The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1905-08-24
NORTHWEST NOTES

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still alive and will recover from his
injuries
The Fern Creek Lumber company's
saw mill at Frances. Wash, was
burned last week The loss is esu
mated at 100000. Insurance $4,000
Origin unknown.
Maiden, a mining camp fifteen miles
north OF Lewiston, Mont, was partly
destroyed by fire last week. Several
large frame buildings were burned
The loss is estimated at between $685.
900 and $4,000, with little or no insur.
ance.
In a shooting ARRAY at Westfall
Ore, Frank Cammann was shot and
killed by Town Marshal Carry. Cam.
mann was a barkeeper in saloon.
| There was a disturbance and the Of
| flcer went into the saloon to arrest
Cammann. The latter pulled a gun,
when Garry fired, killing Cammann
instantly.
George Walters, trader on the
Cheyenne Indian reservation, arrested
few days ago on the charge of killing
Mrs. Russell. an Indian woman, with
shotgun has been discharged after
4 hearing before United States com
missioner at Forsythe. The evidence
disclosed that the shooting was pure
ly accidental.
Instead of going to wedding, young
Louis Thayer of Shelby, Mont, will go
to the penitentiary for year. having
forged check for SIS in an effort
to secure money to enable him to be
present at the marriage OF his brother
at Great Falls. Thayer is % years OF
age and works on a farm In the vi
cinity of Shelby.
The mysterious disappearance from
Portland last week of l.. l.. Swartsel
of Pasadena, Cal, and May Lindsey, a
telephone operator of Portland, is
explained in dispatch from Vancou
yer, Wash, which relates that the
bodies of the couple were found near
the roadside one mile east of that
place. Both had been shot
A special from Livingston Mont.
says an attempt was made to blow up
the transformer house of the Kimber-
ly-Montana Mining company at Jar
dine and more or less damage result
ed. The company has offered a reward
of $500 for the arrest of the perpe.
traitor, which Is supplemented by an
offer of 500 by the Miners union.
What is believed was the
death knell of racing at least for
the present season in Portland was
sounded when Presiding Judge
Frazer. state circuit court, last week
decreed that the injunction recently
issued against selling pools at Irving
ton race track would stand until Sep
TENDER z. when final hearing of the
case would be had,
A dispatch from Great Falls, Mont,
says that lightning in that city struck
the house of State Senator Fletcher
Maddox in exactly the spot a bolt |
struck about a year ago. The bolt |
knocked off the shingles used in re-
pairing the roof a year ago. At that |
time the lightning threw down a pic |
ture hung on the wall. The recent |
bolt knocked down the same picture.
r. X. Tiffany, an engineer of the |
Irrigation company, was |
arrested at Cleelum, Wash, with five |
other men, for attempting to blow up |
he dam of the Union Gap Irrigation
which was built across the |
outlet of Cleeum lake The men
were caught in the act and placed in
Jail. The company refuses to make
statement as to its connection with the
crime.
special from Bonneville. Or,
says while answering his aged
mothers call TO come home, j. l.. An
derson of No 444 North Prospect
street, Kansas City. Mo, was muir.
iered near here. Investigation
showed that Anderson had met his
death by repeated blows on the head
by heavy iron bar but failed to re-
veal any motive for the crime nor any
clue to the murderer.
A special from Calfax, Wash, says
R. T. Street, who has been prominent
n the crusade against saloon keepers,
was shot at Sunday night by an UNI
Known assailant, who also hit Street
1 fearful blow in the face with blun'
instrument.
Florence p. lie Jeune, one of tho
most popular railroad men on the
Rocky mountain division of the Nor,
hern Pacific. was ground to pieces by
| train near Clinton, Mont, 1t is
bought that he was pushed from the