The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-11-26
NORTHWEST NOTES

| r. n. Smith. former governor OF
Montana. Is dead at Kallspell death
being due to uraemic poisoning.
Amos Steck, one of the oldest OF
Colorado pioneers, died at his home
in Denver on November II, aged Sc.
Mrs. NJ. S. Williams, the first white
woman in Butte, lately in reduced cir
cumstances. was last week committed
to the insane asylum at Warm
Springs.
The Union Pacific telephone line
from Rawlins to Ogden has been com
pleted, and is now in service. 1t VIII
greatly facilitate the sending of rail
road messages.
The president has appointed George
T.. Russell postmaster at Seattle,
wash. vice George NJ. Stewart. re.
moved for alleged violation OF the
civil service laws.
Headquarters of the reclamation
service, northern district, comprising
the states of Wyoming, North Da'
kota and Montana. were opened in
Helena last week.
The Jewel saloon. in the tenderloin
district of Butte. was dynamited by
unknown persons on November II,
and badly wrecked. Several of the
inmates had narrow escapes.
Elizabeth Turner, years old, died
Mt Helena, Mont, last week from in
;uries received while coasting. This
IS the first fatality from coasting re-
ported in the state this year
In a freight train wreck near Winnie
mucca. New. L. A. Gloves, brake
man, was injured, and sixteen cars of
oil. machinery and dressed poultry
was jumbled into tangled mesH.
Otto Siegel pioneer and well
known business man throughout Mon
tana. died at Missoula last week OF
Iapoplexy. His demise was fastened
iiy fall down stairs several days pre-
vious
The proposed wedding of Joe Tu-
ritch and Mia Marnovich was inter
rupted at Butte by an officer, who ar
rested the intended.tobe bridegroom
on charge of bigamy. He Is alleged
10 have wife and two children in
Austria.
The Pacific coast, it is understood
will make a strong effort to secure
representation in President Tafts cab
! met. Il. A. Ballinger of Seattle, for
mer commissioner of the general land
office, is to be urged for secretary of
the interior.
Owing to the probable defeat OF the
constitutional amendment providing
] for an increased tax at the recent
election in Montana, 1t is very prob
/ able that there will not be sufficient
revenue next year to pay the expenses
/ Of the state.
Nevada bankers have been called to
meet at Reno, December 3 next,
| through the action of the Reno Bank
ers' committee to perfect a state or
ganization, formulate plans for rem
edal banking legislation and secure
uniformity in practice.
James Allen, structural iron
worker, met tragic death while
working on a trestle which spans a
deep ravine near Taft, Mont. Allen
was riding a steel column which was
being swung into place when he was
knocked from his position and fell to
the ground below, a distance OF 100
feet.
The authorities of Billings, Mont,
have made public a mail pouch rob
berry, which occurred in that city re-
Gently. The thieves were APPARENTLY
rovices, as the pouch they selected
contained no money, according to the
postal authorities. The ri1ed pouch
was found under building near the
depot.
After prosecuting a search for her
child for thirteen years, finding the
boy in Bellingham, Wash, last June.
the adopted SON of s. A, w. Deming
Miss Maude Fields of st. Louis failed
tc secure possession of the child, the
Judge of the superior court giving the
hoy into the charge of his adopted
parents.
Confident that they will be granted
franchise by the state Legislature to
conduct horse racing in Nevada, Cali
fornia racing promoters and Reno cap.
italists have taken an option on
ground at Moana Springs, a resort
four miles south of Reno, sufficiently
large to establish suitable track and
buildings.
Mike Butler, member of the Butte
fire department, has been arrested
charged with dynamitng the Jewel sa.
loon, in the redlight district of Butte
The proprietor of the place says But.
ler declared, when pressed for pay.
ment of bar bill, that he would get
even"
John Beau, who escaped from the
insane asylum in Wyoming several
months ago, astonished the officials at
the asylum by turning up and demand,
ing readmisson. Beau explained that
careful study of his condition had con.
Vinced him he was still mentally un.
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