The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-02-20
NORTH VEST NOTES


authorizing the Idaho & Washington
Northern railroad to bridge the Spo-
kane river in Washington near Occur
dAlene, Ida.
A new set of officers has been Sc
,scted for the state Savings bank at
Butte, the Heinze interests being COM
rletely eliminated. and that institu-
ton has resumed busienss.
Within the next thirty days, through
trains on the Western Pacific railroad
between Salt Lake and Ely will be In
operations. For the past several weeks
the road has been handling ore cars.
The health authorities of Silver Bow
county. Montana, have begun pure
milk crusade, as result OF which
nine milkmen were arrested one day
last week and tried in the police
court.
In train wreck near Verdi, Nevada,
carload of buffaloes, being shipped
from Yellowstone Park to the Golden
Gate Park, San Francisco, escaped.
and cowboys have been engaged to re-
capture them.
Application for permission to or
ganize the Fallon National bank OF
Fallon New. has been made to the
comptroller by Harry Pinger OF FAIR
view, New, and others. The capital
stock is to be $4,000.
After four days, in which he suffered
intense agony, w. A. Lawson. young
man 10 years old, died from the ell
| feet of poison contained in what he
supposed to be mushrooms, which he
gathered at Golden Gate park. San
Francisco.
Secretary Garfield has submitted an
estimate and recommendation to con-
gress for an appropriation OF $500 Tor
marking six miles of boundary line be-
tween Montana and Wyoming along
the western boundary of Yellowstone
National park.
Charles Arson, traffic chief of the
Western Telegraph Office in Portland.
died at st. Vincents hospital on the
18th, after suffering for few hours
from an attack of apoplexy. MIR. An
son was one of the best known opera
tors in the country.
A new phase in the Nevada banking
situation took place last week when
w. ID. Mackenzie, the heaviest indi'
vidual depositor in the suspended
State Bank and Trust company
agreed to refinance the institution and
become one of it's members.
George Bop, union miner who has
, been out with the strikers, was severe
ly injured by the explosion of dyna
mite in stove in which he was build
, ing fire in his home in Goldfield
|, No reason Is known for anyone at
/ tempting to take Bop's life.
) Samuel b. Cohen, a prominent mer
. chant of Tonopah, shot himself at al
8 early hour in the morning at his hom'
/ after losing a fortune at gambling
He was formerly a merchant of Car
3 son City and for time took a lead
ing part in politics IN that city.
Thomas B. Hickey, president of thu
State Bank & Trust company, wal
arrested at Carson, Nevada, las
week, on a charge of embezzlement
The warrant was sworn to by d.
Bohall, who states that he Is de
, positor, and that the bank receive'
l deposits knowing that 1t was inso
D vent.
: Found guilty of murder of Eugen
o. Madden, near Basin, Mont, on New
, Years day, George Plat. an old-tim
l prospector and miner, has been sent
enced to Imprisonment for life in tn
penitentiary. On receiving his sent
ence the old man, with an outburst
= temper, denounced the prosecuting a
Z. torney.
( The Oregon Trust and Savings ban
l of Portland, whose failure occurre
i several months ago, reopened for bus
= ness last week under the name @
: the German-American bank, with whic
r the bankrupt institution has bee
= merged with a paid-up capital c
$400 900 There was no excitement
and the Withdrawals were light.
Federal Judge Hunt of Helena sc
the hearing of cases involving thi
teen defendants. who are alleged t
have fenced an area of governmer
land which is the largest on recor
in the history of the United State
courts. They are collectively allege
to have taken over approximate
100000 acres.
John G.. Wetleek attempted to pla
a joke on F. d. Heppner. newly a.
pointed policeman in Portland an
was killed. Wetleek hid behind
clump of bushes and as Heppner can
along stepped in front of him an
pointing his pipe at the policeman, o
dered Hands up" Heppner DIRE
his pistol from his pocket and sh
Wetleek dead.
The house of representative h,
passed the Mondell bill, granting {
extension of time to desert land e
trymen who are unable to irriga
their lands within the four years I
quired by law, the extension not
exceed three years. The bill also pr
hibits the assignment of desert e