The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-02-13
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Governor Toole of Montap,
rendered his resignation to take !,
April l.. He will be succeeded nv \
tenant Governor Edwin Norris
governors health has been bas
some time.
Refusal Of eastern railroads to :,
O special rate to Denver next M,
Der may cause that city to los
annual convention of the Ans,
Federation of Labor, SCHEDULED
take place at that time. h
President Roosevelt last week
to the house of representatives M
port of the special commission d
vestigation into the Goldfield h
troubles, in reply to a recent rs
tion requiring him to do so.
Governor Sparks has received ,
sage from President Roosevelt
nouncing that Federal troops won,
withdrawn from Goldfield, March
is expected that the state police |,
will be organized by that date.
The state of Wyoming paid into
forest fund in the last fiscal
$162,919, divided into the folOv
items: Timber sales, SOL ,43O; d
Ing fees, $69,615; supplementary
Der sales, $1,511; special privlls
1862.
Wolfe Copinus, one Of the first
to engage in business in Anacu
and a pioneer merchant of Monr
died at Rochester, Mimi. on Febu
5, as a result of an operation periOn
In the hospital there. Copinus ops
the first store in Anaconda.
Col. B. F. Shaw, commander
Washington volunteers during the
dian wars of 1S55-56, pioneer of Va
ington territory, died suddenly at
home in Portland from bursted bS
vessel, following violent attack
coughing. He was Z years old.
w. N. Cooley Of Kallspell, Mont
senior student in the engineering
partment of Stanford university !
shot and killed at l o'clock In
morning by w. Uhlman, engineer
the University power house. Coz
had been to Menlo Park and when
returned he got into Uhlman's hC
by mistake.
Jacob Hit, who was arrested 50
time ago on minor charge and VII
case was dismissed, has confessed
the police of Portland that while
was in jail his cellmate, Joseph
derson, confessed to him that be |
killed Harry Logan, who was shot
death on the Fourth street bridge
eral months ago.
Henry ]. Gruber, on trial at Boua
Mont, for the hold-up of a Nathc
Pacific train near Butte last MN,u
the murder of Engineer Glow, has
mitted a written confession, imp
ing George Haskins, still to be
and George Towers, last week
fenced to ninety-nine years in the
itentiary for the crime.
A publicity bureau has been ere
in Denver by the executive comm
of the Denver convention lei
which Is acting in connection with
committee on arrangements for
Democratic national convention.
purpose of the bureau is to send
news and feature stories about
yer and Colorado from now until
convention is over.
An eloquent address was deliy
in the senate by Senator Pyles
Washington, in favor of an appro
ton by congress of 100000 for
ernment exhibit at the Alaska-Yu
Pacific exposition to be held in Sc
next year Mr.. Pyles pictured in
language the settlement of the
northwest in the face of predict
made by distinguished statesmen
verse to the practical utility OF
region.
By an order signed by Judge L.
of the State District court at B
Robert M. Lyons, receiver in ch
of the Aetna bank, which failed In
tober, 1906, is directed to bring
against F. Augustus Heinze, fol
director, and A. B. Clements, fol
treasurer, for $97,500, the amour
cash due for stock held by Heinz
the bank and which, 1t has develi
HeinZe never paid for.
A special from Lewistown, NJ
says John Walsh, aged IA, accidel
ly shot his 12-year-old brother v
playing soldier on a ranch tw
miles from town The younger
died instantly. The two were q
on the ranch when the accident
Cured.
James Gavin Towers, charged
the murder of Engineer Frank I
of the North Coast Limited train
the Northern Pacific, was found gu
at Boulder, Mont, of murder in
second degree. The jury recomm
ed that the court impose sentenc
SO years.
State Engineer Wade, who has
made a plat of the town of Cut b
Mont, will report to the state D