The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1911-01-14
NORTHWEST NOTES

output of the coal mines during 1910
was approximately 100000 tons.
valued at $17,55O,OOO at the mine.
Approximately $3.50 acres of land
along the Grande Ronde river and
tributaries in Washington and
oregon have been withdrawn by Sec
rotary of the Interior Ballinger for
water sites.
The first postal savings bank in
Montana opened in Anaconda on the
Bird. Miss Fern Mccormick, daughter
of Postmaster Harper, is the first de-
positor. There was no great rush
during the earlier hours.
Fire broke out in the office of the
Herman E. Guagler mercantile store
at Straw, Mont, which resulted in the
total destruction of the building and
stock of goods. The loss will approx.
innate $4,000, with insurance to the ex.
tent of about $1,000.
The postal savings bank system
was successfully inaugurated at Lead.
vile, Colo, on the 3rd, and at the
close of business fifty people, includ.
ing a number of school children. had
taken advantage of the opportunity to
make deposits in Uncle Sans bank.
Governor Norris of Montana recon-
mends legislation that will make eff
fective the present law relating to
weights and measures, so as to pro-
tect the public against this sort of
cheating, which is apparently a prac.
tice In this state, or at least this Is
the charge of federal inspectors.
Governor Norris of Montana, in his
message to the legislature, urges a
primary election law for the nomina-
ton of all elective officers, to be held
on the same day by all parties, and at
public expense, to be attended by all
the safeguards, provisions and penal
ties that obtain at regular elections
Mark NJ Coad, aged "a, wealthy
pioneer rancher and stockman near
Cheyenne, was shot and killed by
Michael Ford, Mexican ranch hand,
In a quarrel about wages. Coad came
west in 1857 and laid the foundation
of his fortune by conducting a freight.
Ing line between Omaha and Denver.
Mrs. Carrie Kersh, a former resi-.
dent of Seattle, has been sentenced
to fifteen years imprisonment. for
her connection with the murder of
William A. Johnson in Portland last
June. Johnson was beaten to death
and robbed and his body placed in a
trunk for shipment to a small town
In Washington.
Because a train was two minutes
late in taking the siding at Cheney,
Wash, five men are dead, one is dy-
ing, three are badly injured and two
coaches are kindling wood. Rushing
down the main line at speed which
the brakes could not control, the
North Coast Limited, eastbound,
struck the waiting train.
An order has been issued by the
agricultural department to release
from Quarantine on account of Lip and
leg liberation sheep in the county of
Johnson, and that part of Laramie |
county lying north of the North
Platte river, Wyoming. The quaran-
tine still applies to Werton, Cook. |
Converse and Natrona counties in
Wyoming.
District Judge Greeley w. Whitford
of Denver has indicated his purpose |
of infiicting severe punishment upon |
anyone violating the temporary in
junction issued against strikers in
the northern Colorado coal fields. He |
tntimated that he would order the re |
lease OF the sixteen men recently SEN
fenced provided no further violations |
of the injunction occurred.
The converting of the eighteenth
general assembly of Colorado at noon |
Tuesday witnessed an evidence of the |
activity of women in politics. Mrs. |
Alma V. Lafferty, one of the four
women members of the lower house,
made the nominating speech that re-
suited in the election OF Representa-
tive George McLachlan of Denver as
speaker. She also named the temper
airy chief clerk and introduced resolu,
ton No. |, notifying the senate and
the governor that the house was in
session.
On Christmas day connection was
made in the last span of the steel
bridge over the Kuskul.
ana River, in Alaska. This is the
last great engineering feat of the Cop.
per River & Northwestern Railway
and the completion of this notable
bridge will enable track laying to be
pushed over the already completed
grade fifty miles to Kennecott, the
Information comes from a credit,
able source that the Southern Pacific
is planning to shorten it's