The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1908-04-18
NORTHWEST NOTES

| Inc people OF Lewiston, Montana,
have voted down the proposition to
compel all saloons to close at mid
night.
The secretary of the interior has
restored to public entry 10000 acres
Of land which had been withdrawn in
connection with the Little Missouri
| irrigation project in Montana.
In the federal court at Helena,
Judge Hunt fined Enoch Herbster, a
| prominent Dawson county, Montana
ranchman, $3.50 upon a plea of guilty
to an indictment charging Illegal
fencing.
An aged prospector named Flana.
| gan bound for the hills with grub
stake on his back, was struck by
| Southern Pacific train and instantly
| killed in the tunnel near Palisade.
| Nevada.
One of the features of the election
| held in Montana was the carrying in
| Bozeman of the Sunday and midnight
| closing of the saloons. Bozeman is
the first city in Montana to inaugur-
ate the Sabbath lid.
At the meeting at Helena, Mont, of
| the Democratic state committee, the
candidacy of William ]. Bryan for the
| presidency was endorsed without a
| dissenting voice from the twenty
| seven members of the body.
The state encampment of the
| Grand Army of the Republic held at
Butte, closed on the 10th, with the
election of L. w. Kinney of Bozeman
| as commander and the selection of
| Billings as the 1909 convention city.
u. l.. Daily, Indian inspector of the
| Grow reservation in Montana was be-
| fore the senate committee on Indian
affairs last week, and denied state
ments made by Mrs. Helen Pierce
| Grey concerning alleged maladminis
tration of its affairs,
The Oregon & Washington Railway
| company has formally accepted the
franchises granted by the Seattle city
council. The grants include terminals,
! freight yards, passenger depots, tun'
mel work and several miles of lines
within the city limits of Seattle.
High school students took posses
sion of the school building at Ana.
conda, Mont, one night last week,
and had a dance. How they gained
admission is unknown at present, but
! thorough investigation is to be
made and the guilty parties punished
A delegation of Sioux Indians from
the Cheyenne and Standing Rock res
ervations. who favor opening at least
half of each of these reservations TO
settlement, called upon the president
last week with Commissioner Leupp
of the Bureau of Indian affairs. The
| president chatted with them short
time.
Oliver &. Dallas, co.derendant with
| J. ID. Mcleod in the government con-
spiracy case on trial in the federal
| court at Helena, Mont, confessed
frankly that all of the signatures to
various documents which purported
to be the signatures OF different dep
uty mineral surveys were written by
him.
| Joseph Henry Taylor, the frontier
author, is dead at Washburn, N. d.,
| from heart failure. Taylor reached
the Platte river in 1864, and worked
north along the Missouri river. He
was among the first white men to
take up his abode in Dakota. He
was author and publisher OF number
| of books.
| With the exception OF Butte, where
the Socialist vote held its own as
compared with the off-year municipal
election of the previous year, the So
cialist vote generally throughout
Montana shows a decided falling of
at the recent election. In Livingston
the Socialists were defeated by de-
cisive vote.
Henry and Arthur Weber, proml'
nent Nevada mining operators, have
been arrested at Godheld, Nevada,
charged with embezzling 100000 be-
longing to the treasury of the Doctor
Mining company. The defendants
we're released on $4,000 bail each
The Webbers declare the prosecution
is the result of spite work.
Frank J.. Edwards, Republican, was
elected mayor OF Helena after a
warm campaign in which the moral
issue was urged by MS opponents y
Democrat was elected city treasurer
and Republican was chosen police
Judge. The Republicans elected hve
Of seven aldermen.
The Florence Gold Mining company
of Goldfield has applied for an in
junction to restrain the Little Flor
once lease from continuing work on
ground leased by the latter company
The lease runs only two weeks more
and the parent company claims the
mine is being Quilted.
Brady Martin, Spokane contrac
tor, was terribly injured at Lind
Wash, while trying to extract dyna
mite from a missed shot. The eX
plosion fractured his skull, broke one
leg and shot fragments of rock into
his body. He is in the hospital, with
little hope OF recovery.
| Tho Canadian Pacific railroad has