The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1905-12-28
NORTHWEST NOTES

bulon Pike expedition.
Jacob Drewnck was fatally injured
while engaged in bridge work near
| Huntington, Ore, board falling and
| striking him on the head
In the Clydesdale class for yearllng
mares in the live stock show in Chi
cago, Forbes & Co, Sheridan. Wyo.,
| won the first and third awards.
John NJ. Gearin of Oregon, who has
been appointed to the United States
senate to fill the vacancy caused by
the death of Senator Mitchell, has en-
tered upon his duties as senator.
Walter H. Tisdale, for many years
prominent real estate owner in Ia.
coma, died at Spokane last week,
where he was spending few weeks
with his daughter, Mrs. N. b. Hutchin-
| son.
Thomas A. Grove, well known
mine operator and former militiaman
of Idaho Springs, Colo, was escorted
from Butte one day last week by a
number of armed miners He was
badly beaten.
Mrs. Louise Carter of Seattle has be-
gan suit for divorce against two men,
admitting she married both, but claim
ing that when she married the second
time she was convinced that she had
been clueared of her first legal bonds.
The new Los Angeles limited flyer
broke all records in a run across
Wyoming, except the Alice Roosevelt
special. 1t passed the Overland, hith.
erto the fastest transcontinental train,
in spite of a two hours handicap out
of Chicago,
Representative of $50 straight
shingle and combination mills have
voted to perpetuate the Single Mills
bureau organized to inaugurate the
sixty-day close-down of single mills
in Washington by organizing on pers
manent base
1t is now confidently believed that
Walter Scott, the cowboy miner, who
/
ton through his lavish scattering of
money and various spectacular cpl
sodes, has been murdered in Death
valley, in Nevada.
w. S. Vance of Laramie, Wyo., who
had twenty head of grass-fed steers at
the fat stock show in Chicago, was in
formed last week that his cattle had
taken three prizes ribbons, first in
their class, champions by age and first
In Hereford especial, in competition
with granted cattle from Illinois, In
diana, Iowa and Missouri
In response to a communication
from the executive committee of the
Montana Rate association, asking him
to call an extra session of the legisla.
ture for the purpose of considering a
railway commission bill, Governor
Toole has replied to the committee
that under the circumstances he did
not feel justified in issuing the call
A new phase in the school land
swindles in Oregon presented itself
last week in the application for return
of partial payments on counterfeit Ger.
tificates, made in good faith to tho
state school land board by the Ten
wood Lumber company of Wausau,
Wis, which holds fifteen bogus certi-
ficates for an aggregate of 4,219 acres.
The coroner's jury which has been
investigating the cause of the fatal
| collision between the Overland Limit.
ed and a freight train at All Say, De-
cember Z, has returned a verdict hold
ing Engineer Brink and Conductor
| Darrell of the freight train RESPONSE
BILE. The engineer was killed and the
conductor is nearly craZed with grief
| over the disaster.
| Mrs. Mary Cridge, wife of Bishop
Cridge, the first Episcopal missionary
to arrive on the Pacific coast, died at
Victoria, B. c., last week at 10 years
of age. She came to Victoria in 1855,
when it was only Hudson Bay post,
with but dozen shacks.
According to the Deseret News OF
Salt Lake the Short Line is getting
anxious about the threatened invasion
of its territory by the Chicago &
Northwestern, and is arranging for
rushing completion of its Yellowstone
park branch from st, Anthony, Ida.
Tommy Reilly of Seattle won from
Morgan Williams of Denver in the six.
teenth round of what was scheduled
for twenty-round go at Great Falls,
Mont There was hard fighting during
every round although almost from
the first Reilly had the best of it.
Persons represented by LATE Pence
have purchased the buildings erected
by the Oregon state commission at the
Lewis and Clark fair grounds for
$500. The lumber will be shipped
to the interior of the state, where it