The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-03-21
NORTHWEST NOTES

| The report comes lTOlu IlhS iiNS''
wyoming, that the body of an un'
known man has been found, the man
having been frozen to death.
Joseph Smith, brakeman EN-
ployed by the Southern Pacific COM
pany at Nina, New, was run down by
his own engine at that place and in
stantly killed.
No lumber is now obtainable at
Portland, owing to the strike of saw
mill employees, and it is merely a
question of days until all building op,
erations in the city will cease.
It Is announced at the war depart
ment that the post of Fort Washakie,
in Wyoming, will be abandoned May
1 next and the reservation and build
ings turned over to the interior de-
partment for disposition.
Japanese papers received at Victor
ia B. c., by the steamer Athena, pub
lish report that fishermen took live
mermaid off Yacyma, Luchu islands,
and the mermaid was brought to Toxic
and exhibited at Yeno park.
The labor troubles at Goldfeld are
being felt by the railroad companies.
AS a result of the inability of the
people of that camp to get men to
unload their products from the cars
a blockade virtually exists on the
Tonopah & Goldfield road.
1t is stated that Edward T. TiltoL,
chief engineer of the Salt Lake Route,
will within a short time visit Meadow
Valley wash in Nevada, for the pur-
pose Of selecting a new survey de-
signed to avoid the section that has
on several occasions crippled the sys.
tenn and tied up traffic for several
weeks at time.
The twenty-year.old controversy
between the Northern Pacific Rail-
road company and Jacob and Mar
garet Slaght, over the possession of
lands in the town of Palouse, Wash,
on which are located the company's
warehouse, water tanks, etc, was
decided by the supreme court last
week favorably to the Slaghts.
holds that the trial court of Silver
Bow county exceeded its jurisdiction
in sentencing Andrew F. Graves to
the penitentiary for fourteen years on
the charge of throwing corrosive acid
in the face of woman, on the ground
that the verdict of the jury did not
show that the act was wilfuI.
Angry at his two sons, Milton and
Fred, because they built fence
when he had told them not to do SO,
e. G. Crow, farmer at Empire, Ne
vada., secured a rifle and shot both
sons, injuring them seriously. His
older son, George, was standing near,
and, grabbing another rifle, shot the
father through the head, killing him
instantly.
Frank j. Keefe. when released from
the state prison at Rawins last week,
having served four years sentence
for killing John Baxter, a Rawins
policeman, on the night of April 20.
1908, was arrested ON a warrant
charging him and his brother, viii.
liam Keefe, with the murder of Tom
King, railroad trainman, at the
same time.
The Butte members of the Inter
national Typographical union finally
voted down the proposition of the
Butte and Anaconda newspaper pub.
fishers that the compositors return To
work at last years scale, which
would mean reduction of so cents
per man per day. This leaves the
newspaper situation where it was
thirty days ago.
John Arbuckle, the New York cof.
fee king, has ordered the manager Of
his big "P. o." ranch, containing
$4,000 acres, and lying north of Chey.
enne, to sell the ranch at once. IN.
gether with the stock, which consists
OF Slz0,OOO worth of cattle and horses
as result of the governments AZ.
tion In forcing Arbuckle to tear down
iorty-fiye miles of fences erected on
government land.
Charles Kelly, longshoreman. was
shot and probably fatally wounded
early Sunday morning by two masked
men on Townsend street near Third
street San Francisco. Kelly refused
to accede to the demand of the men
to hand over Sc. 1e"
Jack Walsh, formerly railroad
conductor, shot and killed Charles
Meyers and Jack Harrington at Blair
Nevada The tragedy was the result
OF gambling row. The two men at
tackled Walsh, it is claimed, and he
shot both of them.
Miss Grace Parish, who attained he,
2'th year Saturday, committed sui
eide at the home of her parents in Los
Angeles, Sunday, during their absence