The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1907-01-05
NORTHW EST NOTES

DER OF sneep IL contains, STATISTICS
placing the number over five millions.
The coal production OF Wyoming OF
5,500.000 tons during 1906 was an in.
crease OF 300, 900 tons over the pro-
duction of 1905.
Henry Headlund. the steam shovel
engineer who lost foot In the cogs
Of the shovel at Laramie was unable
to withstand the shock and is dead.
During 1906 the principal six pro
ducing industries Of Wyoming pro-
duced revenue Of s55,21s,O0O, an In.
crease over their revenue Of 1905 Of
A,s7s 200.
The Wyoming 1906 wool clip was
80 $40, 759 pounds, valued at S7.253, 225.
The 1906 clip outweighed that Of 1905
by i.049,300 pounds, and outvalued It
by $s93.225.
The cattle industry In Montana has
been especially prosperous during the
present year as result Of abundant
rains and consequent good range and
plenty of water In both stream and
pool.
Last year the state Of Montana had
100000 acres in spring wheat alone,
and the average of this area was
yield OF twenty-seven bushels per
acre, and all other crops yield IN pro
portion.
There are now over $4,000 miners
at work in the mines Of Montana, and
during the past year there have been
but So fatal and 43 non-fatal accidents.
making record Of safe mining that Is
hard to. beat.
A meeting will be held at Rawlins,
Jnanary rs, between stockmen and A.
F. Potter of the forest service to dis
cuss and form plans for the proper
division Of the range and allotment of
grazing permits in the future.
A wealthy rancher Of Montana,
speaking of his state. says: I'VE
have never had such prosperous year
In our state, and there is hardly
person who Is not better OF today
than he was a year ago this time"
The number Of horses In Wyoming
is approximately III, 1893. valued at 49,.
1896; the number Of mules and
asses is approximately 1,493. valued at
| $7O,6O9; the number of swine Is ap-
proximately S,62S. valued at $44.214.
The cattle shipments from Montana
for 1906 are not yet available, but they
amounted to 267,s66 in 1905, 25s,417
going east, 800 west. and 1.541 being
shipped to Canada. In 1905 there
were in the mutton department. H..
415.479.
It is reported that the Northern Pa
cific will soon begin the grading Of a
cutoff which will leave the main line
at or near Miles City. Mont, and fol-
lowing a course directly westward will
strike the present road not far from
Helena.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. b. Lavier, OF Port
land were struck by an inward bound
Waverly- street car near
their home. Mrs. Lavier was killed
outright and her husband is at the
Good Samaritan hospital, probably
fatally injured.
T. q. Brady, prominent Great
Eallo Mopt louvar hoe h>au indict.
ed by the federal grand jury in Helena
on the charge Of having illegally
fenced 1857 acres Of public land in
Valley county. Brady gave bonds for
his appearance.
Allan Thompson, aged 2S years, was
shot and instantly killed by his father
in-law. Riley Patton. a well-known
rancher living near Colburn, in the
Plateau valley, east of Grand Junction,
Colo. Thompson was drunk and had
first threatened to kill Patton.
Mrs. Sarah Ayres was mysteriously
nun dered on her farm near Warren,
Oregon. She was shot dead while she
was sewing in her kitchen. and the
weapon with which the crime was
committed, .45-calibre affair, was
found on the floor near the body.
A terrible tragedy was enacted In
the kitchen Of the little home of Fred
Bignami in Portland, when Giacomo
Savignana, an Italian, stabbed and
killed Julia Bignami and probably ia
tally stabbed Mrs. Bignami's aged
mother-in-la Mrs. Annina Vismora.
Ralph Blaisdell, assistant to Gen.
eral lu.ltor Erastus Young, of the
Union Pacific and Southern Pacific
systems, has been appointed auditor
of the Oregon Railroad and Navigation
company lines in Oregon and Wash
ington, with headquarters in Portland,
Authority has been given Forester
Pinchot to allow grazing for the COM
| ing year on the newly created Sierra
Madre reserve, Wyoming, of all
horses cattle and sheep which have
| been grazed for the past three years