The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-02-22
NORTHWEST NOTES

cost of the Reno, Nevada public build,
ing from 100000 TO $97.500.
Floyd Loomis. under sentence in tho
penitentiary for fourteen years fcr
criminal assault, has escaped from
the county Jail at Dillingham;, Wash.
The Blaine hotel at Blaine, Wash.
was Quilted by fire and many of the
seventy-five guests had difficulty in es-
Gaping.
Chiffon Bowen, convicted OF the MUIR
der of w w. Stephenson, the Washoc.
New, cattleman, In San Francisco, has
been sentenced to life Imprisonment.
A Great Northern passenger train
ran into an open switch at Mount Yer
non, Wash, the engine and several
cars being ditched. but no one was in
jured.
l.. r. Daley, who was so seriously
burned and injured in the fire in Port
land. Is dead. Daiey's death makes a
total of five fatalities resulting from
the conflagration.
Fire, caused by the end OF a broken
electric wire dropping in pot of var
nish, damaged the Colorado e. South
ern railroad shops in Denver to the
amount of 100000.
julius ]. Kuhn, Portland saloon
keeper, was shot in his place Of bust
ness by masked highwayman, being
instantly killed The murderer escaped
and there is no clue as to his identity
Bessie Horton, the thirteen-year-old
girl who was badly burned at Laramie,
Wyo.. when her clothing took fire from
oil, ignited while she was filling a
lamp, died the following morning af-
ter intense suffering.
Hop growers of Oregon at meet
ing at Portland formed a shipping pool
and will consign 5000 bales tn the
London market, together with 1850
bales that will be shipped by burst
Bros. of Wheatland, Cal
During quarrel in saloon at Bakr
err City. Ore, between Fred Neuhaus,
AZ WCli huOWh Nohtia S'cii e,hu iAShs
Swartz, a miner, Neuhaus was struck
on the nose by Swartz. hemorrhage
followed, which resulted in death
Mrs Mary Mayo, a colored woman,
aged 60, was burned to death in Spo'
kane. When discovered the house was
enveloped in flames. Youths who at
tempted to rescue the woman found
the door locked and had to kick 1t in.
Ward McNeilly, for years an officer
in Washoe county and assistant chiei
of police OF Reno. Nevada, since tho
| incorporation of Reno, Is dead. Di1
| betes and pneumonia caused the end,
| which had been expected for several
| days.
Percy X. Swan, a wealthy Tanana
valley miner, has disappeared. He left
| Seattle on January 23 for his home In
| San Francisco, via Portland, with pre-.
| srmbably 100000 in money and checks
| on his person His baggage went
| through to San Francisco all right,
| but nothing has ever been heard from
| Swan.
ne Jury III lut puPCtioh ScuAt @~
Mount Vernon. Wash, found L. ID.
| Ferguson guilty OF murder in the sec
ond degree for shooting William Pat
| terson at Mount Vernon, November 6.
| 1905. Ferguson's defense was insan-
| ity. He blamed Patterson with having
been the cause of his domestic
troubles.
| With a view OF recommending the
establishment of wireless stations at
Cape Flattery and along the Washing
ton coast, Captain Burwell. u. 8. NJ,
member of the Federal commission,
has arranged to have experienced
| operators on the Columbine while the
| members of the board are on their
tour Of inspection of the coast.
| A report is current that w. G. Meas
ham of Reno, New, owning 800 acres
north of the Prater tract, north or
Sparks and adjoining the Deer Park
tract on the northwest, has sold his
reach to the Western Pacific for
| S250,000.
d. c. Kelly has been convicted OF
murder In the second degree for Kill
ling Thomas Flemming during sa-
! loon hold-up in Portland on December
Is. Kelly was convicted through the
testimony of an accomplish named
| Rasman.
Jack Artist, postmaster at Lewiston.
Wyo,, who became violently insane re-
Gently, died last week. He had been
examined by physicians and declared
insane as the result of lesion of q
blood vessel of the brain, which also
caused his death.
| Agents have returned to Seattle from
Dayton, Wash, and report corner on
the barley market. tying up 10000
tons of barley in Columbia and Walla
Walla counties in Washington. Bar
ley is being held at an advance of SO
ton above normal rates.
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