The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1905-10-05
NORTHWEST NOTES

the gambling houses having been
closed by order Of the city authorities.
H. Megordon. convicted al Vale.
| Ore. of numbering his wife has been
sentenced to be hung on November "a.
Cora McFreeley, aged 10, suicided in
Seattle taking strychnine. because
her lover had forsaken her for another
girl.
The Summit hotel and two adjoining
cottages at Monida, Mont, were de-
stroyed by fire which started in the
top story of the hotel building, entail
ing a loss of $4,000.
It is now estimated that the loss
occasioned by the recent fire in Butte
was 5000, 900, with insurance of $685.
600. The blocks destroyed are to be
rebuilt at once.
The machinery of the railway shops
at Laramie and Cheyenne is being
overhauled preparatory to the reopen
ing of the mills. A complete air hoist
ing plant is to be installed at Laramie
at once
The Shingle Mills bureau, an asso-
citation to control the output of Wash
ington red cedar shingles, was organ.
lied in Seattle last week AboutsSO
per cent of the total output of the
state was represented.
FIR
the Swan Land and Cattle company,
was found dead on the prairie about
10 miles from Rock River, Wyo., and
is supposed to have been frozen to
death. The coroner will investigate
A special from Guersey, Wyo., says
that Mrs. A. w. Ladd of Hartville
Junction. and Leonard Briggs of Sun
rise, were killed in a train wreck
there. Two others, Thomas Morgan
and Charles Meyers, railroad EN-.
ployes, were injured.
Announcement is made that the Chi
cago & Northwestern railway will
push to completion the new line now
under construction from Casper. Wyo..
west to Lander and the Wind river
reservation, where one and one-halt
million of acres of public land will be
thrown open to homestead some time
next June.
George Berger, local superintendent
of the Pullman Palace Car company,
was arrested in Seattle by customs
officers ON the charge of smuggling.
With him was taken F, B. Stevens,
better known as big Steve.' and Ste
ven's wife. The trio We're caught
with 80 pounds of opium in their pos
session.
Miss Mary Mcdonald, the pretty II
year-old basketball player whom w, J,
Adams, a prominent athletic instruc-
tor of Butte and well known in bust
ness circles is charged with kidnap-
ing, was arrested in Great Falls last
week. Adams, who is married man
and the father of three children, is
out on $4,000 bond
A public reception was held at Lara
ME one night last week for Fred
Douglas william and wife, old residents
of that town, who sail shortly for Eng
land where they will reside in the flu
mie plains with the Sartoris company
and engaged in the ranching business
many years ago.
The visitors to the Yellowstone
park this year were double in number
what they were last year, travel to
the park having increased immensely.
Last year by September ~ the num-
Der of people who had entered the
park during the season reached 5,337.
This year the number of visitors at
that date was 10,0S0
The Wyoming State Sunday school
association closed three-day's SEES
sion at Laramie on the 2Sth, select
ing Evanston as the meeting place in
1906, and electing as president. DR.,
Ayen Nelson, Laramie; vice-president,
Mrs, A. T. Powelson, of Cheyenne
James Conway, a young ranch hand
near Laramie, Wyo., was found guilty
OF striking the wife of his employer
Mrs. Peter Perue, across the back
with quirt, in retaliation for hay
ing been reprimanded for abusing
horses, and was given FIVE months in
the county Jail. fine of $50 and costs
of prosecution.
John Read, convict under sentence
of 10 years for attempt to murder
committed several months ago on a
freight train between Truckee, Cal.
and Reno, New, escaped from the
state penitentiary at Carson, New. by
climbing a water pipe and scaling the
walls.
N. E. lmhaus of Baker City, Ore.
French scientist who is in Oregon as
manager of the Flagstaff nine In
Baker county. has discovered and
patented process whereby common
sagebrush can be utilized to make
paper and to provide an oil to be used
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