The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-09-03
NORTHWEST NOTES


tne sixteen coaches held nm In yoI.
. 1--WE park by the lone highway.
man Is now placed at $4,000 in mon.
ey ana an equal value in watches and
jewelry. Oes "uu
Inc Socialists, in state convention
AT Helena, Mont adopted n p,ntfor,,
and nominated full state ticket W.
ny Hazleton of Missoula was nomt
mated for governor There are three
preachers on the ticket.
Alex. Poderato, a Greek Section
hand, employed by the Southern pa.
cifc at Teck station, while attemntin-
10 board a freight train at Jackson.
-NeV, fell beneath the wheels and
mad his right foot crushed
Woo Chew. Chinese business man
OF Reno, Nevada, will vote at the next
election, being the first Chinaman
ever registered to vote in the state
HIS mother and father are both Am.
erican-born and Chew was born in San
Francisco.
Two masked men held up the sa-
loon Of p. A. Lillis at Divide. Mont.
compelling eight men to line up
against the wall with their hands
above heads while one of the bandits
r'fled their pockets. Two hundred dol.
lars was secured.
l. d. McCutcheon, prominent
member of the Seattle bar, and secre-
tary and acting governor of the terri
tory of Montana under President Ar
thur is dead as a result of an opera.
ton following a general breakdown.
He was GO years of age.
Louis Jacobs was probably fatally
injured near Billings, Mont. by being
hurled over 100foot embankment by
a runaway horse. A lady out riding
with Jacobs escaped serious injury.
Both were found Unconscious at the
foot of the embankment.
The convention of American press
humorists at Denver elected ]. Ed
mund Vance Cooke of Cleveland sec.
retary-treasurer and reelected Frank
j. Starlight of Los Angeles president,
The matter of the next meeting place
was left to the executive committee.
Railroad men say that the tracks of
the Western Pacific will be into Wells,
Nevada, before the middle of Septem.
ber Soon after the tracks reach this
city, train service will be instituted.
Wells is rather an important point on
the Western Pacific in that it is the
point where it meets the Southern Pa
cific.
The stockholders of the Denver City
Tramway company, at a meeting last
week, authorized bond issue of $685.
100000, of which $13,0O0,OOO will be
used to retire the outstanding bonds
and Indebtedness, and the remainder
placed in the treasury and issued as
needed for further extensions and i'm
provements.
Eugene Chain, candidate for the
presidency on the Prohibition ticket.
delivered two addresses in Billings,
Mont, on the 9th, one in the after
noon and the other in the evening, in
which he took occasion to declare
that the only real issue before the peo-
pie of the country was that Of the
liquor question.
Fred Jockey, vice-president Of the
Randsburg branch of the Western
Federation of Miners, who was re-
Gently arrested on a charge of con-
spring to blow up with dynamite
pipe line of the Yellow Aster Mining
company of Randsburg, Call has been
released from custody, no one appear
ing against him.
j. R. Taylor, one of the best
known mining men in the Black Hills,
and his helper, Chris Miller, were In
stantly killed in the Burlington mine
at Redfern, S. D. The men had just
stepped into a cage to be raised from
the danger Of a blast but break
caused the stage to stick, and the ex-
plosion caught them.
H. S. Evans, of Butte, has been SEN
fenced to one year in the peniten-
tiary upon his plea of guilty OF for
gerry. Evans for several years was
trusted employee of the Boston & Mon
tana Mining company. He was
charged with forging the name OF
Charles Mccoy, cashier of the COM
pany, to several checks.
As yet no word has been received
concerning the probable fate of the
British steamship Aeon, which has
been out from Portland since July
and from San Francisco since July 6,
bound for Auckland, N. q. Reinsur
ance on her has run up to 80 per cent,
She should have arrived at her desti
nation three weeks ago.
After wandering hopeless and
dazed in the mountains without food
and shelter for nearly forty-eight
hours. Roderick Emile Rombauer,
st. Louis jjurist and author, staggered
into the Drake hotel at Estes PARK
Colo, aud is slowly recovering from
narrowing experience. He was los.
in the mountains for two nights and
days.
A Butte Miner dispatch from LlV-
ingston. Mont, states that the chase