The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-04-16
NORTHWEST NOTES


restored to public entry $4,000 acres
# land which had been Withdrawn III
connection with the Little Missouri
irrigation project in Montana.
In the federal court at Helena
Judge Hunt fined Enoch Herbster'
prominent Dawson county, Montana
ranchman, $3.50 upon a plea OF guilty
to an indictment charging illegal
fencing
An aged prospector named Flana-
gan. bound for the hills with grub
stake on his back, was struck by
Southern Pacific train and instantly
killed in the tunnel near Palisade'
Nevada.
One of the features of the election
held in Montana was the carrying in
Bozeman of the Sunday and midnight
closing of the saloons. Bozeman Is
the first city in Montana to inaugur-
ate the Sabbath lid.
At the meeting at Helena Mont, or
the Democratic state committee, the
candidacy of William j. Bryan for the
presidency was endorsed without
dissenting voice from the twenty
seven members of the body.
The state encampment of the
Grand Army of the Republic, held at
Butte, closed on the 10th, with the
election of f. w. Kinney of Bozeman
as commander, and the selection OF
Billings as the 1909 convention city.
z. L. Daily, Indian inspector of the
Grow reservation in Montana was be-
fore the senate committee on Indian
affairs last week, and denied state
ments made by Mrs. Helen Pierce
Grey concerning alleged maladminis-
tration of its affairs,
The Oregon & Washington Railway
company has formally accepted the
franchises granted by the Seattle city
council. The grants include terminals,
freight yards, passenger depots, tun-
mel work and several miles OF lines
within the city limits of Seattle.
High school students took posses
sion of the school building at Ana
conda, Mont, one night last week,
and had a dance. How they gained
admission is unknown at present, but
a thorough investigation is to be
made and the guilty parties punished.
A delegation of Sioux Indians from
the Cheyenne and Standing Rock res
ervations, who favor opening at least
half of each of these reservations to
settlement, called upon the president
last week with Commissioner Leupp
of the Bureau of Indian affairs. The
president chatted with them n short
time.
Oliver &. Dallas, co-defendant with
J. D. Mcleod in the government con-
spiracy case on trial in the federal
court at Helena, Mont, confessed
frankly that all of the signatures TO
various documents which purported
to be the signatures of different dep
uty mineral surveys were written by
him.
Joseph Henry Taylor, the frontier
author, is dead at Washburn, N. d.,
from heart failure. Taylor reached
the Platte river in 1864, and worked
north along the Missouri river. He
was among the first white men to
take up his abode in Dakota. He
was author and publisher of number
of books.
With the exception of Butte, where
the Socialist vote held its own as
compared with the off-year municipal
election of the previous year, the So
cialist vote generally throughout
Montana shows a decided falling off
at the recent election. In Livingston
the Socialists were defeated by "a de-
cisive vote.
Henry and Arthur Weber, promi-
nent Nevada mining operators, have
been arrested at Goldfield, Nevada,
charged with embezzling $4,000 be.
longing to the treasury of the Doctor
Mining company The defendants
were released on $4,000 bail each.
The Webbers declare the prosecution
Is the result of spite work.
Frank j. Edwards, Republican, was
elected mayor of Helena after a
warm campaign in which the moral
issue was urged by his opponents. A
Democrat was elected city treasurer
and Republican was chosen police
Judge. The Republicans elected five
Of seven aldermen.
The Florence Gold Mining company
of Goldfeld has applied for an in.
junction to restrain the Little Flor.
once lease from continuing work on
ground leased by the latter company.
The lease runs only two weeks more
and the parent company claims the
mine is being Quilted.
Brady Martin, a Spokane contrac-
tor. was terribly injured at Lind.
Wash, while trying to extract dyna-
mite from missed shot. The ex.
plosion fractured his skull, broke one
leg and shot fragments of rock into
his body, He is in the hospital with
little hope of recovery.
The Canadian Pacific railroad has
decided to build second railway line
through the Rocky mountains to the
Pacific coast. Land on Hardy bav, in
the northern part of Vancouver has