The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-04-12
NORTHWEST NOTES

municipal ownership league.
A postoffice has been established at
Aurora, Esmeralda county, Nevada,
six miles southeast of Fletcher.
The quarantine established against
sheep of various states by Wyoming
was lifted last week. Sheep entering
that state must be dipped but other
restriction are removed.
Complete returns of the Tacoma
city election show that George p.
Wright, democrat, was reelected
mayor over Mccormick, republican, by
295 plurality, and over Hartman, mu-
nicipal ownership, by 1864.
Maurice Thompson of Butte, defeat
ed kid" Parker of Denver, in the
10th round before the Spokane Anna
teur Athletic club. A hard blow back
of the ear knocked the kid completely
out. 1t was a bloody exhibition.
In the city election at Helena the re.
publicans elected the mayor, police
judge and six aldermen. The demo
Gratis elected the treasurer and one
alderman, The next council will
stand nine republicans and five dem
ocrats.
Detective Bob Briley shot and killed
Edward Donnelley, who was burglar.
izing the Partisan Cloak and Suit
house in Spokane. A woman in a
neighboring building discovered the
burglar at work and telephoned the
police:
Nearly $50 of the $50 painters and
paper-hangers in Denver have gone on
strike for increased wages. Should
the strike continue long It is expected
that the entire building trades coun
ellis membership of 5000 men will be-
come involved.
Thomas Logan, sheriff of Nyt
county, Nevada, was shot and killed
at Manhattan by gambler known
as "Blondy" Berry. Logan attempted
to prevent a pistol duel between Der
ry and another gambler and received
the shots which killed him.
Charles G. May. former president Of
the Big Bend National bank at Daven
port, Wash. has been sentenced to
serve five years in the penitentiary
for violation of the banking laws. This
is the minimum sentence. May wreck
ed the bank in mining speculation.
The business part of the town oil
Bannock, one of Montana's first min
ing camps and the first capital of the
territory in Beaverhead county, ha:
been practically wiped out by fire The
fire is believed to have been incen
diary. The total loss is about 10000
The estimated value of the oa
crop of Idaho for 1905, is given as
81 1922 ,664 A total of 4,069,420 bush
els were raised on 9S,O5S acres, an av
erage per acre of 49.4 bushels, and the
average market price per bushel was
AZ cents.
Considerable excitement has beer
caused by the announcement of Steph
en- Carver, a banker of Chinook, Mont.
that he is DESTROYS of building a rail
road from Lewiston through Charleston
to Asotin and then to Anetone county
distance of 80 miles.
Duncan Clark, for years holder o.
the world, was accidentally killed neal
Cheyenne, while hunting with two
friends. The three were crawlins
along the ground toward herd o
antelope when a gun carried by tn
man Immediately behind Clark wl'
discharged. The charge entered
Clark's body, causing instant death.
Charles Secrist, the policeman wht
shot Thomas Johnson in dispute
over a dice game in a saloon in Den
yer on February last, and who wa'
convicted of murder in the seconC
degree, has been sentenced to serve
from fourteen to twenty years in tb'
state penitentiary.
Brakeman C. w. Hildebrand an,
| Fireman John Davis were killed L..
| the overturning of a freight locomo
tive on the Burlington railroad nea
Arvada, Wyoming. Davis was alive
for several hours under the wreck
age The accident was caused by ;
cave-in of the track.
1t is believed by Portland detectives
| that Fred Paul, the burglar who OF
! Monday night shot and seriously
wounded George Douglass in the Int
! ter's home in San Jose, is a forme
| soldier, at Vancouver barracks, witt
deserted and to whom was traced {
number of crimes.
The collieries at Casper, Wyo. an
closing down and the miners are leav
! ing to seek work in other fields. AL
efforts to settle the differences havr
proven futile. The trouble arose owe
| the organization of union and de
mands which the company decided /