The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-12-03
NORTHWEST NOTES

At the Boysen dam at Snoshohe, WY"
diad after suffering terrible pain TOT
more than six days.
News has been received In Butte
% Tho death at Redlands, Cal, OF ID.
1obn s. Marshall, who, as manager Oh
the Montana hotel, Anaconda during
Narcus Daly's time, was the pest
known boniface in Montana
In a duel on the desert near hnyo-
Tito Nevada, John Smith was shot
and killed by John Cyty, an ltailah'
who was wounded in the arm. Inc
men ouarreled over some mining
property.
The hoard of control OF the Dry
Farming congress. which is to meet at
Cbevenne February %, announces
| tbot reouests for accommodations are
coming from various sources, indlcat-
ing widespread belief that the congress
Is to be held this month.
President Roosevelt will not make
n display at the MISUNDERSTANDING
exposition of the trophies of his South
African hunt next year. In reply 10
a formal request Secretary Loeo' ior
the presidents has replied that 1t VIII
be impossible to comply
pecause of the Importance OF the
forestry reserve problem and other
public questions in which the west Is
v;tallv interested, President Taft VIII
be invited to attend the annual coh-
vention of'the TransMississippi con-
gress in Denver next August.
George II. Scott, county clerk and
prominent Republican, and Attorney
William H. Maloney, a Democratic
leader. fought one hour and five MIN
utes in a gulch at Butte, under prize
ring rules, to settle an election bet.
The fight was finally declared draw
In order to provide fou the widows
and orphans of the victims of the re-
cent mine disaster at Red Lodge,
Mont. when nine men lost their lives,
each miner at Red Lodge has been as
sessed the sum of SO. There are over
100 miners in the camp, and the as
sessment will amount 20 S1O,OOO.
Two men attacked Tom Loo, an
aged Chinaman of Reno, intent on
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robbery. and was beating the old man
TO death when his cries brought
scores of Cinnamon, who drove the
robbers off, but not until Loo was bad
ly injured. The robbers are believed
to be members of an organized band
The Northwestern railroad has dis
covered a large bed of gravel at Wa
haba, west OF Shoshone, Wyo., and will
in the spring establish gravel pits and
ballast its entire line from Lander to
Omaha The gravel is said to be sim
liar to the celebrated Sherman hill
ballast on the line of the Union Pacific
railroad.
Believed by the police to be on &
still hunt for the man who betrayed
Joseph Garcia, alias Cordoya, into the
hands of officers of the law the nigh
of May 6, and incidentally the leader
, of a gang of thieves who have beer
operating in Seattle for the past three
, months, Sadie Belcher is under arres
in Seattle.
George Lyman Dutson, one Of thu
best known residents of Star valley
was instantly killed while rolling log
[ in Grover canyon, near Alton, Wyo
| Two sections of a log which his Sol
: had sawed in two got away and rollet
down hill toward Dutton, who fled be
, fore them, but was struck, his necl
being broken.
: The Western Pacific Railroad com
pany announced last week the compile
v tion of it's Flower Lake tunnel, whicl
Z cuts under the Pequop mountains, il
p Nye county Nevada The tunnel i
v on the main line of the Western Pa
= cific and is 5,657 feet in length A
= most the entire distance is throug
: solid limestone.
;. An assessment of l cent per capits
which will total $4,000 and which wi
be used for increasing the member
II ship as well as making the sectio
:. more efficient in every way, wa
d made by the building trades branc
" of the American Federation of Labo
at the sessions Of its annual conveT
% tion In Denver.
- The passenger department Of tn
4 Oregon Short Line railroad announce
, that the Yellowstone park season
a which usually closes along in Septen
h. ber, will be materially lengthene
=, next summer to accommodate trave
10 to and from the Alaska Yukon Pacifi
u exposition.
II At Amboy, Wash, Fred Swindle.
u farm hand, shot and killed Ed Newell
a attempted to kill Mrs Newell, an
- .hen killed himself. Back of the ira,
edy is story of unrequited love an
d. despondency due to the marriage {
10 Newell to Mrs. Rose Hoffman, thre
IL months ago
s. Francis j, Heney, the San Franclsc
le attorney who was shot by Morri
lg Haas, celebrated Thanksgiving day b
le taking an automobile ride in Golde
T. Gate park, He was accompanied h
IN his wife, DR., Beasley, Rudolph Sprecl
IN les, William J. Burns and James Fole,
his bodyguard.