The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1908-07-04
NORTHWEST NOTES

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Montana State Christian association
was held in Billings last week.
! Montana was the last state in the
| Union to hold its Democratic state
convention to elect delegates to Den
YER.
| Twice within ten days the Carne-
! gle library at Reno, Nevada, has been
robbed, about SIS being taken from
the money drawer
G. d. Frazier of Portland was chos,
en- second vice.president Of the Trav'
slers' Protective association at the
Milwaukee meeting.
The eight.year-old daughter Of Mrs,
Samuel Stevenson was burned to
death at Carson City, New, her dress
catching fire from a firecracker.
Joseph Wallace was killed by o
train two miles west of Laurel. Mont
Trainmen say the man was sleeping
on the track, his head pillowed on q
rail
Egbert Smith aged Al years, one OF
the best known mining engineers In
| America, died at his home in Colorado
| Springs last week. Death came as q
result of an illness contracted in Mex.
leo last winter.
The body Of 15-year-old Harry Sif
| ford, who mysteriously disappeared
from Reno, Nevada, has been found at
saltwater, over fifteen miles from
where he was supposed to have gone
bathing in an irrigating ditch.
Boycott OF Oregon hops and barley
worth $6,0O0,000 annually Is threat,
| ened by the brewers because of the
stand for prohibition taken by most
OF the counties of that state, accord
ing to prominent California brewer,
The Isthmian Canal commission
! has discontinued the purchasing
agency at Tacoma. Wash. and has
! transferred the work, which consist
ed principally in the'y inspection OF
lumber, to an army engineer at Seat.
| tie.
| A defective rail caused the wreck.
ing of a passenger train near Garry
town, Mont, and Engineer j. J. Null
len was instantly killed. Fireman
George w. Dukshire was seriously in.
jured, but II is believed he will re;
cover.
The directors of the Montana indie.
pendent Telephone company, at q
! meeting held In Butte, elected officers
for the year. One change was made
W. II. Hall OF Butte being elected as
vice-president to succeed p. b. Moss
Of Billings.
After scarcely three hours of DELHI
Grafton. a jury at Butte acquitted John
Sutherland of the charge of first de
gree murder in the Killing OF ]. IL
Kerr, November 7 last. This was
Sutherlands second trial. Sutherland
struck Kerr with a brick.
Mayor Taylor, mine superintend
ent, and e. w. Priest; an ex-constable
died at Goldheld last week within
three hours of each other as a result
of a desperate street duel with pts
tolls In which the two men almost rid
died one another. Taylor charged
Priest with trying to break up his
home.
Henry Weber, a prominent mining
operator and society leader, one Of thu
pioneers OF Goldfield, has been sen
fenced to serve seven years in tn,
state penitentiary,. Weber was con
yicted of embezzling $4,000 belonging
to the Doctor Mining company o
Wonder, Of which he was presiden
and manager. 80
Fifty years ago on June q the lit
tie band of Georgians known as' tn,
Green Russell party pitched camp Of
. Cherry creek, where Denver stands
after wearisome journey across tn
plains, and later they built the frs
cabin on the site Of the city. Th
event was concentrated last weel
, by a celebration Of the pioneers.
. The. two.year-old son Of Mr.. an,
| Mrs. Tony Spritz was. run over by
/ runaway team in Butte and instantl
, killed. The hoofs Of the horse
. crushed in the skull of the child. Tn
, runaway was started by small boy
, exploding firecrackers near tn
horses. 90 .'... ..,
Miss Leonora Pearce, convicted a
, Denver of having obtained valuabl
, ring from Mrs. Harriet Crows, Al
( aged blind widow, by paIming hersel
off as a spiritualist capable OF restol
, ing sight, was, sentenced to serv
+ three to four years in the Colorad
penitentiary. .,
Two destructive. fires in Colorado
: started by careless campers, have d.
: stroyed timber valued at $f5O,00l
5 The. fires occurred in the western par
. OF jefferson county and the extrem
; northern central part OF Park county
c the latter being known as Noun
Evans district. s,.
) The Andy Hempel Brokerage con
!. pany, the pioneer mining brokerag
. firm in Reno, was sold last week TO
Y w. Longley f. B. Cushman and b.
9 Soell. all OF Tonopah, New, where the
| nra nrnmiuent IN buSlness circles Tn