The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1910-07-23
NORTHWEST NOTES

the incorporation of the town of Elko,
Nevada.
Major John Talbot, U. s. A., retired,
famous civil war veteran, Indian
fighter and pioneer, died at his home
in Cheyenne. July 10, aged rs.
A fire caused by sparks from
chimney on the Steve Williams ranch
in White river valley, Nevada, de-
stroyed the corrals, COW sheds, seven
ty.hve tons of baled hay and all this
years crop of alfalfa.
The first through green fruit train
over the Western Pacific left Sacra-
mento on July 10. 1t is made up of
twenty cars billed to Chicago and
made a run of forty-sx hours from
Sacramento to Salt Lake City.
The great glacier in Rainy Hollow
near Haines, Alaska, is moving at the
prodigious rate of twelve feet day.
Huge masses of ice are falling with
thunderous noise over the precipice at
whose brink the glacier discharges.
Twenty-Five preachers of the Minis.
terial association of Tacoma have
waited on the city commissioners and
asked them to prohibit the exhibition
of the Jeffries-Johnson fight pictures.
The council took it under advisement.
James Franklin. believed by the
authorities to have been one of the
three men who held up and robbed
north bound Oregon Short Line pas
senger train near Ogden, Utah,
short time ago, has been arrested at
Reno, Nevada
Girls turning 16 are absolutely ire.
ligious and have no soul to speak of,
according to DR.. G. Stanley Hall, pres.
ident and professor of psychology at
Clark university, Worcester, Mass,
lecturing at the summer normal school
at Greeley, Colo.
Robert Blackley, a carpenter, who
had been working at Garrison Mont,
and who was on his way to Deer
Lodge to do some carpenter work,
was struck by Northern Pacific pas
senger train, about three miles from
Garrison, and killed.
A compulsory bath nearly proved ia
tai to II. Schwartz, under arrest for
vagrancy in Denver. When Schwartz
was taken to the city Jail he was com
PEELED to take a bath. He entered the
tub in fear and trembling, was imme-
diately seized with a fit and nearly
drowned.
Professor William T. Foster of Bow.
doin college. who this summer Is
teaching in Columbia university, has
accepted the presidency Of Reed in
land Oregon. from a fund given by
Mrs. Amanda Reed and now amount.
ing to $3,000,0O0.
Maggie T. Lockart, II years old.
was drowned while bathing in Big
Moose creek, few miles from Sheri.
dan, Wyo. The girl had been in bath
ing with several companions and
reached a depth over her head. Grace
Allen went to her rescue and narrow
ly missed meeting the same fate.
Acting in behalf of the state, At
torney General Galen has made appli.
cation to the district court of Yellow
stone county, Montana, for q receiver
for First Trust & Savings bank, al
leging insolvency. The state had on
deposit $4,000 in this and the First
National bank of Billings, allied insti.
tutions.
Governor Norris and Attorney Gen
eral Galen have addressed a circular
to sheriffs and county attorneys OF
violators of the gambling, fighting and
wine room laws, and warning them
that II they are not enforced steps
will be taken to bring about their
summary removal.
A portion of the j. c. Teller dam
in Turkey Creek valley. in Colorado
gave way on July Is, the result of a
cloudburst, which had caused the
water to rise sixty feet within three
hours, and the food which poured
down the valley forced many people
to flee for their lives. Two or three
narrow escapes. but no deaths, are re-
ported.
The railroads in the Northwest are
making preparations to move the 1910
fruit crop, which will be the largest
ever harvested in this section.
Governor Norris of Montana con
tinues to receive in almost every mai
letters from persons who ask him to
grant pardon to Albert j. Beckman
who is now serving a ninety-nine-year
sentence In the Montana state prison
for the murder OF his sweetheart In
Butte in 1903
The report comes from Mesquite
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