The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-03-15
NORTHWEST NOTES

To expedite the laying of 300 miles
of double track on the Union Pacific
in Wyoming, 1000 Greek laborers will
be put to work in short time.
Burglars entered the Inland bahk
at Cumberland, WASH. blew open the
safe. after binding and gagging Bank
err Parker, and got away with $4,000.
AS the result of drunken quarrel,
William Hoff was shot and killed by
G. A. Ais, a rancner, at Carlton, Mont
Ais shot at Hoff three times, each
! shot taking effect.
w. A. Brothers, government disburs
ing agent for the Pathfinder reservoir
project, with headquarters at Casper,
Wyo, was arrested last week on a
charge of embez2ling government
funds to the amount of $4,000.
| The Bank of Nevada at Reno has
taken over the banking business OF
r. l.. Douglas at Fallon. The new
bank will be known as the Churchill
county bank. Its capitalization is
100000.
l. w. Emmons, agent for the Union
Pacific at Laramie, Wyo., has been
awarded the gold medal offered by the
company for the most perfect depot
and station on the line of the Wyom-
Ing division.
A special from Jacksonville, Ore,
states that Thomas Ferguson. vet
eran aged rs years, who lived near
Phoenix, that county, was found dead
with a bullet hole through his head.
The coroner's jury returned verdict
of suicide.
stabbed by William Hartley in sa-
loon brawl at Huntington, Ore. Rice
is married man and was employed
In the lumber mills at Pleasant VAL
ley. Hartley is well known char
acter and halls from Salt Lake.
II. s. Gordon of North Bend, Ore.
whose alleged whe, Bertha Gordon, is
waiting her preliminary examination
in San Francisco on charge of pass.
ing a forged and fictitious note for
S60S on Dr. +. w. Vowinckel, has been
arrested on charge of conspiring
with a woman to swindle the physi'
clan.
A gang of men has been placed at
work in the yards of the, Laramie.
Hann's Peak & Pacific at Laramie,
Wyo., arranging for the operations of
the track-laying outfits that are short
iy to begin work on this road. Enough
steel is on hand and en- route to cons
plete the road to Centennial, thirty
: miles out
, Matte Skagit, an Indian woman.
said to be 104 years old, died last
week at her farm at Barlow. on the
sound opposite Seattle. She was a
contemporary of Old Seattle and Prin.
cess Angeline and for many years had
been under the care of Charlie Keo'
kuk. one of the best known Indians
on the sound.
The fourth county fair will be held
In Laramie, Wyo., in September. 1t
+ is the purpose of the management Of
: the four county fairs and the state
fair at Douglas to agree upon dates
9 that will not only not conflict, but
I enable owners of race horses and ex.
: hibition stock to go from one fair to
9 another without losing-time.
While lying fiat on the floor Of the
T first story of the Merleheany Manu-
. featuring companys' building with
@ their heads projected over a freight
o elevator shaft, directing streams OF
Q water into the basement, where fire
broke out Sunday morning. Lieut.
Charles Kirk and Hoseman Herman
Larson of the Seattle fire department
were caught under the elevator ant
n received serious injuries
The store of H. A. Jewell at Tono
@ pah, Nevada, was held up by rob
n Der with red handkerchief over hi!
: face He made the bartender oper
:, the cash register, from which he tool
y over 5000 He then took SIS from {
woman drinking at the bar and es
d capped.
a. Sam Francovich, an employment
Z agent of Reno, New, shipped a ganl
= of fifty men to Spring Garden. on thu
% line of the Western Pacific, last week
= This is the first of several gangs tina
:. will be sent to various points glont
:, :, the Western Pacific line within thu
~ next few weeks.
One man was killed, one fatal.
wounded and another seriously hur
by the collapse of the house of
~ Riley in San Francisco. 1t was
twostory frame structure in an III
!" finished condition. A high wind wa
ID blowing and the house went down be
IN fore the pressure.
IN Peter Breen, one of the best know
rs attorneys in Butte, was fined $500 70
k contempt of court by Judge Michat
dc Donlan, who punished the lawyer 10
i'd accusing the Judge of having deiioel
e- ately drawn the jury panel in an i
CHI regular manner. Breen will appeal t