The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-10-31
NORTHWEST NOTES

DR. r r. Cross of Oregon. a promi-
nent dentist and for many years
resident OF the isthmus. committed
suicide at Panama on October "a.
Harry w Logan, railway engi.
neer, was shot and fatally wounded
by masked highwayman In Portland
No clue to the murderer has been dis
covered.
Two persons are known to have
been killed and one seriously injured
as the result of the explosion of the
oil burners on the river steamer ]. N.
Teal at Portland.
It Is announced that Tracy G.
Becker. an attorney of Buffalo. will be
appointed special assistant attorney
general to review the Southern Pa
cific land fraud cases in California
and Oregon
One million dollars In gold was re-
ceived by the John I. Cook bank at
Goldheld on Friday and Saturday last,
to be used in paying off depositors
who wished to withdraw their money
from the banks care.
Attorney General Bonaparte has an
nounced the appointment of Elmer II.
Todd to be United States attorney for
che western district for the state Of
Washington. Mr.. Todd succeeds Pot
ter G. Sullivan, resigned.
In the arrest of C. e. Mcdonald and
Ed Smith on a Great Northern dining
car. between Hillyard and Spokane,
the officers believe they have captured
two bandits who held up the Great
Northern passenger train near Rondo,
Mont, Sept. IL.
Mrs. Bath 8. Waterman, who mar
ried well known Chelsea, Mass. man
In Goldheld. New. about six weeks
ago. has arrived in Boston seeking her
husband, whom she accuses Of having
deserted her In Denver. taking s7o0 Of
her money with him.
1t is reported that mountain lions
and bears are too thick for comfort
in the mountains surrounding Star
Valley, Wyoming. They are killing
livestock right and left and are caus-
ing a great deal of worry to the farm
ers and stockraisers throughout the
valley.
Financial conditions In Montana
were never better. Record prices OBJ
tain for wool and sheep, while cattle
have commanded material advance
over last year. Up to two months ago
copper sold at unusually high prices,
so that on the whole the present year
has been the most prosperous in the
history Of the state.
If ruling made by the court In
the trial of Theodore Canteloni,
charged with the murder of Mollie
Quinn. at Butte, Is sustained by the
supreme court of the state. the death
penalty Is practically abolished in
Montana. The court ruled that q
juror who was opposed to the death
penalty might sit on the jury.
J.. C. Schwick is on trial at Gold
field, Nevada, charged with having
killed John r. Davey at Columbia.
Tune 20. Davey interfered in an al
tercation between Schwick and man
Busher. Schwick is said to
have pulled gun and shot Davey,
.
claims that the killing was accidental.
Two robbers attempted to hold up a
stage near Lewiston, Mont, but the
driver put up such fight with one
of the robbers that the second man
was Obliged to leave the horses heads
to assist his comrade in crime While
the fight was in progress the team ran
away, thus permitting the mails and
other matter to escape the hands OF
the robbers. The driver was robbed
and brutally beaten.
dispatch from Lewistown. Mont.
says that r. A. Dram, employed on
the west extension of the Chicago.
Milwaukee C st. Paul. has been
found foully murdered near Willow
Greek tunnel. His throat was slashed
In FIVE places and there were half a
dozen ugly stabs in his chest. while
his head was badly bruised as II with
q blunt instrument
Railroad Day. which was fxed for
October %, to celebrate the compile,
ton of the Las Vegas & Tonopah road
into Goldfield. has been deferred, ow.
ing to the unsettled conditions in the
camp at present. A later date will be
agreed upon as soon as conditions are
more settled.
During a drunken frolic OF railroad
graders in one Of the Billings 81
Northern construction camps, Willard
Smith, colored cook, was shot
through the head and killed, the muir
derer shooting the negro from behind!
This is the third murder at the camp
within n month.
John Boelho, driver for the Allen
wood yard at Goldfeld, fell off
wagon loaded with lumber near Dia-
mondheld and was run over and
killed. Boelho was hauling load OF
lumber to the Daisy mine, The acct
dent occurred near the power copa.
pany's sub-station.
President Fred A. Miller, OF the Lar.
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