The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1905-12-07
NORTHWEST NOTES


Robbers entered the Farmers and
Merchants bank at Forest Grove, Ore,
blew open the safe and secured
| 35,453.7S in currency.
The news comes from Fort Benton,
Mont, that Harry Meyer, a sheepherd'
err employed near Shimney Rock is
missing, and it is feared he has been
frozen to death.
Representative of the Milwaukee
road are now negotiating for a right
of way and depot grounds in Sheri-
dan, Wyo., for its transcontinental line
which is to cross Wyoming from Da-
kota.
Former Judge Gilbert K. Little of
Seattle, the pioneer American attor-
ney in the canal zone, died last week
at Ancon. Judge Little at one time
presided over the Hilo circuit in Ha-
wall
AS the elimination of a quarrel be-
tween their wives, j. Martin shot Will
liam Bernard at Buffers camp, near
Belfast, Skagit county, Washington.
Bernard died few hours after the
affray.
S. d. Bell of Sheridan, Wyo., a
prominent stockman of that state, died
suddenly in Billings, Mont, of paraly-
sis, being seized by the illness shortly
after consummating an extensive pur-
chase of sheep.
More than $50 heads of Indian fam
lilies have assembled at the agency at
the Colville (Washington) Indian res.
ervation to consider the opening of
the south half of the reservation and
allotments of land to the Indians.
The dead body of Ben Harris,
sheep herder, has been found on the
Marias river, about fifteen miles from
Chimney Rock, Mont. He became be-
wildered in the late storm and, los
ing his bearings, wandered about un-
til overcome by the cold.
Sid Houk has been convicted at Dill
Ion, Mont, of the murder of Owen
Ellis, a prominent stockman, and SEN
fenced to twenty-five years in the
state penitentiary. Houk's defense
was that he shot Ellis to save his own
life. Houk is a well-known gambler
and it was in his saloon that the trag-
edy was enacted.
Nick Williams, "a years old, died in
Bellingham, Wash, as result of in
juries received while clearing right of
way for the Columbia Improvement
company. A large tree which he and
another man were telling struck a
loose branch and hurled it at his back,
bored hole in his body and pinioned
him to the ground
Charles Sponderg, As years old, was
instantly killed at Bellingham, Wash,
by a falling stump At the city gravel
pit. The stump had been undermined
and an effort was heing made to re-
move it, Although warned of the dam
ger, he went underneath to cut a root,
which let the stump down on him,
crushing the life out of him.
The supreme court has confirmed
Ihe decision of the district court of
Lewis and Clark county, awarding
$4,000 damages to Martin Burke of
Butte. Burke was a miner at the
tolusa-Parrot mine and grasped q
wire upon which the insulation was
faulty, fearfully burning his hands and
otherwise making him almost a ply
sical wreck.
James A. Warford has been found
guilty of murder in the first degree
for killing Ike Lebo at Goldfeld. Colo.
a year ago The jury recommended
life imprisonment. Warford was act
ing as deputy sheriff on election
day, and shot and killed Lebo and a
man named Miller, who, he said. drew
guns on him when he started to re-
move them outside the polling place.
Justice of the Peace Henry A. White
of Rainier Beach, south of Seattle,
was instantly killed by a street car
near his home, He left one street
car and was standing on the opposite
track when struck by the car. His
body was horribly mangled.
The executive committee of tbe
Wyoming State Teachers association
has selected Douglas as the place of
meeting in 1906, the time to be during
the meeting of the Wyoming state
fair at that place, perhaps the first
week in October.
Three masked men, while holding
up the Hillyard Bar saloon, in spo.
Kane shot Thomas Kehoe, the bar
tender, twice in the head, and when
he came out from behind the bar they |
beat him over the head with their re- |
yoiyers' 1t is thought that he will |
die. wa"
Eugene George schaezline, a bar,
tender, was drowned ar Seattle in
sight of his wife, who was unable 70
assist him, Schaezlne returned home
intoxicated and stepped off wharf
on wnlch he lived. He sunk out of
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