The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-07-11
NORTHWEST NOTES

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is for gambling permits.
Arch Neil, who came to Laporte.
Ind, from Wyoming to construct a
railway bridge, was overcome while
working in the sun on the Srd and
| died In Ave minutes.
Estimates have been made for new
double track on the Union Pacific In
| Wyoming, which will extend from
Hanna to Rawlins, a distance of forty
miles, and Rock Springs to Green
River sixteen miles.
Four women saved the Wheatiand
dam, impounding the largest artificial
body OF water In Wyoming. from de-
struction. working all night trying to
repair leak In the dam while mes
senger was summoning help.
| According to the wool buyers now
In Lewiston. Mont. 100000 pounds,
or two.thirds of the entire clip OF
the state. has already been disposed
of on contract, giving rise to an un-
precendented situation in many re.
| spects.
The remains of Wallace G. Stone. an
engineer, were found 'strewed along
the Great Northern track at Belling-
ham. II is supposed he was caught
on the Whatcom creek viaduct and
| ground to pieces by n train during the
night.
Clessen G. Wolcott, the veteran
Union Pacific conductor, died at his
home at Cheyenne. Wyo.. on June
80. For over quarter Of a century
the deceased has been an employee OF
the Union Pacific and resident at
Cheyenne.
Upon complaint filed by officers Of
the Little Florence lease ON the
| Florence mine officers have seized 300
pounds of cyanide solution found at
the Smith Assay and Reduction
Works in Goldneld The solution is
worth about $4,000.
A special from Baker City, Ore.
tells of the killing Of Jack Hamilton
| by his divorced wife. In quarrel
over fence, blown down in storm,
Hamilton struck the woman, who
drew a revolver and shot him dead.
The Hamilton's lived at Pleasant Val
ley, twenty-five miles from Baker
City. 3
Passengers on the steamship Olym-
pia, which arrived In Seattle on the
7th from Nome, bring word that the
miners in that district are organizing
to resist 81 day reduction in their
wages. Operators at Nome have been
paying S. day with board, and now
wish to pay $4 with board A strike
Is expected.
All the telephone girls OF the Rocky
Mountain Bell Telephone company In
Butte went out on strike Sunday
afternoon in sympathy with the strik-
Ing linemen of Utah. Wyoming and
Idaho, the end of a ten days truce ar
irving that afternoon and the COM
pany having reached no understanding
with the linemen.
The 14-year-old son of John Bow
man. who lives in hovel made Of
old canvas and boards, in an Isolated
spot in Reno, Nevada. died from star
walton. There had been no food In
the shack for three days when the
lad died, and Bowman, his wife and
their two surviving children were all
to III even to beg.
The comstock mines of Virginia
City. Nevada, have produced more
than $650,00o,000. Other great pro-
duclng camps are Austin, ss2 900, 900;
Phoebe, sS0,OO0,00 Eureka, $4,000
900; Mountain City $62.O00.0O0; Tus-
carora. $4S,000.000; Candelaria, $751;
100000; De La Mar, $20,00000. and
others aggregating over $l00,000,000
more.
| AS the result of drunken row at
Aldrich, Mont, John Ferry was shot
to death and George Roberts was SO
| severely cut that he cannot live. Six
men employed by the Montana Coal
and Coke company at Electric and Al
drich have been arrested, charged with
the crime. The killing was the out
come of a quarrel during the 4th df
July celebration
Jake Terry, known as Terribly Ter
ry' ex-convict. smuggler and train
robber, fugitive from justice in the
United States, was shot and instantly
killed by A. l.. Lindley, at Sumas. a
border town thirty miles north of Bel
bingham, Wash. For Years Terry has
terrorized the authorities on both
/ sides of the line, committing many
crimes and defying arrest.
According to statement made by
State Veterinary Pfaeging, the loss of
sheep In Wyoming due to grubs in the
head has reached 10000, and no effec.
tive method of stopping the ravages
of the insects has yet been discovered.
The state authorities have called upon
the Bureau OF Animal Industry to put
government experts in the field for the
purpose of fighting the pest.
Six lives were lost Saturday after
noon, says Seattle dispatch. when
the Hudson Bay steamer Mount Royal
was wrecked on the rocks In Kitselas
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