The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1909-05-01
NORTH w EST NOTES


the staff of life now selling at Is
cents a loaf, or two loaves for a quar-
ter Of dollar.
Plans have been filed at Pueblo,
Colo, for an immense irrigation pro-
ject which will cost almost two million
dollars and which will reclaim 200,
900 acres of arid land In southeastern
Colorado.
The Union Pacific is installing In
the Cheyenne yards a 100-ton car
scale, the largest west OF Omaha. The
scale Ia fifty feet In length and rests
In concrete matrix seven feet In
thickness.
Patrick Donovan, doorkeeper OF the
house Of representatives at the last
session OF the state legislature and
prominent figure in local affairs, died
at Missoula, Mont, April %. He came
to Montana in 1861.
Three persons were injured by
jumping from a second.story window
in the farm residence OF George
Stahl. two miles southwest OF Mis-
soula, Mont. to avoid a fire that to-
tally destroyed the building.
The biggest fur seal herd of years
is passing Sitka, Alaska, according to
a special dispatch. The natives are
killing hundreds OF them. Japanese
poachers are following the herd. No
revenue cutters are in the district
Bitter racial feeling exists at
Vashon college, Tacoma, over a row
between a student named Adams and
Japanese engineer. II is said the
Japanese stabbed the student and
the latter drew gun on the Asiatic.
Harvey w. Scott of the Portland
Oregonian has declined the ambassa.
dorship to Mexico, preferring to re-
main with the Oregonian. Henry l.,
Wilson. now minister to Belgium, IL
is said, will be promoted to the Mex.
lean post
The highest price paid for sheep
at Kemmerer. Wyo.. this year is In
volved In the deal whereby the
Quealey & Peterson company takes
over 5000 head from Boyer Bros, fol
a consideration of $4,000, 'or $6.5t
per head.
Robert w. Brown was found dyint
in Goldfield lodging house from ar
overdose of dope" death ensuing |
short time later. II is not know;
whether Brown intended suicide o
merely took an overdose of the drul
by accident
The incinerated body of John Lind
fors has been found In his cabin nea
Twin Bridges, Mont. Robbery ant
murder are suspected, and the OF
| ficials are investigating. Lindfor
was we'll known in mining circles o
that section.
| Donald Boyd, convicted of kidnap
ing Patrick Mccoy, a wealthy Seattl
lumberman, In the woods near Bow
Mont. last October. has been sen
fenced to serve an indeterminate ser
| tence of from five to twenty-one year
in states prison.
| Rickert Assinna was shot and "a
tally wounded by Ole Nyserom, in
lonely shack at Bass Creek. nea
Stevensville, Mont. Both men ar
Firms and have been living together
| Nyserom was taken to Hamilton an
lodged In the county Jail.
George Eccles, district attorney %
Virginia City, Nevada, in the bonanz
days OF the lode. and legatee of
fortune of S150,000 from eastern re
atives, was found dead last week Il
squalid cabin in Virginia City. II
died in penury and alone.
The smallpox epidemic which wa
raging among the Indians on the Goa
vile reservation in Washington pra'
tically Is over. II is expected tn
quarantine which kept all white me
from entering the reserve without pei
mits will be raised by May 1.
Within few weeks, when the ba
lasting Of the tracks shall have bee
completed, the Chicago, Milwaukee
Puget Sound railroad will inaugural
Missoula. and this is expected to RAJ
idly resolve itself into through Sc
vice from Chicago to the Puget SCUM
country.
Judge NJ. j. Gordan, former couns,
for the Great Northern railway, wa
arrested at Spokane last week on II
dictments by the county grand jur
He is charged with embezzlement {
funds from the railway compan
while acting as its attorney. Iii
bond for appearance was fixed 9
$4,000.
The Montana Stock Growers ass,
dictments by the county grand jur.
citation, In session at Miles City, Mont
adopted resolutions endorsing tn
livestock inspection laws; the wor
of the agricultural department, an
for enactment Of needed railway legi
lation.
Senators Gamble and Crawford {
South Dakota have invited Presider
Taft to attend the Missouri Rive
Navigation congress at Yanktol
July Z, 8 and 3. The president sal
he could not attend on the dates me
toned. A change of date may |
made.
Ed Eaton, an old-time cowboy an
former Basin saloon man has bee
arrested In the Black mountains Il
| dor ouanfrinn nf having haan connao