The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-03-28
NORTHWEST NOTES


is dead at the age Of GO.
Robert Hughes. a veteran of the
Crimean war. aged "A years, was
found dead at Tacoma as the result
of stroke of apoplexy.
A local option bill, with an emer
gency clause, was finally passed by
the legislature of Colorado and APP
proved by Governor Buchtel
Edwarda Slack, receiver of the Land
Office, wellknown newspaperman and
pioneer of Wyoming, died at Chey'
enne on the 2r3d,. aged GA years.
Michael Schwcnther n miner, was
instantly killed and Patrick Lynch
was seriously injured by the explosion
of a missed hole in mine in Butte.
Harry Hansen, formerly merchant
of Laramie. Wyo., and prominent To-
cal musician, Is dead. He was
Christian Scientist, and was under
treatment for Bright's disease at the
time of his death.
The differences between the news
paper publishers of Butte and Anacon-
da and the members of the Typo
graphical union, were definitely settled
by the printers voting to return to
work at the publishers terms.
jeremiah Mahoney, president of the
Butte Stationary Engineers union,
has been nominated for mayor by the
Democrats of Butte. Aleci MCGOWAN.
former assistant attorney general oil
Nevada, was named for police Judge.
| Letters from Ernest Lefiingwell and
Elmer Melkelsen. containing the first
news of the Anglo-American Polar e&
petition since the expedition left
Alaska were received in Portland last
week by ii. A. Andree of the weather
bureau.
Goldfield labor organizations hither
to affiliated with the Industrial Work
ers of the World and now deserters
from that body, are the cooks and
walters, laborers, bartenders, team
sters, retail clerks. plumbers. sheet
metal workers.
Richard W. Hoard, who used gem
uine check for SO as sample to work
from and who forged check for $50.
with the name of G. Il. Jackson, OF
Laramie, Wyo last December. has
pleaded guilty and will be sentenced
to the penitentiary.
At q meeting of cattlemen and
sheepmen at Laramie, Wyo., com
promise was effected as to grazing on
the Medicine Bow forest reserve. A
dividing line was marked out, which
both sides agree to observe. There
had been danger Of clash.
The first death as a result of the
floods at Reno, Nevada, was reported
last week, when Willie Phillips, one
of the most prominent citizens OF
Reno, attempted to rescue John Kelly.
who had been marooned on an island
in the Truckee, and was drowned.
Postmaster George r. Irwin OF
Butte died suddenly on the 18th OF
heart trouble, aged 60. He was one
of the picturesque pioneers OF Mon.
tana, former vigilante, and has held
many offices, state and federal. He
, was postmaster in Butte six years.
The state board of sheep commits.
sioners of Wyoming has revoked the
order of April 2, 1906, that sheep en-
tering the state from other states or
any other territory shall be quaran-
tined for period of thirty days after
dipping, and ordered that all sheep
in the state shall, before entering the
shearing pens for shearing, he in
spected.
Charles Anderson. a mining expert,
I was instantly killed in the mines OF
, the Bridger Coal company in Carbon
l county, Montana, through a singular
accident. The handle of the electric
l machine became charged, and in
D touching it Anderson received shock
r which threw him on a chain and he
Q was carried to his death between the
:. vein and machinery.
d According to advices from Seattle.
before any order will be issued by
the contractors for the resumption of
work on buildings and contracts in
volving more than $5,O00000, salts
factory agreement must be reached
with the representatives of organized
labor in the Building Trades Assembly
which will in effect be a guarantee OF
g peace until after the completion of the
buildings for the Alaska Y ukon- Pacific
l. exposition in 1909.
Nightwatchman w. D. Clark of Ban
= don, Ore, shot and killed c. f. Allen
/ of San Francisco, a we'll known timtaI
buyer and black sand expert. TIE
O shooting occurred in the Office of the
d Upper hotel, where Allen shot twice
g at the officer before the latter killed
t him.
e A merger of the interests of the
E Northwestern Steamship company ant