The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-02-27
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The First National bank q,
Nevada, has been authorized ;. II
mence business by the comnt,.s
the currency with a capital ~.
5000. wy
While the driver OF a Wen
express wagon was delivering
age at store in the business ~
Of Reno, Nevada, a thief took
containing $500 in gold and cu,
from the wagon seat and ss' 4;
without detection.
The senate voted down O..
Borahs amendment to the cod, 5,%
prohibiting senators and conrro,. t 4
accepting fees for services as N, 4
neys in any court procedure in :, W
the United States is directly or Nh
rectly interested. NJ
Rev. Benjamin Parsons, AGED
the oldest Presbyterian minls,s, E
the coast, died at Seattle on the NJ
after an illness of one day, whia u
pairing for foreign missionary
in Seattle, over which he was n
side on March 8.
In the death of Mrs. ]. B. f. Rev,s
from valvular heart trouble On sW
day, at her residence in Denver I,
RADIO lost one of its most active NJ
anthropists. Needy and unfortu,,
persons who have been assisted b
Mrs. Reynolds number hundreds +
The announcement of the candlt,I
Of Tascar l.. Oddie OF Tonopah
United States senator has been ma,
by prominent Republicans of Carr
Nevada. Mr.. Oddie has amasset
large fortune in mines. He will n
deavor to succeed Senator Newls,,
j. ]. Fitzmaurice, aged 70, NH
and an inmate Of the poor house, N
had been charged with the murder
w. F. Baker, aged 72, also a paup}
was dismissed by Judge Grice \
Butte last week. 1t had been shovI
that Fitzmaurice struck Baker In "A
defense.
Daniel Sullivan has been renor!
mated for postmaster of Cripple Cred
Colo. Sullivan was active in protsl
Ing Mr.. Roosevelt against assam
when he was at Cripple Greek in u
campaign of 1900, and he secured h
denomination in the face OF some d
position.
Frank Parkhurst of Chicago act
dentally shot himself just after boar
ing a Colorado & Southern passengg
train at Trinidad, Colo, infiicting
probably fatal wound. AS he wi
walking through car the hammer
a revolver in his overcoat pock
struck the end of seat, firing b
weapon.
George w. VESSELS, a veteran act
who had played leading parts wi
Edwin Booth and many other prom
nent stage folk during tire past TART
five years, died in Denver last wei
of paralysis, superinduced by expt
ure when playing with Blanche Bat
in "The Darling Of the Gods" thr
years ago.
The federal court of Nevada b
granted a temporary Injunction in
vor of the plaintiff company again
the Jumbo Extension Mining co
pany, forbidding either company fri
extracting, shipping or selling of a
ore from their workings on the Gc
Wedge claim. The dispute is ov
apex rights.
The inspector in charge of immig
ton service, with headquarters
Helena, has received instructiO
from the department at Washingu
to begin an investigation OF all PEN
charitable, reformatory and other
in his district, with Il
view of ascertaining the number
aliens quartered therein.
The sawmills at Hamilton. Mont,
the Anaconda Copper Mining col
pany, of the Amalgamated Copp
group of companies, will resume ope
ations March 2. This plant cuts til
ber for use in the mines of Butte ar
In some quarters it's resumption is r
garded as significant of an early r
opening of the copper mines.
Representative Mondell has intr
duced new 320-acre homestead bill
different from the Smo'
bill, reported to the senate last wee
which applies only to Colorado, ldah
Montana, Nevada, North and Sout
Dakota. Oregon, Utah, Wyomin
New Mexico and Arizona, and perml
persons qualified to make Homestead
to take up under the homestead la
$40 acres OF non-mineral, noniITlg
Die, unreserved and inappropriate
public lands which do nj
contain merchantable timber.
Rail rates from Northern Pacif
common points in Montana to Chicae
nave been reduced from As cents
I2h cents, according to word receive
'y the railroad commission. This
he result of a new agreement mad
~ the Northern Pacific with the Bu
ington.
Burlington train No. 5, westboun'
IN the Northern Pacific tracks, wa