The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-06-11
NORTHWEST NOTES

u III Narson' nevada, the delegates
were instructed for William Jennings
Bryan.
Mrs. z. N. Leape and her daughter.
MRS Vera McKelvie. who set ont from
Portland, Me-, on May 12. to travel in
an automobile to Portland. Ore. ar.
rived In Chicago on June /.
Maurice McKellingon. an aged busi.
ness man of Goldfeld found guilty
ol murder In the second degree, he's
neen sentenced to ten years impris.
ohment' the minimum sentence.
VI thirteen delegates elected nv
Suite Miners union No. 1, w. F, NJ.
10 the annual convention of the West
ern Federation of Miners, to be held
IN Denver in July, nine are avowed So
cialists.
ROBERT w. Speer was on June | in.
angurated as mayor of Denver for a
second term of four years. The cere-
monies were held in the new city
auditorium in which the Democratic
national convention will meet July 7.
William Dempsey, the Augusta
rancher, who was shot by the boy
bandits in the hold-up of a train near
Great Falls, Mont, is dead, and the
four boys, Rheams, Hatch, Creswell
and Randall, will have to face a
charge of murder
Charles r. Leonard of Butte, attor-
ney for F, Augustus Heinze, last week
announced that Mr.. Heinze will soon
return to Butte to assume personal
charge of his mining property in this
state. Mr. Heinze has recently ac-
CURED some valuable Montana prop
erty.
The will of the late Governor Sparks
of Nevada was filed last week, show
ing the value of the property left by
the governor to be 100000. The
heirs are Mrs. Nancy Eeanora Sparks,
the widow; Mrs. Maud Mckenzie,
Benton Sparks, c. M. Sparks and Le-
land Sparks.
After negotiations consuming forty.
one days the miners and operators of
the northern Colorado Ignite coal
fields have disagreed and strike
seems imminent. At the final session
of the conference the miners repre-
sentatives rejected the proposition of
tn operators, which would reduce
the wages.
The friends of the late Joe Simp-
son, the Reno, New, gambler who was
lynched by being hanged to a tele-
graph pole at Skidoo, for shooting a
saloon man of that place, are now
trying to find his wife. 1t is stated
that he left over $4,000 and that his
wife will receive the entire estate If
she will only apply for 1t.
William Soper, passenger brake
man who shot and killed James
Brothers, a saloonkeeper of Gilman,
Colo, declares he thought Brothers
was a train robber, the crew having
been warned that there would be an
attempt to hold up the train, and
when he saw Brothers running to-
ward the train, Soper shot him.
Captain Leonard Bailey and three
patrolmen discharged by the chief OF
police of Helena, because of an order
Of the mayor to reduce the police
force of that city, have kept their
uniforms and have continued on duty
on the advice of their attorneys. The
claim is made that the discharge OF
the men is illegal, and the case will
be carried into the courts.
Terry Sturgis, who recently es
capped from the insane asylum al
Napa, Cal, and took possession of a
ranch near Reno, Nevada, has been
captured after a hard fight. Sturgis
lived in Grizzly valley for several
years. His cabin was lined with
sheet iron and on the outside he had
set heavy bear traps to catch intrud'
ers.
John S. Macbeth, one of the most
prominent attorneys in Colorado, was
severely injured in a runaway at
Goldfield, New, as was also Miss
Mvra Lockhart, the 20-year-old daugh-
ter of Thomas G. Lockhart, who, with
A. d. Parker of Denver, owns the
Florence mine.
Secretary Garfield has issued an or
der providing that on all government
irrigation projects where not otherwise
ordered, operation and maintenance
charges for prior seasons must be
maid on or before April l, 1909, in de-
fault of which no water will be fur'
| niebad thereafter.
Mosney, the noted half-breed Indian
who has successfully eluded the OF
ficers of the law, recently compelled
ranchman in the Augusta country
in Montana, to submit to forceful
exchange of horses, leaving a crippled
animal behind him. The half-Dreed
was heavily armed.
Mrs. J. Dunn, an aged pioneer WON
an of virginia City, New, was found
dead in her home, with her head bent
back over her shoulders and her BODY
wedged between the bed and wall
Her head was smothered in pillows
and bed clothes The motive for the
murder is unknown.
.,., .;,od of life and its hard