The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-07-26
NORTHWEST NOTES

Laramie, wyo., was first settled In
1868. was incorporated in 1859, ana
chartered a. city in 1884.
Near Aberdeen, Wash, Fred Wren
while hunting mistook Mrs. Louise
Lecass for cougar and shot her dead
G.F. Hayes. an Oregon pioneer, met
death by falling down shaft in the
Union Companion mine, near Baker
City, Ore.
At Collins Hot Springs, Wash, John
f. Lueth of Vancouver, Wash, gave
his wife carbolic instead of her medl'
cine. She died in ten minutes.
The city of Rock Springs, Wyo., has
population of about 5000, and 1t Is
said there is no place in the United
States where a greater variety OF Ian
guages Is spoken.
At Clealum, Wash, Mrs. D. b. Bu'
cham was thrown from a buggy I'M
der the horses hoofs and kicked to
death. She was the wife Of the pro-
prietor Of the Hotel Reed.
The jury, after celebrating seven
teen hours, failed to agree in the case
of the United States against Joseph
T. Carroll, a Butte lumberman, who
was charged with illegal fencing near
Butte, and he was discharged.
BY the collapse of the east wall Of
the Butte hotel, which toppled over
on and crushed the Southern hotel, a
property loss OF 100000 was caused.
No one was injured, as all the guests
got out of the buildings when the
walls began to crack.
A large force of men Is still In
search OF the little Brattain boy who
disappeared from Tall Gate, Walla
Walla county, Washington. Evidence
accumulates that instead Of being de-
voured by cougar the child was kid.
naped by sheep herder.
That a general strike OF the union
street car men of Portland must be
the result of the present situation is
conceded by the officials of the Port
land Railway, Light & Power COM
pany. The officials of the union say
there will certainly be general
strike.
Mnn1t, ~ nj
Shoshone, Wyo., was shot and killed
about midnight July 20. He was a
son of the late United States Senator
Moody of South Dakota Frank An.
derson. on hearing the shots, ran out
o. his tent and was shot in the shout.
der He is not seriously wounded.
The assassin escaped in the darkness.
George A. Simonds, one of the per-
sonal conductors Of the Raymond.
Whitcomb excursion party bound TO,
Alaskan points, committed suicide al
Seattle by shooting himself in the
head, while standing on the wharf,
just as the two steamers carrying the
members of his party had pulled away
liOLu lit uOCh,
Two girls, travelling from Laramie
to Ogden, were found in an empty
box car at Fort Steele. Wyo. The
girls were very dirty, but carried dress
suit cases filled with clean linen and
their other worldly possessions. They
said Laramie was too slow for them
QnH thaU haH To lya
in box car.
Custin Lee, an aged man, who re-
Gently arrived in Billings, Mont, from
Kansas City en- route to Seattle, is
missing and is believed to have lost
his life in the Yellowstone river. His
travelling companion, Glenn Smith, a
young lad, stated to the police that
Lee had gone to the river to battle,
and 40 trace of him could be found.
Contracts have been let by the Ore.
gon Railroad G Navigation company
to Spokane contractors for bridges on
the main line of the company between
Portland and Huntington. This i'm.
provement is in line with the heavy
construction work now being done
with a view to bringing the road UP
to tirst-class condition.
Dan MCGOWAN, a ranchman living
near Cutbank, Mont, has been con,
victed of murder in the second degree
for killing Charles Arnold, on March
II last. Jealousy because of the
deceased's attention to his half-breed
wife is believed to have prompted the
crime.
w. w. Flat of Smith Brothers
Sheep company pleaded guilty in the
United States court at Helena to il
legally fencing public lands In Mea
CHER county, Montana, and was finet
$500 and sentenced to the county jai
for twenty-four hours by Judge Wolv
erton.
The mills at Butte Of the Montan,
zinc company, New York corpora
ton, were totally destroyed by fire
starting from defective electric wire