The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-01-16

at the plant of the National Rubber
company at Bristol, r. l., after shut
down of one month More than 1900
operatives were given work.
Mrs. A. p. Boyd of Portland. Ore,
and her little son were killed in
wreck of the Sunset express on the
Southern Pacific at Rucker, Cal. Eigh-
teen passengers were injured.
The plants of the Republic Iron and
Steel company and the Youngstown
Steel and Tube company at Youngs-
town, o., have resumed operations,
giving employment to 5000 men.
Senator Gore of Oklahoma has In
troduced joint resolution providing
that no person shall be eligible to be
elected president of the United States
for more than two terms in success
sion.
Senator Clay has introduced bill
authorizing the secretary OF the treas
ury to issue $3O0,O00,000 of non-inter-
est bearing United States notes in
circulation, in such form as he may
deem expedient.
1t is persistently declared by min
srs at Jacobs Creek, Pa, that there
are 100 bodies yet in the Darr mine.
One of the miners organizations, 1t
Is claimed, has seventy members
missing OF unaccounted for.
The hard times in the industrial
world that have driven into the ma
rine corps and the navy nearly all of
| the men needed to fill the authorized
quotas, have not helped the army SO
far in the matter of recruiting.
About 5000 men were put back on
the pay rolls of various manufacture
| ing establishments in Detroit, Mich,
last week. A number of other plants
announce that they will increase
their working forces within the pres
ent week.
Mr.. Miya Okla, in charge of the jap
anese embassy at Washington, has
authorized formal denial Of report
from Vancouver, B. c., that the Jap
anese government Is recalling to ia
pan the army reserve men now in the
United States.
The house committee on immigra-
ton has voted to report favorably
the bill introduced by Representative
Hepburn Of Iowa suspending for six
years the law prohibiting the impor-
tation by the Hawaiian government
| of European contract laborers.
The short career of the woman aut-
| omobile cab drivers in Berlin has
already come to an end. Last week
the only woman who was licensed to
drive an automobile retired because
she did not possess enough endurance
to Withstand such arduous duties.
Secretary Taft is a strong advocate
of increased pay for the army, and
his annual report to congress COM
pletely dispels any doubt that may
exist as to his disposition. The re-
port shows rapid decrease in the
strength Of the regular army in re.
cent years.
Governor Harris of Ohio recon-
mends the enactment of a bill pro-
viding for general primary elections
with the Australian ballot system, and
the placing of telephone companies
under supervision of the state rail.
way commission, with power to regu'
late rates.
Vernon ID. Nettleton, hardware
dealer of Coldwater Mich, while suf'
fering from acute melancholia, due to
business troubles, rose from his bed
and gashed his sisters throat. He
then nearly severed his head from
his body with a carving knife, dying
almost instantly.
With the head nearly severed from
the trunk by three slashes of razor,
the corpse of well dressed Italian
was found at One Hundred and Nine
ty-sixth street and Briggs avenue,
New York City. No clue to the muir
derer or the identity of the victim
have been discovered
The Joint resolution extending to
January 2l, 1870 the time allowed NIL
litia companies in which to conform
their organization armament and dis
cipline to that prescribed for the reg
ular force of the United States has
passed the house. The measure now
goes to the president,
1t is believed that with the arrest
of George Tennyson at Minneapolis
Kans.. and Horace Trosper at Marys
vile, Kans., the mystery which has
surrounded the murder of Davis Ten
nyson, wealthy farmer, near Frank
fort, Kans., since February II, 1906
will be cleared up.
Commissioner Ballinger of the gen
eral land office has completed his an
nual report to the secretary of the in
terror for submission to congress. He
asks an appropriation OF 100000 tc
carry on the field work OF his bureau
In the protection of public lands. an
Increase OF $25o,00O