The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-12-26
NORTHWEST NOTES

Nevada, may be reopened within the
next few months.
Negotiations between the labor
unions of Butte and the Rocky Noun
tain Bell Telephone company are APP
parently off, the situation indicating a
struggle to finish.
The break in the transmission wires
of the Nevada Power company, which
threw Goldfeld into darkness, and
which was charged to the striking
miners, 1t now develops was caused
by a snowslide.
General Funston has ordered gen.
eral courtmartial to convene at Gold
field. This order would indicate, say
army men, that the troops now on duty
at that place would be held there for
some time to come.
Judge Bourquin of the state district
court at Butte instructed the jury to
acquit A. B. Clements, cashier of the
failed Aetna bank, on felony charge
growing out of the alleged receipt of
deposits when he knew the bank was
insolvent.
A dispatch from Denver says that
James r. Barber and Summer G.
Moon, the millionaire lumbermen OF
Eau Claire, Wis, indicted with Sen.
ator Borah for alleged conspiracy in
land frauds, may be taken to Idaho
for trial.
Colonel William Crooks, assistant
to the general manager of the Harri.
man lines in the Pacific northwest,
died in Portland on the 18th of com.
plications growing out of cold con-
tracted about six weeks ago. He was
76 years old.
The supreme court of Montana has
granted writ of habeas corpus in
the case of G. s. f. Wisner, an Ana
conda bank employee, who had been
convicted on the charge of receiving
deposits when he knew his principal
to be insolvent.
The Smelter City bank of Durango,
Colo, a state institution, capital $780,.
600, has closed its doors. Lack of con.
fidence, due, it is said, to the indict,
ments of prominent citizens on the
Cudl Bco vi lduu lTduuS uuueT tue leu
eral laws, led to the suspension.
o. c. Dallas, chief clerk, and J. d.
Mcleod, at the head of the survey de.
partment in the Office of United States
surveyor general in Helena, have been
arrested. The indictment alleges for.
gerry and conspiracy to defraud the
government of the United States.
The state board Of pardons of Mon
tana has approved the action Of Gov.
ernor Tooele in granting pardon to
Elizabeth Morrison, Butte woman,
who, upon conviction on man.
slaughter charge for the killing Of
Richard Finnegan, had been SEN
fenced to the penitentiary for three
years.
The Hamilton Powder company's
works blew up Sunday morning at De.
parture Bay B. G. The loss is $4,000.
No one was killed or injured. In Van.
couver, thirty-five miles away, houses
were shaken so badly that it was be.
lieved an earthquake had occurred and
many persons rushed to the street in
alarm.
Pelia Di Ria was arrested at Sc
attic, together with two discharged
employees of the Seattle Electric
company, charged with a conspiracy
to take the life of Tony Restove, fore
man of construction work for the Sc
attic Electric company. who dis
charged the men for incompetency
from the construction gang.
In an address issued by the exec
utive committee of the Western Fed
Grafton of Miners, labor union mer
are urged to rally to the defense Of
officers and members of the federation
charged with the murder of former
Governor Steunenberg of Idaho, ant
other crimes, and of the Goldfielt
miners who are on strike.
Michael c. Carroll, pioneer guide
died at his home in Laramie, Wyo.
last week. He selected the site fol
Fort Sanders, three miles south Of
Laramie, in 1866, when the Union Pa
cific railroad was being built, ant
acted as mediator with the Indians
going unarmed to meet Chief Friday
who was on the warpath, and prevent
ing slaughter Of whites.
In an opinion rendered last week
Attorney General Albert j. Caller
ruled that Christmas songs cannot be
barred from the public schools OF
Montana on the ground that "suct
use constitutes denominational or sec
tartan teachings" The decision was
made at the request of the state su
perintendent of public instruction.
James r. Kirwan, who had beef
acting secretary-treasurer of the West
ern Federation of Miners, rendered hi
resignation last week, on account o
i'll health, and Ernest Mills, membe
of the executive board from British
Columbia, assumed the duties of tina
office.
Martin O'Brien, prominent lawye