The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-03-12
NORTHWEST NOTES


three public building bills for the in
termountain country-Lander. Wyo.,
S165,00O; Rock Springs, Wyo., $4,000,
and Lewiston, Idaho, $4,000.
While Engineer Card and Conductor
Knox we're foollng with pistol at
Caliente, Nevada, the weapon was ac-
cidentally discharged and Card was
shot in the head and fatally injured.
The United States troops which
were ordered to Goldfeld, New, to
prevent mining riots three months
ago. broke camp on Saturday and re-
turned to their quarters at the Pre-
sidio and Monterey, Cal.
j. II, jain of the Seattle real estate
firm of Boyd & Jain, of Seattle, went
to Darlington, Wash, and shot and
killed Jesse b. Price. jain shot Price
| three times, and says that he killed
| Price for prosecuting him.
United States Judge Hunt of Hell.
| ena last week imposed sentence of
| forty-eight hours in jail and 5000 fine
| on j. E. Helm, well-known Cascade
| county ranchman, who pleaded guilty
to the charge of Illegal fencing OF gov
eminent lands in that section.
Big Louis, chief of the kalispell
Indians, was shot and killed in
drunken quarrel on the Flathead res
ervation in Montana by another In
dian, supposed to be Alexander
| Pound, who was also shot and killed
in turn by friend of the chief.
1t is announced at Southern Pacific
headquarters at Reno, Nevada, that
the four and one-half mile tunnel
from Truckee to Blue canyon, on the
Southern Pacific, to cost $11,000,000,
will be commenced this summer.
Giuseppe Alto, the slayer OF Father
Leo Heinrichs, was declared abso.
lutely sane in a report submitted to
| District Attorney Stidger by four ex'
perts in mental diseases, who exam
ined the prisoner for several hours.
Emil Grutt. dlscoverer of Rawhide,
is to donate 100000 in gold, the pro.
duct of his mine in the new camp, to
| be used In making statue to oe
| placed at the head of the Nevada ex.
| hibit at the International Mining eX.
| position, which opens at New York
|
next May.
Daniel II. Weston, Montana pio'
neer twice territorial treasurer OF
Montana, for years secretary OF the
Montana club, newspaper man, former
capitalist, and for the last three years
chief bailiff in Judge Hunts court,
was found dead in his room in Helena
on March 2.
| Leaping upon the back of Jailer A.
]. Butler while he was attending ia
his usual duties about the Jail build.
ing, at Ely, Nevada, J. A. Ellis, car
penter who is insane, came near kill
ing the jailer. Other prisoners rush
ed to the jailer's aid, and undoubtedly
saved his life.
| The Montana board OF railroad com.
missioners has passed regulation re.
| quiring railroads operating mixed
train service to put all cars, save
coaches, diners and sleepers, ahead
| of mail and baggage cars. The pur-
pose is to protect employees in the
| mail and baggage cars In case Of
wrecks.
Two men were killed and three bad
ly injured by an explosion near Mar.
Gus. Wash. A big landslide had oc-
Cured two miles south of Marcus. A
wrecking crew was putting in blast
to clear the track and stick of dyna-
mite had been placed in one of the
holes, and an Italian began to lamp 1t,
when the explosion occurred.
An attempt is being made to have
Chester Thompson, son Of well
known Seattle attorney, released from
the asylum, where he was sent follow
ing his trial for the murder OF Judge
Emory. Mr.. Thompson seeks the
youths release under the Graves act,
which provides for the release of the
criminal Insane upon their mental re.
covery.
Four members OF a gang of youth,
full robbers are under arrest at Bel.
bingham, Wash. They have confessed
tc twenty-four burglaries and box car
robberies. extending over period of
ten months. A search of their homes
brought to light loot valued at more
than $1,000.
The Republican state central com,
mittee met at Reno, Nevada, last
pass resolutions endorsing the Roose-
welt administration or mentioning one
word for the candidacy of TAFT. 1t
was the first victory for the adher-
ents of Hughes.
A thousand colonists and more
spent Friday in Salt Lake on their
way to points in the northwest. They
arrived in five trainloads over the
Denver & Rio Grande and laid over
for connections. These are the first
colonists to take advantage of the an
nual spring rates.
Bills passed the senate last week
authorizing the secretary of the in
terror to issue patents for certain
lands in Idaho to the board of mis-
sions Of the Protestant Episcopal
church, also one granting lands in the
Wind river reservation OF Wyoming to
the same church.