The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-08-06
NORTH WEST NOTES


Milwaukee & st. Paul railroad.
An unknown man riding the brake
beams was ground to pieces at IAv-
ingston, Mont Fragments of his
body were scattered over Ave miles
of track
Twenty-eight new locomotives.
worth about 100000. are said to be
tied up at Denver as the result of the
strike of the shopmen on the Denver
& Rio Grande railroad.
Application for receiver for the
First bank of Rawhide has been made.
The appointment will be made on
Aug. and in all probability A. A.
Codd will be named as the man
While hunting deer in the woods
near Lowell. small town near Tekoa,
| Wash. on the Ceoeur dAlene reser-
walton, John Gates, an Indian, was
killed by the accidental discharge OF
his weapon.
Invitations have been sent to VIII
liam II. Taft and William ]. Bryan.
the rival presidential candidates, to
attend the Interstate fair and EXPOSE
ton in Denver in September and de-
liver addresses.
Capital is now developing the water
power of the Cherry Creek section OF
Nevada, for an irrigation project in
Coal valley, and an area thirty by If
teen miles In extent eventually will
be under cultivation.
Mack Thayer. son OF William Thay-
err OF Fenton, Wyo,. accidentally shot
i himself with 30 calibre revolver.
and lodged under the left shoulder
and Thayer will recover.
! Albert Penny, a Union Pacific shop
man at Laramie, Wyo., has fallen heir
| to share of an estate valued at $780,
100000. The property is located In
New York and Penny's share will
amount to about 100000.
Mrs. May Belle Cottrell. charged
with having raised check given her
by Colonel d. P. jenkins, nestor of
the Washington bar, Spokane million.
aire and philanthropist. has been re-
leased from custody on $4,000 bonds.
The last spike connecting Butte
with Chicago on the Chicago, Milwau-
kee & st. Paul coast extension was
driven at o'clock on the evening
OF July 81, by ID. A. Macintosh, one
of the contractors. The spike was one
of brass.
The big prize fight arena OF the
Butte Athletic club, on the fats below
Butte, was destroyed by fire of UNI
known origin on July 81, entailing a
loss of $4,000. In this arena all OF
the big prize fights of Butte have
been held.
An unknown man who was stealing
ride on the Overland limited was
ground to pieces beneath the wheels
and his body strewn in bits for over a
mile, three miles east of Winnemucca,
Nevada An inquest did not develop
his identity.
Sheriff Campbell of Cissoula,
Mont, while visiting n friend at Taft,
near Missoula, happened upon two
holdup men in the act of robbing
Henry Smith. The sheriff gave chase
and caught both robbers, after an ex-
citing and long chase.
The Montana Bankers association
held its annual convention in Billings
last week. The feature of the open
ing session was the addresses by
United States Senator Thomas H.
Carter and John G.. Maronit. presi-
dent of the association.
Three lives were lost by the capsiz-
ing of the yawl Elizabeth. in the Ev-
erett. Wash, harbor, about two miles
from shore. The drowned men are
George Morton, aged 81, his sister.
Mamie Morton OF Everett, and Miss
Florence Scott of Victoria.
Stephen G. Grub. Civil war vet
eran, whose action at critical mo-
ment probably saved General William
r. Sherman's entire store OF ammu-
milton just before his famous march
from Atlanta to the sea. died at Ia
coma on July 30. age 70 years.
John Murphy and Joseph N. McNeal
were instantly killed at Nimrod sta
ton, Mont, on the Northern Pacific
railroad, and Gus Wassen was seri-
ously injured. The men were riding
the pilot of work trains engine when
the front trucks climbed the rails.
A jury at Fort Benton, Mont. &C.
quilted Fred Larimore of the murder
Of w. p. Turner at the latters ranch
near Beatrice, last April. Judge Tat
tan scored the jurors severely when
the verdict was read. and intimated
that had a verdict of guilty Of muir
der in the first degree been return
ed it would have met with his ap
proval.
Jesse Fifer, street car gripman
killed his eight-year-old daughter
Hazel, Mrs. Dennis Nihoul confine
ment patient, fatally wounded his
wife, Mrs. L. Fifer, seriously wounded
Mrs. Ethel Warren, his sister-in-law
at Seattle, and then took his own life
Fifer was crazed because his wife hat
left him.
Rex Beach, the novelist and play
wright, who has just returned from Q
bear hunting trip in Alaska, is con