The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-12-10
NORTHWEST NOTES

dens at Butte and devoured a number
OF birds in the zoo there.
The VIII House saloon in Butte was
cid up and the cash register rellev.
cd of $50 Several persons were in
the saloon at the time. Two suspects
are under arrest.
The Round Mountain Banking cor
poration of Round Mountain, a town
sixty miles north of Tonopah, Ne
vada, has closed its doors. Bad loans
are given as the cause.
After an enforced vacation. owing
to an epidemic of scarlet fever and
diphtheria, The agricultural college at
3ozeman, Mont. has been reopened,
as we'll as the other schools of the
town.
A Butte dispatch announces that
steel laying on those sections of the
st Paul railroad which crosses the
Rocky Mountains stopped on Decem-
Der g. and will not be resumed until
the SHOWS thaw next spring.
1t is announced that Bishop Frank
Spaulding. in charge of the Episcopal
diocese of Utah. with headquarters at
salt Lake, will have charge of tho
western Colorado diocese succeeding
the late Bishop Knight.
For the first time in many years
eggs are quoted on the Butte market
at so cents a doZen At that price
fresh eggs are scarce and it is pre-.
dicted that there will be still fur
Their advance.
Two of Butte's most prominent
brokers engaged in gun-play in the
heart of the city. In a quarrel ovel
a stock deal Samuel Alexander at
tempted to shoot Bart Monahan, but
was prevented by bystanders.
c. b. Davis, laborer, was strucB
by a Southern Pacific fast freight neal
Inlay, New, and crushed almost be
| yond recognition. 1t is supposed lis
| fell asleep on the track. Relatives
are thought to live in Denver.
The coroner's jury has exonerated
| young Hume Hahn of Helena for the
alleged killing of Mark Ansden, a
| farm hand, with whom he engaged in
quarrel. The jury accepted Hahn's
version that it was case of self
| defense.
| Because Joe Grimminni, her reject
| ed lover, called her a vile name,
Louise Toinois tried to kill him when
she met him on the street in Reno,
New. She fired five times, one shot
taking effect in his leg, the others
| going wild.
Two bandits who attempted to hold
up saloon in Goldfeld were sur
prised by the resistance of the b2r-
tender, who put up such a. strenuous
fight that the bandits were routed. a
lumber of shots were fired, but no
| one was hurt,
Through the accidental explosion of
twenty-five sticks of dynamite j. r..
Demand, contractor of Great Falls,
Mont, lost the sight of both eyes, a
large part of his face is gone, there
is a hole in the top of his head and
! he is likely to die.
Chief Dispatcher Kelley has been
eXonerated from all blame in connec-
ton with the wrecll on the Northern
Pacific at Olive, Mont, last Septem-
Der, in which half dozen persons lost
their lives, by the coroner's jury sit
ting at Plains. Mont.
f. T.. Carney, lineman, was cleo
trocuted while at work in Reno, Ne
vada Four thousand volts passed
through his body, and he hung limp
| ,ttirn Cd
spectators telephoned the station
house and the current was turned Off.
The secretary of state of the state
of Washington has made the follow
ing official return of the vote for
President at the recent election:
Presidential electors - Republican,
106,062; Democrats, $3.50; Tafts
plurality, 47679; Socialist Presiden'
tial, 14,177; independence, 24S; Pro.
hibition, 400.
Articles of incorporation have been
filed at Miles City, Mont, by the
Montana, Wyoming & Southern rail
way, a duplicate of the papers filed
with the state of Wyoming at Chey
enne, Sept 90 The capital stock OF
the corporation is given at $4,000, DOT
and provides for the right OF con
struction of a railroad from Wyoming
points through Custer county.
AS the result of a conflagration a
Bridger, Mont, the Bridger State
bank, the Offices of the Bridger Goa
company and the confectionery store
of Warren 7. Baker were totally de
stroyed, entailing loss of about $40
600. The loss was covered by insur
d ance.
Sam II. Treloar has resigned as lead
er of the famous Boston and Mon
tana band of Butte and will go It
Utah as general manager of tn
Bingham-Butte Consolidated CON
pany's property at Hngham. Ire
loar is a prominent mining man q
Butte.
| The prospecting for and the deve
oping of silver properties in the stat
| ~ Montana hoe ractipallV ceased M