The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1908-05-23
NORTHWEST NOTES

ing.
Franklin NJ. Barnes is charged With
having unlawfully taken $1,000 900
feet of timber from government fer.
est reserves in San Miguel county,
Colorado.
1t is Officially stated that s5,340.2O
represents the loss to the Great
Northern Express company in the rob-
berry Of the company's strong box by
two bandits, near Seattle.
The house committee on public
lands has reported favorably bill
allotting in the state OF Wyoming, I'M
der the Carey act, 100000 acres OF
land to be subject to reclamation.
Meager details have been received
Of the killing at Mussellshell, Mont,
of woman named Mrs. Wesson. The
tragedy occurred In saloon and two
men are being held pending an in
vestigation.
The federal grand jury sitting at
Denver has reported sixty indictments,
including twenty-six for unlawful
fencing OF public lands, thirteen for
perjury in obtaining land, and one for
timber trespass.
The body of William McCruden,
known as the Catholic Kid" who
was lost in the mountains near Salt
ese, Mont, early in December, was
found last week by q party of search
ers, including Robert McCruden, a
brother.
Twenty houses on the east side OF
the main street of Tonopah, Nevada
we're destroyed by fire which origi-
mated in a lodging house. A high
wind was blowing and the entire city
was endangered The loss is estima
ted at $4,000.
w. J. Arkell, well known in Reno
and once prominent stock broker at
Manhattan, New, is a bankrupt. His
liabilities are $279,O4066 and assets
Of some worthless mining stocks and
about 5000 in money. Arkell's liking
for fast horses, 1t is said, Is the cause
of his downfall.
A case involving mining property
In the Silver Peak district valued at
approximately $10,000,000, and which
has been in litigation in the Nevada
courts for the past twelve years, was
completed In the district court at
Reno, New. last week, and will be
submitted to Judge Pike in briefs.
1t 10 ANNOUNCED that the Madison
River Power company has secured op
tons on all the electric power plants
east of Billings, Mont, including
those at Columbia Falls, Forsythe. Big
Timber and Livingston. and will run
a power system from the Dakota line
to Billings from one central station
Glen Holbrook was found not guilty
ut Antonito. Colo, on the charge OF
numbering NJ. w. Lowther, whom he
shot and killed at Alamosa, Fedru
AIRY 20 last. Holbrook, who was in
Mrs. Lowther's apartments when her
husband Unexpectedly returned, claim.
ed that he shot Lowther in self.de.
tense.
From his cell in the Alameda, Cal,
Jail where he awaits sentence for the
murder OF Mrs. VERNE Carmin, for
merly of Springfield, Mo-, Mark a VIII.
kins has sent out word that the wom-
an who had lived at Elmhurst as his
wife, and whose body he buried in a
shed behind their home, was not Mrs.
Carmin.
Federal Judge Hunt Of Helena has
granted an injunction restraining
Butte and Anaconda Typographical
unions from interfering with the
transactions of the business of the
Butterick Publishing company of New
York. II was alleged that a boycott
had been placed on the concern by
these unions.
Helena has been visited by two dis,
tlnct earthquake shocks, one Tuesday
and the other Thursday night of last
week. The last shock was Sc.
we're enough to throw one West side
woman into commissions. and II made
several other people quite Ill. Houses
rocked violently and dishes ratified
and pictures became askew.
A Chicago man has patented a pro.
cess that will convert the sagebrush
of the west into millions of money by
utilizing II In scientific manner.
Potash is derived from the ashes,
which contain 81 per cent, while ordi-
nary wood ashes contain only Fl per
cent.
A dramatic. and unexpected feature
of the Washington Republican state
convention, held at Spokane, was the
adoption OF a local option plank, by a
vote of SOC to 1858. The convention
adopted unanimously resolution IA
voring the candidacy OF Secretary
Taft.
Reno, Nevada, merchants have filed
a petition with the Nevada railroad
commission. asking for an adjustment
OF freight rates that win enable them
TO compete with Salt Lake City, Los
Angeles and San Francisco dealers.
The commission will investigate their
request.
l., w. Hawley. expert on wood dis
tillation for the forest service, left