The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-11-08
NORTHW EST NOTES

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that $4,000 has already been raised
THE citizens of Tacoma, Wash,
.aised one hundred and fifty thousand
dollars in a thirty-day canvass for the
new Y. M. c. A. building, the first
coast city to do so.
7 p. Howe. the veteran coast the'
,trical manager, has associated with
MIN Fred ]. Eitel and Hans Peterson
Tor the erection of fourteen story
,heater building in Seattle.
Two passenger trains on the Union
Pacific railroad, collided head-on at
Ridge. west of Medicine Bow, Wyo.,
and the engines were demolished, but
40 passengers were injured
buffalo Bill' and his party have
arrived safely at the "T. f." ranch, IL
miles from Cody, Wyo All OF the
party are in good health and report
fair success in the hunt for big game.
Three enlisted men of the battleship
Wisconsin are dead at Seattle, and
two are seriously injured as the re-
suit of a drunken debauch in which
bay rum was the liquor that was con-
sumed.
In battle near Kennewick, Wash,
between a posse and Robert Barker,
an 1S-year-old desperado, four men
we're killed. Barker finally surren.
dered and was taken to Prosser to pre-
vent lynching.
Henry Phillips, aged Ga, an old time
resident of Butte, committed suicide
by cutting his throat from ear to ear.
Phillips had become respondent as
the result of inability to secure relief
from Bright's disease.
In violent fit of coughing shortly
before his death at st. Vincent's hos
pital, Portland, H. l.. Mills of Hubbard
an Oregon pioneer of 1875 and
nephew of General Robert e. Lee, com
mander of the Confederate army.
raised from his lungs a buckshot that
he carried In his body ever since the
civil war.
Joe Cans, lightweight champion OF
the world met kid" Hermann, of Chi.
cago, in Cincinnati, on the 3rd, and
signed articles to fight twenty rounds,
or to finish, as the club may desire.
on New Years day, before the Tono-
pah, Nevada, Athletic club. The purse
| is to be 5000. winner to get 60 and
loser 40 per cent.
| John Welch, of Reno, Nevada, who
has been prospecting in the Walker
| Lake mining district, was shot and
seriously wounded by James Hale, his
companion, while driving from Haw
thorne to Thorne. The bullet entered
| Welchs back and it is feared that he
will de- Hale claims the shooting
| was accidental.
A statement issued by the reclama.
ton service shows that the national
amounted to $32,95S,192, of which s4,.
s82,0S4 was contributed last year.
North Dakota leads, having contributed
s5OS,S66; Utah, $70,211; Wyoming.
s234,744; New Mexico, $2O2,$15; Mon,
tana, S500.746, and Idaho 1901, ,234.
Jefferson F. Howell is the latest OF
several prospectors who from time tc
time have believed they have found
the site of the old Breyfogle gold
mine in southeastern California OF
southwestern Nevada. To substantiate
ais claim Howell has float that is al.
most pure gold and identical in ap
pearance with samples displayed by
Breyfogle.
Man Hop, one of Seattle's largest
Chinese merchants, declares that the
Chinese associations in Seattle and
Portland are gathering evidence prior
20 the sending of formal demand to
the Chinese legation at Washing for
The removal from Office of Moy Back.
hin, Chinese consul at Portland, who
has the district composed of Oregon.
Washington, Idaho and Montana.
scores of horses that made the race
from Hawthorne and down the noun.
tain sides to the Walker Lake reser-
vation in Nevada, were shot and killed
the following morning to end their
suffering 1t was found that the ami.
mails had been entirely untitled for flu.
ture work, having either been crippled
IN the run over the rocky country or
having had their lungs permanently
weakened
Mrs F. w, Esgate, living near Coeur
fAlene, Idaho, placed a gun outside
The house in readiness to kill a coyote
that was lurking near and went into
the house. When the coyote again an.
peared she called her husband who
was digging potatoes in the field.
Meanwhile she went into the cellar |