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

Panama VIII be laid before con' VI
December II. e'tS
Inc question of spelling undonh,,,
ly will receive attention at tba N.Y. NV
Of congress this week. uus
The yellow fever situation IN r.,
is satisfactory. There is ono oo..
Havana and two in the interior "
During the past week eight ,o.
lists have been executed at wo,.0
and eight others condemned IN a.
A military raid on the RakoH H..
works at Czenstochova, Russia -
suited In breaking up an extensive rov
olutionary organization.
In an explosion of gas in the p,,
more mine of the Parrish Coal com
pany, at Wilkesbarre, Pa. two mo.
were killed and five others iniured
Orders have been placed with ~
Nikolaeff ship-building yards for ,ho
construction of four modern torros.
cruisers for the Black Sea feet =,
Russia.
Charles G. Washburn has been nom.
mated by the Republicans to succeoa
the late Representative Rockwooa
Hoar, of Massachusetts, for the uner.
pired term.
With the coming OF the new stats
Of Oklahoma, it will require the co
operation of thirty-one legislatures IN
secure from congress a call for con.
stitution conyeitipn.
]. F. CulpperD former ct'ef of police
and widely known throughout the
southwest, was shot and killed in .
pistol duel with negro named Brock
at Pine Bluff, Arkansas.
The Imperial budget, presented last
week, adds $4,000 to the salary of the
German ambassador at washington
owing to the increased cost Of liyine
1 az Juc AlltGlCdn Capital.
A report made to congress BY the
| governor of New Mexico shows that
26,195 voters in that territory favored
| Joint statehood in the recent election
while 14,435 voted against it.
A letter received at Phoenix Art
zona, reports the stoning to death Of
an Apache squaw by tribesmen, one
mile from Fort Apache. The natives
charged her with being a witch.
1t is reported that a side lead has
been opened in the old Comstock mine
at Virginia City, Nevada, which bids
fair to be richer than anything ever
yet taken from that famous property
Lulu Bridges, an 1S-year-old girl, was
arrested at Los Angeles and lodged
in jail, charged with having accepted
bribe at Paris Mo, for leaving the
town to escape being called as court
| witness.
The Chicago Board of trade has
decided by vote of 5G6 to 277 to
reduce grain commissions from Ac
to 1Bc a bushel on orders filled for
outsiders and from 1sc to Lice for
members.
The trial of Harry X. Thaw for the
murder of Stanford White, the archl'
tect, will not begin until March or
April of next year, unless District Al
torney Jerome consents to rearrange
his court calendar
1t has been determined by the pro
visional governor OF Cuba that Christ
mas gifts sent from the United states
to officers, soldiers and American eni'
ployees serving in Cuba shall be ad-
mitted free of duty.
The Agricultural chamber OF Wes1
Prussia has adopted resolution e'n'
powering it's executive committee W
prepare to import Chinese as fafm ID
borers in order to relieve the pre-
sent sarcity of such labor
AS a result on the explosion Oh ~
boxes of blasting powder on tne %
level of the Quincy mine at Hugn'on
Mich, two miners were Killed. wv
seriously injured and NUMBER o''''
come by the gas and smoke
A term of six years for the pres
dent and the vice president Oh Inv
United States is proposed by oena
tor Cullom in joint resolution INV
duced last week, providing io'
amendment to the constitution
The biggest cavalry drill nan III w.
world is to be built at Fort LeA'oN
worth, Kas. The quartermasVer ~
partment will soon ask for piu' ~
the erection of the building VIM.
will be $40 feet long by 14O feet "iD'
o formal split has occurred ID -
Polish Socialistic party at "a
A majority of the party mas ~,
formed into fighting oTgaui1"',
| u,I,iIo .Lo s,,tnority has lOlueu W