The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-12-27
NORTHWEST NOTES

which entrymen may make final resi-
dence on the Shoshone reservation,
Wyoming.
The Great Northern road made up a
train of eighty cars loaded with coal
to supply immediate wants in Grand
Forks. N. d. The train was run on
passenger time.
A bill appropriating Sl,2O0,OOO for
the -YukonPscific exposition
to be held in Seattle in 1909 was in
troduced in the house last week by
Representative Humphrey.
Fred NJ Colvn, of Chicago, was ar
rested last week on the charge of u.s.
ing the mails in an illegal manner to
further the sale of stock in minine
company located near Salida Col
David Boyce and Peter Peckin'
paugh became involved in a saloon
quarrel at Fossil Wyo.. and Peckin'
paugh was badly beaten over the
head by revolver in the hands Of
Boyce.
The Treasury department has de.
cided upon site for the location OF
the new Federal building at Denver.
The property consists of the block
pounded by Stout, Champa, Eighteenth
and Nineteenth streets.
Henry Hose, an ex-soldier, was
hanged on Friday, at Salem, Oregon,
for the murder of Madge Doyle, in
a Portland lodging house. Hose cut
the woman's throat because he feared
she was about to leave him.
Near Holcomb, Wash, in Pacific
county, two Japanese were killed and
three were so badly hurt that they
will die, by dead tree which fell
across their bunkhouse. All were em-
ployed by a lumber company.
L. ID. Snyder killed large cougar
last week on Orofino creek, about
seven miles above Orofno. This
makes the nineteenth cougar killed
by Mr. Snyder since his arrival in this
country, some seven years ago.
A. w. Stratton, a freighter be-
tween Worland and Thermopolis,
Wyo., was seriously if not fatally in
jured while making a coupling of
his wagons after crossing the river
twenty miles north of Worland
The dwelling of l.: A. Underwood
southeast of Mountain Home, was de
stroyed by fire last week. Both build
ing and contents were entirely con
sumed. 1t is believed the fire was due
TO the explosion of coa-oil lamp.
A son has been born to DR.. and
Mrs. Gerald Webb, of Colorado
Springs. Mrs. Webb is a granddaugh
ter of the late Jefferson Davis, and
the newcomer is the only great
| grandson of the confederate president.
An effort Is being made at Cody
Wyo., to organize strong CONNER
cial club, which will have for it's orb.
ject the pushing of Cody in every
possible way. A considerable sum
will be placed at its disposal for ad-
vertising in eastern magazines and
| in other manners the vast resources
of the Big Horn valley.
Thomas Booth, a well known resi-.
dent Of Butte, was held up by foot
pads and robbed of $500. Booth was
proceeding home from his place OF
business, when one highwayman
rushed up to him and plunged his
hand into Booths right hand overcoat
| pocket, grabbed the roll OF bills and
made away with it.
Pleading guilty to the charge of
horse-stealing Marion John Davis,
said to be the son of Rev. Charles
Davis of Boone county, Iowa, an ex.
| prize fighter and known as the Gen
;leman Thief" was sentenced by
Judge Cunningham, of Littleton, Colo,
! to not less than five nor more than
seven yeaGs in the penitentiary.
Oscar Carlson, proprietor of a
boarding house at Pine Bluffs, Wyo,,
shot his wife to death and then at
tempted to beat out his brains with a
hammer. Carlson was brought to the
county Jail at Cheyenne and admits
| his crime.
Bert Mcintyre, a miner, aged %
died on the 22nd of injuries received
at the hands of Frank Cruz, OF
Butte, in a saloon row. Cruz has
been arrested on charge of murder
McIntyre's mother Mrs. Dick. lives
in Wyoming.
Heavy rains and chinook winds
have caused another food in the
mountain streams near Tacoma,
Wash. The Green river is raging and
has carried out the Northern Pacific
bridge at haywood about two miles
from Green River Hot Springs.
George r. Mcclellan, who was re.
Gently elected to the Wyoming legis