The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-12-24
NORTHW EST NOTES

The third annual tournament OF the
Western Bowling congress next year
will be held in Seattle from May 30 to
June G, inclusive.
Elijah Mills, aged SS. formerly of
Hooper, Utah, slipped and fell over
donkey engine at the Belmont mine
IN Butte and was killed.
Fire at Nina Nevada last week de.
,stroyed an entire block OF business
houses. causing loss of 100000, Re-
building will begin at once
Mrs. Alta V. Dobyns a physician.
was fatally burned in her suite in the
Owsley block, In Butte, one day last
week The origin of the fire is un.
Known.
Pat Carroll and Eugene Lugon. tim.
Der cutters, were burned to death in
their hunks in a Are that destroyed
their mountain cabin in the Sierras,
fifty miles from Fresno. Cal.
The trial of Elmer Hinton, on the
charge of having murdered w. II.
Mahaney at Round Up, November Z.
called for December IA ut Lewiston,
Mont. was continued for the term.
Wyoming has 100000 acres OF
dry lands or farming land possible
of operation under so-called dry
| farming" systems. Hundreds of new
| farmers in this state produced good
crops this year.
w. ID. Kennedy, city attorney OF
| Leadville Colo, and pioneer mem
| Der of the Colorado Bar association,
was stricken with heart disease while
In Denver, and died before medical
assistance reached him.
DR.. Lillian Miller has been selected
| as county physician by the county
commissioners at Helena, Mont, for
the ensuing year. Her selection as
county physician is said to be the first
of its kind in the state.
C. r. Jones, accused Of sending
Matchmaking letters to Ranker S. s,
fiobson of Lewiston, Mont, demand
ing that $4,000 be left at certain
place or he would be killed, was found
guilty by a jury last week.
The. federal officials at Helene.
Mont, believe that the participants in
the Spokane train robbery were Nc
Donald and Frank Hauser, two men
who escaped from Jail several months
ago while waiting trial on a similar
charge.
An unidentified man met death near
Glendive in q most horrible manner
by falling underneath train. His
body was cut squarely in two, just
above the hips. The upper half of the
corpse chung to the trucks of the eX
press car.
Sam Alexander, a well-known broker
who attempted to shoot Bart Mona
han, another broker, in the course OF
an encounter in Butte on November
80, has been charged with assault in
the first degree, and his bonds fixed
at 81 900.
The barber shop of S. G.. Payne at
Billings, Mont, was wrecked by van
dals one night recently. Razors were
hacked on the marble stand, materials
used in the business were destroyed
and bad smelling acid scattered
about the shop.
AS means of putting a stop to the
"rustling" of stock in northern Mon
tana, the stock men Of that section OF
the state have begun raising war
fund" with which special detectives
will be employed to assist in running
down the cattle and horse thieves.
Carl Roland, a mddle-aged man OF
whom little is known, committed sui
eide at Nina, Nevada, by letting car
wheel cut his head off. He was sit.
ting by the track watching the train
go by, when suddenly he moved over,
laid his neck on the rail and let the
train complete the tragedy.
The biennial report of the Carey
land act board, just submitted to GOV
ernor Norris, shows that Montana Is
J retaining upwards of 100000 acres
by this system, and prediction is made
that the state will soon reach the
} prescribed limit-one million acres
The financial showing Is most salts
factory.
Sammy" Williams. who died a
I Manhattan, Mont, last week at thu
age of 80, had masqueraded all he
life as a man. She had lived eighteel
years in Gallatin county, where sh
had amassed property worm aDou
Q $4,000. She had many masculin
d habits drinking chewing, smokin
!, and using profanity.
g The entire force of printers en-
l. ployed on the Butte Miner, comprisin
o the chapel of that office, walked on
I because a proofreader had been dis
9 charged for refusing to pay SO for
g mistake made by him in the oorre'
y ton of lad" copy. The difference ha
l. been settled.
y The supreme court of Montana ma
l. handed down a decision affirming tn
II conviction in Yellowstone county
A. William Conway on the charge Of pc
N hitting a female in a place whel
IT liquors are sold. This is the first co
ID viction under what is known as tn
"wineroom" law.
w G. McKaskie a pioneer of Mo