The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1908-09-12
NORTHWEST NOTES

home at Pelican Lodge, on klamath
! lake, Oregon, where he has spent al
months vacation, on Friday Of last
! week.
| Tom and Lawrence Creed were
| sentenced to Is and IS months re-.
spectively for stealing quantity of.
watermelons from Union Pacific
/ car at Cheyenne.
| James Gibbs of Del Norte, Colo,
was seriously injured in runaway
at the Four Mile ranch, near Boggs,
| Wyo., a few day ago. When the horses
started to run Gibbs was thrown over
the dashboard.
II. j. Martin, freight conductor,
formerly of Ogden, Utah, was crushed
to death in a collision on the North
Crn Pacific railroad at Avon, about
fifty miles west of Butte. Martin was
sleeping in the caboose Of an extra
freight train.
The warlilke Piutes of Inyo county,
Cal, who have been always more or
less hostile to the whites occupancy
of their territory, are now so vigor-
ously Directing to the seizure of their
water rights by Los Angeles that the
settlers fear trouble.
James Stanwood Pierce aged rs
years, is dead at his home in Tacoma
of apOpleXy. He was a cousin of Pre-
sident Franklin Pierce and his grand
father, Nathaniel Pirce, gave to the
l b,, ctt 10 hp
navy yard at Portsmouth, N. II.
Jack Dunn the outlaw who recent.
/ ly murdered man near Spearfish S.
| r., Is believed to be in hiding near
/ Hulett, in the northern part of Crook
county, Wyoming. sheriff and
| several deputies have taken the trail
and hope to bring in the outlaw
All the Wyoming coal mines shut
| down by the strike of the miners have
| supplies of coal on hand and there is
| little fear of an immediate coal fam.
Inc. A Butte dispatch announces that
the Amalgamated Copper mines have
| o six weeks stock of coal on hand.
After September 10 apple growers
OF the Pacific Northwest will be re,
CURED to pay a sharp increase in
| freight rates to market their apples
in the east. The biggest advances
are made to points west of the Mis-
souri, river, whereas advances TO
/ POINTS east of the Missouri river are
slight.
Dewey, the l0.year-old son of b.
+. Back, Cheyenne contractor,
found a cartridge I'm the alley at his
home and after extracting the bullet
he placed the shell on q rock and
hammered II until It exploded A
piece of the shell struck young Back
in the left breast killing him almost
instantly.
Sheriff Smalley of Cheyenne has
unearthed a quantity of dynamite and
fuse in the back yard of the home
| recently occupied by Charles Smith,
who was shot a few days ago while
] resisting arrest, and who Is believed
| to have robbed a large number of
stores and residences during the past
| few years.
! II Is reliably reported at New.
castle, Wyoming. that the narrow
| Gauge railroad extending from Spear
| fish, S. D.. to the Black Hills ma.
tional forest north OF Nwcastle, Is to
he standardized and extended to
! Newcastle early next year. The
present terminus of the road Is only
% miles distant.
Passenger and freight rates on the
Pacific coast may be increased II the
plans considered at meeting OF Of
hCials Of the Union Pacific railway at
the Auditorium Annex hotel at Chi
Cago the other day are fruitful The
meeting was n secret one, but It was
declared that an increased tariff rate
10 the coast had been considered.
The Northern Pacific and subsidiary
companies, which are defendants In a
suit recently instituted by the gov
eminent to recover immensely waltz
able coal lands in Montana filed their
answer last week which in effect Is
that the government cannot go back
under its classification under which
the tracts were awarded,
The mine whistles did not call the
miners to work at DietZ, Monarch,
Carneyville Kooi end Riverside on
September .. Seven hundred mon are
out at Det2, 400 AT Monarch, 800 at
Carneyvillc 80 at Kooi and % mt
Riverside, The miners are optimis.
tic.
Sergeant Bower OF Troop D. Fourth
cavtlry, who wandered away from
camp in the Crow Creek reserve,
while suffering from injuries received
by his horse falling on him, was
found in Laramie, and is being cared
for at local hospital. He will re,
cover.
Coal miners and operators for the
Montana district met in conference
at Helena on the 3rd, for the purpose
of fixing \ wage scale for the ensu-
ing year. The operators are under,
stood to be DESTROYS of reducing
wages, which will be resisted by the
miners.