The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-03-08
NORTHWEST NOTES

ern district of Washington.
broken rail two miles west of Sedan
caused the switch engine to leave the
track Just as they crossed trestle.
The Big Horn railroad company has
awarded contracts for grading 100
miles from Worland to Muskrat, Wyo.
b. II. Nichols, :'forty-niner" and
member of Nevada's first legislative
body, is dead at his home in Kanka'
kee, H.
l.. M. Fox, an engineer in charge o,
the Kalspel, Mont, yard engine. was
killed while hauling a string of empty
cars from Kalispel to Marion. A
Joseph Collins, foreman of a crew
at the U. C. Camp Low Pass on tho
Western Pacific railway, was killed
February 2S by powder explosion.
The body of an unknown man was
found beside the railroad track at
Porter's spur three miles south of
Napavine, Wash The head was sew.
cred from the body.
Twenty-Five sticks of dynamite ex'
ploded on John McClure's farm near
Tacoma, scattering the bodies of two
Japanese a hundred feet They were
thawing the dynamite in an oven.
An. effort is being made by the cit
liens of Saratoga, Wyo., to secure
the location at Saratoga of the gov
eminent fish hatchery provided for in
Senator Warren's and Congressman
Mondell's bills.
At Mount Vernon, Wash, Judga
Joiner sentenced l.. d. Ferguson, con-
victed of murder in the second de.
gree for killing William Patterson,
November 6, 1905, to twenty years in
the penitentiary.
The detectives engaged in ferret.
ing out the mystery of pool of blood
and ropes and torn pieces of clothing
found in vacant house have come tc
the conclusion that the crime was a
case of infanticide.
Miss Harriet Richards, school
teacher twentythree years old, who
arrived recently from Barnard. Mo-.
committed suicide by poison In Seat.
tie last week. Ill health and despond.
ency are supposed to be the causes
w. E. Sears of Encampment, Wyo.
has just completed canvass OF the
stockmen of the Platte valley in the
interest of the Saratoga valley stock.
growers association, having secured
$500 to be used as wolf bounty fund,
wolves and coyotes having become SO
numerous and aggressive as to cause
! alarm.
A special from Vancouver, B. c.,
says that Harry Hazard of New York
received four-year sentence and
: Wallace Darlington of Portland, Ore.
7 five years for robbing McMillan's jew.
elry store there. harrington, before
being sentenced confessed that he
:, broke the window of the store and
seized the diamonds.
: The coroner's jury decided that
Thomas Hampton, who was killed in
a duel with Stewart Carter in sa
loon at Reno, came to his death as
> the result of gunsnot wounds inflicted
! by party or parties unknown. Three
1 different sized bullets were lodged In
RI his body, none of which were of the
i, size used in Carter's gun Carter is
. still behind the bars.
The state of Washington has beer
granted leave to file In the supreme
court of the United States a bill o
complaint against the state Of Oregon
to secure a judicial determination o
. the boundary between the two states
The controversy deals with the juris
y diction over several small islands II
|. the Columbia river, valuable for fish
a ing purposes only.
a. Chief of Police Michael Delany o
|. Denver declares that George Mitchell
/ recently arrested has confessed tina
:. he cleared more than $4,000 by tn
a theft of mail pouch at Hazen juno
g ton, Nevada. the offense with whicl
n he is charged.
a Doctor Charlie Can, Chinese ply
g stefan, who has been resident o
ID Butte for thirty years, was murdere
y at his quarters on Colorado stree
K Robbery was probably the motive 70
the crime, as the Chinaman was r.
puted to be wealthy.
The Cheyenne Tribune states tha
lie the Big Horn railroad company ha
b. awarded contracts for grading 10
y miles from Worland to Muskrat, wy
IN The road, it is said, is to be part {
re the Burlington system, which is no
25 extending to Worland.
Id William Giles has been found guilt
n of murder in the second degree by
TX Fort Benton, Mont, jury. Giles WI
re soldier ~at Fort Assinniboine ar
i'd killed another soldier named Roi
ld over a game of cards at a roadhous
III Giles escaped but was later captured