The Provo herald. [volume] (Provo City, Utah) 1909-192?, 1909-02-20
NORTH w EST NOTES

bill making Lincoln's birthday lie.
gal holiday and likewise making Oc-
tober u a holiday in honor OF Colum.
bus.
A special game warden has been
detailed TO protect band OF about
city elk that are wintering in the
Willow creek basin. about fifteen
miles from Lander, wyo.
Fred d. Hammond has been grant
ed a flfty-year franchise by the Ian
der town council to pipe oil into the
city for the generation OF gas. and to
lay pipes for the distribution OF such
gas.
Two thousand families from crowd
ed cities In eastern states are to be
colonized on 10000 acres OF land on
the north bank OF the Columbia river
lear Coyote Rapids, Wash, south OF
Spokane.
A northwestern baseball league
lena, Salt Lake and Ogden, is now
being talked of, President Lucas Of
the Northwestern league being the
promoter.
The Nevada assembly bill prohibit
ing Japanese and Chinese from &C
quiring lands or acting as corporation
agents, has been presented to the
senate, where it will in all probability
be killed.
One of the immense fly wheels at
H., nf no
conda Copper Mining company's
smelters at Anaconda, Mont. burst
into fragments and wrecked the
building, but no one was hurt.
Beauford Nottingham has been
bound over for trial at Sheridan. Wyo.,
on the charge OF having stolen from
Bert Dow, Big Horn ranchman, a
violin which had been in possession
of the Dow family for more than IT'S
years.
Asbury Moore has been arrested at
Sundance, Wyo., on perjury IL
cense to marry fifteen-year.old Mary
Mack of Spearfish, S. d., that the
girl was twenty-one years OF age. The
charge Is preferred by Miss Macks
parents.
Ex-senator Clark of Montana. &C.
cording to a London cablegram to
the New York Herald, is moving
about London on crutches. Senator
Clark fell down a companionway dur
ing storm, severely straining his
right leg.
Vigorous protests from President
Roosevelt and personal friends in
Oregon are being sent to the Oregon
senate against Senator Bailey's reso-
luton memoralizing congress to ex-
tend the Chinese exclusion act to in
clude all Asiatics.
The Utah-Nevada Telephone com.
pany, with headquarters in Salt Lake
City. has just completed arrange
ments for an east and west trunk
line covering the new county of Clark,
in Nevada, which has just been Great
ell by the Legislature.
Robert Shields, for many years well
known in newspaper circles through
out the northwest, and at one time
organizer for the typographical
union. died at st. Joseph, Mo-. Febru-
airy Z. at the age of 3S, pneumonea be.
ing the cause OF death.
That Wyoming is to have fourteen
instead of thirteen counties is as
sured by the action OF the senate
committee of the whole, which has
reported for passage the bill creating
Park county out of the western por-
lion of Big Horn county
Samuel Boyd, brother OF State
Senator Boyd of Reno, shot himself
through the heart at his home In Vir-
ginia City, Nevada, while standing in
front of a mirror Death resulted IN
stantly. Domestic troubles are sup.
posed to be the cause.
Miss Violet Briefly, aged 2S, sui.
cided In Denver by jumping from
the sixth floor of building, landing
on the pavement. Brooding over the
iact that she had not heard from her
fiancee for six weeks Is supposed to
have been the cause for the suicide.
Among the Lincoln relics In Tacoma
is valise carried by Lincoln on his
debating tour with stephen A. Doug
las 1t is plain box split in two and
covered with black cowhide leather
with thin iron bands thickly studded
with large-headed lacks like buttons
II was ON recommendation of the
local grand jury that the Chinese dis.
trict of Reno, New, recently was de-
clared unsanitary and the shacks and
novels that existed there were torn
Gown and burned. Now the Chinese
OF the city have sued Reno for 81 900,
the alleged amount of damages sus.
talned.
l.. Llewellyn may lose the sight OF
one eye as the result of the explosion
OF dgldyed SHOT IN a Coa1 Nine an
Rock Springs, Wyo Had the shot
hung fire few second longer LEV.
ellyn would have been directly over
The the blast and would have been
hilled.
Ozlel Graves, born In Russia, N. Y.
IN 1913, assistant treasurer of the
United States and chief of the bureau
OF printing and engraving I'm Cleye.
iahds administration, died February
AT his home in Seattle. of oreenins
paralysis, after an illness OF two
years
Henry F. Hilton, known as ha
Deadwood poet, choked to death NJ
sheridan, Wyo.. while eating boef. |
stake. Hilton gained fame several
years ago by writing a poem ON Inc
Inflated battleshin Maine Co.. -,