The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-04-15
NORTH W EST NOTES

ington to take the places OF Japanese
IN railway construction.
1t is said the sheriff has strong
clew to the guilty men engaged in
the raid on the sheep camp on Spring
creek, in Wyoming, in which three
men were murdered.
Fred Gustavson and Peter Peterson
were killed by dynamite explosion
near Nimrod, Mont. The men were
at work In a. railway construction
camp when the accident occurred.
The Wyoming Stock Growers asso-
citation, representing practically all
that cattle growers of the state, have
adopted resolution protesting
against the removal of the duties on
hides.
The last Nevada legislature passed
appropriation bills benefiting the Ne
vada state university to an amount OF
$293e0 but this amount has been
cut down by the governor vetoing
bills that carried $S1 900.
Alfred w. Burrell, president of the
Burrell Bridge and Construction com
pany, of Oakland, Cal, died at st.
Patricks hospital in Missoula, Mont.
April 8. Mr. Burrell had gone to Mis-
soula to look after a bridge contract.
President Taft has rendered to
Former Senator Fulton of Oregon the
post of minister to China, to sue.
ceed w. w. Rockhill. Senator Full
ton requested zen days in which to
consider whether or not he would ac
cept
At the publicity conference held in
Helena, Mont, last week, perma-
nent body was organized, to be
known as the Montana Development
League. The slogan of the league
will be advertise and boost for Mon
tana."
Charles P. Nevin (Dem) was elect.
ed mayor of Butte last week by
plurality of 1903. The Republican
candidate, Mayor Joseph Corby.
showed surprising weakness. Henry
| und. Dem) and Pierce (Socialist)
displayed little strength
BY means of toilor,s trademark
knife and a watch chain, the bod,
of the man found tightly lodged in
a pile of logs in slough near
Frenchtown, Mont, was identified as
that of Eric c. Peterson, well known
in Missoula as the Graveyard Kid"
AT the meeting of the Wyoming
Livestock association held in Chey-
enne, the following officers were
elected for the ensuing year: w. C.
Irvine, Ross, president; Robert ID.
Carey, Careyhurst, vice-president:
Miss Alice M. Smith, CheS Senne, Sec
retary; j. ID. Freeborn, Cheyenne.
treasurer.
George Graham Rice and Merrill A.
league, editors of the Nevada Mining
News, of Reno, Nevada, have been
ordered cited for contempt of court
by Judge Langan for publishing an
article on March 20 accusing Bank
Examiner F. E. Wilde of malfeasance
in office and attacking Judge Langon
for not ousting him.
The news comes from Trinidad.
Colo, that the government tests on
the coal from the property of the
Wooten Land and Fuel company,
owned by j. p Morgan and eastern
associates, had been satisfactory and
that the mining of 10000 tons of
coal for the United States navy
would begin at once.
| A joint Indictment charging embez-
element of $15,555 was returned at
/ Ashland Ore, against State Senator
/ Frank M. Patterson, eX-Common Pleas
Judge Robert NJ. Campbell, ex-Common
Pleas Judge II. l.. McCray and George
/ Ullman, former cashier of the Farm.
ers' bank. The charge grows out o
the settlement of an estate.
Advance sheets of the new crimi.
nal code adopted at the recent ses,
sion OF the Washington legislature
show that 1t contains strict anti.
tipping law, which provides that "ey.
cry employe of public house or pub
lie service corporation who solicits or
receives any sratuity from any guest,
and every person giving any gratuity.
shall be guilty of misdemeanor.
Charles f. Murphy, Democrat, was
elected mayor of Great Falls, Mont,
by majority of 12S over j. NJ. Bur.
lingame, Republican. in total vote
of about 2,4OO. The Democrats also
elected the city treasurer, police
h'"S'9tiate ana TWO out OF fOur alder
! men.
1t is announced that Henry l.. Do
herty president of the Denver Gas
and Electric company, is about to
close a deal whereby the Dohery
Operating company of New York will
acquire all the holdings of the Spo-
Kane Falls Gas company of Spokane,
Wash.
Carrying stick of dynamite in one
hand and lighted torch in the other
proved fatal combination for Lind
Bernardo, a laborer al a rock quarry
OF the Los Angeles Stone company at
Los Angeles, and resulted in an ex.
piosion which literally blew him to
pieces.
The Moana Springs hotel at Reno.