The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-12-05
NORTHWEST NOTES

The motion to quash the new cases
filed against Kemp V. Bigelow, who
sent bombs to number Of prominent
Denver men, argued before Judge
Bliss, was refused.
Fire, started by the overturning OF
a lamp in the barber shop of William
James, caused the destruction of
Granite, small town twenty miles
east Of Leadville. Colo.
William Goodrich, who was caught
in cavern In the Sandstone mine at
Goldfield, Nevada, was taken out life
| less few hours later by companions
who came to the rescue. He had
been buried under twenty-five feet of
rock
Representative Mondell OF wyoming
| will be appointed chairman of the
| public lands committee TO succeed
| Mr.. Lacey of Iowa, who was defeated
| for reelection. He has been oppos-
ing the public land policy of the adj
| ministration.
John Thode, one Of the Oldest and
wealthiest cattlemen In the state, died
at Rawlins, Wyo., last week. In
1874 Thode worked as section fore.
man for the Union Pacific at Carbon,
Afterward lie organized the Thode
Cattle company.
Two men were killed and one ia
tally injured in a premature explosion
on the line of the Portland & Seattle
, railway, two miles west of Spokane
| Joe Balick and Mike Match. both Aus
TRANS, were instantly killed, and
Mike Opyr was fatally injured.
Frank Kuchers, aged 60 years,
| prominent wholesale leather dealer
OF Tacoma. fired bullet into his
| was at breakfast He was despond
ent from illness, having suffered for
a long time with kidney trouble.
Holding that the punishment i'm.
posed by the jury when it found
George Melville guilty of second de
gree murder for the killing of Win.
| field Guthrie, near Helena last July,
to be excessive, District Judge Gle.
ments reduced the penalty from fifty
| to twenty-five years in the state
| penitentiary.
|
that construction work on the Harri.
man system which was discontinued
when the present financial furry be
| gan, will be resumed along the line
on December /, including the Lane
| cutoff, near Omaha, which was with.
In few days of completion at the
| time of shut down.
Upwards of twenty postmasters OF
| the presidential class In Montana met
in Helena last week at the instiga-
ton of the postmasters of Butte, Hell
ena and Great Falls, to discuss the
| general situation and especially the
| situation relative to increased sal
aries to offset the advanced cost of
| living in recent years.
Mayor Hickok, of Saratoga, Wyo.,
| is suffering from severe wound sus.
tanned while trying to replace stove
| pipe which had fallen out of the
| chimney, and which was endangering
the house Mayor Hickok is cousin
| of the late "Wild Bill' Hickok, one OF
| the best known of the bad men of
| former days in Wyoming.
The body of former Lieutenant
Governor Beall, who in the early days
was shot and killed by George w,
| Pinney, United States marshal and
editor of the Post, has been found by
| Grand Army comrades after an inter
mittent search, extending over
| number of years. and buried in Forest
Valley cemetery at Helena.
| The board of education of the Lar
annie school district has begun the
enforcement of the compulsory edu'
legislature, and which provides that
| all children between the ages of Z
and Ia years. inclusive. shall be re-
| quired to attend some public. private
| or parochial school each school year
After conference held in Butte,
the committee appointed by the Butte
Central Labor council and the Build.
Ing Trades council, and ID. S. Murray.
| general manager of the Rocky Noun.
tain Bell Telephone company, failed
to come to an agreement. and the
strike between the telephone com
pany and the employees will continue.
Eza Meeker. who has accomplished
a 3,000-mile trip over the old Oregon
trail behind yoke of oxen, called on
President Roosevelt last week and
made plea to have the Oregon trail
/ made national highway. The presi.
dent listened with interest, but sug.
| gested that, II done, the project would
have to be on commercial rather
than on a sentimental basis.
John Pollard, charged with criminal
assault on the 13-year-old niece of his
wife, narrowly escaped lynching by
an angry mob at Anaconda. Mont
While being taken to the county Jail
at Mount Vernon, Pollard broke away
from the sheriff at Burlington juno.
ton and threw himself in front of an
approaching train, being horribly
mangled.
Guided by the advice of an aged
woman, who claims to be a seeress,
Leon Thomas and Tommy Freites,
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