The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-01-03
NORTH WEST NOTES

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Der of sheep 1t contains. statistics
! placing the number over five millions.
The coal production of Wyoming OF
5,5O0,OOO tons during 1906 was an in.
crease of 100000 tons over the pro.
| duction Of 1905.
Henry Headlund, the steam shovel N
engineer who lost a foot in the cogs
of the shovel at Laramie. was unable
to withstand the shock and is dead
During 1906 the principal six pro.
ducng Industries of Wyoming pro, X
duced a revenue of s55.21S,0O0, an in.
crease over their revenue of 1906 OF \
$4,379,9OO.
The wyoming 1906 wool clip was
S2.S49,759 pounds, valued at s7253.22s
The 1906 clip outweighed that of 19Os
by 1,O49,3 pounds, and outvalued 4,
by sS93,225.
The cattle industry in Montana has
been especially prosperous during the Z
present year as result of abundant Z
rains and consequent good range and (
plenty of water in both stream and 4
pool.
Last year the state of Montana had =
10000 acres in spring wheat alone,
and the average of this area was q
yield OF twenty-seven bushels per
acre and all other crops yield in pro
portion.
There are now over $4,000 miners
at work in the mines of Montana, and
during the past year there have been
but So fatal and 43 non-fatal accidents,
making a record of safe mining that Ia
hard to beat.
A meeting will be held at Rawlins,
Jnauary &c, between stockmen and A.
F. Potter of the forest service to dis.
cuss and form plans for the proper
division of the range and allotment OF
grazing permits in the future.
A wealthy rancher of Montana,
speaking of his state, says: "We
have never had such prosperous year
in our state, and there is hardly q
person who is not better off today
than he was yea ago this time"
The number of horses in Wyoming
is approximately 1899, valued at 3d.
112, 1896; the number of mules and
asses is approximately 1893, valued at
$40 .6O9; the number of swine is ap-
proximately S,62S, Valued at s44,214.
The cattle shipments from Montana
for 1906 are not yet available, but they
amounted to 267,9,6 in 1905, 25s,417
going east, 800 west, and 1,541 being
shipped to Canada In 1905 there
were in the mutton department, IA
415,479.
1t is reported tha the Northern Pa
cific will soon begin the grading OF .
cutoff which will have the main line
at or near Miles City, Mont, and fol-
lowing a course directly westward will
strike the present road not far from
Helena.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. B. Lavier, of Port
land, were struck by an inward bound
Waverly-Richmond street car near
their home. Mrs IAvier was killed
outright and her husband is at the
Good Samaritan hospital, probably
fatally injured.
T. e. Brady, a prominent Great
Falls, Mont, lawyer, has been indict-
ed by the federal grad jury in Helena
on the charge of having Illegally
fenced 1857 acres d public land in
Valley county. Brad! gave bonds for
his appearance.
Allan Thompson, aged % years. was
shot and instantly killed by his father
in-law, Riley Patton, well-knewn
rancher living near Colburn, in the
Plateau valley, east OF Grand Junction,
, Colo. Thompson was drunk and had
first threatened to Kill Patton
Mrs. Sarah Ayres was mysteriousy
nun dered on her farm near Warren,
Oregon She was shot dead while she
was sewing IN her kitchen and the
weapon with which he crime was
, committed, a ,45-calitre affair, was
, found on the floor near the body.
A terrible tragedy vas enacted in
the kitchen of the little home of Fred
! Bignami in Portland, when Giacomo
Savignana, an Italian, stabbed and
killed Julia Bignami aud probably ia
tally stabbed Mrs. Bignami's aged
mother-in.law, Mrs. Anlina Vismora
Ralph Blasdell assistant 10 Gen.
eral L1.litor Erastus Young. of the
; Union Pacific and Southern Pacific
systems, has been appointed auditor
of the Oregon Railroad and Navigation
company lines in Oregon and Wash
ington, with headquarters in Portland.