The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1908-11-14
NORTHWEST NOTES

| legislature at the recent election.
The Socialist vote in Montana was
| small, outside of Butte, where some
thing over 1000 votes were cast.
General Solicitor W. r. Beggs of the
| Great Northern has confirmed the
| shortage of $4,000 in the accounts of
| A. J. Gordon Of Spokane, Wash, for
merly general counsel of the Great
| Northern at Spokane.
The monthly reports of the Union
Pacific railroad and Southern Pacific
railroad for September, issued recent.
ly, showed that these Hartman lines
had the largest net earnings of any
month in their history.
The directors of the Northwestern
Improvement company, the stock Of
which is owned by the Northern Pa.
cific road, last week declared an ex
ira dividend of $l1.26 a share on the
stock of the Northern Pacific Rail
way company.
S. w. A. Conant, 92 years old, cast
his eighteenth vote for a Republican
candidate for president of the United
States at Colorado Springs on Novem
Der 9Th. He attended the convention
in 1852 which gave birth to tho Re.
publican party.
A Lander, Wyo., dispatch says Mrs.
Henry Hudspeth, who became insane
while travelling to Colorado City, Colo,
where her mother resides, is not to be
committed to the state asylum, but
hnu hnan aHt al
tent and her estate is to be settled.
At Denver, Colo, when a tipsy man
is brought into the police station he is
propped up against the wall and at
once photographed. Next morning
when he is sober, he is shown the pic.
ture, and they say it is quite surpris.
ing how many absolute cures have
been effected by this simple proceed.
ing.
Justice Stafford of the supreme
court of the district OF Columbia has
overruled the motions for new trial
made by Frederick A. Hyde and Jo-
seph Schneider, convicted last spring
OF conspiracy to defraud the United
States in connection with securing of
w
ton.
As the result of double shooting
ARRAY at the residence of Mrs. b.
Camele, at Hamilton, Ont, Chester A.
Johnson is dead and Rosie Ouimet is
in the hospital and may not live
Johnson did the shooting. He had
been keeping company with the young
woman against the wishes OF her
parents.
Eleven.year.old Robert Slawson OF
Jonesville, Wis, was awakened at
night and found the house filled with
smoke. He helped his mother, father
| and baby sister out of the house, as
they were all in a dazed condition,
and then retained presence of mind to
turn in an alarm, thus preventing a
serious fire.
The initial capacity of the Big Horn
company's plant on the Big Horn
| river, near Boysen, Wyo., is to be
5000 electrical horsepower, although
the company will have at its disposal
water power sufficient to generate TO-.
900 electrical horsepower. Additional
| electrical power will be converted as
soon as there Is demand for II.
A head-on collision between a pas
senger and freight train on the Grand
Trunk railway occurred near Danny,
Canada. Oliver FRENZY of Wheat.
lands, Canada, an old man, was killed
G. IL. Tobin, member of parliament
from Bromptonyille, and his two
daughters were seriously injured, and
several others were slightly injured.
The body OF man, believed to be
Volly Mann, who had been shot
through the head, was found on the
prairie about twelve miles from North
Platte. Neb., by Sheriff Eugene Beal
The officer had been guided to the
spot where the body lay by Mrs. Jen.
ME Miner Smith, who charges that
her husband John Henry Dale Smith
killed Mann.
Residents OF Seattle are confident
that the coming Yukon-AlaskaP Pacific
exposition will equal the great worlds
fair held some time ago at Chicago
and anticipate that 1t will boom Seat.
tie to such an extent that the city will
become the leader OF the entire Paci.
nc coast,
James j. Hill, chairman of the OK.
ecutiye committee OF the Great North
ern Railway company, arrived In
Portland last Friday to attend the OK.
ercises in connection with the formal
opening of the Spokane, Portland &
Seattle railroad, known as the North
Bank road"
Sunk in twenty-five feet OF water
and ten feet of drftwood and sand at
the bottom of river rapids, diamond
drill, steam engine, hoist and other
machinery belonging to the reclama.
ton system has been salvaged in La
dore canyon, 10 miles south OF Rock
Springs, Wyo,
AS a result OF an election quarrel,
Gene Pendergast, a gambler, is in Jail
at Reno, Nevada, charged with at.
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