The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1907-03-22
NORTHWEST NOTES

lNluH system OF hlIIluE0. MONT nave
struck for higher wages
The report comes from Pine Ridge
Wyoming. that the body Of on un.
known man has been found the man
having been frozen TO death
Joseph Smith. brakeman en-.
ploycd by the Southern Pacific com.
pany az Nina. New. was run down by
his own engine OF that place and In.
stantly killed
No lumber is now oblainahlc At
Portland owing to the strike OF saw.
mill employees and It Is merely a
question of days until an building op.
cratlons In the city will cease.
Il Is announced at the war depart.
mcnt that the post Of Fort washakio
In Wyoming will be- abandoned May
/ next and the reservation and build.
ings turned over to the interior de.
partmcnt Tor disposition
Japancse papers received at Victor
ia. II. G., by the steamer Athena, pub
llsh a report that fishermen took a live
mermaid On Yacymn. Iuchu islands,
aud the mermaid was brought 10 Toxic
and exhibited AZ Ycno park
The labor troubles at Goldneld are
being felt by the railroad companies.
/ Az a result OF the inability of the
people OF that camp to get mon to
unload their products from the cars
/ blockade virtually exists ON the
Tonopah n Goldncd road
/ II Is stated that Edward r. Tllton,
chief engineer Of the Salt Lake Route,
will within a short time visit Meadow
Valley wash. In Nevada, for the pur.
pose Of selecting new survey de
signed To avoid the section that has
on several occasions crippled the sys
tenn and tod up tranic for several
weeks at time.
The twonlyycarold controversy
between the Northern Pacific Rail
road company and Jacob and Mar
garct Slaght. over the possession OF
lands In the town OF Palousc, wash
ON which are located the company,
warehouse. water tanks. etc. wai
decided by the supreme court last
week favorably TO the Slaghts.
The supreme court Of Montana
holds that the trial court Of Silver
Bow county exceeded ita Jurisdiction
In sentencing Andrew =. Graves Q,
the pcnitontiary for fourteen years OF
the charge Of throwing corrosive acl,
In the face OF woman. on the grounI
that the verdict Of the jury did no
show that the act was wiliul,
. Angry at his two sons. Milton an
Fred. because they built fenc
when no had told them not 20 do n
r. q. Grow, a farmer at Empire. NJ
vada. secured a rife and shot bot
sons. injuring them seriously. III
older son. George. was standing nsa
and. grabbing another rifle, shot N
father through the head. killing Hit
Instantly.
Frank j. Kocfc, when released fror
the state prison at Rawlins last weel
having served four years sontcnc
for killing John Baxter. Rawlln
. policeman. on the night Of April q
1908. was arrested on warran
charging him and his brother. Wi
liam Keefe with the murder Of Ton
King, a railroad trainman at th
same time.
The Butte members Of the Inter
national Typographical union mail
voted down the proposition OF tn
Butte and Anaconda newspaper put
fishers that the composltors return L
work at last years scale. whic
would mean reduction OF 30 cent
per man per day This leaves tn
newspaper situation where II wa
thirty days ago.
John Arbuckle. the New York col
. fee king. has ordered the manager q
his big Up o." ranch, containin
/ $4,000 acres and lying north Of Chey
i onno. to sell the ranch at once, Il
. gcther with the stock, which consi I
Of $4,000 worth OF cattle and hursei
as a result Of the governments at
/. ton In forcing Arbuckle 10 tear dow
, iorty.hyo miles Of fences erected o
{ government land
Charles Kelly, a longshoreman. wa
, shot and probably fatally woundc
. early Sunday morning by two maske
. men on Townsend street near Thir
street san Francisco. Kelly refuse
5 10 accodo 10 the demand OF the me
q TO hand over 81,
Jack Walsh, formerly rallroa
i. conductor, shot and Killed Charlie
, Meyers and Jack Harrington at BlalI
Nevada The tragedy was the resu
' Of q gambling row The two men %
tackled Walsh. n rs claimed, and h
p shot both of them.
Miss Grace Parish. who attained ho
27th year Saturday committed su
. eide at the home Of her parents In Ia
o Angeles. Sunday during their absonC
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