The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1911-01-21
NORTHWEST NOTES

Oswald West, Democrat, governor
OF Oregon, was inaugurated on Tues
day before the Joint assembly of the
legislature.
Mrs. Nellie G.. Elmberg committed
suicide in Butte, taking dose Of
strychnine. She leaves a husband and
three children. No cause is assigned
o. b. Nelson, who shot and killed
b. II. Klink in a saloon at Star Poin.
ter, New, last September, has been
taken to Carson City to serve ten
years for his crime.
E. Il. Darlington of Colorado
Springs, special auditor for the
Woodmen of the World, dropped dead
in Denver. Heart disease Is believed
to have caused his death.
AS the result of drunken prawi
in the foreign colony in McGill, New,
one Of the participants was shot
through the fieshy part OF the leg, but
his injuries are not considered Sc.
rious.
A Buddhist priest has married 1856
Japanese couples in Seattle during
the last year, and Christian min.
lister has tied the nuptial knot for fifty
couples. In none of these ceremonies
was there a union OF two distinct
races.
A gang of Austrians attacked a sa.
loon in Leadville, Colo, firing into
the building with shotguns. Four men
and boy were hit. A machinist
named John Steadman was set on by
Austrians. stabbed and thrown into
the street. Steadman may die.
J. S. Paulding, aged co. friend of
Mark Twain during the early days OF
the famous humorists career, com.
mitted suicide in an undertaking es.
tablishment in Butte, taking poison.
He wanted to die, he said, in some
other place than the poor house.
OF the six larger cities in Montana,
Billings shows the greatest per cent
of increase in population, 1t being
ola per cent, Helena 1862 per cent
and Anaconda 10 per cent Great
Falls was the only city showing a de-
crease, having lost 9S2, or SO per
cent
The city council OF Seattle has
passed bill submitting to the vot.
ers on March 7 a proposition to issue
100000 of bonds for the condemna.
ton of the Seattle, Benton & Southern
Street Railway company's property
and its operation. under municipal
ownership.
A passenger train was wrecked and
Engineer Walter Henthorn probably
fatally injured, when the engine was
thrown from the rails near Orlando
Colo, by a sand drift piled up on the
rails by terrific gale. All the win.
dows of the train were shattered, but
no passengers were injured.
The state legislature of Wyoming
convened at Cheyenne on Jan. 10, with
Republican majority of two in the
house and eleven in the senate. L. r.
Davis of Crook county was elected
speaker of the house and Jacob NJ
School of Sheridan president of the
senate. Both are Republicans.
A Waterman employed by the Spo-
kane, Portland & Seattle Railroad
company shot and motrally wounded
John Milecevic, groceryman, in
Portland. Milecevic, with a com
panion, was caught In the act of car
rying away plumber from freight car
which had been broken open.
Montana's cities having popula.
ton in excess of 5000 increased 34.1
per cent the last ten years and con
| fr;h 90 hn tat a,c
total increase in population of 1872, 724,
according to the statistics of the
thirteenth census. Their number
grew from four in 1900 to nine in
1910.
Every boy should be taught to
ride, made to live in the open air as
many hours as possible, for 1t Is the
full fiedged boy of today who is going
to make the trusty American of the
future" said Col. w. f. Cody buffalo
Bill in discussing at a Denver hotel,
a few days ago, the problems con.
fronting the United States.
Judge Whitford of Denver has de.
MED a change Of venue in the case
against the sixteen striking coal min.
ers of the northern Colorado coal
fields whom he recently sentenced to
the county jail for year for con
tempt of court, but modified their
commitment This latest move means
that the men will probably serve their
entire sentence
The Republican majority in the
Washington Legislature on joint ballot
is 121. The most important matters
to come before the Legislature are the
reconstruction of the congressional
districts, this state having gained two
members under the new census; a law