The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-04-09
NORTHWEST NOTES

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and three injured, two probably ia
tally.
A. G.. Valentine, one OF the bes
known assayers on the Pacific coas
and formerly chief assayer of thu
Western Ore Purchasing works a
Reno, Nevada, has succumbed to al
attack of pneumonia.
A Seattle dispatch says the fishing
schooner Lydia, formerly a govern
ment vessel, was cut in two by the
steamship Chippewa of the Puget
Sound Navigation company, off Point
No Point, and two men drowned.
Philip Weber, a Rawhide, Nevada
saloon man, was taken from train
and placed in the ogden, Utah, jail,
suffering from a fit of insanity. We
Der has twice tried to commit suicide
since being placed in jail, by hang
ing himself
Announcement is made that Ernest
Knaebel, assistant attorney general
of the United States for Colorado.
has sent his resignation to President
Roosevelt, and after it is accepted
will become associated with proml-
nent Denver firm.
II has been rumored recently that
the Guggenheim interests are plan
ming to back the extension of the
Nevada Northern from Ely to Gold
field The road now runs from Cobre
to Ely, and the plan on foot is to ex-
tend it southwest.
Edwin Norris on April l became
the fourth governor of the state of
Montana, the resignation of Joseph
O'Toole becoming effective on that
date. The oath was administered by
Chief Justice Brantly in the presence
of very few visitors.
Arthur Thompson, colored prize
fighter, while asleep in his room in
Cheyenne, was attacked by George
Harper, also colored, with an ak and
horribly butchered Harper is alleged
to have been under the influence of
cocaine when he attacked his friend.
Ben Johnson and Charles Haden
were blown up on the Spokane, Port
land & Seattle railroad, near Sprague,
Wash, by a blast. One was killed
outright and the other died in the
Sprague hospital. The accident oc-
Cured by the men pouring powder
into hole too soon after blast had
gone off.
George S. Dubois, a well known
mining man, who discovered the Lost
Bullion mine near Silver City, N. M,
and was one of the persons indicted
by the federal grand jury in connec-
ton with the promotion of that con-
Germ, was shot and killed on April l |
At Balladat, Colo, by Henry Bird,
notel keeper,
In premature explosion Of dyna-
mite in a construction camp near
Spokane, Charles Norman and Theo-
1ore Hofstad, powder men, were
blown clear over the walls of the
cut. rising forty feet above them and
brown 200 feet in opposite directions
beyond the edge of the cut. Both
men were killed.
Articles of incorporation of the
Rocky Mountain Highway associa-
ion, having for its object the promo
ion of the building of improved high
ways and roads along the base of the
rocky Mountains in Colorado, Mon
ana. Wyoming, Idaho, Utah, New
deXico and Arizona, were filed in
Denver last week.
The Utah Construction comnanv
as been instructed by the Hartman
fneials to resume grading line
rom Huntington to Homestead
'aker county, Oregon This work
'as halted last fall at the beginning
the financial furry. The road to
homestead is the first link in n Har.
man cutoff into Lewiston, Idaho.
Joseph Shannon, William Cults
nd and A. E. Edwards were last
eek released from the count, iail =
Heiena, Mont, where they have
cen incarcerated for the past ninety
lys for contempt of an injunction
sued by Judge Hunt of the United .
lates court upon application of the =
ocky Mountain Bell Telephone com. - =,
my. 0''i' G
MIS- Helen Pierce Gray, a ne sgpa. o
er woman, who was arrested last %
INNER on the Grow Indian resarva. Of
On IN Montana, and kept in iail for "A
rec months on a charge Of collect. :"
g money from the Indians. cbargas ID
ulah Agent Reynolds, Commission. ~
Leupp and Secretary Garfield with al al
oss misconduct of the affairs of tba u
dams. Vi the
Dr. j. P. Whitney, pract,c,ng
must is under arrest in Portland oy
arged with the death of his sweet 20
art Miss Mabel Writ, who died ~, ~ co
'rcurial poisoning, The BODY was nC
out to be cremated when dennto ~ =.
roher stopped the ceremony ho no
use a certificate of death had Nv. ~
sh MED. When the Certificate gO ~
was obtained the cause of death Ni'
S made plain. VI uea'li
.ames Mcfarland, head of the Sin ' .n'
..oh agency, has had two NJ hta Il
81 men in Telluride since stamo o
ANS was taken there fro,,,