The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1908-08-15
NORTHWEST NOTES


from a horse near Cokeville, Wyos-
and almost instantly killed.
The citizens of Butte will send q
carload OF provisions to the fire SUI
ferers at Fernie, b. c., or, II the sur
ferers wish, money.
Mrs. r. F. Soule. wife of promf-
pent Anaconda business man, was
burned to death in her home by the.
explosion OF an alcohol stove.
The town OF Clayton, Wash. has
been practically wiped out as the re-
suit of forest fires Clayton had a
population of about 500 people.
forest fire Of alarming proper
tons did considerable damage in the
Occur d'Alene national forest, in'
Idaho, just across the Montana state
line.
The postmasters iof Montana met
at Helena on August 3 in the first an
nual meeting OF the Montana Post
masters association. The organiza-
ton was organized one year ago.
The state board OF equalization OF
Montana has received returns from
all counties as to property valuations.
which show the following: Real es-
tate. s124,11793s; personal, $S1,7S9,-
SS7: railroads, S43,S16.000.
Fourteen railways Of Colorado have
asked the federal court for an injunc-'
ton restraining the members Of the
Colorado railroad commissiotn from.
enforcing the law as to rates and rail-
way regulation against them.
Mrs. Steve Adams, wife OF the man
who was tried for the murder Of Ar
thur Collins at Grand Junction, and
who was acquitted of the charge, is in
Denver. and has left her husband, ac-
cording to dispatch from Denver.
II is reported by railroad officials
that work on the new freight ter
minal at Inlay, Nevada, has been re-
sumed and that before the work is
finished, which will be some time this
year, s150,O00 will have been spent in.
the Improvement.
The fire that has been burning in
the St. Lawrence mine at Butte for
nearly quarter of century, claimed
It's first victim last week. Peter Cal
laghan. aged 20. who went into the
mine In new gas helmet, was over
come and asphyxiated.
Ontario, Oregon, is in the throes OF
an oil boom. Every oil expert that
has inspected this field has made a
favorable report on the formation,
and that where so much natural gas
is found the indications are first-class
for an oil field in the vicinity.
John Kossuf, who had been drink
ing, ran amuck at Kalispell, Mont.
and shot three men. Alderman Schu-
man received flesh wound. while Ed
ward Dupont was wounded In the
temple Henry Miller, a lumberman.
was struck, but the course OF the bull
let was changed by papers in his
pocket.
E. f. Bushnell of Washington, chief
clerk in the postal service, Malcolm
ellis, postmaster at Butte; DR.. Ron.
postmaster at Missoula, and Judge.
Cheadle OF the district bench at Lew
istown. Mont, we're all slightly in
jured in an automobile accident near
Helena.
Malheur county, Oregon, OF which
Vale Is the county seat is one OF the
very large counties OF the state, be-
ing sixty miles wide and $50 miles
long. with a population numbering
about $500 people. The taxable prop
erty aggregates something over s4.-
900, 1000.
James Iverson, aged 80, OF Sparks,
Nevada, a prominent member of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi-
neers, was accidentally shot in Blue
canyon, near Truckee, Cal, by his
companion, Harry Criss, while hunt
| iIg for deer. Criss mistook lverson
| for deer.
George F. Demars was shot and In
stantly killed by Jackson Reid, aged
IL, on Government island in the Lewis
q Clark fair grounds. Demars, with
his father and brother, were fishing
on the island and were ordered of by
several children, among whom was
young Reid.
Convicted ON a charge of violating
the anti.pass law, s. C.. Watts was
fined $500 and Gertie Williams 500
IN the federal court at Helena, Mont
Watts, who is Great Northern brake
man, secured pass for his wife and
gave 1t TO the Williams woman Both
were indicted.
NJ Stoltz, a freight conductor hand
ling his last train as such, was killed
near Grand Junction, Colo, by being
run over by train. Orders relieving
Stoltz of his position as freight con
ductor and promoting him to pas
senger run were awaiting him at
| Grand Junction.
One hundred sheep were struck and
killed by lightning while taking shell
ter from storm at Bridgeport, Cal.
at the head of the Carson river. When
the storm came up the sheep rushed
under a tamarack tree while the her