The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-11-12
NORTH EST NOTES

The next Montana legislature will
be Democratic. by fair working ma
iority.
Il. &. Largely, the young Butte mil
lionaire. was elected to the Montana
legislature at the recent election
The Socialist vote in Montana was
small, outside of Butte, where some
thing over 1000 votes were cast
General Solicitor w. II. Beggs OF the
Great Northern has confirmed the
shortage of $4,000 in the accounts OF
A. j. Gordon of Spokane, Wash. for
merly general counsel of the Great
Northern at Spokane.
The monthly reports of the Union
Pacific railroad and Southern Pacific
railroad for September, issued recent
ly, showed that these Hartman lines
had the largest net earnings of any
month in their history.
The directors OF the Northwestern
Improvement company, the stock of
which Is owned by the Northern Pa
ciflc road, last week declared an ex-
ira dividend of s11.26 share on the
stock of the Northern Pacific Rail.
way company.
S. w. A. Conant, go years old, cast
his eighteenth vote for a Republican
candidate for president Of the United
States at Colorado Springs on Novem-
Der 5th. He attended the convention
in 1852 which gave birth to tho Re-
publican party.
A Lander, Wyo., dispatch says Mrs.
Henry Hudspeth, who became insane
while travelling to Colorado City, Colo,
where her mother resides, is not to be
committed to the state asylum, but
has been adjudged mentally incompe-
tent and her estate is to be settled.
AT Denver, Colo, when a tipsy man
is brought into the police station he is
propped up against the wall and at
once photographed. Next morning,
when he Is sober he is shown the pic
ture, and they say 1t is quite surpris-
ing how many absolute cures have
been effected by this simple proceed.
ing.
Justice Stafford of the supreme
court of the. district of Columbia has
overruled the motions for new trial
made by Frederick A. Hyde and Jo-
seph Schneider, convicted last spring
of conspiracy to defraud the United
States in connection with securing Of
land grants, in Oregon and Washing
ton.
AS the result of double shooting
ARRAY at the residence of Mrs. b.
Camele, at Hamilton, Ont, Chester A..
Johnson Is dead and Rosie Ouimet is
in the hospital and may not live.
Johnson did the shooting. He had
been keeping company with the young
woman against the wishes of her
parents.
Eleven-yearold Robert Slawson of
Jonesville, Wis, was awakened at
night and found the house filled with
smoke. He helped his mother, father
and baby sister out of the house, as
| hey we're all in dazed condition,
and then retained presence of mind to
turn in an alarm, thus preventing a
serious fire.
The initial capacity of the Big Horn
company's plant on the Big Horn
| river, near Boysen, WyO., Is to be
5000 electrical horsepower, although
the company will have at its disposal
water power sufficient to generate TO-.
900 electrical horsepower. Additional
electrical power will be converted as
soon as there is a demand for 1t.
A head-on collision between a pas,
senger and freight train on the Grand
Trunk railway occurred near Danny,
Canada. Oliver FRENZY of Wheat
lands, Canada an old man, was killed.
G. H. Tobin, member OF parliament
from Bromptonville, and his two
daughters were seriously injured, and
several others were slightly injured.
The body of man, believed to be
Volly Mann, who had been shot
through the head, was found on the
prairie about twelve miles from North
Platte, Neb., by Sheriff Eugene Beal
The officer had been guided to the
spot where the body lay by Mrs. Jen
ME Miner Smith, who charges that
her husband, John Henry Dale Smith
killed Mann.
Residents of Seattle are confident
that the coming Yukon-AlaskaPa Pacific
exposition will equal the great worlds
fair held some time ago at Chicago
and anticipate that it will boom Seat
tie to such an extent that the city will
become the leader of the entire Paci
fic coast
James ]. Hill, chairman of the ok
ecutive committee Of the Great North
ern Railway company, arrived In
Portland last Friday to attend the ex
ercises in connection with the forma
opening of the Spokane, Portland
Seattle railroad, known as the "Nortt
Bank road"
Sunk in twenty-five feet of water
and ten feet of driftwood and sand a
the bottom of river rapids, a diamond
drill steam engine, hoist and othe
machinery belonging to the reclama
ton system has been salyaged in La