The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-06-04
NORTHWEST NOTES

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OF Butte. fell distance of sixty feet
In tho ELM Grin shaft and was in
stantly killed.
Six inches of snow on the level
prevented the opening OF the baseball
season at Butte on May 26. An elab-
crate program had been prepared for
the occasion.
A,niicable relations between the la.
Dor unions of Montana and the Bell
Telephone company have been re-
stored, after fight which has lasted
Tor some time and been source or
heavy expense to both sides.
Ill health is supposed to have been
responsible for Mrs, Emma G. Larsen,
u widow, killing herself by hanging
OF Goldfield. She fastened one end of
rope to window, tied the other
about her neck and jumped into
space.
Judge Burnett, in the circuit court
at Salem, Ore, sentenced J. Thorn
burn Ross, the Portland banker. to
Eve years Imprisonment and to pay
fine OF $4,000. Ross was recently
convicted of wrongful conversion of
state school funds in his capacity as
president of the Title Guarantee and
Trust company.
The plant of the Seimon Lumber
company, on the tide flats at Belling-
ham, Wash, burned early Saturday,
entailing a loss of 100000. The fire
started in. the engine room and.
spread SO rapidly that the watchman
could do little to stay the flames
with the fire.fighting equipment in the
mill.
The people Of La Grande, Ore, are
elated over the assurance that $685.
900 federal building will be forth
coming next year. In 1t will house
the postofiice and the land office.
Should this city be selected as the
Headquarters of this division of the
supreme court, the building will be
its home.
Sheriff Alfred Bath of Laramie,
Wyo. was killed thirty miles west
of Laramie by a man named Sum
mers, from Walden, Colo. Summers
had held UP and robbed his employer
at Walden, and Sheriff Bath had
been advised of the fact and was In
pursuit. of Summers when the murder
occurred.
Ontario, Ore, ships more livestock
| than any other point between Port
land and Denver, 1t is claimed. Cattle,
| horses and sheep are driven there for
a distance of $50 to 200 miles to be
| loaded onto the cars for Transports
ton east and north. 1t is not uncom'
mon for 1000 head of cattle to be
shipped from there in one day.
Francis Ciddeo was found guilty al
Greenwood, b. c., of the charge Of
murder, and was sentenced to bt
hanged July 81. Ciddeo was charged
with dynamiting the Canadian hote
which resulted in the death OF the
proprletor's daughter, Miss King. Ht
made good his escape, but later was
captured In Salt Lake City.
Colorado may emphasize the fran
chise for women in that state b,
sending two women delegates to the
national Democratic convention. Fol
lowing the movement In Denver Il
send Mrs. Ruth Bryan Leavitt, 1t il
announced that Mrs. Margaret How
ell Jefferson Davis Hayes, the onl.
living daughter of Jefferson DAVIS
may be a delegate.
News comes from Billings, Mont
of the death of William T. Hamilton
aged &c. we'll known throughout tn
state as Uncle Billy" and probabl,
the greatest Indian fighter and lndial
sign reader and talker the west ha
ever produced. Years before Burial
Bill" Cody was born, Hamilton wa
fighting Indians on the plains and Il
the Rocky mountains
The Rev. Mr.. Lewis ]. Duncan, pas
tor of the Unitarian church OF Butte
recently invited Emma Goldman, tn
anarchist, to speak in his church, o
her visit to Butte. Because of this,
committee from the local Grand Arm
Of the Republic waited upon Mr.. Dun
can and requested him to retire
orator OF the community in the loca
Decoration day services.
George B. Mechem of Denver, VIII
has been mining in Cripple Creel
Colorado Springs and other places fo
years, has filed suit against l.. l.. Pa
rick, president of the First Nations
bank of Goldfeld, for s2S5,000, CLAIM
ing that he grubstaked Patrick eigf
years ago, and that Patrick made
fortune in Goldfield without accoun
ing to him for his half.
|, The government will bring procee'
J ings to dispossess the Southern P'
} cific of lands in western Oregon va
ued at $3,50O,0o0, and to secure d.
} cree annulling the grant and resto
ing the lands to the public domain
The lands were given to the Souther
Pacific several decades ago to induC
the construction of railroad Ines, b'
1t is claimed the road has failed
, i've up to all its obligations to Il