The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-09-26
NORTHWEST NOTES

| Didck hanu, or or Sicilian yendette
Cerardo Carnival, market gardener
was shot through the head and killed
when returning to his truck farm in
the outskirts of Denver
Representatives of certain corpora.
tons In Seattle are cited to appear be-
| fore the Central Labor council on COM
| plant of the striking telegraphers to
show cause why they should not be
| placed on the unfair list by the labor
| council
Socialism in the Pacific northwest
| will build its Utopia at Adrian, near
the Grand Coulee, west of Spokane. il
| the plans formulated by the Adrian
| irrigation company, just incorporated
| under the laws of Washington with
100000 capital, are worked out.
Warrants have been issued for tho
| arrest OF Earl Steen and others, promi
nent stockmen in the Wallowa sec
| ton OF eastern Oregon, charged with
the theft of large number of cattle
| belonging to the Madden brothers and
| F. w. Kettenbach, of Lewiston, Idaho.
|
a bath-house in Portland, has been
| acquitted of the charge of numbering
| George Hibbin, or Herbert, must.
clan, who came there recently from
Walla Walla. Reynolds set up the
plea that he was justified in his act
| because Hibbin had despoiled Rey-
mods home.
Taking advantage of a session law
OF 1905, Latah county, Idaho, is about
| to begin organization of county agri.
cultural fair. Judge S. S. Denning, in
looking through a copy of the session
laws OF the state legislature of 1905,
finds that an act permits counties to
use one-half mill Of the county assess
ment for fair purposes.
Grace Gidley, the daughter and heir
| of William j. Gidley, an old stage
line driver, who died in Montana in
1896. has been located in Kansas City
after search of eleven years. Gidley
left an estate, composed principally of
Billings, Mont, realty, to his daugh-
ter, and the lawyers have been search
ing for her all this time.
Joe Passha, an Assyrian, was shot
and Instantly killed by Robert Mulkey
In saloon at Thermopois, Wyo.
Mulkey fired four bullets into Passha's
body without apparent provocation. He
fled, but was captured and turned over
10 the authorities, but escaped sec
ond time while being taken to Lander.
Feeling against him is high
| tits learned here on reliable infor-
nation that the Union Pacific has con-
tracted with the Rock Island railroad
| FOR $4,000 carloads of Sherman hill
| gravel, to be delivered to that COM
pany at Denver for the ballasting of
| the entire line from Denver to Chi
rago. The delivery will begin the OPP
ening of the season next year.
| A shipment of 10000 sheep. most of
the animals being consigned to Swift
& Co, at Chicago, was held in quaran-
| tine at the stock yards at Laramie,
and dipped before being moved. A FED
eral inspector found one bunch of
sheep affected with scabies, and as the
others had been exposed it was decid-
| ed 10 OruST tHe WHOle loI uippOu'
Laurel Mont, was practically wiped
| out on the 18th by fire which destroyed
| the business center and which would
have destroyed the entire city had not
| dynamite been used. The loss Is
placed at between $150000 and $780,
| 600 and the buildings destroyed In
! clude the bank, postoffice and TWO
large general merchandise stores.
A hold-up, which for boldness anf
! nerve has never been equalled, oc-
| Cured In Butte one night last week.
| A lone masked man walked into
saloon, gun in hand, and in the pres
| ence of some twenty customers robbed
| the till of about $35. AT the time
| there were dozens of people on the
| street and less than half a block away
| a policeman was on duty.
The Ely. Nevada. police, postal au-
| thorities and officials of the Glroux
| Consolidated Mining company, are try
Ing to explain the mysterious disap-
pearance of pay checks aggregatlng
| s1 600 which were sent to the post
| office for shipment The letters were
| sent by drayman to be posted, VINO III
| firm entrusted them to stranger
| Neither the letters or the stranger
have since been seem
When about to board the overland
limited. bound for Philadelphia, and III
timately destined for Oxford univer-
sity. England, Arthur st. Clair OF
peeth, a student of the state uniyer-
sity. the only Rhodes scholarship man
ever sent from Nevada. was made the
victim of the theft of suitcase con-
tanning his clothing, credentials and
personal belongings.
Ely, Nevada, papers are rather proud
of the license collections for the quar-
ter ending September 1. This Is In
teresting the tenderfoot population be-
cause of $1,000 collected $6,510 was
collected from gambling houses, $500
| 80, aoIoons and S1.550 from dance