The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-01-23
NORTH WEST NOTES

wheat crop of the state
Senator Clark has introduced bill
providing that term OF the Federal
district and Circuit courts for Wyom-
ing shall be held In october each
year at Lander, Wyo.
Judge Bourquin, in the district court
at Butte last week continued the hear
ing incident to the application for
receiver for the suspended State Saw
ings bank until February II.
AUNT" Sarah Bryant. a colored wo-
man, said to have been 125 years old,
died at Gunnison, Colo, last week.
| She was born slave In Missouri, and
had lived In Gunniuon twenty years.
Reproved by her mother for scold-
ing younger sister Bessie Conroy,
aged IA, living in Anaconda, took car
bolic acid and died in an hour. The
father, Barney Conroy, works in Great
Falls.
The New York store, leading la
dies furnishing and dry goods estah-
lishment of Cheyenne, has failed. The
indebtedness is placed at $4,000.
while the assets are estimated at
about $4,000.
More than 80 per cent OF the oil
business in Colorado. Wyoming, Utah
and New Mexico is controlled by the
Standard Oil company, according to
testimony adduced at the hearing OF
the governments suit to dissolve cor
poration.
While Herbert Farnum OF Hillyard,
J Wash, was driving near Mead a Whit.
fie tree broke and his horses rar
away, dragging him over the dash
board. Death was instantaneous. his
neck being broken. Farnum was mar
ried last New Years day.
Senator Newlands OF Nevada has
been appointed member of the i'm.
portant committee of commerce to
succeed Senator Mallory of Florida,
who died recently. The assignment
will be OF advantage to Senator New
, lands in the way of advocating his
plan for improving OF inland water
ways.
The San Francisco Examiner says
? that, acting on the complaint of sew
> eral hundred stockholders, federal of
i ficias have started an investigation
! into the affairs of the National Air
:, ship company of Portland. Sales OF
stock, amounting to about quarter
of a million dollars, are alleged to
u have been made.
!! A receiver has been appointed for
Il the Exchange State bank of Blaine
Wash, which closed its doors Janu.
airy Is. The affairs of this bank are
alleged to be in hopeless tangle,
and the institution practically without
funds o. G. Mathis, cashier. has dis.
appeared and warrant has been Is
sued for his arrest.
w. f. Grace OF Goldfield, Nevada
threw q rock through the plate glass
window of the State bank, because hs
had $500 on deposit in the bank and
the bank had failed to reopen for bust
ness when promised He was arrest
ed and secured his release by giving
check for $500 against his account
In settlement of the damage.
Arrangements have been practical
ly completed between the Helena Ma
tional Forest and Allen Gold MiniLt
company of Anaconda for the larges
timber sale ever made in Montana. 1
involves the transfer from the gov
eminent to the mining company OF al
lUt llliDtI OH lH6 bouiuCk Wutti DuCu
comprising approximately 50,000,00t
feet of lumber
A special to the Helena Record from
Twin Bridges says that ]. 3. Wood
worth, one of the wealthiest stockmer
IN in southern Montana, lies at deaths
door as the result of fall received
'k while skating, his favorite pastime
He fractured his skull and Is still un
. conscious.
Frank Stephens of Meaghen county
Montana, has just concluded dea
for the purchase of the w. d. Corbul
cattle holdings in Valley county. A
there are 10000 in the bunch the dea
is one of the largest in the history o
the state of Montana. The sale wa
made at s25 head.
10 f. X. Stark of Tacoma and Gertrud
Va Gamble OF Vancouver, b. c., wer
I found dead at the Glide hotel in TIA
of coma. Death was caused by asphyxia
On ton. 1t is supposed that in an al
ed tempt to turn out the gas stove, whic
70 was in the room, they failed to shu
the gas off entirely.
no Keevil Albring, son of prominen
We farmer living near Spokane, was mul
". dered and robbed by tramp who wa
riding to town with the young mar
The murderer left the body by tn
roadside and drove the team to tow
and tied the horses to a post. afte
= which he disappeared.
The Butte Miners union has adop
i ed resolutions asking Presider
! Roosevelt to pardon President Josep
4 Shannon of the Montana state unto
of the Western Federation of Miner
who is now confined in the county ia
of Lewis and Clark county. at Heleni
for contempt OF court.
Carl NJ. Clemments, chairman ,
1 the Democratic state central eommi
Il toe OF the etatn of Washinpfnn WIG