The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-05-10
NORTHWEST NOTES

An effort is to be made to have the
government fish hatchery for Wyom-
ing located at Laramie.
George Wilson pleaded guilty at
Spokane last week to the robbery of
of the bank of Rockford, Wash, in
December, 1905, and was sentenced to
ten years in prison.
Mary McEvily of Helena, Mont, q
pupil of Jean De Reszke. made her de.
but at Berlioz hall in Paris, one night
last week. A large American audi.
ence warmly received her.
The report is current at Butte that
f. A. Heinze will succeed w. A. Clark
as senator from Montana, Mr.. ClarH
having authorized the announcement
that he is not a candidate to succeed
himself.
After forty years service as Judge
of the United States district court oil
the district of Colorado, Judge Moses
Robert E. Lewis has been sworn In as
his successor.
Pnedale is the first Wyoming town
to announce Fourth of July celebra-
ton. The affair will begin on the Bird
and end on the 5th, with free pastur-
age and camping grounds for every
body that comes.
The Corey Bros. Construction COM
pany of Ogden has been awarded the
contract for the construction of the
grade of twenty miles of railroad, run
ming from Hazen to Fallon, on the
Southern Pacific.
Traffic Director Stubs of the South
ern Pacific system has sent word
throughout the east notifying all
agents to discourage people from
coming to San Francisco for the mere
purpose of sightseeing.
Mrs. Robert Bryant, a married wo-
man with two small children, was shot
and killed at Butte by Harry Penna,
who had been much In the company
of the woman. Penna confessed the
crime and says he was jealous of
the woman's husband.
The Shingle Mills Bureau at meet.
ing at Seattle, attended by $50 manu-
facturers, representing more than 60
per cent of the total single output of
the state, voted to close the mills for
ninety days, beginning December /,
with the exception of the combination
mills, which are to close for six weeks,
beginning December Is.
Chief Engineer F. Fl. Newell of the
government reclamation service has
informed the house committee on irri
ton that from $4,000 to 10000 acres
Of land would be irrigated at the be
ginning of the present irrigation sea-
son from the Interstate canal between
Wyoming and Nebraska. Most of this
land is in Wyoming.
Samuel H. Elliott, an Oregon pio
neer, aged rs, was burned to death
at his home near Hillsboro, Ore. He
was paralytic and It is supposed the
fire started from Goals dropped from
his pipe. His aged wife and son were
planting potatoes at the time and when
they saw the fire it was impossible to
reach him.
Rey Harris, said to be a Salt Lake
newspaper man, who was forced to
leave Bannock, Montana, an old min
ing town in Beaverhead county. after
being ducked in an irrigating ditch
and daubed with paint, for surveying
the townsite for placer claims, has
sworn out warrants for seventeen men,
who, he alleges, committed the out
rage.
A sensation has been created al
Basin, Wyo, by the arrest of Bishop
]. Jolly, head of the Mormon settle
ment in Big Horn county, numbering
over 500 members, on the charge OF
sustaining polygamous relations with
two wives.
In the Butte Miner, his own newspa
per, Senator w. A. Clark of Montana
announces officially that he is not
candidate for reelection to the United
States senate. He says he will return
to Montana to operate his interests, at
the close of his present term.
The army appropriation bill which
passed last week was amended by In.
creasing the item of $4,000 for hos
pital at Fort Russell TO $4,000, the
increase being deemed necessary by
the war department in view of making
Fort Russell brigade post.
Mrs. Helen Cody Wetmore, the sis
ter of Buffalo Bill" Cody, having sold
all her property at Duluth, Mimi, has
arrived at Cody, Wyo., and will be-
come permanent resident Mr. Cody
will return to Cody at The end of his
present European tour and remain per-
manently.
Charles r. Root, representing Swift
& Co., and w. J. Ryan, representing
the Cudahy Packing company, were ar
rested at Laramie, Wyo., last week,
charged with Violating the niira foOd