The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-10-08
NORTHWEST NOTES


A blizzard general over that section
struck Butte on October Q. six inches
of snow falling, Gripping telegraph
service and delaying trains.
doe Soelsby. motorman at Union
Pacific mine No, s, Rock Springs,
Wyo, was badly crushed in the mine,
and is in the hospital in serious
condition.
The coal mines of Wyoming re.
sumed operations Saturday morning.
September &c, when nearly 5000 men
went back to work. This undoubted-
ly marks the end of the strike.
Friends of Jerry Perman, the
young Nebraskan who disappeared
several days ago are now satisfied
that he was drowned IN Browns lake.
and that his body is fast in the mud,
says a Rawlins dispatch.
A work train on the logging railroad
OF the Chapman Logging company
was wrecked about Ave miles west of
Scappoose, Oregon. Five members
of a repair gang which was riding on
the train were killed and eight injured.
The thirty.fourth annual convention
of the American Bankers association.
held at Denver last week, came to an
end with the election of George M.
Reynolds OF Chicago, president, and
Lewis e. Pierson, of New York. first
vice-president.
The third annual state fair held at
Wheatland Wyo., despite the stormy
weather, was well attended. The fair
is now fixture and preparations
| have already been made to make the
next event even greater than the fair
| just closed.
In an alteration at Rawhide. No
vada, Jack J. Wall, formerly of Butte.
Mont, seriously cut NJ. Daily, an Ana
conda mining man, with razor. Wall
was arrested and taken out of town
on account of threats of lynching
made by Days friends,
Miss Elizabeth Kelly, principal of
the public schools at Tacoma, Wash.
for the past ten years, died at Pitts.
burg, Pa, in a hospital, from paraly-
sis. Miss Kelly was en- route from
Tacoma to La Trobe, Pa, to visit
brother when she was stricken.
A sister of M. II. Preston, who was
nominated for the presidency on the
Socialist ticket and Is serving twenty
! five years in the state penitentiary at
Carson, Is In Reno for the purpose, II
is said, of circulating a petition to be
presented to the board OF pardons
when It meets, asking for the pardon
of Preston.
IN all probability the government
will install an electric light and
power plant at its big Shoshone dam,
and furnish light and power to the
surrounding towns. The power house
will be built at Corbett, Wyo., and
power will be generated from the
water from the Corbett tunnel. which
has drop of over fifty feet.
With his arms tightly clasped about
the neck of large buck deer, which
had died of bullet wound. the BODY
of George Buxton of Brockway, In
the southern part OF Oregon, was
found in Olalla canyon by searching
party. Buxton had evidently wound
cd the animal and was preparing TO
cut its throat when attacked.
A final settlement has been made
between the Wyoming operators and
the miners, and the papers have Deen
signed. The wage scale Is practically
the same as the one In force prior to
} the strike, and regulations remain vir-
: tually the same. Concessions were
made by both sides, and the Wyoming
coal controversy is now ended.
The friends of Charles Il. Holli-
baugh have made application TO Gov
ernor Brooks OF Wyoming for par
don for Hollibaugh, who was con.
} victed at Buffalo of murder In the sec.
ond degree in March, 1901. and SEN
} fenced to life Imprisonment. The rea'
{ sons for asking for Hollibaugh's par
don are not given by his friends.
{ At the headquarters of the Wyo
: ming and the National Wool Growers
: associations In Cheyenne 1t is an
t nounced that the fifth annual conven
. ton of the former will be held In
4 Rawlins, Wyo.. on Monday and Tues
, day, January IL and IL, 1909. The
I national convention will be held in
Pocatello, Idaho, January IA to IL.
Articles or incorporation were nleu
! at Cheyenne last week for the Mon
tana, Wyoming & Southern railway
- with capital of $5,000.0O0. The com
pany plans the construction of a line
. from Sheridan, Wyo., to Miles City
u Mont, and may also extend south
ward to the present terminus of the
Colorado & Southern at Orin, Wyo.
A dispatch from Chicago says: Col
onization of the western country will
). be materially retarded il the railroads
y between Chicago and the Pacific coas
:, carry out plan which has been ad
:, vanced by the executive officials
Nearly every railroad in the Wasteri
q Passenger association has agreed t
. abolish all low or reduced rates afte
- January /, 1909.
n The joint conference of operator
- and coal mine workers in Helen