The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-06-20
MRTHW EST NOTES

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IN premature blast at the tpnno.
NO. 2, thirteen miles south Of pnt,o
three men were instantly killed ar5
TWO were slightly injured.
Mrs John Crumley, nerress Nv
ing at Laramie, Wyo., last weel, CAV,
olr'h to her eleventh child, daurb.
ter she being but "a years old
Edward G. Becker suicided at Gold.
held, taking morphine. Becker who
was former resident of Bingham
Utah, had been drinking and became
Respondent.
Inc magnificent new building of the
Goldfield Mining stock exchange &c
open for business. The edifce Is all
stone, and would grace the main
street of any city.
David Harry, a wiper in the engine
house at Sparks, Nevada, touched a
live wire Saturday afternoon and was
instantly killed, the full current pass.
ing through his body
H. X. Mason, one of the oldest and
most trusted locomotive engineers on
the San Pedro road, lost his right eye
by the bursting of the lubricator on
the engine at Caliente, Nevada.
Harry M. Diffenbaugh, a Goldfield
mining man, has word from Washing
ton that his patent, dumping device
to do away with topmen at shafts, IL
likely to make him millionaire.
The directors of the Washington G.
Columbia River railway, meeting in
Walla Walla, the headquarters Of that
line, formally transferred the Wash.
ington & Columbia River line to the
Northern Pacific last week.
Patrick Gibbons, supposed to bc
insane, brutally assaulted Mrs. Chris
Jorgensen, aged 81, at Anaconda,
Mont. A crowd of women attempted
to lynch Gibbons and would have sue
ceeded but for the officers.
Wells Morton, prominent broker
and promoter, has been found by the
| Goldfield mining stock exchange to be
| insolyent. The failure was caused by
short interests in Jumbo Extension
| and other rising securities.
]. Ross Clark of the Salt Lake
Route states that trains should be
running into Goldfield by Sept. 1, and
that rights-of-way are being secured
through Columbia, Diamondtield and
other towns on the way to Tonopah.
While pursuing two Montana horse
thieves, Sheriff Guy and posse from
Johnson county. Wyoming, shot ant
killed one of the robbers that held III
a Northern Pacific passenger train a
WEIGH Spur recently. The other maj
escaped.
For the first time in the history O.
the Wells-Fargo Express company
anywhere, it has made a shipment Of
structural steel in carload lots by ex
press. Two carloads of iron and stee
to be used in the completion of the
new Goldfield News building wal
shipped from Reno to Goldfield by ex
press.
The Bank of Ouray Colo, mas
closed its doors. It's liabilities are
about 100000 and the creditors are
mainly small depositors. The assets
are not stated, but are said not tC
equal the liabilities. The failure was
precipitated by a run on the bank II
which depositors withdrew aDou
$4,000.
The train dispatchers of Sparks
Verdi and Reno complain that the
Southern Pacific company is not obey
ing the eight-hour law in regard &c
operators and dispatchers passed Ds
the last legislature. ard have asked
District Attorney Moran to take ac
tion against the company to enforce
| the law.
Benjamin MaxfieId, county commits
sioner of Jefferson county, Montana
was killed in an automobile accident
| Maxfield had recently bought the ma
chine and was learning to operate Il
when it overturned, crushing him t'
death.
Deputy Sheriff Ole Mosberg has ar
rived at Buffalo, Wyo, with prisoner
who is said to be the Montana tran
robber and horse thief whose compan
ion was killed recently near Sheridan
while attempting to escape from TIT
posse in pursuit.
George Trebenos, Mexican, wax
convicted at Ely, Nevada. on charge
of assaulting Robert Monnehan witl
intent to kill. On May rs last ne at
tackled MONAGHAN just after the ia''e'
nod slammed out of a saloon, seNelell