The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-12-06
NORTHWEST NOTES

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the wheels Of freight train at WIZ
cox. Wyoming and suffered injuries
which proved fatal.
The coal situation in the Yakima
valley OF Washington, is CROWNS
F, worse. The weather is colder ana
some families are suffering
According to the annual report
made public last week. the gold pro
duction of mines of the Black Hills
for the past year was s6,9S69OO,
decreased of $25O0OO.
Howard NJ. OHaver of Denver is
| dead from injuries received by being
run down by an automobile driven by
Miss Birdie Appel, young daughter
of j. S. Appel a prominent merchant
of Denver.
Nicholas De Jausserand, second as
sistant engineer of the Globe Navlga'
ton company's steamer Lureka, was
drowned at Seattle in falling from a
gang plank that led from the wharf
to the boat.
John Walker of Des Moines, Ia, ar.
rested charged with holding up and
robbing women as they alighted from
street cars in a fashionable residen
tial section, made an unsuccessful at
tempt at suicide in the city Jail.
A deal was consummated in San
Francisco last week by which Senator
George S. Nixon of Nevada and
George Wingfeld, who recently effect
ed $50,O00,0O0 merger of mines In
the Goldheld district, acquired the
Combination mines, mills and water
power in the Goldfield camp.
Mrs. Julia Thulke and her son have
been captured at Farnie, B. c., and
will be brought back to Spokane
Mrs. Thulke is accused Of obtaining
$4,000 from Charles De Neff, an old
German farmer, having persuaded
him to give her his money for safe
keeping" on the eve of their wedding
day
Word comes from British Columbia
that the Hindoos imported to work on
railroad construction are suffering in
tensely from the cold, not being pro
vided with clothing suited to this eli
mate. 1t is said several of the Hin
docs have persisted and that low TEN
perature and thin garments are the
cause.
The chief point brought out in the
trial of sidney .loane for the murder
of his father at Seattle was the ties.
timony of Charles Coleman that the
defendant was petty thief who
tapped their cash register and robbed
the slot machine in his fathers store
The defense is trying to prove mental
irresponsibility.
A gigantic mining stock swindle,
from which DR.. j. Grant Lyman, OF
New York, is declared to have real.
lied 100000 within thirty days, was
uncovered at Goldfield by the arrest
of h. H. Latimer, his secretary, and
statement made by Sheriff Bradley
that he has wired instructions to the
chief of police at Pasadena, Cal, to
apprehend Lyman.
Claude Shea, young man from
near Reno, Nevada, was taken to Og-
den last week suffering from frozen
feet. He was taken to the hospital
for medical treatment, in the hope of
saving his feet, though the physicians
who are caring for him fear the in.
juries are too serious to be able to
save them entirely.
The Harmony Lutheran church OIL
the Laramie plain, just organized,
having determined to erect a log
meeting place on the agreed site,
called for volunteers to chop and
haul the logs from the forest in the
mountain. The response was so
hearty that the congregation voted
unanimously to begin the erection of
the building without further delay.
August TRADING, one of the pioneer
merchants of Wyoming, once mem.
Der of the territorial legislature of
Wyoming, member of the board OF
county commissioners and mayor OF
Laramie, died on the Goth at his home
east of Laramie, of pneumonia
About $50 citizens of Ontario, Ore,
held up westbound freight train al
~ o'clock at night and ordered the
engineer and conductor to switch
from the train four cars of coal. The
order was obeyed and the coal famine
in Ontario for a time is settled.
Articles have been signed by rep.
resentatives of Joe Cans and Kid
Herman and the Casino Athletic club
for a finish fight for the lightweight
championship of the world, to take
place at Tonopah, Nevada, on New
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