The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-06-13
NORTHWEST NOTES


Flower Lake tunnel, near Cobre. New.
w. c. Turner, a driller. and two for
eigners We're seriously injured
Clyde Tilford. single. miner and
native of Nevada, is dying at the Min
ers' Union hospital at Rhyolite, with
bullet through his right lung and
the victim of pneumonia Tilford
shot himself while delirious.
Former District Judge l.. B France.
pioneer and noted lawyer, Is dead at
Denver OF paralysis. Judge France
was a native of Maryland. born in
1898. He was regarded as the fore
most authority In the state on libel.
J. Il. Blackburn of the United
States geological survey will this seat
son make reconnaissance survey on
scale of four miles to the inch OF
the degree sheet in Nevada, including
the Tonopah and Manhattan mining
camps.
Five minutes after he had granted
both parties divorce, Judge Frank
Langan, who presided in the Goldfield
Silva case, united in marriage Harry
ID. Cowden and Helen Bierce, daugh.
ter of Ambrose Bierce, the poet and
novelist.
The Saratoga and Encampment
railroad, building line from Walcott.
on the Union Pacific, to Saratoga and
Grand Encampment, Wyo.. has laid
steel for three miles south of the Wal.
colt terminus, and will now add a
work train.
Manager +. Nj. Smith, of the east
Helena, Mont, smelters, of the Amer.
!can Smelling & Refining company,
announces that beginning June /, EN-.
ployes will receive under certain con.
ditions, a bonus of 20 per cent yearly
on their earnings.
Two hundred excursionists from
Salt Lake and Ogden spent Saturday
and Sunday in Ely, Nevada, looking
over the mining property there. They
were entertained during their stay by
the Commercial club and representa-.
tive business men.
Barney Hanlon shot and killed Tom
Henahan in factional row at Jar
dine; Montana A fierce riot took
place the previous night between the
Ryan and Old Timer factions and the
shooting was the outcome. Hanlon
was a well known old.timer.
Peter j. McCallum, an employee OF
smelter at Great Falls, Mont, was
virtually cooked to death in bath
of molten copper McCallum was
working in the converter building
when a chain supporting the gigantic
copper ladies' broke, showering the
fiery metal in all directions over the
floor
On account of IA change OF the
dates of number of the county fairs
in Colorado, forming the northern
Colorado and southern Wyoming rae.
ing circuit. the dates of the county
fair at Laramie, Wyo., have been
changed from the fourth week In Sep
TENDER to the 10th, 18th and 18th OF
that month.
Hundreds of sheep in Casper and
Wallace creeks, Wyoming, are dying
from strange parasite which is rap
idly decimating the ilocks in that
section. 1t is believed some species
of fly crawls into the nostrils of the
sheep and later turn into grub,
which gradually works its way into
the brain of the animal.
Ludwig George of Laramie, Wyo.,
was fined 800 for permitting diseased
cattle to wander from his premises
after the ranch had been quarantined
oy the state veterinary; and while his
trial was progressing his son, VIII
liam, witness in the case, was ar.
rested for riding horse with diseased
legs.
The past week ore shipments from
Goldfield amounted to 1924 tons, of an
approximate value of $275,000, aver.
aging $40 per ton. OF this total the
Consolidated Mines G. Leases con.
tributed 1898 tons, OF the value OF
Sl54.500, averaging $40 per ton.
w. o. Craig, president of the State
of Montana. has rendered
his resignation to the state board o.
education and at its last meeting 1t
was accepted. No steps were taken
relative to his successor, but one will
be chosen at the next meeting, six
months hence.
Pat Moran, the Cheyenne saloon.
keeper, mentioned in Harry Orchards
testimony at Boise as having gone to
Denver to get $500 from Pettibone for
Orchard and Neville. denies that he
ever saw Orchard or ever went TO
Denver for him or for anyone else On
such an errand.
Jesse w. Crosby. Jr., contractor. OF
Cowley, Wyo, has been granted All