The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-03-29


houses now running in that city.
Andrew Heath, single and aged 2S,
a pressman in the employ of the
Butte Miner, committed suicide by
poison. No cause is known for the
act.
c. NJ McIver was shot AMI killed
at Silver Peak. Nevada, by AL Cook OF
Goldfeld. Cook was slightly wounded
in the neck by bullet fired by Nc
liver.
The University Girls Glee and Man
dolin club of the University of wy
oming will make a concert tour of the
state. a special car having been char
tered for the trip
Chief Forester Pinchot announces
that about 100000 acres of lands lying
in Uintah county Utah, and in south
ern Wyoming will be exempted from
the order extending the Uintah forest
reserve.
One of the largest sales Of railroad
lands in Wyoming in recent years was
made last week when the Union Pa.
ciflc sold to the Gibson Live Stock
company of Nebraska, 1929 acres for
$9,61442.
Representative Dixon of Montana,
has introduced bills authorizing the
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul railway
to cross Fort Keogh reservation and I,
bridge the Yellowstone river in Custer
county, Montana.
The city of Provo will appeal from
Judge Booths decision in the action
brought by J. w. N. Whitecotton to
restrain Mayor Frisby and Recorder
Harding from issuing waterworks and
artificial light bonds.
John Cook of Elk Mountain, who
was summoned as juror at the term
of court at Rawlings, Wyo., brought
his wife and babe with him. While
coming through the storm the babe
died in its mothers arms.
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contract with j. Ross Clark and c. o.
Whittemore for a right of way through
the heart of Rhyolite, the road to be
finished by June 1 to Beatty, New, by
August to Rhyolite, New.
The team taken by George NJ. Scott
when he absconded from Lander, wy
oming, several weeks ago, has return
ed, and many there believe the man
froze to death in a blizzard as no
trace of him has been found.
Acting upon the petition of the of
ficers of the Seventh infantry, sta
toned at Fort Missoula, the board Of
county commissioners has passed @
resolution revoking the licenses of the
saloons now doing business near the
fort
Dr. ]. ]. Fisher, who conducts q
drug store in Portland, was shot and
seriously injured by highwaymar
who secured admittance to the store
just after it had been closed for the
night on the pretense that he had 6
! severe toothache.
:. The Saratoga Valley, Wyoming
r mously to disband and the money II
e the treasury was added to the credi
r of the wolf bounty fund in the Sara
9 toga State bank. The members of thu
r association had lost interest.
= Fifty-seven cases of smallpox ar
a reported In the farming districts O
Liman, Bridge and Uintah counties
u Wyoming. The source of the epidemi
!. was an abandoned pesthouse in
mining camp at Cumberland which
h ranchman appropriated
~ c. S. Jarvis, the only non-union bal
Der in Bellingham Wash, on enterln
d his shop one morning last week foun
that the front door had been broke
down, Ave mirrors smashed, tn
10 plumbing torn out, and chairs cal
Ell ried from the place and droppe int
the bay.
, Frederick Rodney, 40 years oil
'' who came from Boise to Hay Cree
Id Ore, shot himself at lodging hous
Q in Hay Creek. The suicide was ev
IDENTIFY planned as he had laudanur
chloroform, carbolic acid and mo
to phine in his room, but preferred
&c use the gun.
J. B. Hassett, general manager (
h. the Charter Oak mine near Sarat
. ga, Wyo.. reports the finding of We
" y. of high-grade copper sulphide in
j drift from the 2O0-foot level in Il
mine, the vein being two and HI
ne feet wide and the ore running 40 to
per cent in copper.
~ The report of the state coal mine !
spector OF Wyoming shows that Il
| gross output of thirteen mines f
| the year ending January /, 1906, WI
| 6,006,SS3 tons, with tax value p
ton ranging from IL to AZ cents. II
| total tax value of the output for Il
year was $l,710,612.
The ranchmen living along the
oneer canal near Laramie, Wyo., el