The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-08-22
NORTH W EST NOTES

Three masked men held up sa.
loon in silverton, Colo. and got away
with about $4,000. The robbery oc'
cured at 2:3O in the morning.
The first wreck on the Soo-Spokane,
n C. Corbins new line, occurred on
the 18th. near Mcleod, b. c. Two
men were killed, The eastbouud
train was derailed
Machinists of the Northern Pacific
and Great Northern roads are threat
ening to strike unless their griev-
ances are adjusted. Should they walk
ont the tie.up of the system VIII be
general.
The Laramie, Hahn's Peak Pa
cific railroad is now operating trains
between Laramie and Centennial
Trains are operated by telephone, the
company not having yet adopted a
telegraph system.
Miss Mamie Edwards, of Rosebud,
Nevada. has been awarded possession
of a cat now held by Miss Carrie Rus
sell, provided she pays 5000 costs OF
the law suit The case has made much
fun in the camp.
]. w. Bolter, a former San Fran
cisco undertaken, blew out his brains
in the presence of his wife in Port
land He lost his property in the San
Francisco fire and since then had
been pursued by misfortune.
John Quinn, millionaire gambler Of
Reno Nevada has made will leaV'
ing his entire estate to James May,
boy of eight Quinn is fifty-eight
and. the fortune is to become the
child's when he reaches mans estate.
Some of the best fish caught In
Wyoming this year have been taken
from the lakes high up on the snowy
range of mountains in western Al
bany county, at an elevation of from
10000 to $4,000 feet above sea level.
These lakes are full of trout.
Because the master plumbers of
Goldfield refused to grant the union
plumbers a raise from SIS to SO per
day the plumbers have declared a
strike and plumbing work on many
large buildings in course of construc-
ton in the city has been stopped.
Laborers in Seattle are living on the
of railroad lines building into the
northwest bidding against one another
to obtain the services of worllingmen,
common labor is quoted at So per day
with promise of steady employment.
]. NJ. Mahoney, a farm hand en-
ployed on a ranch near Laramie,
Wyo., and who was a member of
Quantrells band of guerillas during
the Civil war, declares that he be-
lieves Quantrell is still alive He ex-
presses the belief that the body buried
in Kentucky as Quantrell's was some
other man.
Rhyolite, Nevada, is now a town,
having been incorporated under the
laws of Nevada as the second in Nye
county. c. l.. Splain has been made
chief of police and Harry O'Brien
chief of the fire department. Round
Mountain and Manhattan are other
! communities in Nye county that soon
will become towns.
Fifty-three striking steel layers on
the Las Vegas & Tonopah railroad
were arrested by four deputies at
Bonnie Glare, forty-fye miles north
of Rhyolite, and lodged in the jail at
Rhyolite. The strikers are Austrians,
and 1t is believed to be the largest
body of men ever included in an ar.
rest made in Nevada.
After thirty years spent in searching
for his two children, who had been
taken from his home by their mother
thirty-three years ago, NJ. l., Fauver OF
Boyd county, Nebraska, has located
them in Whitman county, Wash, and
is now visiting his son, Arthur Fauver,
well known farmer two and a half
miles south of Palouse.
1t is announced that as a result of
the voting in the Butte Miners union
the union has adopted all the amend.
ments to the constitution of the West
ern Federation of Miners, but voted
| down the resolution for a convention
IN Chicago, October /, to reunite the
warning divisions of the Industrial
Workers Of the World.
A Greek section laborer fell from
handcar at Howell, Wyo., sustaining
a eoncussion of the brain. When his
companion brought him to Laramie
to be treated it was found that ne was
totally blind from the accident and
unable to distinguish light from dark.
ness The case is unusual. as the ac.
eident seemingly was not of much
importance until the blindness was
4 noted. ""'
Roy Musser, an employee at the
rolling mills at Laramie. rested his
lett hand on a bolt-heading machine
while ne drank a cupful of water
handed him by companion. and the
ends Of two OF his fingers were ninnnJ
on by the squaring dies of the ma.
chine. ma
Senator 7. l., Oddie of Tonopah and
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