The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1905-08-17
NORTHWEST NOTES

One Japanese was killed and tire
injured. their handcar being struck b,
train near Missoula, Mont.
The Mormon stake tabernacie a
Alton, Wyo., work on which was start
I'D several months ago, is now bein'
hurried to completion. 1t will be TN
largest church in Wyoming when com
pleted.
L. A. Macarthur, at one time trainer
for e. j. ("Lucky") Baldwin, of Sar
Francisco, dropped dead at a resort
near Portland. His home is in SaI
Francisco. Macarthur was well known
in horse.racing circles all over the Pa
cifc coast
At mass meeting of citizens Of
Hayre, Mont, resolutions were adopt
ed calling upon Governor Toole to
offer his services to mediate in the diff
fculties between the striking opera
tors and the Northern Pacific and
Great Northern railways.
Volo, the bicycle rider with the Bar
mum and Bailey circus, who jumps the
gap during the performance, failed to
do the trick at Helena, and fell to the
ground, being fatally injured. His
wife loops the loop in an automobile
and she followed with her turn imme-
diatey after the accident to her hus.
band.
While Robert Russell, aged 81, and
his daughter, Mrs Frank Ballard, aged
So, were driving across the tracks Of
the Moffatt road, north Of Denver, a
passenger train ran into their buggy,
throwing them out Mrs. Ballard was
instantly killed and her father died
several hours later from internal in
juries.
Several enlisted men of companies
G and H, encamped on Crow creek, in
Wyoming, were seriously wounded by
the explosion of a three-inch shell
found by the men in the hills where
the artillery had camped in the march
of last year. One of the men attempt
ed to drive the shell into the ground
when it exploded.
Clarence Riner, who has been with
the Carpenter survey party on the
Montana-Idaho boundary line, has
been taken to his home in Cheyenne
to recover from severe injuries sus.
tanned while at work He was caught
beneath a tree which was felled to
make way for the survey line, and
was severely crushed.
Mrs. George Reese of Butte is dead
as the result of a peculiar accident.
While eating breakfast a piece of ba.
con rind gained access to her wind.
pipe and all efforts of physicians to
dislodge the object were unavailing.
An operation was performed, but it
gave no relief. The patient died in
extreme agony, literally strangling to
death
Miss Annie Hood of Seattle, aged
38, committed suicide by jumping
in the burner at a sawmil at Anacon-
ties, Wash. Efforts were made to res
cue her with graphing irons and by
turning the hose on the struggling
woman. She was identified by jewelry
and bits of charred clothing. III
health is said to have been the cause
of the act
Mrs. w. X. Smith, living near Basin,
Wyo., recently set a hen with what
she supposed were hens eggs. The
brood was Matched a few days ago,
and Is combination of chicken and
duck. The front part of the fowl is
chick and the rear part duck. 1t has
web feet. 1t makes a noise which ia
a combination of a chicks peep and a |
ducks quack. The freaks are healthy
and Will be sent to an eastern ZOO.
N"SNh JdpdutSe ana WnltG |
men on the streets of Blaine, Wash.
resulted in the serious injury of one
white man and at least four japan.
ese. The trouble grew out of a fight
between an American and an Oriental
ht one of the canneries.
Mrs. Minnie Burke is in iail in Seat.
tie, accused by her husband. Michae,
Burke, with attempting to poison him
eurke Is IN a serious condition. The
husband alleges that his wife gave
him strychnine with the purpose of
killing him to get his money.
A coroner's inquest and auton,v
over the remains of Joseph Whitford.
who was struck by Butte street car
and picked up dead, disclosed the fact
mat Whitford had been killed and his
body placed upon the tracks in an ef
Iort 10 cover up the crime.
General Manager H. ]. Horn of the
Northern Pacific has wired sunertend
emit Weymouth of H. c.,