor council on com
plant Of the striking telegraphers to
show cause why they should not be
placed on the unfair list by the labor
| council.
Socialism in the Pacific northwest
will build its Utopia at Adrian, near
| the Grand Coulee, west Of Spokane, II
| the plans formulated by the Adrian
Irrigation company. just incorporated
under the laws of Washington, with
| $500, 900 capital, are worked out.
Warrants have been issued for tho
arrest OF Earl Steen and others, promi'
nent stockmen in the Wallowa sec.
ton OF eastern Oregon, charged with
| the theft Of a large number OF cattle
belonging to the Madden brothers and
F. w. Kettenbach, of Lewiston, Idaho
Charles A. Reynolds, proprietor OF
| a bath-house In Portland, has been
| acquitted Of the charge of numbering
George Hibbin, or Herbert, musi-
clan. who came there recently from
| Walla Walla. Reynolds set up the
| plea that he was justified in his act
because Hibbin had despoiled Rey.
mods home.
Taking advantage of a session law
Of 1905, Latah county. Idaho, Is about
| to begin organization of county agri'
cultural fair. Judge S. S. Denning, In
| looking through a copy of the session
laws OF the state Legislature OF 1905.
finds that an act permits counties to
use one-half mill Of the county assess.
ment for fair purposes.
Grace Gidley, the daughter and heir
of William J. Gidley, an old stage
| line driver who died In Montana in
| 1896, has been located in Kansas City
left an estate composed principally OF
Billings, Mont, realty, to his daugh.
ter, and the lawyers have been search
ing for her all this time.A
Joe Passha. an Assyrian, was shot
and Instantly killed by Robert Mulkey
In a saloon at Thermopolis, Wyo.
| Mulkey fred four bullets into Passha's
body without apparent provocation He
fled. but was captured and turned over
to the authorities. but escaped sec
pnd time while being taken to Lander.
Feeling against him is high.
| II is learned here on reliable infor.
nation that the Union Pacific has con-
,racted with the Rock Island railroad
FOR $4,000 carloads OF Sherman hill
gravel, to be delivered to that com.
paDy at Denver for the ballasting Of
the entire line from Denver to Chi
rago. The delivery will begin the OPP
ening OF the season next year.
A shipment of 10000 sheep, most OF
the animals being consigned to Swift
A. Co, at Chicago. was held in quaran-
tine at the stock yards at Laramie,
and dipped before being moved. A fed
eral inspector found one bunch OF
sheep affected with scabies, and as the
others had been exposed. II was decid.
I'd to order the whole lot dipped.
Laurel Mont. was practically wiped
out on the 18th by fire which destroyed
the business center and which would
| have destroyed the entire city had not
dynamite been used. The loss Is
placed at between $150000 and $3.50.
600 and the buildings destroyed In.
clude the bank, postofiice and two
large general merchandise stores.
A hold.up, which for boldness AM
nerve has never been equalled, &C.
Cured In Butte one night last week
A lone masked man walked into a
saloon, gun in hand, and In the pres.
ence of some twenty customers robbed
the Till OF about S35. At the time
there were dozens OF people on the
street and less than half block away
policeman was on duty.
The Ely, Nevada, police, postal au'
thorities and officials of the Giroux
Consolidated Mining company. are try
| ing to explain the mysterious disap-
pearance of pay checks aggregating
| 81 600, which were sent TO the post
| Office for shipment. The letters were
sent by drayman to be posted, who In
turn entrusted them TO a stranger.
| Neither the letters or the stranger
| have since been seen.
When about to board the overland
| limited, bound for Philadelphia, and ul'
timately destined for oxford univer-
sity, England, Arthur st. Clair OF
Deeth, a student of the state univer'
sity, the only Rhodes scholarship man
ever sent from Nevada, was made the
victim OF the theft OF suitcase con
tanning his clothing, credentials and
personal belongings.
Ely, Nevada, papers are rather proud
of the license collections for the quar-
ter ending September l. This is in
teresting the tenderfoot population be-
cause OF $1,000 collected $6,510 was
collected from gambling houses, $500
from saloons and $3.50 from dance
| halls.
A flock OF mallard ducks few against
high tension electric wires fifteen miles
from Vancouver, b. G. The current
was short circuited and $4,000 dam.
age was done in the Vancouver power
house. Street cars and electric lights
| ware mt out of commission for twenty