The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1908-06-06
NORTHWEST NOTES

Peter O'Neill. a we'll known miner
OF Butte, fell distance OF sixty feet
in the Elm Grin shaft and was In
stanuy killed.
Six inches of snow on the level
| prevented the opening OF the baseball
season at Butte on May 26. An elab.
crate program had been prepared for
the occasion.
Amicable relations between the la.
Dor unions OF Montana and the Bell
Telephone company have been re-
stored, after fight which has lasted
Tor some time and been source OF
heavy expense to both sides.
Ill health is supposed to have been
responsible for Mrs. Emma G. Larsen,
II widow, killing herself by hanging
OF Goldfeld She fastened one end OF
rope to a window, tied the other
about her neck and jumped into
space.
Judge Burnett, in the circuit court
at Salem. Ore, sentenced ]. Thorn
burn Ross, the Portland banker, to
five years Imprisonment and to pay
q fine OF S576,094 Ross was recently
convicted of wrongful conversion OF
state school funds in his capacity as
president OF the Title Guarantee and
Trust company.
The plant of the Seimon Lumber
company, on the tide flats at Belling-
ham, WASH, burned early Saturday,
entailing q loss of 100000. The fire
started in the engine room and
spread so rapidly that the Waterman
could do little to stay the flames
with the fire-fighting equipment in the
| mill.
The people of La Grande, Ore. are
elated over the assurance that $685.
900 federal building will be forth
coming next year. In 1t will house
the postofIice and the land office.
Should this city be selected as the
headquarters of this division of the
supreme court, the building will be
its home.
Sheriff Alfred Bath of Laramie,
Wyo., was killed thirty miles west
| of Laramie by a man named Sum
mers, from Walden, Colo. Summers
had held up and robbed his employer
at Walden, and Sheriff Bath had
| been advised OF the fact and was ir.
pursuit of Summers when the murder
occurred.
Ontario, Ore, ships more livestock
than any other point between Port
land and Denver. It is claimed. Cattle
horses and sheep are driven there for
q distance of $50 to 200 miles to be
loaded onto the cars for Transports
| ton east and north. II Is not uncom'
mon for 1000 head of cattle to be
shipped from there In one day.
Francis Ciddeo was found guilty at
Greenwood, b. c., Of the charge OF
murder, and was sentenced to be
hanged July 81. Ciddeo was charged
with dynamiting the Canadian hote
which resulted In the death Of the
proprietor's daughter, Miss King. He
made good his escape, but later was
captured In Salt Lake City.
Colorado may emphasize the fran
| chise for women in that state by
sending two women delegates to the
national Democratic convention. Fol
lowing the movement in Denver &c
send Mrs. Ruth Bryan Leavitt, 1t Is
announced that Mrs. Margaret How
ell jefferson Davis Hayes, the only
living daughter of Jefferson Davis
may be delegate.
| News comes from Billings, Mont.
Of the death Of William T. Hamilton
aged Sc, we'll known throughout the
state as Uncle Billy" and probably
the greatest Indian fighter and Indiar
sign reader and talker the west has
| ever produced. Years before Buffalo
Bill" Cody was born. Hamilton wal
fighting Indians on the plains and In
the Rocky mountains.
The Rev. Mr.. Lewis ]. Duncan. pas
tor Of the Unitarian church OF Butte
recently invited Emma Goldman, the
anarchist, to speak in his church, or
her visit to Butte. Because or this,
committee from the local Grand Arm,
of the Republic waited upon Mr.. Dun
can and requested him to retire al
orator OF the community in the loca
Decoration day services.
George b. Mechem OF Denver, WHIT
has been mining in Cripple Creek
Colorado Springs and other places TO
years, has filed suit against l.. l.. Pat
rick, president OF the First Nationa
bank Of Goldfeld, for $2S5.0Oo, claim
ing that he grubstaked Patrick eigh
years ago, and that Patrick made
fortune In Goldheld without account
ing to him for his half.
The government will bring proceed
ings to dispossess the Southern Pa
cific Of lands in western Oregon va
ued at s3,5O0,000, and to secure de
cree annulling the grant and restol
ing the lands to the public domain
The lands were given to the Southern
Pacific several decades ago to induc
the construction OF railroad lines, bu
It is claimed the road has failed I