The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1910-05-28
NORTHWEST NOTES

uOuuCeu Ou wednesday tudl. NC hau
withdrawn from the candidacy for
the United States senate, giving Ill
health as the reason.
Charles the famous educated chin.
panzee valued at $4,000, which has
been exhibited all over the world,
was suffocated in a car while en- route
from Seattle to Portland.
With weather conditions perfect, the
annual shoot of the Northwest Soprts.
mems association was held at Walla
Walla, Wash, last week, with seventy
FIVE men competing for the prizes of
fered.
Wheat crop prospects for Oregon,
Washington and Idaho were never so
bright as at present, according to
Statements made the present week by
grain men and bankers. watching crop
conditions in the northwest.
The HALEY and Bull on sections Of
Idaho, for many years off and on pro
| ducers or vast mineral wealth, are be-
ginning to take on an unwonted de;
gree of activity that promises to re-
store those regions into the limelight.
While milking a COW at the family
home near Osceola, ), Nevada, about a
week ago, Mrs. Lee r. Marriott had
the misfortune to break a blood yes.
sci on the back of her right hand.
The hand has been lanced, and is rap
idly improving.
The city council Of Seattle has en-.
listed in the movement for sane
Fourth of July celebration by passing
a stringent ordinance regulating the
sale of frecrackers. 1t prohibits toy
pistols, giant firecrackers, exploding
canes and bombs.
Judging from the tone of the May
bulletin of the American Mining con-
gress, the next session in Los Ange-
les, from September 26 to October /,
will be the setting for redhot dis
cussion in regard to the water power
rights of the western country.
I A meeting Of the United States min.
eral surveyors for the state OF Mon
tana was held in Helena, May IS, for
the purpose of forming a state organ.
ization. Delegates were present from
Butte, Anaconda, Great Falls, Mis-
soula, Livingston and Bozeman.
Struck by a terrific gust Of wind as
the train emerged from a cut two and
half mile east Of Cheyenne Wells
Colo, nine cars Of Union Pacific
freight train were blown from the
track. Four of the cars were heavily
| | Cd he 9TH 1iuht
The wheat acreage Of the northwest
Is expected to show material in
crease over last year by the time seed
ing is completed. Weather conditions
throughout the winter not only ia
vored the winter wheat, vat provided
plenty of moisture, insuring goot
start for the spring sown crop
Before the first day of next January
the Southern Pacific company will
have a double track system in opera
ton between Ogden and San Francis
co. The first active work in this di
rection has begun west of the LuciI
cutoff and will continue until tn,
system is ready for operation.
After seven years a fugitive from
Justice, three years of which he servet
as a regular uniformed merchants pc
liceman In Spokane, Grove M. Wall
has been arrested in Occur d'Alene
Idaho, charged with the murder of +
Huston Children, policeman O
Bristol, Tenn, on February z, 1908.
Twenty-three Chinese passengers OF
: the Blue Funnel line steamer Kee
mum which arrived at Seattle on Ma,
{ Is from Hong Kong, were wounded il
battle on the ship three days pre-
vious, a feud having broken out be
ween the men from Wuchow, on tn
o 5igiang. and those from Samshui, nea
!, Canton.
= There are eighteen million acres O
unoccupied land in central and south
ern Oregon. according to estimate
made in Portland, and the race int
" the central part of the state by tn
Great Northern and Union Pacifi
railroads Is going to throw open
land full of opportunities for severa
hundred thousand settlers.
i. Mrs. r. c. Petty committed suicid
: at Wieland station, Nevada, shootin
herself with revolver. She had bee
!, divorced from her husband, and it /
. supposed that brooding over he
trouble unsettled her mind.
!, Twin Bridges, Mont, is now a dry
. town on Sunday The council wa
A evenly divided on the proposition
: thus forcing the mayor to say by hi
a ballot whether the saloons should
!. allowed. to remain open Sunday.
= Since the. death of Mark Twain a
kinde of Sinrinc hnua Ia