The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-12-13
NORTHWEST NOTES

Santa Barbara passenger tralh'
Alexander Findley, a carpenter, aged
"a vears. was burned to death at Butte
in a fire that destroyed the one-story
frame building in which he was living
Ole Martenson, Swede, was Killed
nv an Irishman named Roberts at En-
camnment. Wyo. Roberts is In jail
at Rawlins and will be tried for MUIR
der.
The plant of the National Reduction
mills. half a mile from Florence, Colo,
was entirely destroyed by fire last
week. Loss $15O,OOO, with no insur-
ance.
Thomas Brant and Thomas Rick
hart, two Northern Pacific engineers
were killed at Cedar Creek spur, near
Garfield, Wash, when a passenger
train collided with light engine.
G. o. Yergy, of the Yergy Lumber
! company, and well known Helena
man. while driving across the street
car tracks in Helena, was struck by
an electric car and almost instantly
killed.
A strike of gold ore on the one hun
dred foot level of the Annia Laurie
claim, belonging 10 the Manhattan
Mining companyS group at Manhat-
tan. Nevada, goes better than $1,000
per ton.
Edward A. Horner, formerly OF Lead
Vile, Colo, has organized the Roose
welt third term national league in
Chicago, and says that clubs Will be
organized in every county and city In
the United States.
e. Willetts, stockman from Idaho
enroute east with stock, fell from q
car in the yards at Rawlins on the
night of the 4th, and when picked up
by yardmen the following morning
died in a few minutes.
Senator Hepburn of Idaho has pro
posed an amendment to the railway
rate law which will require the rail-
roads to give Boise, Spokane and
other interior points the advantage
of the long haul rates.
Because the Montana Coal & Coke
company refused to reinstate minel
who had been discharged some week
ago, 400 miners struck, tieing up the
mines and cohing plants of the COM
pany at Aldridge and Horr, Mont.
The gold output of Montana for 1905
was s20S,551 less than that of 1904.
The silver output was S1,491 ,315 less
coinage values) than for 1904. The
copper output was S11,754,967 greater
and the lead output sS1,635 greater.
q Rev. Oscar Woods, of Laramie,
Wyo., in an article in local paper bit.
terly denounced the so-called endless
prayer chain letters, several of which
have been received in Laramie. One
young woman of very religious turn
of mind was so wrought up about the
condition.
A wreck occurred near Rawlins
Wyo, in which b. B. Johnson, brake.
man, was killed, and an engineer
brakeman and two firemen were hurt
A westbound freight drawn by two en-,
gines and an eastbound freight col
lided head on as the result of con.
flicting train orders, all three engines
being derailed.
The California delegation in con
gress has received what they consider
a satisfactory assurance that the pres
ident did not desire to be understood
: as saying in the Japanese section ol
his message that he would use the
military forces of the United States
in forcing the Japanese into the Cal
ifornia schools in which the white
children are taught.
, There have been many deaths in
Goldtield the past month or two, more
I perhaps, than people generally know
, about; but they have not been IL
| outh nave Dttn reported
The death rate during the worst ol
the prevailing storm have averaged
not more than four per day as against
twenty as reported.
A squad of citizens of Billings
, Mont, forcibly seized a carload of Goa
and distributed it in one ton lots. II
, body the squad then proceeded tc
the offices of the coal company ant
compelled the agent to receipt for tn,
payment of the fuel.
Montana produced in the calendar
} year of 1906 copper, silver, gold ant
K. lead to the value of $7O,677, $50. Thes,
I values came from 100000 tons of ore
and the aggregate production wa,
, greater by $10,OS6,736 than the valu,
. of the output Of 1904, which was an
proximately $10,O00,OO0 greater thar
FOR the year before.
Ida and Minnie Hill, sisters, wer,
found asphyxiated in their rooms il
Portland by Hilda Hill, another sister