The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1907-12-07
NORTHWEST NOTES

The motion to quash the new cases
filed against Kemp v. Bigelow, who
sent bombs to number of prominent
Denver men, argued before Judge
Bliss. was refused.
Fire, started by the overturning Of
a lamp in the barber shop of William
James, caused the destruction OF
Granite, a small town twenty miles
east Of Leadville, Colo.
William Goodrich. who was caught
in cave-in in the Sandstone mine at
Goldfield, Nevada, was taken out life
less a few hours later by companions
who came to the rescue. He had
been buried under twenty-five feet Of
rock.
Representative Mondell of wyoming
will be appointed chairman of the
public lands committee to succeed
Mr.. Lacey of Iowa, who was defeated
for reelection. He has been oppos-
ing the public land policy of the ad-
ministration.
John Thode, one of the oldest and
wealthiest cattlemen in the state, died
at Rawlins, Wyo., last week. In
1874 Thode worked as section fore
man for the Union Pacific at Carbon,
Afterward lie organized the Thode
Cattle company.
Two men we're killed and one IA
tally injured in premature explosion
on the line of the Portland & Seattle
railway. two miles west OF Spokane
Joe Balick and Mike Match, both Aus
TRANS, were instantly killed, and
Mike Opyr was fatally injured. -
Frank Kuchers. aged SO years, q
prominent wholesale leather dealer
of Tacoma. fired bullet into his
brain at his home while the family
was at breakfast. He was despond
ent from illness, having suffered for
long time with kidney trouble.
Holding that the punishment i'm.
posed by the jury when 1t found
George Melville guilty of second de
gree murder for the killing Of Win.
field Guthrie, near Helena last July,
to be excessive, District Judge Gle.
ments reduced the penalty from fifty
to twenty-five years in the state
penitentiary.
Word has been received in Laramie
that construction work on the Harri.
man system. which was discontinued
when the present financial furry be-
gan. will be resumed along the line
ON December 1, including the Lane
\ cutoff, near Omaha, which was with
In few days Of completion at the
time of shut down.
Upwards of twenty postmasters OF
the presidential class In Montana met
in Helena last week at the instiga
ton of the postmasters Of Butte, Hell
ena and Great Falls, to discuss the
general situation and especially the
situation relative to increased sal
aries to Offset the advanced cost OF
living in recent years.
Mayor Hickok. of Saratoga. Wyo.
is suffering from severe wound sus
tanned while trying to replace stove
pipe which had fallen out of the
chimney. and which was endangerine
the house. Mayor Hickok is a cousin
of the late wild Bill" Hickok, one o.
the best known OF the bad men o.
former days in Wyoming.
The body OF former Lieutenant
Governor Beall. who in the early day.
was shot and killed by George w
Pinney, United States marshal ant
editor of the Post. has been found b!
Grand Army comrades after an inter
mittent search, extending over |
number OF years, and buried In Fores
Valley cemetery at Helena.
The board of education of the Lar
annie school district has begun thu
enforcement of the compulsory edu
cation law passed by the last stat
legislature, and which provides tina
all children between the ages OF
and IL years, inclusive, shall be re
quired to attend some public, private
or parochial school each school year
After conference held In Butte
the committee appointed by the Butt
Central Labor council and the Build
ing Trades council, and ID. S. Murray
general manager OF the Rocky Noun
tain Bell Telephone company. faile'
to come to an agreement, and tn
strike between the telephone com
pany and the employees Will continue
Eza Meeker, who has accomplished
3,000-mile trip over the old Oregon
trail behind yoke of oxen, called Of
President Roosevelt last week an
made a plea to have the Oregon trai
made a national highway. The pres
dent listened with interest, but suf
gested that, II done. the project woul
have to be on commercial rathe
than on a sentimental basis.
John Pollard, charged with crimina
assault on the 13-yearold niece OF hi
wife, narrowly escaped lynching b
an angry mob at Anaconda, Mon
While being taken to the county ja
at Mount Vernon. Pollard broke ava
from the sheriff at Burlington Jun'
ton and threw himself in front OF a
approaching train, being horribl
mangled.
Guided by the advice OF an age
woman, who claims to be a seeresl
: Leon Thomas and Tommy Freitei
two small boys, dug up $4,000 In VI
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