The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1910-09-10
NORTHWEST NOTES


1854 in 1900
G. r. Jones, a prominent California
horseman, was found dead in his
apartments in the Mantle block In
Butte, of natural causes.
The initiative ana referendum bill
has passed the upper house of the
Colorado Legislature after previously
having passed the lower house.
The national encampment of the
United Spanish war veterans in SEES
sion at Denver, selected Oklahoma
City, Okla, for it's next encampment.
The Spanish war veterans devoted
the first day OF their encampment at
Denver to the welcome OF their for.
mer comrade in arms, Colonel Roose-
welt.
The contracts recently let for the
construction of the new high line OF
the Salt Lake Route through the
Meadow valley wash aggregate &c..
0OO, 900.
The derailment of a caboose OF a
Union Pacific freight train at Hill.
side, Wyo.. sixty miles east of Green
River caused the injury of six men
who were riding I'm the car.
Word received from Denver is to
the effect that the Denver & Rio
Grande railroad is to be double.
tracked from Denver to Salt Lake and
that the, road will spend between So.
000,000 and $12,000.000 for improve.
ments.
Accused of having driven his daugh.
tiers from home with butcher knife,
and charged with having wantonly
beaten them with club, Bert Caples,
an engineer in the employ of the
Steptoe Smelling company at Ely, Ne.
vada, is under arrest.
In his address at Pueblo, Colonel
Roosevelt, turning to General 4. J.
Downen. president of the Y. NJ. G. A.,
declared that wherever he found a
veteran OF the great war who was
chairman of the Y. NJ. c. A., he could
give his unqualified approval.
An attempt to dynamite a new six
story building under process Of con
struction at Seattle, shattered all the
windows, and two persons passing
were slightly injured It is claimed
that the attempt to wreck the build.
ing was due to labor troubles.
At a meeting Of the board of direc.
tors of the Butte, Boise & San Fran
cisco Railroad company, Dr. George
N. Fleming Of Boise, Idaho, was elect
ed director and first vice-president
| Of the company. Active work Is to
start on on the roadbed at once.
At a meeting held in Portland be-
tween officers OF the field service OF
the general land office and officers of
the forestry service an agreement
was reached which gives to the gen
eral land office all responsibility for
the patenting OF lands on the public
| domain.
Following the news that the Oregon
Short Line is to build a cutoff from
Evanston, Wyo., to Ogden, with a view
Of shortening the line and decreasing
the grade, comes the report that an.
other cutoff is to be built from a
point on the Ogden-Lucin cutoff to
Rupert, Ida.
Members OF the special session OF
the Colorado legislature, now in SEES
sion, have discovered that they stand
good chance of not getting any
money for their services unless some
future legislature appropriates It,
There is no money available in the
general fund.
Before the eyes of his bride of
three months, Fred w. Cheney of
Manchester, n. H., 26 years old, shot
himself in the head at Grand juno.
ton, Colo. He will die. Cheney is
said to be the son of a former presi'
dent of the New Hampshire Mutual
Fire Insurance company.
Judge Lewis in the federal court at
Denver refused to grant the injunc
ton asked for by. holders OF bonds OF
the Denver Union Water company
against the holding of an election or
September 6 for the purpose of issu
ing $8,000,000 in bonds for the con
struction of municipal water plant
State Treasurer e. II. Esselstyn has
filed with Governor Edwin l.. Norris
. of Montana. the report of his depart
ment for the month of August, which
shows that the state has nearly 81,
900 900 in cash securities in its stront
box. The receipts for the month
amounted to 1892 79l,74 and the dis
bursememts to $269,256.0l"'
The state supreme court has handed
down a decision in the direct primar!
election case in Nevada, which is
. reversal of it's previous opinion, excep