The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1908-08-29
NORTHWEST NOTES

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states that William Thompson, an en-
gineer, was killed in boiler explo
sion in the Roberts sawmill, in Bear
canyon. I.
The 800" railroad has placed an
order with the Minnesota Free En-
rloyment bureau for 1000 men. They
are wanted as harvest hands in Min
nesota and North Dakota at from
So to 81 day, with board.
Mrs. Caroline Kirchoff, 60 years OF
age, Of Colorado Springs, was killed,
and Henry Hanning, 46 years of age,
was fatally injured by the explosion
of a boiler at the Edgerton saw mills
ten miles north Of Colorado Springs
p. G. Ayres, aged 65, president of
the First National bank Of Coffeyville,
Kan, dropped dead at Stonewall,
summer resort forty miles west of
Trinidad, Colo, where he was spend
ing a vacation with a number of
friends.
David Halger, a we'll known banker
Of Lewiston, Mont, and one of the
prominent men of the state. has for
mally announced his candidacy for
the nomination for the lieutenant
governorship on the Democratic
ticket.
While crowd Of cow-punchers
were celebrating their arrival in the
town of Marmarth, Mont, a fight was
started in the tenderloin district and
an unknown girl was shot and killed
by another, known only by the name
of Blanche.
The Montana Hotel Mems associa-
ton met in Butte last week. One of
the subjects before the body was the
question of the merits and dement's
of the nine-foot bed sheet demanded
by travelling men in various parts of
the country.
Mrs. X. G. Turner, one of Chey.
enne's leading citizens, died of heart
failure while asleep In her bed She
lad been calling on friends during
the afternoon and had laid down to
get little rest. Falling asleep, she
died without struggle.
Empire City, three miles from Car
son City, Nevada, a once hourishing
city during the bonanza days of Vir.
ginia City, was visited by fire last
week, destroying six houses, almost
the total number, and cremating John
Bradbury, a pioneer of that place.
Frank Gillice, postman at the Bum
ker Hill & Sullivan mine, whose mys-
FERROUS disappearance from Wardner
was variously accounted for by the
cries of suicide, abduction and acci'
dent, has turned up alive and we'll at
the home of his brother in California.
The division engineer on the st.
Paul from Lombard east to Forsyth
Mont, says that the company will bt
employing 5000 men until cold wealth.
er sets in on repairing the line where
It was damaged by the floods, relay.
ing the track OF the Montana railroad
with S5-pound steel, and ballasting
the roadbed.
A peculiar accident happened to
Captain Cadle of the Reno police
force While standing in the police
station Oficer FOLLY began brushing
Cables clothes with brush. In some
way the captains revolver was dis
charged, the bullet blowing down the
back OF his leg, neatly cutting the
trousers, the ball entering the floor.
After a heroic effort Mrs. Ed. Fos'
ter, living near Reno, Nevada, saved
her two children from burning to
death. She was outdoors, washing
the children playing in the house.
when she noticed that the house was
ON fire. She fought her way through
the flames and got the children safe
" out, but was badly burned herself.
While in session at Billings, the
Montana state Federation of Labor
adopted resolutions commencing
Gompers for his efforts In securing
concessions from the political par
ties, but no particular party was
indorsed The body also demands
that candidates friendly to labor, ir'
respective Of party, alone be support
ed at the polls.
Eight men belonging to the cooking
pany at Barnum & Bailey's circus were
severely injured, two probably fatal
ly. when spreading rails caused four
menagerle cars to leave the tracks
on the Great Northern railroad eight
miles south OF New Westminster
Wash.
A fire resulting from a gasoline ex'
,losion In the red light district oil
Rhyolite, Nevada, wiped out $4,000
worth of property. Several fine build
ings were reduced to ashes, and II
was with difficulty that the Bullfrog
Bank Trust company's building was
saved.
A forest fire nearly wiped out the
little town of Bow, ten miles south
of Bellingham, Wash. The saw anc
single mill and dry hlns, owned pS