The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-05-07
NORTHWEST NOTES

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ing for the appointment OF an add
tional assistant treasurer OF the Unit
ed States, to be located at Seattle.
The Japanese of San Francisco con.
tributed to the feet entertainment
fund the sum of s2,44G, the amount
being raised by popular subscription,
General Manager Grueber OF the
Great Northern railroad, after an IN
vestigation of the company's property
so seriously damaged by the bursting
! of the Hauser lake dam, estimates the
loss to the company is $4,000.
It is announced that no attempt viii
be made at present to reopen No. l
mine at Hanna, Wyo., where a large
number Of miners recently lost their
lives as the result of an explosion
There are still fifty.six bodies in the
| mine.
Former Senator w. A. Clark is in
hospital in Los Angeles, where he
underwent an operation for growth
on the left side of his neck. The
| operation was successful and the null
ti--millionaire mine owner will be out
in few days.
The taxpayers of Helena, Mont,
last week went on record by vote
of four to one in indorsing the NUM-
cipal waterworks system and the ex'
tension of the present sewerage sys-
TEN. The proposition was for the is.
suance of $670,000 In bonds,
Every department of the Southern
Pacific shops at Sparks, Nevada, re.
sumed operations at full blast last
Monday morning. The departments
have been running with greatly re.
duced forces for several months past.
At least 500 men are affected.
George e HE, fireman of the Burling.
ton overland limited, dynamlted by
bandits near Butte, is dead This
makes the third fatality of the wreck
The officers are very reticent concern.
ing any cews which might lead to
the identity of the perpetrators of the
blowing up of the train.
Henry P. Morrison, brakeman on
the Heppner branch of the Oregon
Railway & Navigation company, shot
and killed his sweetheart, Nora
Wright, near Morgan, Oregon, and
wounded Bonnie Ahart. her compan-
ion, on Sunday. Morrison then shot
himself and he is not expected to live.
Cleveland Murdoch, a well known
young man of Reno, Nevada, son of a
wealthy stock raiser, walked into a
saloon in Reno and, after joking with
| some friends, drew a revolver and
| fired a bullet into his brain. There
is no known reason for the deed. ex-
| cept that he was of melancholy dis.
| position
The home of ]. G.. Wickland, fore
man of the quarries of the Washoe
Smelling company at Anaconda,
Mont, was blown up by giant powder
| one night last week, Mr.. Wickland
being injured, but the rest OF the fam
| lily escaped .unhurt. Discharged Aus
TRANS and Italians are suspected Of
the crime.
Edward McAfee, a negro, escaped
from the asylum at Pueblo. Colo, and
attacked Mrs. Edward Jones with a
Ratchet. inflicting injuries which will
probably cause her death McAfee
stood off his pursuers with an ak and
was only captured when a Ore com
pany was called out anu turned the
hose on him.
Mrs. p. ]. w. Adams, wife of Pres
ident Adams of the Sc, on friday AID.
ventists OF western Canada, is be-
lieved to have been murdered for her
money in the Garden OF the Gods,
Colorado, Size has not been heard
from since February 5, when she left
Boulder, Colo, for California, stop.
ping off at Colorado Springs.
John Van Tine, convicted of hold
ing up Deputy County Clerk Morton
at Reno, Nevada, has been sentenced
TO ten years Imprisonment In the state
penitentiary. Van Tine had just fin
ished a nine-year term in the Califor.
MIA prison for the same kind Of of.
Tense. upon his relase going to Reno
and Immediately getting in trouble.
A. G. Lewis, of Los Angeles. while
enroute to Chicago, fell underneath a
train at Reno and had narrow es.
cape from death, AS 1t was he es-
capped with a broken ankle, fearful
bruises. and 1t is feared sustained in
ternal injuries that may yet result in
his death.
Al Burlington train was dynamited
near Butte on the night of May l, the
explosion causing the engines to leave
the rails. Every person on the train
has been accounted for except Engi-
neer Busy of the second engine, who
is supposed to be buried under his To-
comotive.
AS the result of fight between
two Indians, Chilean and Mexican
at Reno. Nevada, in which knives
were the weapons. the Chilean is at
deaths door. the Mexican was badly
cut up, and both of the Indians were
injured The fight was over two In.