The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-01-10
NORTHWEST NOTES

Northern near Ely, New, are about a
be timbered, and work to that eps
mas already been commenced.
Another carload of Utah wood wa,
received on the 7th by the GoldAeh
brokerage firm of w. f. Bond C On
and by them distributed free anon,
those most in need.
Wages of coal miners in Southsr
Colorado districts were advanced IA
per cent on the 1st. Over 6.0M
men are benefited. The increas.
amounts to 100000 year.
1t is probable that through sleeps
service between Ryholite and La
AngelNs will be inaugurated abor
February by the Salt Lake route a
the Las Vegas & Tonopah road.
The Sunset Telephone company
San Francisco has announced Its n
tention to install a six-wire longdis
tance service between San FrancisU
and Goldfield, Tonopah and Manhat
tan.
Hon. Thomas NJ. Bowen, former,
United States senator from Colorado
died at Pueblo, Colo, on the 3Oth
aged II. He was prominent in state
politics for many years as a repub
lican.
The dead body of Peter Bloom, an
eccentric citizen of Carbon, Wyo.
was found in his cabin by neghbors
he having been dead several days
before the fact was discovered BY
neighbors.
A free-for-all-fght among several
loggers of the Hoods canal steamship
Perdita, which occurred off Hage
Point, fifty miles from Seattle, result
ed in the death of Jack Phillips, a log.
ger. 4S years of age.
Contrary to the usual practice, no
inaugural ball was held at the usual
time in Wyoming this year. but dur
ing the session of the legislature a
grand ball will be given for the legis
lators and their wives.
The high school building at North
Yakima, Wash. including its fine
library of 1000 volumes, was de-
stroyed by fire, which is presumed to
have originated from the furnace
LOSS, $25,OO0; insurance, $4,000.
James Crusoe, engineer, and John
Storrs, conductor. were instantly
killed at Muir, Mont, in collision
between a Northern Pacific freight
and light engine. Both men were
in the caboose of the freight, which
was run into by the light engine on
the steep mountain grade at that
point.
The coal mines at Bear Greek,
Mont, have closed, owing to a failure
Of the owners and coal miners to
agree upon a scale. The men de.
mand 81 per ton, mine run, and the
owners offered rs cents. The shut
down will affect more than 100 men
The output of the camp was about SOC
tons daily.
Judge Shortall, in the San Francis
CO police court, imposed a fine Of SIC
on Mrs. Olivette Parrie Of San Jose
who sought the life of George Wing
field, the Nevada millionaire, at the
st. Francis hotel, claiming to be his
common law wife: The fine was paid
Mrs. Barrie was charged with disturb
ing the peace.
An old man has been arrested al
Clancy, Mont, on suspicion of having
shot Arpin and Doliver, two Helena tel
egraphers, a year ago and of dyna
hitting the Harris quarry at Montana
City, and Chestnuts store at Clancy
and recently of having shot another
Helena man. He will be examined al
to his sanity.
The Silver Bow county (Montana
bar association at a meeting unani
mously decided on general increas,
in legal fees all along the line. from
, $25 to SIS being added to the price
for services formerly asked. The al
torneys state that the increased cos
!, OF living has made the raise or thei
scale imperative.
, Three prominent mining engineer
: in the employ of the WingfieldNixo
, Consolidated Mines merger, were al
rested at Goldfield on the charge c
forcibly entering a miners cabin ant
after searching the premises, robbin
him of S2625 The suppoSitiOn anon
miners is that they were searchin
for stolen high grade ore.
Ben Selig, acting for Joe Cans, an
M. M. Riley, on behalf of the Casin
Athletic club, of Tonopah, New, hav
signed articles for finish fight b'
tween Cans and Jimmy Britt. Th
purse is to be $4,000, 60 per cent t
the winner and 40 per cent to tn
loser. The weight is to be 133 pound