The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1908-01-11
NORTHWEST NOTES

Big Horn river, on December 81.
A train wreck at Elko, Nevada,
caused by runaway engine, killed
two tramps, injured three others, and
eleven cars were smashed to splinte RS,
More than forty pens of sheep have
been entered for exhibit at the Ma.
tional Wool Growers convention to be
held in Helena, Mont, January IA, Is
and 16.
The State Bank of Rocky Ford,
Colo, closed its doors on January 2,
following run. The officers of the
bank hope to resume business in a
short time.
The Nye and Ormsby County bank,
with branches at Goldfeld, Tonopaif
and Reno, Nevada, which closed It's
doors October 81, resumed operations
on January 2.
In spite of the recent financial
furry, Colorado Springs has within
twenty days raised a total of $751;
0S1.75 to complete a 100000 endowt
ment fund for the Colorado college.
The river steamer Annie Cummings
ran into a ship anchored in the lower
harbor in Portland and sank in three
minutes. The crew escaped. The
Cummings was tow boat and carried
no passengers.
After practically a years unremit
ting work, the newest branch of the
Salt Lake Route, the Caliente-Pioche
line, was turned over to the operat.
ing department of the system at mid.
night Tuesday, December 81.
Frenzied by a fire which partially
consumed the Second floor of the
Western lodging house, in Seattle, Alb
raham Nielsen and Albert Olson, Swe
dish dodgers, jumped from the sec.
ond story window and may be fatally
injured.
Mrs. Mary Ramsay Wood, the old
est white woman in Oregon, died at
Hillsboro, Ore, on January /, her one
hundred and twentieth birthday. Mrs
Wood was a native of Tennessee and
later lived in Missouri, coming from
there to Oregon.
According to the Portland Oregon
ian, adjutant generals of the three Pa
cific coast states have been invited by
the war department to go to Wash
ington, d c., for a conference at the
earliest possible date on the subject
Of coast defense.
Gambling houses, which have beer
openly conducted in Denver for sew
eral years, have been closed by order
Of Mayor Speer. Midnight and Sun.
day closing laws, 1t is announced, will,
also be enforced and prize fighting
stopped In Colorado.
County Commissioner Rosenthal OF
Goldfeld, whose resignation has been
requested by Governor Sparks, has re.
fused to vacate his office. Rosenthal
was thought by the governor to have
been working contrary to Sparks in.
terests, 1t Is claimed.
Two laborers were killed and eight
badly injured by dynamite explosion
in construction camp on the Port.
land & Seattle railroad, twenty-five
miles south of Sprague, Washington
The men were all Bulgarians and were
thawing dynamite in kitchen range.
William L. Daley, who, with William
N. Byers, founded the Rocky Noun
tain News in 1859, died in Denver
January 4, after an illness of several
months. Mr. Daley was born In
Tiffin, o., in 1888. Before coming to
Colorado Mr.. Daley was connected
with newspapers In Iowa and Ne
braska.
On Sunday the six-inch water pipe
through which air is famed to the
entombed miners at Ely, Nevada, be-
came bent by the pressure Of rock
and earth at the 600-foot level and
no air could be sent to them. Res
cuers, by redoubled efforts, reached
the break in few hours and repaired
the pipe.
While celaring up the debris OF the
wreckage of the Northern Pacific
freight train which ran wild down
the Rocky mountains, and which was
ditched near the city limits OF Hell
ena, Mont, entailing loss of 500,
900, workmen discovered the body OF
an unknown man. 1t Is presumed he
was stealing ride.
Bank Examiner Collins of Montana
has made public a summary OF the
reports of the forty-seven state in
situations under the supervision OF
that department, and the showing IL
remarkable. Since the last call In
August, the banks have increased
their reserve $4,000 and now have
total resources of 26.491 ,0SS.90.
George G. Brown, a laborer, was
murdered by one Of the four highway
men who robbed the Jargdorf hotel a
Reno, Nevada. After searching mos
OF the crowd in the gambling house
attached to the hotel, the highway
men took the roulette bank roll ant
one of them shot Brown as they
passed out of the building.
In commemoratIon of the enamel
patton proclamation of President Lin
coin. which became effective fort,
years ago, Governor Henry A. Buch
tel on January pardoned from tht
Colorado penitentiary Edward Free
man. negro. who had served tiv,
wears OF ten to tWenty-year tern