The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1910-10-29
NORTHWEST NOTES

ming a line between Salt Lake and
Evanston, Wyo., for the Postal Tele.
graph company.
Population statistics in the 18th cen.
sus made public by the census bureau,
gives Butte, Mont; 1906, an increase
of S,695 or 28.5 per cent over 30,470 in
1900. -
Mrs. Lillian Backstein, convicted at
Lewiston, Mont, will serve 10 days in
the penitentiary and pay a fine of $500
as result of acquiring too many hus.
bands.
The thirty-sixth annual session Of
the grand lodge OF the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows convened in
Helena October 10 for three days
session.
Announcement has been made by the
Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound
road that 1t will begin handling pas.
senger traffic from st. Paul to Seattle,
April 6, 1911.
Emil Branstrom, the 13-year-old son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Branstrom
Of Butte, was shot and fata ly wounded
by some reckless hunter on the road
between Butte and Rocker.
Unofficia. estimates from a railroad
man who has kept in close touch with
Montana wool conditions, places the
1910 wool clip at 34,500,00O, which is
100000 pounds less than the 1905
clip.
Earl Benton, nine years of age, was
accidentally killed, being shot by his
elder brother, aged Is years, at Deer
Lodge, Mont. The boys were hunting
mountain rats, when the gun was acct.
dentally discharged
Because the statutes of Montana pro
vide that no member of the police
force shall hold any other office, a
city jailer cannot act as registry agent
Attorney General Galen advises in an
opinion made public last week.
Aston Watson, 26 years old, arrest.
ed at Olympia, Wash, has confessed
to being a participant to the dynamit.
ing outrage at Gate City, Wash, when
Japanese clubhouse was blown up.
he lmpllcateS eight others.
George F. Cope, western pioneer,
who established the first quartz mill
in Montana, at Virginia City, and later
was prominent in its statehood af
fairs, is dead at Los Angeles. He edit.
ed the first newspaper of the terri.
tory, the Montanian, and was official.
ly connected with Helena banks.
M. A. Slade, third vice-president of
the Northern Pacific, has sent out or
ders that. hereafter no passes will be.
recognized on its trains except those
issued to employees, members of the
railroad commission and contracting
firms actually engaged in such EN-.
ployment :.
Three men were probably fatally
burned and a dozen others seriously in;
jured at the Minnequa plant of the
Colorado Fuel and Iron company at
Pueblo, Colo, when pot of molten
metal was overturned. The men were
working on the ground beneath re-
pairing scale.
Nathaniel Bledser, a negro soldier
of the Twenty-fifth infantry, stationed
at Fort Lawton, accused of having at
tackled Mrs. Amanda V. Redding in
her home at Seattle last June, has
been convicted of assault in the sec.
ond degree, the penalty for which is
one to ten years in prison.
An order restraining Mayor Hiram
c. Gill, Chief of Police Charles w.
Wappenstein and the city health de.
partment from recognizing and pro
tecting q district inhabited by degrad
ed womer. was signed by Judge Mitch
ell Gillian in the superior court at
Seattle, on Saturday.
A charge of dynamite was exploded
under a bunk house at Gate, Thurs.
ton county, Washington, in which
thirteen Japanese loggers were sleep
ing. Although part of the house was
destroyed, dishes were broken and
several Japanese were thrown out OF
bed, no one was seriously injured.
Both houses of the Colorado legis.
lature have passed the direct primary
law as amended in the committee, and
the bill now goes to the governor for
his signature. The bill carried a mo.
dified convention or assembly clause,
all candidates in the Assembly. re;
ceiving ten per cent of the vote to
have their names go on the ticket:
Hundreds of undesirable aliens,
men and women OF easy morality,
have fled from Montana within the
last few months, according to an in.
vestigation made by the immigration
service for the district of Montana
and Idaho, with headquarters in