The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-10-22
NORTHWEST NOTES

was held in Helena last week. sixty.
five delegates being in attendance.
Publicity Is credited with having
decreased accidents on the Hartman
system of roads between 20 and 90
per cent within the past three years.
The Farmers. and Traders National
tank of La Grande, Ore. has closed
its doors. The bank was capitalized
at 100000 and two weeks ago its de.
posits amounted TO 100000.
The biggest state eneampment in
the history of the Knights of Pythias
Of Montana opened at Great Falls on
the 18th, A fancy drill, in which
800 uniformed knights participated,
was the feature of the opening day
parade.
On the verge of mental collapse, A.
S. Burroughs confessed to county
peace officers at Sheridan, Wyo., that
he Witnessed the assassination of ex-
Sheriff Harvey X. Brown by a bomb
thrower at Baker City. Ore, year
ago.
Frank S. Monnett, former attorney
general OF Ohio, addressed an audi
ence that filed the Broadway theater
at Butte, on Democratic issues. Mr..
Monnett's address was mainly on the
trust question and the subject of the
guaranty of bank deposits.
What is believed by government Of
ficals at Seattle to be new gang of
men engaged in smuggling Cinnamon
into the United States from British
Columbia is now operating on such
an extensive scale that immigration
officials are worried greatly.
A Butte Miner dispatch from Lew
iston, Mont, states that a deal was
closed there whereby the Cook Rey-
nolds company, representing Wiscon-
sin capitalists, has purchased the Ell
llott and Beck and the w. o. Straw
ranches, aggregating 10000 acres of
land. for 100000.
Bishop John p. Carroll of the do
cese of Helena, Mont, has announced
the purchase of forty-five acres of
land on Capitol hill, which will be
used as the site of Catholic univer-
sity which will rank among the best
in the country. Work will begin on
the buildings at once.
A lone highwayman, armed with
two 'reyolvers, walked into the Clear
Lake Logging company's camp at
Clear Lake, Wash, lined up the
thirty employees In a row and ordered
two of the loggers to search the
others. The robber walked out of
the camp with $3.50 and several cheap
watches.
Ralph Pearce, the negro porter
who struck down Oscar Travis, a
commercial traveller, during a quar-
rel on Northern Pacific train, has
been captured. Pearce struck Travis
with an iron bar and jumped from
the train near Garfield, Wash. Travis
is in dangerous condition at a Lew.
iston hospital. ..--.
Six persons were instantly killed
and twenty-one others injured by the
explosion of missed charge of dyna.
mite at the Ingleside limestone quar-.
ry, sixteen miles northwest of Fort
Collins, Colo. The dead, two ia
panese and four Mexicans, are Mia
Gro Hernandez, Jesus Lopez and
I'edro Abalos.>
Thomas Morrow, aged 60, a promi-
nent photographer of Sparks, Nevada,
met violent death when he attempt
ed to jump from fast moving train
as 1t was passing through that place.
He had been at Floriston, Cal, max
ing views for a pulp concern, and
boarded through train there, hoping
the train would slow down sufficient
ly for him to alight safely.
A Billings, Mont, jury found Flor
ence Riordan guilty of manslaughter
in connection with the death of her
husband, Timothy Riordan, and fixed
her punishment at one year in the
penitentiary. Mrs. Riordan, on the
witness stand declared that She shot
and killed her husband with his own
gun, which she wrested from him
after he had struck her and had
threatened her with death.
The jury in the case Of Edward
Hugh Martin, tried at Portland for
the murder of Nathan Wolff, a pawn
broker, on the night of May / last.
brought in a verdict of guilty, fixing
the degree at manslaughter. Martin
is a graduate of West Point and
veteran of the Spanish-American war.
Engineer Campbell of the Hartman
lines in Ogden proposes to call In
chemical experts to solve the mys-
FERROUS decay of the ties along the
Ogden-Lucin cutoff, which has caused
a great deal of trouble in keeping the
track in repair since the construction
of the translake line.
An earthquake shock, starting at
1920 o'clock at night and lasting
twenty minutes, was recorded on the
seismograph at the University OF
Utah on the 18th. The records show
an extremely violent shock, so Sc
we're that the needle was thrown COM
pletely off the drum.
George Grover, who escaped from
the insane asylum at Blackfoot,
Idaho, some time ago. was captured