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

will be able to talk to Salt Lake or
San Francisco.
The president, on January Z, sea
the senate the nomination of Chrlsts
Schuebel to be United States attornr
for the district of Oregon.
Fire at Culbertson. Mont, destroys
an entire block of business housA
before II was gotten under contrO
entailing loss of s125,000.
The fourth anual convention of IL.
Wyoming Woolgrowers' associate,
the largest ever held in the state, VI,
held at Laramie, Wyo., last week.
John Darling. charged with TO-
gerry, broke out of the Rock Sprirn
wyo., Jail last week, with seven
other prisoners charged with minc
offenses.
T. o. Newman, business man Z
Butte, Mont, shot and killed himsel
on a Southern Pacific train at Bait.
Mountain, Nevada He was tempo
arily insane.
F. A. Heinze has appealed to Pres
ident Roosevelt for the remission
a $4,000 fine imposed upon him 10
contempt Of court in violating an Is
junction restraining him from extrac
ing ore from a certain Butte mine
Exports of wheat, barley and Aor
from Portland and Puget Sound port
have been adding $150,000 a day "
the wealth of Oregon and WashingtQ
since October 1, and this average
exports will be maintained until h
end of this month.
The smclter trust has announced (
new rate for Goldfield ores. For
ores up to 500 ton, full cash setts
ment will be made at once. Fc
ores over 500 ton the company vii
pay 500 a ton at once and balanc
within forty-five days.
Governor Joseph X. Toole of Mos
tana has appointed thirty represen
ative citizens as delegates to the Mis-
souri, River Navigation congress, Il
be held in Sioux City, January 22s
next The delegation is headed b.
William Scallon of Butte.
A contract for S1,000,000 worth d.
construction on the new Denver 4
Northwestern railroad has been let 4
an Omaha firm. BY the end of TIL
year the company hopes to have Ii.
section from Denver to Fort Collini
1875 miles, almost completed.
In order to encourage structurs
steel work in the Nevada mills ant
mines, the Salt Lake and the La.
Vegas & Tonopah railroads have n
duced the tariff on structural steel b
tween Los Angeles and Nevada point
from $1.S3 a hundred to S1.17.
The state board of railroad commis
sioners Of Montana directed the at
torney general to file three actions ID
the district court against the North
ern Pacific company, alleging viola
tions of the sixteen-hour employmens
law for employees in the train soryse.
Mrs. Isabel Hesket was murdered al
REyolite, Nevada, by Fred Skinner
with whom the unfortunate womai
had eloped from her home in Arrow
head, Colo. Skinner shot the womal
four times in the back, and attemptes
suicide, but failed and is now In jail
The forest supervisors of distric
No. 4, which includes the forests d
southern Idaho, Utah, part of Wye
ming and Nevada, will meet in Sal
Lake January 16, II and IS, for th
purpose Of talking over national fCi
est policies and work of supervisors
BY the breaking of natural dar
formed by landslide, the waters &
East creek wrecked the bunk hous
at Ladd, the mining camp of the Eai
Creek Coal company, sixty mile
south of Tacoma. e. Becker, masts
mechanic of the company, was burie
in the ruins. The other men escape
death.
At meeting of the employees
the East Helena plant of the Amer
can Smelling & Refining company, th
question Of going on strike was d.
feated by only five votes. 1t is ~
lieved that this will definitely sett.
the matter, and that no furher troubt
will be had at the smelter over A;
reduction in wages.
A special from Helena, Mont, state
that an attempt to escape on the pa
of two alleged Great Northern traf
robbers who held up the Orient
Limited at Rondo. Mont, and securs
$4,000, was frustrated by the wig
lance of United States Marshal Mer
field, who, in the shirt of Charles NJ
Donald, found hack-saw.
A. C, Coggin of Seattle, state MAJ
ager of the Loyal Americans, j. "
Vessey and John Peters, wealu,
sheep men of Prosser, Wash, left i9
Durango, Mexico, late last March +
purchase land. They took along abo'
100000 No trace of them has bee
found since last April, though It
known they reached Durango, II
suspected they were lost in
mountains or were killed by lndiaD
While d. Vigil, a well known rancl
man and his wife and praudchie