The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1908-01-18
NORTHWEST NOTES

interstate telephone connections, ant
will be able to talk to Salt Lake or to
San Francisco.
The president, on January Z, sent
the senate the nomination of Christian
schuebel to be United States attorney
for the district of oregon.
Fire at Culbertson, Mont, destroyed
an entire block of business houses
before it was gotten under control,
entailing loss of $125,OOO.
The fourth annual convention OF the
Wyoming Woolgrowers' association,
the largest ever held in the state, was
held at Laramie, Wyo., last week.
John Darling, charged with for.
gerry, broke out of the Rock Springs,
! Wyo., Jail last week, with several
other prisoners charged with minor
offenses.
T. o. Newman, business man of
Butte, Mont, shot and killed himself
on Southern Pacific train at Battle
Mountain, Nevada. He was temper
arily insane.
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ident Roosevelt for the remission OF
$4,000 fine imposed upon him for
contempt Of court in violating an in
junction restraining him from extract
ing ore from a certain Butte mine.
Exports of wheat, barley and flour
from Portland and Puget Sound ports
have been adding $l50,000 a day to
the wealth of Oregon and Washington
since October /, and this average OF
exports will be maintained until the
end OF this month.
The smclter trust has announced
new rate for Goldfeld ores. For all
ores up to 500 a ton, full cash settle.
ment will be made at once. For
ores over 800 ton the company will
pay 800 ton at once and balance
within forty-five days.
Governor Joseph X. Toole of Mon.
tana has appointed thirty represent.
alive citizens as delegates to the Mis-.
souri, River Navigation congress, to
be held III Sioux City, January 1925
next. The delegation is headed by
William Scallon of Butte.
A contract for 100000 worth of
construction on the new Denver &
an Omaha firm. BY the end of the
year the company hopes to have the
section from Denver to Fort Collins,
1876 miles, almost completed.
In order to encourage structural
steel work In the Nevada mills and
mines, the Salt Lake and the Las
Vegas & Tonopah railroads have re.
duced the tariff on structural steel be.
tween Los Angeles and Nevada points
from $1.S3 hundred to SLIT.
! The state board of railroad commits.
sioners of Montana directed the at.
torney general to file three actions in
the district court against the North.
ern Pacific company, alleging viola
tons of the sixteen.hour employment
law for employees In the train service.
Mrs. Isabel Hesket was murdered at
Rhyolite, Nevada, by Fred Skinner
with whom the unfortunate woman
had eloped from her home in Arrow.
head, Colo. Skinner shot the woman
four times in the back, and attempted
suicide, bur failed and Is now In jail
The forest supervisors of district
No. 4, which includes the forests OF
southern Idaho, Utah, part of Wyo
ming and Nevada, will meet in Salt
Lake January 16, II and IS, for the
purpose Of talking over national for.
est policies and work of supervisors.
BY the breaking of a natural dam
formed by landslide, the waters of
East creek wrecked the bunk house
at Ladd, the mining camp of the East
Creek Coal company, sixty miles
south of Tacoma. Il. Becker, master
mechanic OF the company, was buried
In the ruins. The other men escaped
death.
At a meeting of the employees of
the East Helena plant of the Ameri-
can Smelling e. Refining company, the
question of going on strike was de-
feated by only five votes. 1t Is be.
lieved that this will definitely settle
the matter, and that no further trouble
will be had at the smelter over the
reduction In wages.
A special from Helena, Mont, states
that an attempt to escape on the part
OF two alleged Great Northern train
robbers who held up the Oriental
Limited at Rondo, Mont, and secured
$4,000. was frustrated by the vigi'
lance of United States Marshal Merit
field, who, In the shirt Of Charles Nc
Donald, found hack-saw.
A. c, Coggin of Seattle, state man
ager of the Loyal Americans, ]. w.
Vessey and John Peters, wealthy
sheep men OF Prosser. Wash, left for
Durango, Mexico, late last March to
purchase land. They took along about
$4,000. No trace of them has been
found since last April, though 1t is
known they reached Durango. II is
suspected they were lost in the
mountains or were killed by Indians,
While ID. Vigil. well known ranch.
man, and his wife and grandchild,
aged six, were crossing the railroad
track near Mayne station, Colorado,
the wagon was struck by a passenger