The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-03-14
NOR RTHW EST NOTES


accentuated on the 5th by a walk
out of drivers and transfer wag CONS
The men demand an increase from
SO to $3.50 per day.
F. II. Newell, chief engineer of the
government reclamation service, has
been selected to succeed Charles d.
Walcott as directors of the United
States geological survey.
Four of the largest sawmills in
Portland have shut down and will
make no further efforts to keep in
operation until a settlement of the
wage dispute with their employees is
settled. Fifteen hundred men are af-
fected so far.
Montana has new gambling law.
| The measure is one of the strictest
imaginable, and holds players, own
ers of the buildings, proprietors OF
the games and peace officials equally
responsible for the violations, which
are made felonies.
Nevada is to have a Mormon colo
n.y. according to the statements of the
Reno Gazette. A deal has just been
closed whereby the Mormon church
has secured control of tract of 49,.
900 acres of land In White Pine
county, which will be used as a place
of settlement by members Of the
church.
Governor Sparks, of Nevada, has
signed the bill giving him the power
to appoint three railroad commission.
sion is empowered to regulate rail.
road rates and to hear and inquire
into railroad abuse complaints. There
has been very bitter fight against
the measure by the railroads.
Maria Becker. apparently crazed by
the tedium of a journey across the
continent, leaped from car window
of New Central express train near
Yosts, n. Y. Her dead body was found
upon the ice of the Mohawk river,
where it had rolled down steep EN-.
bankment. 1t is said she came from
Chehalis, Wash
Lumbermen in the Puget Sound re-
gion have complained to the inter.
state commerce commission that they
have been unable since January to
obtain transportation of their pro
ducts to eastern points because of
the stated inability of the Great
Northern and Northern Pacific rail-
roads to handle the traffic.
The stereotypers and pressmen of
Butte being willing to return to work
at the wage scale prevailing before
the last raise, only the printers now
stand between the local dailies and
settlement. But concessions on either
side are still improbable, and despite
rumors to the contrary, an rapproche-
ment is not Immediately at hand.
The Anaconda Copper company has
cut the big Anaconda vein at a depth
of 2,400 feet in the Never Sweat mine,
the same depth at which it was cut
about year ago in the Anaconda
mine. The ore body is about the
same width, about 60 feet and 40
feet Is nearly all copper glance, run
ming about 60 per cent copper.
While Antoine Meyer and his son
were working for the county on the
Zillah road, two miles from North
Yakima, Wash, they uncovered the
body of young woman buried by the
roadside. The woman had been dead
for year She had brown hair, gold
filling in her teeth and a brown dress
of woolen material. The skull was
crushed
1t Is announced that Ole Elliot,
Southern Nevada mining magnate,
was in Reno last week for the pur-
pose OF closing deal by which he
will enter with his associates into
the complete control of the coal lob
bling business of the state and that
the consolidation of the deal involves
an outlay of $25O,OOO on .s.s part of
the daring Goldfield Spectator.
The letter carriers of Butte, Mont.
who resigned in body because of
the small compensation paid by the
government, now desire to remain in
the service. A telegram has been re-
ceived by the postmaster general say
ing that in view of the legislation
providing for graded increases for
postoffice employees, they would with
draw their designations.
Northern Wyoming is again threat
ened with a range war between the
cattle and sheepmen, Closely follow
ing on the attack on the Wisner camp
in which 400 head of sheep were killed
and the camp burned, comes the re.
port of a greater outrage in owl
Creek country. The Hugh Dickey
sheep camp was attacked by a band
or twelve masked man uyho 1,iIIol