The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-06-28
NORTH w EST NOTES

trying to organize the miners In Rock
.prings, Wyo.
Several frosts have occurred In var.
ious parts Of Wyoming, and reports
received indicate that much damage
has been done to growing crops.
A number OF slavs engaged in a
fight with knives in saloon in Rock
Springs with the result that one man
may die, and three are badly cut up.
The fourteenth annual teachers in.
stitute OF the teachers OF Albany coun
ty, Wyoming, was held in Laramie
last week, four days session being
held.
Charles w. Knowles, for almost hall
century hotel keeper in Portland
and probably known to every travelling
man on the Pacific coast. is dead at the
age OF II.
The railroad Is nearly completed to
Warland, Wyo., and 1t is expected ere
long to connect with the Union Pacific
near Laramie, making southern out
let to the basin.
Mrs. Carl Bode, wife of railroad
engineer, was shot and killed at Sail
da, Colo, by Mrs Harold Hutchinson
wife OF a switchman. Jealousy was the
cause of the murder.
The business portion of the town OF
Lowell, Wyo.. 1t is expected, will be
moved down nearer the depot on the
new railroad town in the near future
Lowell is building up rapidly.
The shaft house and hosting plant
of the Sherman Copper Mining com
pany at Sherman, east of Laramie,
Wyo, erected only week or two ago
burned to the ground, entailing loss
of 80 900.
Moses Goss, Frank Taplin, Jr., and
one Cook were killed, and Henry
IHormahlen was fatally injured by
the premature explosion of a charge
of giant powder at Shoemaker grade,
near Asotln, Wash.
Thomas Cullen of Everett, Wash,
one of the best known timber cruisers
in the section, is dead as the result of
fall on the sidewalk following a
blow in the face delivered by Frank
Jones, machinlst.
In a wreck OF an extra eastbound
freight train, near Fleish, sixteen
miles west of Reno, Nevada, on the
Southern Pacific, two men we're Sc.
riously injured and four killed, the
men killed being tramps,
The North Pacific states give prom.
Use OF raising this year the largest
crop OF prunes in their history. The
crop of Oregon. Washington and Ida
no is now estimated by dealers at
something over 1000 cars.
Oscar Stephens. a prominent and
wealthy mine owner and cattle man
of Montana. died In Salt Lake City
hospital last week. He owned twenty.
seven ranches in Montana, three OF
which embrace over 5000 acres each
Steel rails are being distributed
along the Union Pacific for the new
double track on the Wyoming di.
vision. The work of laying the rails
will begin in about week, several
large gangs of men being put to work.
John Elckhoff, an employee Of the
Burlington railroad, has confessed to
the murder of Walter Oelslager, 10
year-old hoy whose body was recently
found near the water tank at Ran,
chester. Wyo. Eickhoff said that he
mistook the boy in the darkness for
another employee against whom he
had q grudge and shot him.
w. r. Hall, single man about AZ
years of age, was found dead In
small stream ten miles west of Wal
den, Colo. He had taken fit of some
sort and fallen face downward in the
shallow water, seing unable to help
himself.
A young woman known as Cecil La
mont met a violent death in gun
store in Portland while examining re
volver, which she said she wished to
purchase, Various facts connected
with the case point conclusively tc
suicide.
A killing frost occurred at Laramie,
Wyoming, on the goth, biting potatoes
peas, beans and flower gardens. Al
Howell, eight miles west, large FIELD
of potatoes was about ruined. Ice
an eighth of an inch thick formed al
Laramie.
Mrs. Emily Watson, who was con
victed in connection with the land
fraud expose in Oregon, and who is al
so under indictment in connection with
the frauds, was brought to Portland
from Oakland, Cal. last week and
placed in jail.
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