The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-03-01
NORTHWEST NOTES

his home in that city Thursday morn.
ing Death was due to heart disease.
r. 8. Jewell, Patrick Jennings,
Thomas Sheehan and John G. Forres.
ter, alias Webber, were arrested at
Spokane, Wash, on a charge of coun-
terfeiting.
James Sterrell of Encampment,
Wyo aged 23, claims the distinction
of being the youngest Knight Tenn
plar and Scottish Rite Mason in the
United States.
Sara Bernhardt has purchased
circus tent with a seating capacity of
4,750, which will be used in the north
west for cities where first class the
aters cannot be obtained for her.
The house committee on Indian af-
fairs has agreed to make a favorable
report on a bill for the sale of sur
plus and unallotted lands in the Col
vile Indian reservation, Washington.
Thomas r. Smith, well known as
an authority on smelling mining, died
was Ga years of age. Mr. Smith at
different times managed smelters in
Utah.
South-bound express train No. Is on
the Southern Pacific railroad was par
TALLY derailed by a landslide near
Redding, Cal, Wednesday night, and
two men were killed and number of
others injured.
William Bell, an old and well-known
resident of Hamilton, Mont, took his
life by shooting himself in the head
with 1922 rifle. The mans face
was blown completely off, and three
empty shells were found in the gun
A Wyoming girl was the star per.
former at the concert given by stu
dents of the New England Conserva
tory of Music in Boston. Miss Belle
Moore of Garnett, Wyo., gave a
charming rendition of song by God
ard.
j. f. Hathaway, express messenger,
Zachary Taylor, transfer agent, and
Miss Daisy Robertson, were hurt in a
collision between an engine of the
Great Northern and an Oregon Rail
way & Navigation passenger train at
Spokane.
x~f Nhn far tntn
In increase OF the number of indus
tries in the report submitted to the
congressional committee on manufac-
lures. Oklahoma leads, Indian terri
tory is next, Nevada, Idaho and Utah
come next.
William Gleeson had piece of
peppered on the back and legs with
rock and gravel through the prema-
ture explosion of blast in the Alta
drift on the Sutro tunnel level. near
Silver City. New.
Several hundred high school pupils.
of Tacoma, resenting the non-ob-
servance of Washington's birthday,
left the school rooms and paraded the
streets, blowing horns and waving
banners. Girls joined with the boys in
the demonstration.
William Gunther, formerly assessor
Of Contra Costa county, shot and
killed his father and probably fatally
wounded his mother at Martinez, Cal,
Monday. Gunther was recently re-
leased from the inkane asylum at
Napa. When arrested he said: II am
as crazy as hell, and have just killed
my father and mother"
The smeltermen of Butte have do
mated $4,000 TO be used in the defense
OF President Meyer and other officers
and members of the Western Fedora
ton of Miners, accused of being i'm
plicated in the assassination of ex-Gov-
ernor Steunenberg
At a meeting held Thursday even
ing the Salt Lake City board of edu-
cation decided to construct at an ear
~ udIe Two lG-IOOlu SCHOOl uulluluSS
at cost of $4,000 each, and gym
nasium for the High School at cost
of from $1,000 to $4,000.
Governor Brooks of Wyoming, has
appointed District Judge Richard r.
Scott to be assistant justice of the SUI
preme court, to fill the vacancy caus-
ed by the appointment of Justice Van
Orsdel to be assistant attorney-gen-
eral of the United States.
One of the monster freight engines
of the Great Northern, on a wild dash
from Hillyard crashed into the Ore
gon Railway & Navigation train from
Pendleton at the transfer junction in
Spokane Thursday night Two men
were seriously injured,
Plans have Esen prepared by engi-
neers of the Southern Pacific company
for a tunnel six miles long through
the Sierra Nevada mountains. The