The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-04-25
NORTHWEST NOTES

NhANt UiOullS.
H. II. Miller aged 16, was killed NJ
harper, Wyo, being struck NV tho
handle of a hand car just as be
stepped from the car
w. H. Mills, general land agent .,
the Southern Pacific company. arrived
IN Reno last week on his wav IN oar.
ny out The project of attracting set.
tiers to the irrigated lands at FaI,on
George Murphy, United States
mining engineer, was shot and fatally
wounded at Darby, Nevada, bv
man named Shafer, because Murphy
would not permit fishing at the gov.
eminent dam.
Martin Cole, a laborer, suffered an
unusual death at Forsythe, Mont.
and his companion, Otto Snyder. was
injured. The house in which thew
were sleeping had dirt roof, which
caved in on them.
Miss Jennie Il. Carroll, who died a
few days ago at the house of her sis.
ter, near Southpass City, Wyo., had
not, so far as was known to those fam.
liar with her life, spoken to man
for twenty-seven years.
James ]. Maehl, of 1852 Curtis
street, Denver, travelling salesman for
the Meet Bros. Brewing company of
that city, walked off a stone wall at
Redclife, Cal, and fell to the street
two feet below, breaking his neck.
Governor Buchtel, of Colorado, has
vetoed the anti-fussion bill passed by
the last general assembly, which made
1t unlawful for the name of any candi-
date to be placed upon the official bal
lot as the nominee of more than one
political party.
Mrs. James A. Farley, travelling all
the way from Dublin to join her hus-
band, we'll known miner, arrived in
Butte an hour and a half before he
died of pneumonia. Farley, who real
ized that his death was inevitable,
kept himself alive by the resolution
to live until his wife reached his bed
side.
Milton NJ Detch and r. l.. Colburn
have kept their promise to Mamie
Berning, of Carson, Nevada, to send
her money for her education. A
check for $1,000 was sent to the young
woman The two became acquainted
with the girl at the Arlington hotel
In Carson at the recent session Of
the legislature.
On his way home from his first ven
ture out into the world, Roy Waltz,
a 19-year old boy from Sacramento
met with an accident near Reno, Ne
vada, that will leave him cripple for
life. Overcome with drowsiness while
riding on the brake beams, his foot
dropped down across the rail and In
an instant the wheel had passed over
it.
The supreme court of Montana has
handed down a decision in the noted
case of Alice Olsen against the Mon
tana Ore Purchasing company, annul-
ling the verdict for $4,000 rendered
nv a Jury in the district court OF
Silver Bow county in favor of the
plaintiff. Olson was killed in a mine
during the fight between Heinze and
the Amalgamated.
According to word received In
Sheridan, Wyo., w. F. Britain will
not become register of the Buffalo
land office. When his name went to
the senate for confirmation it was
given as civilian" f. Britain. IL
was found afterwards that his name
is wesley" instead, and President
Roosevelt will not consent to his APP
pointment, Britain being under IN.
dictment in connection with the land
fraud cases.
In a quarrel that occurred IN a
saloon in Las Vegas, Nevada, and
which almost assumed the proportions
of a riot, John Maloney was shot
dead and two Mexicans fatally cut.
Twenty Austrians and MeXicans par
ticipated in the affair.
Joseph Bray, of Leadville, Colo''
aged 50, was found dead on his
knees at the side of his bed in the at
titude of prayer. Early in the evening
BRAY complained of not feeling well
and spoke of the possibility OF his
passing away very SOON
The Laramie Literary club has APP
pointed a committee to make inquiries
and report to the club concerning the
eenuineness of the movement to pulid
a monument in this city to Bill
Nve made by the American Press Hu-
morists association of Los Angeles
John Gerun, the desperate burglar
caught in Chicago and brought back