The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-07-02
NORTHWEST NOTES

| AhS twenty -tibuln COuNtullOu vi Nue
Montana State Christian association
was held in Billings last week.
Montana was the last state in the
| Union to hold its Democratic state
convention TO elect delegates to Den.
YER.
Twice within ten days the Carne-
gle library at Reno. Nevada, has been
robbed, about SIS being taken from
the money drawer.
c. D. Frazier OF Portland was chos.
en- second vice-president of the Trav'
elers' Protective association at the
Milwaukee meeting.
The eight-year-old daughter of Mrs.
| Samuel Stevenson was burned to
death at Carson City, New, her dress
catching fire from a firecracker
Joseph Wallace was killed by a
train two miles west of Laurel, Mont.
Trainmen say the man was sleeping
on the track, his head pillowed on a
| rail.
Egbert Smith, aged Al years, one OF
the best known mining engineers In
America, died at his home in Colorado
Springs last week. Death came as a
result of an illness contracted In Mex
leo last winter.
The body of 15-year-old Harry SIT
ford, who mysteriously disappeared
from Reno, Nevada, has been found at
saltwater, over fifteen miles from
where he was supposed to have gone
bathing In an irrigating ditch.
Boycott of Oregon hops and barley
worth 100000 annually Is threat
ened by the brewers because of the
stand for prohibition taken by most
of the counties of that state, accord
ing to prominent California brewer
The Isthmian Canal commission
has discontinued the purchasing
agency at Tacoma, Wash. and has
transferred the work, which consist
ed principally in the inspection OF
lumber, to an army engineer at Seat
tie.
A defective rail caused the wreck
ing of passenger train near Garry
town, Mont, and Engineer j. ]. Null.
| len was instantly killed. Fireman
, George w. Dukshire was seriously in
jured, but it is believed he will re
cover.
The directors of the Montana hide
, pendent Telephone company. at a
meeting held in Butte, elected officers
for the year. One change was made.
w. II. Hall of Butte being elected as
vice-president to succeed P. B. Moss
of Billings.
After scarcely three hours of delib
q GRAFTON, a jury at Butte acquitted John
! Sutherland Of the charge of first de
gree murder in the killing of j. l.
4 Kerr, November 7 last. This was
, Sutherland's second trial. Sutherland
). struck Kerr with brick.
|. Mayor Taylor, mine superintend
:. ent. and o. w. Priest, an ex-constable
died at Goldfield last week within
+, three hours of each other as result
of desperate street duel with pts
), tolls in which the two men almost rid
= died one another. Taylor charged
q Priest with trying to break up hi,
home.
!. Henry Weber, prominent mining
n operator and society leader, one Of the
/. pioneers of Goldfield, has been sen
a fenced to serve seven years in the
state penitentiary. Weber was con
victed Of embezzling $4,000 belonging
to the Doctor Mining company Of
!, Wonder, of which he was president
u and manager.
Fifty years ago on June 81 the lit
tie band of Georgians known as tht
II Green Russell party pitched camp or
l. Cherry creek, where Denver stands
T. after wearisome journey across the
II plains, and later they built the frs
d cabin on the site of the city. Th'
It event was commemorated last weel
n by celebration of the pioneers.
T. The two-year-old son of Mr.. ant
d Mrs. Tony Spritz was run over by
IT runaway team in Butte and Instant!
g killed. The hoofs Of the horses
@ crushed in the skull of the child. Thu
e runaway was started by small boy
o exploding firecrackers near thu
horses.
T, Miss Leonora Pearce, convicted a
e Denver of having obtained valuable
o ring from Mrs. Harriet Crows, al
If aged blind widow, by palming hersel
t. off as a spiritualist capable Of restoI
5, ing sight, was sentenced to serv
II three to four years in the COLORADO
penitentiary.
l. Two destructive fires in Colorado
y started by careless campers, have dc
IS stroyed timber valued at $4,000
s The fires occurred In the western par
r. of Jefferson county and the extrem
IS northern central part of Park county
&c the latter being known as Noun
Evans district.
S The Andy Hempel Brokerage CON
<, pany, the pioneer mining brokerag
l. firm in Reno, was sold last week TO
y W. Longley. E. B. Cushman and B. !
e Soell, all of Tonopah, New, where the
g. are prominent in business circles. Tn
e company will be reorganized and cal
talized at 100000.
If James e. Steele, en- route from il