The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-10-10
NORTH EST NOTES

ing an unsuccessful attempt
Herbert r. Morton, an Australian
millionaire. slipped on the steps OF
the Vancouver. Il. c., opera house ana
fractured his skull and will probably
die.
Because an engineer and brake
man were found taking drink in a
saloon AT Tonopah and discharged tho
trainmeu on the Tonopah & Goldheld
railroad went on strike tying up the
system
The laying of steel on the Borie-
Athol Hill cutoff of the Wyoming
division of the Union Pacific was COM
menced last week The intention of
the company is to place the line in
commission about the first OF the year,
A reunion of the hand-cart veterans
was held in Salt Lake City last week,
when several hundred of the veterans
who crossed the plains to Utah in the
hand.cart brigades listened to pro-
gram consisting of speeches and must
cal numbers.
General Superintendent Stewart or
the Laramie, Hahns Peak Il Pacific
Railway company announces that the
extension of the line from Centennial
to Walden and to the coal fields OF
North Park will be completed within
the next year,
All the hotels in Laramie, Wyo.,
which have been charging 25 cents
for meals have entered into an agree
ment to increase tAe price TO 35 cents.
due, 1t is claimed, to the increased
cost of provisions and expenses OF
serving meals.
II. b. Perham, national president OF
the Order of Railway Photographers.
arrived in Denver last week to take
personal charge of the grievance OF
the telegraphers against the Denver Il
Rio Grande railroad, acting as adviser
20 the committee.
Al Meyers, the millionaire mining
man of Goldfeld and Los Angeles. Is
credited with having lost close to $780,
900 at roulette at Goldfleld the past
few days Meyers dropped 100000 in
one play at the Northern, and various
smaller sums at other houses
p. II. Cook, charged with stealing a
not related, but who befriended him,
pleaded guilty in the district court at
Laramie, Wyo., and was sentenced to
eighteen months in the penitentiary.
Cook was arrested in New Mexico.
Because he failed to heed signs for
bidding the hunting Of ducks. Chris
Stanisich, a 19-year-old Servian boy,
was shot and instantly killed by Sofus
Nelson at the Mac White ranch, four
miles south OF Butte. Hunters who
witnessed the shooting declared the
killing to be unprovoked and very cow
srdly,
A large American eagle rested on a
live electric wire passing through the
Davis ranch at Bakersfield, CAL, and
was slowly roasted. When 1t fell to
the stubble field below, mass OF
burning feathers. 1t started blaze
which burned over 1000 acres Of
grain and stubbe before it was con.
quered,
Hon. Eli Crumrine of Laramie, Wa,
state senator from Albany county,
has written a letter to Senator Phil.
ander c. Knox of Pennsylvania, con.
graduating him upon havirs been
mentioned as a possible Republican
; candidate for president next year ana
assuring him his support in case he
is nominated.
T. The Topeka Copper company, hav'
3 ing one of the most promising claims
3 In the Centennial mining district. in
a Wyoming, assays from the ores OF
e which have shown value OF $3.50 III
gold to the ton, is sacking 100 sacks OF
ore to be sent to a smelter at Denver
for treatment to determine the future
of the property
Two hundred and fifty members OF
= the National Wholesale Druggist asso-
citation were In attendance when Pres
ident John b. Carey called the con.
vention to order in Denver last week.
Among the most important questions
4 discussed were the effect of the ma
tional pure food law as applied to
drugs and proprietary medicines,
:, Jacques Laramie chapter, Daugh
y tiers of the American Revolution
which last year offered prize
of SO for the best essay on
THE Overland Trail" has offered an
other prize of the same amount fol
| the best essay by student of the
r University of Wyoming on The Re
e lation of Fort Laramie to Pioneer
Is Wyoming.
! AS the result of Investigations by ID
W r. Babcock a special agent of thu
Z United States treasury department
Il sent to Vancouver when the anti.Jap
anese riots occurred. force of fed
eral officials will be installed at tn
international boundary line to Ree
a. back the scores of Japanese who ar
ID daily crossing the border into tn
nj United States
81 Merton tombstone, an electrician. 2
- years old was electrocuted severe
III miles southeast of Butte. and fell froI
the pole to the ground almost besid