The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-07-08
NORTH WEST NOTES

In the police court in Butte, Judge
McGowan charged openly that fund
of 81 500 had been raised to brfbe the
court and officers to allow wide open
town in the restricted district.
PermI ssion has been granted by
the United States to the Fifth reg
ment of Canadian artillery, armed
and equipped, to enter this country to
attend the Seattle exposition.
The rapid spread of an epidemic of
hog cholera In the Bitter Root valley,
Montana, Is causing considerable con-
cern among the ranchmen, fully 1000
hogs having died from the disease.
A party of prominent woman suf-
fragists, including Rev. Anna Shaw
and Miss Lucy Anthony, attended the
Seattle exposition last week, being
feted and entertained by the local suf-
fragists.
Don Carlos Ellis, chief of the Sec
tion of Education, in the United States
forest service, will deliver series of
lectures on the forest work of the
government at the Alaska Yukon Pa
cific. exposition.
The first Moapa, Nevada, canta-
loupe of the season was auctioned
last week. bringing Sill. 1t is est
mated that 300 carloads of MELONS
will be shipped from the Moapa
valley this season.
Charles Hender, car Inspector
at Monetello, Nevada, fell beneath
a moving car one day last week,
narrowly escaping death, one foot
being so badly crushed that ampu-
tation was necessary.
The twelve-year-old son OF A. B.
Middlekopf, of Miles City, Mont, lost
two fingers and the thumb of his left
hand last week as the result of the
explosion of a dynamite cap with
which he was playing.
The first passenger train to leave
Butte over the Chicago, Milwaukee &c
Puget Sound railroad, westbound, left
that city on June 2S, bound for Alber-
ton, 30 miles west of Missoula, where
an auction sale of town lots was held.
The Southern Pacific Is to begin at
INV thN WOih N VI tllt
line of the road between Wells and
Deeth, $50 miles west of Ogden The
new work entails the laying of twenty
miles OF new standard steel on the
cutoff.
general movement for the estab-
lishment of an eight-hour day for ma.
chinists throughout the United States
Wi h. -ttn ,,ta 4 "A
Internal ,onal Machintsts' union to be
held in Denver next September, it is
announced.
Judge Donlan, upon the bench in
the criminal court at Butte, dealt an.
other crushing blow at the gamblers
of Butte last week. when he set Il pre-
cedent by refusing bail to convicted
gambler pending appeal to the su-
preme court.
c. G. Petty, who shot and killed his
wife at the Methodist church at
Sparks, Nevada, on the night of March
8, has been found guilty of murder in
the first degree, the jury fixing pun
ishment at death. Petty comes from
Asbury, N. j.
Frank Duncan, who was employed
at the shearing plant of the Benton
Sheep company at Fort Benton, Mont,
was killed by lightning last week He
was out on the prairie and 1t was not
known that he had met with misfor-
tune until his body was found
The sixteen-m onths' old daughter of
John Dauterman of Alder, Mont, was
drowned in an irrigating ditch last
week, having fallen into the ditch
near the house. Seven years ago the
Dautermans lost a child in the same
manner. and at the same place.
Mrs. d. e. Magardard is dead, and
four others were injured as the re-
suit of an automobile accident near
Spokane, when the machine going at
the rate of thirty miles an hour
crashed into train which was also
running at high rate of speed.
Wilton Ooley, janitor of the Mining
Exchange building at Colorado
Springs had his left arm terribly lac
Grated by the accidental explosion of
an eight-inch Hotchkiss shell, a relic Of
the spanish American war. lac eA-
plosion was caused by hitting the
shell while he was cleaning the room
where it was kept
A cloudburst In the mountains
south of Helena occurred on June 30,
the result of which was flood, which
wrought much damage in the city and
adjacent country. Small streams and
dry gulches in the vicinity became
raging torrents, swelling as they ran,
until number of streets had all the
appearance OF rivers.
Two huge rattlesnakes have ter
rorized frequenters of City Park, in
Cheyenne, and parents have forbidden
their children from entering the play
ground. Keeper Talbot killed one OF
the reptiles recently, but its mate is
still at large. Several men are
watching the park in the hope of see-
ing the remaining rattler.