The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-03-19
NORTHWEST NOTES

HhurSton county, wash, Killed his
wife and three children and then shot
himself.
Warden Conley, of the Montana
otate penitentiary at Deer Lodge. who
was seriously stabbed while frustrat.
ing Jail break. is improving, and
will live.
Mayor f. p. s. Lindsay of Helena
last week announced that he would
not be candidate for reelection, al
though serving only his first term.
He is a Republican.
Secretary Taft has signed an order
FOR the abandonment of the military
post known as Fort Keogh. Mont. The
post is not needed for the accommo-
dalton of the troops in that section.
Another tract of land has been with
drawn from all forms of disposition
under the public land laws in connec-
ton with the Truckee-Carson project.
| There are several sections included.
| Chancellor James II. Day of the
Syracuse university cannot be convict.
ed under the discipline of the church
| Tor his attack upon the president of
the United States. say Seattle Metho.
| dist ministers.
William e. Dodge, Jr, city editor Of
the Daily NIissoulian, died at Mis-
soula, Mont, after an illness of three
days, from ptomaine poisoning. Mr.
| Dodge came to Missoula six months
ago from Minneapolis.
w. ]. Bryan has accepted an invi-
tation to be the guest of the Bryan
club of Denver at banquet on April
6 next. The banquet will be given in
the large dining room of Eel Jebel
Temple, and it is expected over 1000
diners will attend.
1t Is announced that Emma Goldman
will spend three months on the Pa
ciic coast, beginning next month. She
will deliver lectures and enter into
debates in Portland, Seattle, San
Francisco. Goldfield and Salt Lake
and other cities.
After a trial lasting several days,
jury in the United States court at
Helena. Mont, returned a verdict of
guilty in the RI of e. Cardwell. a
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man, on charge of illegally fencing
of the public domain.
Near the town OF Buford, Wyo., a
carload of dynamite exploded from
some unknown cause, wreclSing sew
efal frame houses nearby and destroy
ing a number Of freight cars. The car
was standing on the Union Pacific
tracks near the town.
News of the purchase of the Elko
and Winnemucca, Nevada, telephone
systems by the Utah, Nevada and
Idaho Telephone company, Is made
known, and within the next month
the service will be connected up with
the Salt Lake system,
Fire, supposed to have been caused
by crossed electric wires. destroyed
the coke washer, tipple, engine house
and chemical laboratory of the. Colo
RADIO Fuel C Iron company's mine a
Sopris, five miles west Of Trinidad
Colo, entailing a loss estimated a.
$150.000, and throwing 800 men out o.
employment.
w. s. Buncker and Herman Hanker
engaged in pistol duel in hotel al
Sheridan, Wyo, both men being deat
when entrance was forced to theil
room. The men had just arrived II
town from Iowa. and announced tina
they intended securing work at a tie
camp. 1t Is not known what the quar-
rel was about.
The state auditor has made public
oh thn hue If
insurance companies In Montana last
year. 1t shows that 6.O40 new policies
were written, involving $6,949,6 64
making the total In force $49,126,271
Losses of $413,S81 were paid last yeal
by the various companies. A heavy
gain over last year Is shown.
Mortimer Moore, mulatto, shot ant
instantly killed Mrs. Lou A. Mccoy, a
North Yakima, Wash, and then com
mitted suicide by drinking carboli'
acid. Mrs. Mccoy had the appearance
of white woman, but it Is said she
had some negro blood. Some years
ago, it is asserted, she lived witt
Moore in Arkansas. but left him.
1t is announced that Senator Reet
Smoot of Utah and number of cap
italists have purchased $4,000 acres
of land at Three Forks, Gallatin coun
ty, Montana, where rich beds of nat
urai cement deposits have been dis
covered. and that engineers are nov
engaged in drawing plans for ce
ment plant which will cost $1,000,OOO
Prq dent P. ]. Duffy of the Butte
Miners union states that circulars
posted in other mining camps and il
leading cities of the northwest to thu
effect that 10000 men are wanted II
Butte, are misleading. The supply o
labor now far exceeds the demand
Moreover. unskilled labor is not EN-
ployed in the mines of Butte at an.
time.
Charles D. Curry. a Great Northern
car inspector, and his wife, were vic
Tins of an attempted assassination
when an unknown man entered thei
bedroom at their home in Spokane