The Garland City globe. (Garland, Utah) 191?-1925, 1919-08-23
NORTHWEST NOTES

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Mont, will be investigated.
| While preparing for hunting trir
John s. Wright, of McGill, New, accl
dentally shot himself, death occurring
few hours later.
The cutting and threshing of winte
wheat Is going on in all sections O
Montana. The yield is light, but man.
fields Of dry land average well.
In some parts of Wyoming the con
dition OF the range Is serious and som,
sheep and cattle already are bein,
shipped out for feed and pasture.
Glaring inequalities In assessment
returns from various counties I'm Mon
tana have caused the state board o.
equalization to summon number Of
assessors to meet with the board.
] Written on half of pocket hand
kercbief from which the laundry mark
had been torn, blackmail letter re
oeived by Felix De Neros of Murray
Utah, is In the custody Of the sheriff
The state board of health of Mon
tana plans to use free bacteria to bat.
tie Influenza this winter. A recur.
renee Of the malady, though, 1t Is
hoped, In mllder form IL expected
II. r. Alexander, Of Three Forks,
Mont, comnitted suicide by hanging
while his wife and other relatives had
gone TO Bozeman on business. III
health waS the cause OF his rash act.
With a reduction of 21a mills. the
ste tax levy will be 1910 mills ON
all property taxable In Montana, fol.
lowing adoption OF the levy by the
state board Of equalization at meet.
Ing last week.
Cattle In Montana generally have
wlthstood the drought well and i'm.
provement in range conditions has
been sufficient to cause arrangements
for shipping stock out of the state to
be cancelled In some localities.
Mrs. Anna Richey of Fossil, Wyo,
widely known cattle woman. 30 years
Of age, was shot In the left arm by
masked man seven miles west of KEN,
merer. The bones of the arm were
shattered and amputation may be nee.
essary.
High winds allied with dry weather
are continuing to play havoc In the
forests Of northern Idaho and Mon.
tana, and the officials ut the district
offices hold little hope for the future
until the country is visited with gen.
eral rains.
Sixteen municipal water systems In
Montana have failed TO win approval"
on the part OF the state board OF
health after tests conducted by w. NJ.
CobIeigh. director and chemist OF the
deI yNment Of water and sewage al
~ Bozeman laboratory.
'1tents In Denver will be increased
from 10 to 10 per cent September !,
according to notices served ON tenants.
The Increase affects apartments as
well as houses. Owners assign In.
reased cost OF coal and higher wages
TO janitors as the reason.
The Independent mill at Victor.
Colo, one Of the largest In this sec
ton of the west. was robbed one night
last week. The bandits overpowered
two watchmen and escaped with a
quantity OF gold concentrates. The
watchmen are In a hospital at Victor.
The Utah Construction company,
which has two large railroad camps a
few miles northwest Of Banks, Ore-
is receiving large supplies OF machin.
cry and graders, and is Fastening work
on the new railroad from Wilksboro,
Banks, up to the big timber
nj VERONA.
Escaping death In bomb explosion
at Camp Pike, where he was chief gas
officer, only to be killed In q fall
down a mine shaft at Tonopah, New,
was the tragic finale to the life OF
Lieut.. Harry Townsend Hobson. cousin
Of Richmond Pearson Hobson, hero OF
the Merrlmac.
Cascade county officials raided an
abandoned building nine miles from
Great Falls, Mont. and found a large
still used In manufacturing whissey
from raislns. The still was capable
Of turning out whisky at the rate OF
A glass every three minutes ana 10
,arrels of raisins were found.
Alfred Ridste of the Alton, Mont,
section, has brought a suit against G.
Il. Fenner, prominent farmer of that
district, TO recover $4,000 for the al
eged alienation of his wife's affec-
lions.
Resolutions declaring that In their
opInion the crops of Montana this
year, while not up to the average. are
acceptable and that the
wheat crop of the Treasure state In
1919 will total 100000 bushels as
to 25,OO0,00O sast year, were
adopted by the Montana bankers at
heir recent meeting.
Il has been many a year since city
axes or lease royalties have been paid
h gold dust In Montana. Recently
,oweyer, the custom has been revived
M Helena, and Raleigh Wilkinson has
,een paying In gold dust, over the
counter OF a bank, the city's 10 per
cent royalty on the gold he has mined
n the heart of Helena.