The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1908-02-29
NORTHWEST NOTES


whirlpool with deafening noise.
The First National bank of Fallon,
| Nevada, has been authorized to com.
mence business by the comptroller OF
the currency with a capital stock OF
| $4,000.
While the driver OF a Wells Fargo
express wagon was delivering a pack
age at a store in the business district
of Reno, Nevada, a thief took a sack
containing $500 in gold and currency
from the wagon seat and escaped
without detection.
The senate voted down Senator
Borahs amendment to the code bill
prohibiting senators and congressman
accepting fees for services as attor.
neys in any court procedure in which
the United States is directly or indi-
rectly interested.
Rev. Benjamin Parsons, aged W,
the Oldest Presbyterian minister on
| the coast, died at Seattle on the goth,
after an illness of one day, while pre-.
pairing for a foreign missionary rally
in Seattle, over which he was to pre-
side on March y.
In the death of Mrs. J. B. F. Reynolds
from valvular heart trouble on Sun
day, at her residence in Denver, Colo
RADIO lost one of its most active phil
anthropists. Needy and unfortunate
persons who have been assisted by
Mrs. Reynolds number hundreds.
The announcement of the candidacy
Of Tascar l.. Oddie OF Tonopah for
United States senator has been made
by prominent Republicans OF Carson,
Nevada. Mr.. Oddie has amassed a
large fortune In mines. He will en-.
deavor to succeed Senator Newlands.
]. J. Fitzmaurice, aged 70, blind
and an inmate OF the poor house, who
had been charged with the murder OF
w. F. Baker, aged ~, also a pauper,
was dismissed by Judge Grice at
Butte last week. 1t had been shown
that Fitzmaurice struck Baker in self
defense.
Daniel Sullivan has been renomi-
mated for postmaster OF Cripple Creek,
Colo. Sullivan was active in protect
Ing Mr. Roosevelt against assaults
when he was at Cripple Creek in the
campaign of 1900, and he secured his
denomination in the face OF some op-
position.
Frank Parkhurst OF Chicago acct
dentally shot himself just after board
ing a Colorado & Southern passenger
train at Trinidad, Colo, infiicting
probably fatal wound. AS he was
walking through a car the hammer of
| q revolver in his overcoat pocket
struck the end OF a seat, firing the
weapon.
George w. Vessels, a veteran actor
who had played leading parts with
Edwin Booth and many other promi'
nent stage folk during the past thirty
| five years, died in Denver last week
of paralysis, superinduced by expos.
ure when playing with Blanche Bates
in "The Darling OF the Gods" three
| years ago.
The federal court OF Nevada has
granted temporary injunction in IA
vor of the plaintiff company against
| the Jumbo Extension Mining COM
pany, forbidding either company from
extracting, shipping or selling OF any
ore from their workings on the Gold
| Wedge claim. The dispute is over
apex rights.
The inspector in charge OF immigra-
ton service, with headquarters in
Helena, has received instructions
| from the department at Washington
| to begin an investigation OF all penal,
charitable, reformatory and other in
view of ascertaining the number OF
aliens quartered therein.
The sawmills at Hamilton, Mont, OF
the Anaconda Copper Mining COM
pany, OF the Amalgamated Copper
| group of companies, will resume oper.
atoms March 2. This plant cuts tim
Der for use in the mines OF Butte and
In some quarters its resumption is re-
garded as significant OF an early re-
opening of the copper mines.
Representative Mondell has intro
duced a new 320.acre homestead bill,
somewhat different from the Smoot
bill, reported to the senate last week,
| which applies only 10 COLORADO, luano
Montana, Nevada, North and South
Dakota. Oregon, Utah, Wyoming
New Mexico and Arizona, and permits
persons qualified to make homesteads
to take up under the homestead law
800 acres OF non-mineral, non-irriga
BILE, unreserved and unappropriated
surveyed public lands which do not
contain merchantable timber.
Rail rates from Northern Pacific
common points in Montana to Chicago
have been reduced from As cents to
42h cents. according to word received
by the railroad commission. This is
the result of a new agreement made
by the Northern Pacific with the Bur
lington.
Burlington train No, s, westbound,
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