The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-11-14
NORTHW EST NOTES


Ianys yards at Portland. was killed
in a collision between two passenger
trains, caused by dense fog.
NJ. S. largey president of the State
Savings bank, of Butte which closed
it's doors short time ago, says that
i. Augustus Heinze will retire from
the bank and the bank will be reor-
ganized and will reopen in the near
future.
Official denial IL made of the state
ment telegraphed from Helena that
more than two labor organizations
had withdrawn from the Montana Fed
GRAFTON of Labor as result of the
alleged boycott campaign against the
Bell Telephone company.
The announcement was made in
Laramie Wyo., last week that when
the portion of the Oregon Short Line
between Green River and Ogden is
turned over to the Union Pacific, No
vember 49, new division will be Gre
ated from Rawlins, Wyo, to Ogden
Mrs. Mary Phillips, wife of the man
ager OF the Phillips hotel of Laramie,
acid but her daughter knocked the
bottle from her hand. preventing the
swallowing of a large dose of the acid.
Mrs. Phillips lost baby few weeks
ago, and it is believed her mind Is af-
| fected.
The State Bank e. Trust company,
of Goldfield, is meeting with opposi-
ton in it's effort to prevail upon de-
positors to sign an agreement to &C.
cept their money in installments OF 10
| per cent in three months, 20 per cent
| In six months, 20 per cent in nine
months and the balance at the end OF
a year.
Fire which for a time threatened
the destruction of the Capital brew
cry, at Helena, one of the largest es-
Establishments of its kind In the north
west. and other substantial buildings.
destroyed the coal warehouse and ice
hou. of the brewery. The loss,
which is small, Is fully covered by
| insurance.
| The Southern Pacific Railroad COM
pany is preparing plans for the erec-
ton of great electric power plant Mt
| Clark, a station sixteen miles east OF
Sparks, New. The plant will have
capacity sufficient TO supply all the
needs of the railroad terminals at
Sparks and Reno, and to furnish COM
mercial current.
| V. L. Kline, the Goldfield business
man who was shot and fatally wound
ed while in the act of stealing ANAL
gam at the Nevada Goldfield reduc-
ton works. died at the county hos
pital without recovering conscious
ness. Gipple, Kline's accomplish, is
said to have made complete confess
sion to the sheriff.
Just 1877 warrants were sworn out
on November 18th for the arrest OF
practically every saloon man in Spo-
kane, on charge OF keeping open on
Sunday in violation OF the local Sun
day closing ordinance. Only nineteen
saloons escaped The movement was
started by the Law Enforcement
league of Spokane.
One hundred men we're thrown out
of employment last week by the sud
den closing down of the Jay Gould
mine, one OF the richest properties in
Lewis and Clark county, Montana.
The action was taken on account OF
the decrease in demand for ore. The
property is owned by Chicago and
Milwaukee capitalists.
Frightened at the money situation.
c. j. Atkinson. laboring man, con-
verted his savings, 500, into gold and
deposited them in buckskin sack in
the second story of his house in Ia
coma. Fire destroyed his home and
he barely managed to get his family
out. He found two IS gold pieces I'M
burned and one $40 gold piece was
melted into lump.
The cause of mysterious explo-
sion during the fire in the pavilion in
Columbia gardens at Butte was dis
closed when the exploded case of
six-inch Cordite shell was found in
the debris. The shell had been part
of war exhibit II was fired at the
Spanish fort at Manila by Admiral
Dewey's feet May !, 1895. recovered
later by soldier in the First Mon
tana infantry and brought to Butte.
What are said to be the first suits
of the character filed in the northwest
were instituted in the Federal court
at Helena last week by United States
Attorney Rasch against the Northern
Pacific and Great Northern Railway
companies. Respectively, eighteen
and twelve violations of the safety
appliance act are alleged. and damages
in the sum of 800 in each instance
are sought. The chief grievance is
found in alleged defective coupling
apparatus.
Henry Ferguson, deputy state fish
and game warden, OF Bozeman, has
received letter containing a check
for 5000 from the Boone-Crockett club
of New York, the organization per.