The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1908-02-22
NORTH WEST NOTES


German lodges, expelled for embezz.
ling, committed suicide.
The president has signed the bill
authorizing the Idaho & Washington
Northern railroad to bridge the Spo-
kane river in Washington near Occur
d'Alene, Ida.
A new set of officers has been Sc
lected for the State Savings bank at
Butte, the Heinze interests being COM
rletely eliminated, and that institu.
ton has resumed busienss.
Within the next thirty days, through
trains on the Western Pacific railroad
between Salt Lake and Ely will be In
operations. For the past several weeks
the road has been handling ore cars.
The health authorities of Silver Bow
county, Montana, have begun a pure
milk crusade, as result of which
nine milkmen were arrested one day
last week and tried in the police
court.
In train wreck near Verdi Nevada,
carload of buffaloes, being shipped
from Yellowstone Park to the Golden
Gate Park, San Francisco, escaped,
and cowboys have been engaged to re-
capture them.
Application for permission to or.
ganize the Fallon National bank OF
Fallon, New, has been made to the
comptroller by Harry Pinger of Fair.
view, New, and others. The capital
stock is to be $4,000.
After four days, in which he suffered
intense agony, w. A. Lawson, young
man 10 years old, died from the eff
feet of poison contained in what he
supposed to be mushrooms, which he
gathered at Golden Gate park, San
Francisco.
Secretary Garfield has submitted an
estimate and recommendation to con.
gress for an appropriation of $4,000 for
marking six miles of boundary line be.
tween Montana and Wyoming along
the western boundary of Yellowstone
National park.
Charles Arson, traffic chief of the
Western Telegraph Office in Portland,
died at St. Vincent's hospital on the
18th, after suffering for few hours
from an attack Of apoplexy. Mr.. An.
son was one of the best known opera
tors In the country.
A new phase in the Nevada banking
situation took place last week when
W. d. Mackenzie, the heaviest indi.
vidual depositor In the suspended
State Bank and Trust company,
agreed to refinance the institution and
become one of its members.
George Bop, a union miner who has
been out with the strikers, was severe.
ly injured by the explosion of dyna.
mite in stove in which he was build
ing fire in his home in Goldield.
No reason is known for anyone at.
tempting to take Bop's life.
Samuel b. Cohen, prominent mer.
chant Of Tonopah. shot himself at an
early hour In the morning at his home
after losing a fortune at gambling.
He was formerly a merchant Of Car.
son City and for a time took lead.
ing part in politics in that city.
Thomas B. Hickey. president of the
State Bank & Trust company, was
arrested at Carson, Nevada, last
week, on a charge of ENLIGHTENMENT.
The warrant was sworn to by Il. nj.
Bohall, who states that he Is a de-
positor, and that the bank received
deposits knowing that 1t was insol.
vent.
Found guilty Of murder OF Eugene
o. Madden, near Basin, Mont, on New
Years day, George Plat, an old.time
prospector and miner. has been sent
enced to Imprisonment for life in the
penitentiary. On receiving his sent
ence the old man, with an outburst OF
temper, denounced the prosecuting at
torney.
The Oregon Trust and Savings bank
OF Portland whose failure occurred
several months ago, reopened for bust
ness last week under the name OF
the German-American bank, with which
the bankrupt institution has been
merged, with a paid-up capital OF
100000. There was no excitement,
and the Withdrawals were light.
Federal Judge Hunt of Helena set
the hearing of cases involving thir'
teen defendants, who are alleged to
have fenced an area of government
land which is the largest on record
in the history OF the United States
courts. They are collectively alleged
to have taken over approximately
100000 acres.
John G. Wetleek attempted to play
joke on F. d. Heppner, a newly APP
pointed policeman in Portland and
was killed. Wetleek hid behind a
clump of bushes and as Heppner came
along stepped in front of him and,
pointing his pipe at the policeman, or
dered Hands up" Heppner drew
his pistol from his pocket and shot
Wetleek dead.
The house of representative has
passed the Mondell bill, granting an
extension Of time to desert land en-
trymen who are unable to irTigate