The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1910-05-07
NORTHWEST NOTES

AL. Haag, foreman of the blasting
gang of the Mizpah at Tonopah, Ne
vada, sustained broken leg when he
slipped and fell ten feet down a stope
Jim Anderson, a Goldfeld, Nevada
hotel porter, may lose his right leg
through accidental discharge of an
automatic revolver which he was
cleaning.
Despondent from i'll health, ]. B.
Hall, a prominent resident of Noun
tain City, Elko county, Nevada, killed
himself, cutting his throat from ear
to ear with a razor.
The cases of five strike breakers
convicted in justice court of carrying
concealed weapons at Tonopah, Ne
vada, has been opened on appeal In
the district court there.
During a drunken quarrel near Ely
was brutalfy beaten up by gang OF
his fellow countrymen who are affiliat
ed with different religious faction.
1t is reported that the Las Vegas &
Tonopah railroad will be extended to
Tonopah by the Clark interests. A pc.
tition is being circulated by citizens
OF Tonopah urging and advising the
extension.
The body Of Harry Swarner
drowned with his team while at
tempting to ford the HUMBOLDT during
March flood south of Lovelock, Ne
vada, has been recovered and fully
identified.
Half a dozen Belmont miners are
in the hospital at Tonopah, Nevada
suffering from ersenical poisoning
due to contact with strong solutions
which are being found in the ores be-
tween the 1000 and LOO levels.
w. r. Fits, justice of the peace OF
Lovelock, Nevada, committed suicide
in Reno by taking an eighth of an
ounce of strychnine. Dependency is
supposed to have been the cause. He
was a man of middle age.
Two hundred and thirty-three thou
sand pounds of wool was sheared this
year by Adams and McGill at the Hor-
ton ranch, about mile from the smell
ter says the Ely, Nevada, Mining Ex-
positor The annual shearing of about
$4,000 head of sheep was finished
April %.
That preliminary negotiations look
ing TO consolidation of Ely Calumet
and Ely Resurrection have been en-.
tered upon is admitted by large in.
In Of
and the belief appears to prevail that
it will not be a difficult matter to eff
feet a merger.
Levy Tracy, a negro, % years old,
has confessed that he killed Grover
Ponds of Cheyenne while en- route to
that city with grading outfit. Tracy
said he and Ponds had quarreled over
the latters driving of one of the wag-
ons and that Ponds fired twice at him
before he shot in return.
Master Mechanic Glynn of the Ne
vada Con. at Ely, Nevada, had mar
row escape from death when a churn
drill rig toppled over and struck him
a glancing blow, crushing his collar
bone. Had he taken another step be-
fore being struck, he would undoubt-
eddy have been crushed to death.
With locations of nine-two oil
claims filed in one day there would
appear to be little doubt that activity
in the old field Of Emery county is to
be not much longer delayed. That, ac-
cording to the Emery County Prog
ress, is the record of one days filings
in the office of the county recorder OF
Emery.
Edward Barrill of Fairbanks
Mont, the guide who accompanied DR..
Frederick A. Cook on his Mount Nc
Kinley trip and who made an affida'
Wit during the polar controversy that
the doctor had never reached the top
Of the Alaska peak, declares that In
his opinion the Fairbanks party, head
ed by Thomas Lloyd, never scaled the
summit either.
Heart failure caused the death OF
| Theopolis b. Sackett, a prominent
business man OF Bozeman, Mont. Mr.
Sackett had been out fishing all day
and was distributing his catch among
his friends, when on his way home
he tainted and fell, and expired
shortly after being taken to his resi-
dence.
Unless a compromise of some kline
is reached between the Electricians
union of Butte and their employees
before May /, strike will result, as
the men have demanded a raise o.
80 cents per day and change II
hours by which their time will bt
counted from shop to shop, instead o.
from job to job.