The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-03-05
NORTHWEST NOTES

the six-story block of the Davis-Smith
Furniture company in Tacoma.
Coal was first discovered in Wyo-
ming by Fremont in 1S43, on Platte
river near the mouth of Sage creek,
at point now known as Coal Bluffs.
Giuseppe Ala, slayer of Father
Leo, pleaded not guilty to the charge
of murder when arraigned in the
criminal court in Denver. Judge
Greeley whitford set his trial for
Monday, March 9.
Edward Price, Colorado Midland
railroad engineer, shot his wife, set
fire to the house, and then blew out
his own brains at Florissant, COLO.
The shooting Is supposed to have
been the result of insanity.
The Ormsby county, Nevada, jury
returned an indictment against L. b.
Rickey, president of the State bank,
on six counts, for embezzlement, fix
ing the bail at ten thousand dollars
on each count, or 100000 in all.
An international congress of ai-
thors, editors, publishers and public
lists in Denver, from July IA to %,
Immediately following the national
Democratic convention, is projected
by the Denver convention league.
Wilford B. Hoggott, governor OF
Alaska, was married to Miss Clarissa
Eames Millard at the home Of the
brides parents at Utica, N. Y, on the
26th. Miss Millard met the governor
while on a trip to Alaska last year.
1t is believed that Father Helm
r;chs. who was assassinated in Den
yer last week, incurred the enmity
of anarchists at Paterson, N. j., while
stationed there, and that he was a
marked man when he came to Denver.
William G.. Conrad of Montana, who
is now in the east, will be candi-
date for vice president on the Demo-
cratic national ticket to be nominted
at Denver in July. He is a native OF
Virginia, and many times million
aire.
Diphtheria has been quite prevalent
in Caliente, Nevada, several cases
and one death having occurred. 1t is
thought the Indians have spread the
contagion. 1t is known that an Indian
child died with the disease. before it
appeared among the whites.
Montana's sixteen-hour law for rail-
read employees in the train service
has been declared by the supreme
court to be valid and constitutional,
and the Northern Pacific must pay
the 500 fine for it's violation imposed
by Judge Clements of Helena
A project which will mean the rec
lamation of 100000 acres of desert
land in the southeastern part of Me-
vada, on the Salt Lake Route be-
tween Salt Lake City and Los Ange-
les, has been started, and will reach
it's elimination in a few months.
Future boxing exhibitions in Cody,
Wyo., are to be held in large tent,
which the Cody Athletic club has pur-
chased from an Omaha company. Re
Gently the largest hall in Cody has
been too small to accommodate the
crowds desiring to attend prize fights.
Superintendent G.. M. Marsh OF the
Eilers smelters at Pueblo, Colo,
owned by the American Smelt-
ing & Refining company, has
received two letters in the past
week, in which he is threatened with
death unless the plant resumes oper-
alton at once, giving employment to
the men who are idle.
In connection with the attack made
in the supreme court upon the consti-
tutionality of the legislative appor-
tionment acts of 1907, 1901 and 1898,
the startling contention is made that
If the suit succeeds every law passed
by every Wyoming legislature, with
the exception of that OF 1898, must be
declared unconstitutional.
Sixteen persons were injured, five
OF them seriously, at Lakeside, new
amusement park in Jefferson county,
west of Denver and just beyond the
city limits, when a car on the scenic
railway left the tracks and hurled
the occupants to the flooring ten feet
below.
Tom Bean, "a miner, has
Nevada, his frozen body being found
covered with snow. Tne back OF his
head had been crushed in and his
pockets had been rifed. George Dove,
another miner, has been arrested for
the crime.
Former United States Senator w.
A. Clark, in a telegram to the Butte
Miner from New York City, positive
ly denies Boston report of the sale
by him of his properties in Butte to
the Amalgamated Copper company,
or companies associated with that
corporation.
Made jealous because of the refusal
of Mrs. Omar Klum of Portland, to
receive his attentions, William Dur
rail-, a horse trader of Oregon City,
shot the woman four times and inflict-
ed probably fatal injuries and then
shot himself Durrall died few mo-
ments later.
United States Attorney Rasch of