The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-07-16
NORTHWEST NOTES

While attempting to cross the river
at Melrose, Mont, FIVE persons were
drowned. They were: d. Pisinti his
brother, his ten.yearold son, G. Gu
tone and Rinaldo Peltoni, the latter
two Greek railroad laborers.
Blacksmiths and machinists Of tho
Northern Pacific shops have resumed
work on full time of nine hours. Four
hundred men are Immediately affect.
ed and 1t means full time for the en-,
tire force of 900 mea at the shops.
The railroad library maintained by
the employees of the Southern Pacific
at Sparks, Nevada, was destroyed by
fire last week. AS the building and
Its contents were insured, 1t is an
nounced that 1t will be rebuilt at
once.
Enos Peers was disemboweed at
Plains, Mont, during cutting ARRAY,
dying from his wounds His alleged
assailant, Joe Painin, is in Jail charged
with murder. Dave Solure, also in
volyed in the affair, is being sought
by the officers.
About half the business part of
Grand Forks, B. c., was wiped out by
fire which started in the Yale hotel
about l:45 a. m. July 10. At least one
person is dead, the body of an UNI
known man being found in the ruins
Of the Valhalla house.
A long distance telephone line be-
tween Denver and Chicago was
opened on July with a conversation
between Mayor Speer Of Denver and
Mayor Busse Of Chicago. Thomas
Tasgart, chairman Of the National
Democratic committee, and other
prominent men also had a part in the
celebration.
After careful review of the crop
situation in western Canada, the lead
ing railways estimate the total wheat
yield in western Canada will be 1885,
100000 bushels, or an average OF
twenty bushels to the acre. Last
years wheat crop was $4,000 200
bushels, of which 67,00O,O00 bushels
were exported.
A tiny Maltese cat has completed a
trip from Holland, Mich, to San
Francisco, a distance of $500 miles,
in a drawer of a bureau. wrapped in
sacking and shipped by slow freight
When freight hands opened the bu
reau the cat jumped out and after be
. ing given food and water, was in ex
z cellent condition
;. The annual review of American com
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+ tics for 1907 demonstrates again tina
j trade with the Orient is gradually blu
surely shifting from the Atlantic t.
!, the Pacific coast. Nearly so per cen
!, Of American exports to Asiatic coun
D tries moved outward through Pacifi
coast ports in 1907.
The Southern Pacific's new lin
Z from Mojave northward to Keelel
r California, a distance of about II
t miles, primarily for the benefit of tn
> construction of the new water servic
system from Owens Lake to Los All
geles, has now complete track in us
for distance of thirty miles nortf
l. ward from Mojave.
Eight thousand dollars worth {
"a liquor was destroyed by special o
ficers, and eleven alleged bootlsgger
O were held in heavy bail for prelim
nary examination as result Of tn
/. federal governments first active da
1. in the suppression of the liquor ira
fic on the Nez Perez Indian reserv'
ton, southeast of Spokane.
Judge Shackleford, before whor
8. Steve Adams Is being tried at Gran
40 Junction, Colo, on the charge or mu
rs tering Arthur Collins, ruled that tn
document purporting to be a confe
sion of the crime made and signed D
;. Adams while he was confined
~ prison in Idaho, was not admisslDl
- us evidence in the hearing.
Officials of the United States fore'
reserve have closed all of the saloon
or. at Grand Forks, railroad and mimi
Dr.. camp Just across the Idaho ilns lro
Fa' Montana. The closing of the saloor
. came as q climax of reign OF LAY
lessness that has resulted in sever
killings, although the men responslo
have not yet been Appreciated.
we Convict Preston, who is in the n
vada state penitentiary for murde
ry and who was nominated for the pres
dency of the Socialist-Labor part
has declined the nomination. 1t is
IN. lieved that he acted on the ADVICE
tie his attorney, as he was willing TO be
candidate and stated that he fuliy
to pected to receive the nomination.
Governor Norris Of Montana has
- dressed a letter to the commission
of Indian affairs at Ottawa relatiVe
the deportation of large band
= Creek Indians, who, while Canaul'
y charges, have for years been roar
ing throughout this state. Inc
dams participated in the Rlel rev
lion. and with its suppression can
III to Montana.
George NJ. Morrow, mine operat
l. and leaser in the Seven Troughs MI
!. ing district, thirty miles west OF Low
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