The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-07-23
NORTHWEST NOTES


his way on the Short Line at Ontario.
Ore, and there is little hope of his
recovery.
At the convention of the Wiscon.
sin State Federation of Labor. the
resolution condemning Harry Orchard
TO the World of Hades" was adopted
by the vote of SO to s.
The lamb crop in both Wyoming
and Montana is short this year, the
lambing in most parts, according to
late information, being 80 to so per
cent. against 60 to so per cent for
normal average.
Stanley Peck, who was acquitted at
Reno, Nevada, last week of the charge
of numbering Angelo Satero, went in
sane while on his way from Reno to
San Francisco. Peek was nervous
wreck before he left Reno.
Timothy Reardon, q bartender of
Billings, Mont, was shot and instant
ly killed by Florence Reardon, who
protested to be his wife by virtue OF
u marriage contract, and to secure
whose valuation she had brought suit
in the district court
Samuel Lepper, pioneer resident
of Fergus county, Montana, met his
death by falling into a we'll on a
ranch near Moore. Lepper was
missed and a search revealed his
body in the well. in which there was
about ten feet of water.
Twelve more bodies, victims OF the
| explosions in mine No. l of the Union
Pacific Coal company at Hanna, Wyo.
March 80, were brought to the sur
face on July IS. The bodies were bad
| ly decomposed and were identified
only by their clothing. Twenty-Five
more bodies are believed to be in the
mine.
AS a result of quarrel over the di
vision of work in caring for graves in
the Odd Fellows cemetery at Reno
Nevada. Jack Dolan shot Frank Whit
taker, his aged fellow inmate in the
county hospital, three times with q
pistol, killing him instantly. Whitta
ker fell dead over the grave he was
watering
Enraged because Joseph e. Fish, q
contractor of San Francisco, drove
onto some freshly laid asphalt pave
ment, Lawrence Taggart, a foreman
in the employ of the asphalt com
Iany, seized a red-hot iron with which
the asphalt is smoothed down and
thrust it into Fish's face, burning II
horribly.
Eight men have been arrested OF
the Grow Indian reservation, in Mon
tano, charged with selling liquor t
the Indians. A number of secret ser
vice men are actively engaged in al
effort to stop the sale of liquor to thu
Crows, the law being so openly defie'
that Indians have been served owe
the bars.
Steve Adams, member of the West
ern Federation of Miners, on trial a
Grand Junction, Colo, was acquitted
Adams alleged confession of tn
crime was excluded as evidence b.
Judge Shackelford, and eight wit
nesses testified to an alibi for the &C
; cused man.
. Suit has been instituted at Helena
, Mont, by the government against tn
Northern Pacific Railway company
the Rocky Fork Coal company and tn
Northwestern Improvement compan
TO recover title to very valuable Goa
lands in Carbon county, which 1t
alleged were procured through mis-
representation.
Thomas Cooper land commissions
OF the Northern Pacific railway, o
the stand in the Minnesota rate heal
ing, introduced paper which CAV
, the value of the purchased lands @
the Northern Pacific at $71,325,2 81;
, and of the donated lands, $35 ,564,S7;
, 1t developed that from its lease
, lands. the company receives abou
1 100000 a year.
r .Advices from San Francisco sa
t that the Western Pacific tunnel unde
l Alameda creek, just west of Nile
! will be completed this week. an
( tracklaying toward Oakland will b
D pressed forward rapidly, there bein
but two minor bridges to build o
the way.
Contracts have been awarded fo
: the rebuilding Of the Hauser LAX
I dam. and the construction of tn
. Wolf creek dam. More than 300
l. men will he employed and work wi
? begin at once. The Wolf creek dal
= will be the second largest power dal
in the world.
Clarence Don Clark, United State
e senator from Wyoming, was stricke
with a nervous collapse and genera
breakdown at the Auditorium Anne
, hotel Chicago, last week. SO ser
GUS was the senator's condition th'
for time his life was despatred o
a He soon rallied, however.
; Sneak thieves entered the bank
Phoebe, Nevada, at noon and stole
package of seventy-five one-doll'
: bills, and other moneys amounting
about $1,000 all told. Four suspec
= have been arrested, but there is {