The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-12-19
NORTHWEST NOTES


ter reaching the hospital. A charge
of murder will be lodged against
Wynne.
The First National bank OF Sara
toga, Wyoming, has been authorized
to begin business with $4,000 capital.
/. Z. Miller is president and Gustave
Jensen cashier.
Judge Wolverton, in the federal
court at Portland. removed George H.
Hill as receiver of the Title Guaran.
tee and Trust company, and appointed
X. c. Mears. cashier of the Bankers
and Lumbermen's bank, to succeed
him.
]. Holman Buck, the editor of the
Nina, Nevada, Miner, who shot and
killed Francis l.. Burton at that place,
has been released from custody by
order of the district attorney, al.
though the coroner's jury failed to ex-
onerate him.
A new coal company which Inns be-
gun development work on their prop
erty in the Rock Springs section Of
Wyoming, has spent 100000 in de-
velopment work the past summer, and
reports that nine splendid veins have
been uncovered.
In the explosion of the engine of a
Northern Pacific freight train near
Bozeman, Mont, Fireman John WEIGH
was instantly killed and Head Brake
man Veyno seriously injured. Veyno
was hurled 100 feet from the engine,
and is probably fatally hurt.
In the United States court at Car
son City, Nevada, Senator Williams
and his brother, George B. Williams,
indicted for illegally appropriating
government land, through their attor-
ney entered plea of guilty to the
five indictments against them.
Twenty-three new freight engines,
purchased this month by the Salt Lake
Route, announcement of which was
made by former United States Senator
w. A. Clark, president of the line, re.
Gently, will be delivered to the COM
pany within the next three weeks.
Believing that the investigation by
the officers of the interior department
into the charges of graft against GER
tain officials in connection with the
Grow Indian reservation, Montana, was
Helena has ordered the federal grand
jury to conduct complete probing of
the allegations.
The sleeping apartment of Mrs. Jas.
A. Wood, wife of the A. Y. p. commits
sioner general to the jamestown ex-
position, was entered at Seattle by
burglars, who, after striking Mrs.
Wood over the head with q revolver
and threatening death If she inter-
fered, robbed her of several valuable
pieces of jewelry.
The unusual height Of the breakers
at Santa Cruz, California, resulted In
the drowning of John Day of Globe,
Arizona, an engineer on the Gila Val
ley railroad. He was visiting Santa
Cruz, accompanied by his niece, and
was fishing from Treasurer pier. The
breakers washed him off and he was
drowned before help could reach him.
Five hundred men, members of the
Butte Miners union, seized miner
at work on the new Bell telephone
building as carpenter and escorted
him to their hail. Later the man dis
appeared. At one time riot seemed
imminent. The Bell company had
been boycotted by union labor in Mon
tana because of the strike of linemen
and operators, begun last March.
The Colorado State bank of Duran.
60, Colo, has suspended business
pending reorganization. 1t holds de.
posits of 100000 and its capital is
$4,000. The officials of the bank is.
sued a statement in which they as
sert that the assets Of the bank are
entirely unimpaired and depositors
will be paid in full.
VIM. Burner, longshoreman, dis
covered by his wife ON the street in
Portland in company Of another wo-
woman, Immediately drew revol
yer and shot himself. The woman, a
Mrs. De Reign, grasped the revolver
| from Burner and attempted to shoot
herself, but was disarmed by police
man.
The Cherokee.Nevada Copper com
| pany has levied an assessment of two
cents per share for the purpose of en-
aiding the management to proceed
soon after the first of the year with
development work. The Cherokee
Nevada company was formed during
the current season, the ground being
located in Nevada close to the Sar
Pedro railroad line.
Charges on all freight to Goldield
New, must be prepaid by the shipper
Notice to this effect was given by the
Salt Lake route to patrons in a cir
cular issued last week. Unsettled
financial conditions at Goldheld are
1t is explained, the cause of the or
der.
James Brennan, Buffalo Peal
ranchman, who is wanted at Cripple
Creek for alleged cattle stealing
fought running rife battle with
| sheriff's posse near Granite Colorado