The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-11-22
NORTH WEST NOTES


AS a result of the recent election, a
Republican will be sent to Washing.
ton to succeed Senator Clark of Mon,
tana.
Six men narrowly escaped death by
drowning on Puget Sound, near Sc.
attic, when an explosion of a gasoline
tank aboard the launch Polywog rem.
1ered them helpless and at the mercy
Of a gale.
Louis and Harry Sorokoff, two Rus,
slams, recent arrivals in Seattle, have
disappeared as completely as If the
earth had opened and swallowed
them. Friends of the two men think
they were shanghaied
A blizzard has been raging in the
Judith basin, the big grazing territory
Of central Montana, and it is feared
that considerable damage to the stock
interests will result, especially should
the storm be of any duration.
Chester Thompson, accused of muir
| uet III tHe nfSt ueBIee lOl iht hiillhS
Of G. Meade Emory at Seattle on July
{, will be tried in Tacoma, the county
seat of Pierce county, Judge Frater
having granted a change of venue
asked for by Thompson.
William Penna, convicted of the
murder of Mrs. Susie Bryant in Butte,
has been sentenced to death by Judge
Donlan. Penna refused to stand up
when sentence was being passed, and
when the bailiff attempted to assist
him, the condemned man showed
fight, the first show of life he had
made since his arrest.
Armed bandits held up the overland
limited at Carlin, Nevada, and es-
capped with the suit cases of passen.
gers and the money sack of Conductor
Conn. The railroad men at Sparks
all. A posse was formed and a pitched
battle took place at the edge OF the
town. no one being hurt.
Fred Adams pleaded guilty to rob
bling the United States assay Office in
Seattle and was sentenced 10 ten
years at hard labor in the federal pen
itentiary at McNeil's island. He
pleaded guilty to two counts charging
the theft of $4,000 worth of gold dust.
1t is generally understood that his
thefts amounted to over 100000.
! According to members of the spe-
| rinl nriSon commission oficialc IF tho
| Washington State penitentiary have
unearthed a plot to blow up the
| guards quarters with nitro-glycerine,
| stolen from the jute mill, and effect
the release of nearly $50 convicts as
| they were being marched from the
| prison to the mill.
Michael Storms, a pioneer mining
man of Idaho and Montana, died OF
general debility in Denver last
week. He was eighty-three years of
age and had been one of the most ia
miliar figures in Denver for AZ years.
He was secretary of the Colorado Pho
neers' association and had the distinc-
ton of being the oldest active miner
In this state.
Mrs. Maud Cheffield is dead at Sc
attic. Mrs. Creffield was the wife of
Joshua" Cheffield, who was shot by
George Mitchell, who believed that
Creffield had maltreated his sister Els
Their. Esther later shot her brother
George. She and Mrs. Creffield were
arrested for the crime, both women
confessing that they had done it to
avenge the death of Joshua
A. J. Hembree, who was found guilty
at Tillamark. Ore, of the murder OF
his 17-year.old daughter, has been sen
fenced to an indeterminate term of inn
prisonment in the state penitentiary.
Hembree killed his daughter on the
night of December 2S. 1905, and was
suspected of having also killed his
wife, both the bodies being practically
consumed in the fire which destroyed
the house.
A burglar entered the home of Mrs
Parker at Laramie, Wyo., stealing
purse containing SIS and some papers
The house is used as a scarlet fever
quarantine hospital, the inmates in.
Guiding three or four patients.
Captain II. II. Bodfish of the whaling
,teamer William Baylies, charged with
assault upon member of his crew on
the voyage from San Francisco to the
Arctic whaling grounds this spring,
and Captain r. W. Newth of the
whaler jeanette. accused of the abduc-
ton of an Eskimo girl, have been in
dicted by the Seattle grand jury.
The British ship Galena, sixty days
from Junin, Chile, for Astoria, Ore,
went ashore on Clatsop beach, near
Gearhart park and within few miles
south of where the Peter Iredale went |
ashore three weeks ago The officers
and crew all came ashore safely.
A northwestern indoor track and |
field meet by telegraph among the |
leading Y. NJ C. A. teams will prob
ably be feature in sporting circles !
within a short time The towns repre- |