The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-05-28
NORTHWEST NOTES

10 AT Marysville dlsnes Wele
80, clocks were made to strike py
~ .ha disturbance. No serious damage
was done.
Forest fires in the vicinity OF ciyde'
Colo. have destroyed over l,Voo acres
~ timber and at last reports were
moving toward the watershed OF Coio-
roao Snrings on the south slope OF
Pixies Peak.
G.. A. Finkelberg, who resigned as
iueee of the United States dlstric.
court at st. Louis in 1907, on account
NJ falling health, died in Denver on
NAV 1S. He was born near cologne
Prussia, in 1887.
Pierre Gouyet, Lew Gouyet and TWO
French women are under arrest IN
Helena charged with importing FOR
oign girls into this country for I'M
moral purposes. The crusade Is along
the line of the efforts of Secretary
Straus to stop this traffic.
Jewis Ferris. accused OF the crime
of dynamiting the eastbound Burning
ton express at Butte on the night OF
Nav 1. when three people were killed,
pleaded not guilty Of the charge
when arraigned in the criminal court
at Butte. and his trial has been set
| for June l.
Judge Langdon of Carson, Nevada,
has appointed Frank Wildes, deputy
state treasurer, as receiver OF the
State Bank & Trust company, which
suspended last October. 1t is be-
lieved the bank will eventually be
able to pay the depositors at least SO
cents on the dollar.
Ole Nordahl, Musselshell rancher,
was arraigned at Lewistown, Mont,
| last week, for the murder of the en-
| tire Schleuter family, mother and
three children, who were found dead
! two months ago on lonely ranch.
Nordahl pleaded not guilty. There is
no motive for the crime.
Snow which in many places reach
ed depth of three feet fell at Sher'
idan. Mont, last week. Fruit will be
ruined and the suffering of livestock
great 1t is the worst spring storm
! in twenty-five years, extends over
northern Wyoming and parts of Mon
| tana, also into western Nebraska.
w. r. Davis, private secretary, te
the late Governor Sparks, died at his
| home in Carson, New, on May 23, OF
stomach trouble. w. R. Davis, better
known as Riley Davis, served as sec
retary to Governor Sparks since the
latter first took Office He formerly
was a resident of Dayton, New.
w. w. Hendricks, foreman in the
employ of the Utah Construction
company, which has contract on
the Western Pacific, may lose his eye.
sight as the result of the explosion
of box of dynamite caps. One of his
eyes was torn from it's socket, and it
is feared he will lose the sight of the
other.
Announcement is made that the
next annual convention of the Amer
lean Bankers association will be held
in Denver during the week beginning
September 27. The date was decided
upon by Frederick c. Farnsworth, of
New York, secretary of the associa-
ton. after a conference with officers
of the Denver convention league.
Three masked men robbed Old Kirk
inn, halfway between Reno and To.
ana, Nevada, and with revolvers
forced the night bartender and a wo-
man who was in the saloon with the
night bartender into a closet. They
blew open the safe and completely
wrecked it with nitro-glycerin and Sc
cured $3.50 and left the place on
horses.
The announcement of the discovery
of theft Of dynamite from car of
the explosive on the Dawson siding,
near Butte, has caused much alarm
among railroad people as the result
of the recent dynamiting of the Bur-
lington train near where this powder
was stolen. The tracks are being
closely guarded and every precaution
taken.
The coroners' inquiry into the
deaths of Seaman ]. ]. Staub and Mas
ter-at-Arms F. Luinsky of the New
Jersey, who were killed by a street
car at Bellingham, Wash, returned
q verdict generating the motorman
and the traction company. 1t was
shown that the seamen were riding
on the front fender of the car. and
1t was admitted that this was against
the rules.
A dispatch from Mssoula, Mont,
states that the body of Henry Meyer,
better known as Dutch Harry
throughout Montana, has been found
on .sandbar in the Missoula river.
Meyer is believed to have wandered
into the river and drowned while be.
wlldered. Dutch Harry" was a well
known early day character during the
exciting time of the vigilante reign.
acting as freighter for Bill Bunton
at the tine he was taken from his
camp at Drummond by vigilantes and
strung up to nearby tree. Harry
was out looking for his horses and
when he returned to camp found
Bunton suspended from limb.