The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-06-25
NORTHWEST NOTES

sumeu and depositors paid in full.
Inc power plant Of the Portland
Railway Light and Power comnanv nj
Cazadero was almost entirely da.
stroyed by fire Sunday. The plant is
valued at three.quarters of a million
dollars.
Lewis Ferris was acquitted OF the
charge Of murder in connection with
the dynamiting of the Overland Bur.
hngton train near Butte, May last.
after the jury had deliberated on the
case scarcely an hour.
Inc first murder at Tip Top. the
new mining camp, twelve miles from
Mills City, Nevada, occurred last
week when o. e. Cockrill shot NJ. e.
Jacobs, both mining men, in a dispute
over a mining claim.
Bank Examiner Hofer of Nevada re.
ports the First Bank Of Rawhide ana
the Wonder Trust company are both
lnsolvent. The bank examiner states
that the bank of Kawhide is solvent
and Will soon open again.
An unknown man was killed at
Nyssa, Ore, while endeavoring to
steal ride on freight train. While
endeavoring to get on the rapidly NOV.
Ing train he slipped and the wheels
passed over both legs, death resulting
a few hours later.
BY the explosion OF a carload OF
dynamite near Sargent, Colo, freight
train on the Denver & Rio Grande rail-
road was blown to pieces, two tramps
were killed and several trainmen were
injured, one fatally. A hole four feet
deep was blown in the ground
Christopher A. Wills, aged about 60,
was found dead, fully dressed, lying
across his bed in the Melrose apart
ments at Reno, Nevada. 1t Is thought
he died from natural causes. Willis
was from Buffalo, N. Y, where he has
a wife and little daughter living.
Forty-five miles from Phoebe, in a
northerly direction, a new mining dis.
trict has been organized. Atlanta is
the name of the new district and
every foot of available ground has
been taken up. Phoebe is the nearest
supply point for the new district.
The decision of the interstate com.
merce commission unfolding, in the
main, the case of the lumbermen of
the Pacific northwest, ends the con.
tenuon which for the past eight
months has tied up the lumber indus
try of this section of the country.
Joe Schafer, negro, twice sentenced
at Butte to be hanged for the killing
of man named Hawkins, but saveo
from the moose each time by the SUI
preme court, which reversed the find
ing of the lower court, has been ar
rested in Salt Lake City, charged with
beating woman over the head with
,, chair
An explosion partially wrecked the
front part of a house occupied by
members of the Mormon faith at Eu.
gene, Ore. None were injured. but
| Mrs. E. e. Howell, one of the in
mates, suffered so severe nervous
| shock that she was rendered uncon.
scious. A note of warning was found
| posted In the building.
Two thousand five hundred miners
In the Northern Colorado coal fields
| quit work last week, intending to re-
main out until the operators grant an
increase in wages or make satisfac-
| tory concessions. If after further ne
gotiations between the United Mine
Workers officials and the operators no
settlement is reached, formal strike
will be called.
State Senator Charles Mcdonnell
OF Sweet Grass county, Montana, is
conducting a series of experiments in
conjunction with Luther Burbank. He
has already succeeded in raising a
large crop of pineapples and is now
experimenting with different grating
processes. He proposes to graft the
banana tree and the loco weed, and
claims he can produce an edible fruit,
He also proposes to make a creeping
vine of the sugar beet plant.
Luther Hickman, aged 81, was
killed and a number of persons
shocked and bruised, though not seri-
ously injured by an explosion of 5000
pounds of nitroglycerine at the e. J..
Dupont Denemours Powder company's
works at Louviers, twenty miles south
of Denver.
Through the GOODNESS Of Assistant
Secretary James E. Dougherty, of the
state humane society. Governor Henry
A. Butchel of Colorado escaped prob
able injury at the hands of Mrs. Annie
Jochim, an insane woman. The wo'
man was looking for the governor with
! a revolver.
A new million dollar distillery is to
be constructed at Winnipeg to meet
the demands of the growing market of
the Canadian Northwest. The build
ings will cover thirty-five acres, 200
men will be employed and 100000 to
100000 bushels of grain will be con-
sumed annually.
C. B. Bratton, local agent of the
Metropolitan Insurance company, was
arrested at Victoria, B. c., last week,
charged with incendiarism. He was
caught coming from the board of trade
,t,,i-- hosan,ont from which flames