The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-09-19
NORTHW EST NOTES

/ week OF attempting TO bride Chief or
Police Rem Rice, of Spokane. He was
fined $3.50.
E. Z. Johnson. a Union Pacific brake
man. fell beneath box car at Carter.
Wyo., and was so badly injured that
he has since died. Johnson's home
was at Green River, Wyo.
Emmett Walsh, deputy district at
torney, has recommended to Justice
Of the Peace Henley, of Goldfeld, Ne
vada that men who beat women be
| tied to a post to be erected in public
place and labeled woman beaten" in
accordance with the provisions of an
old law which yet remains on the stat
| utes of the state.
Edward Arlotta, aged 81, was pound
ed and choked to death by another in
sane patient. Thomas j. Brown, of
Tacoma, in the hospital at Fort
| Steilacoon, Washington The men
were sleeping in the same room
| when Brown, in violent attack OF
| acute mania, attacked his sleeping
companion.
Blanche Nye Stanton. the girl wife
of Major w. A. Stanton, left the Sta
| ton home in Goldfeld last week She
alleges that her husband beat her Sc
verely recently, and threw a lamp at
her. The physician who attended her
said that her body and limbs were
bruised and her throat showed the
marks of fingers
Cecilia Weissberg, a girl of Is
years. has sued DR.. Bernheim. of Butte.
for $4,000 damages in the district
court, and charges him with assaulting
her and with "bruising her body in
divers places" on August 30, 1907. Miss
Weissberg is we'll known musician.
DR.. Bernheim is one of the citys most
prominent physicians.
The Denver Republican publishes an
interview of j. L. Welborn, president
of the Colorado Fuel e Iron COM
pany, in which he denies the story
printed and telegraphed throughout
the country. that he had resigned. Il
have not resigned and there is no prob
ability that l will resign" said MIR.
Welborn.
Joseph Case, well-known business
man of Butte, was thrown from a
horse, sustaining fracture of the
base of the brain. His condition is
critical Mr., Case was one of the ac-
tive members of the well-known dry
goods firm of Case, Gravelle & irwin
of Butte before its absorption by the
Symons company.
The twenty-first annual report of the
Denver e Rio Grande Railroad COM
pany, issued by President e. t. JEFF
ferry, shows that the income Of the
company for the fiscal year ending
June 30, 1907, was $21 ,652,420, an in
crease of $1,704,1S1, as compared with
the previous year, and the net earnings
were $S,156,929, an increase OF S574,9S6.
The Yellowstone park season is
over. This has been the greatest tour
list year in the history of the park.
The park has been visited by tnou-
sands of tourists who came in from all
directions. The travel was heavy all
summer over the Oregon Short Line,
although the road was only completed
to within twenty miles of the park.
collision in which five Japanese
were killed and five were seriously in
jured occurred at billiard, Wash. The
construction train was standing on a
siding preparing to back out when x
north-bound train ran through an
open switch. crushing the construc-
ton cars. The wreck caught fire and
three of the Japs were burned to
death.
Johnson Rose was shot in the back
by Mark Edwards at Medicine Bow,
Wyo., and was badly injured. the bull
let passing entirely through his body.
Rose and Edwards's wife were in the
back yard at the Edwards home when
the husband came upon Rose. He
ran, and Edwards fired. He had been
warned year ago to avoid meeting
Mrs. Edwards.
While attempting to cross the river
near Mountain City, Nevada, Robert
McGlnnis and his horse were caught
in a Whirlpool The horse went under,
but McGinnis tried to swim out. After
a futile effort he gave up and was
drawn down and did not rise. Peter
Indart, VINO was with him, had mar
row escape, from being drawn into the
same pool.
Suit recently instituted by the state
of Oregon against the Pacific Tele-
phone company, to compel the company
to pay a state tax of 2 per cent on its
gross earnings for the year 1906, is
resisted by the company in an answer
filed last week, the grounds being thai
the initiative and referendum law, by
means of which the tax law was put
into existence, is unconstitutional
Wheat growers in the Palouse belt.
south of Spokane, where several coun-
ties will each yield more than 100000
bushels of grain this season, have or
ganized a farmers union, for the pur-
pose of handling their product and es-
tablishing Independent warehouses to
combat the railroads.