The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-06-03
NORTH WEST NOTES

Friday. August 10. has been set
| apart as governors day at the irriga.
ton congress to be held In Spokane
A fveyear-old boy is alleged to
have started fires in south Portland
last week that did damage estimated
at sl50,000.
The next session of the Dry Farm
ing congress is to be held at Billings,
Mont. beginning October rs and last
Ing four days.
]. w. McComb, aged 3S, a street car
conductor of Seattle, shot and killed
the girl wife as she lay asleep in a
rooming house, and then sent Sullet
into his brain.
Fire which broke out in a livery
stable in Eugene. Ore. not only de-
stroyed that building, but number
of others, the monetary loss being
about $4,000.
Karl Kline, aged 63, has been con.
victed at Red Lodge, Mont. of tho
murder of John Christianson, October
in the penitentiary.
Burglars blew open the safe in tho
postofiice at Manhattan. Mont, secur.
ing about 5000 in cash and some post
age stamps. 1t is believed the rob,
berry was the work of amateurs.
w. w. Duncan, fisherman, and
us G-year.old son, were drowned at
;pokane. Their boat capslzed whi @
llchored in mid-stream, and Duncan
was drowned in futile endeavor 20
save his son.
That work on the proposed Butte.
Helena electric railway will begin
during the summer is a statement
made by Fl. Gerry. Jr, chief engineer
of the Missouri River Power company
Of Helena.
Fifteen pounds of ice was sent by
mail from Reno to Hawthorne, New,
one day last week, but the expert
ment did not prove startling sue
cess. as eleven pounds was lost by
shrinkage in transit.
Albert Harrington, said to- be pa
rolled prisoner of the California state
penitentiary and man whom the po-
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for the past year, has been arrested
and lodged in Jail at Reno, Nevada.
A dispute over the ownership of
snail piece of rope causedi the death
Of j. NJ. Corp, a rancher, who was
shot and killed on Jackson prairie,
twelve miles south of Chehalis,
Wash, by Joe Ware, another rancher
Yeggmen blew open the safe in the
depot at Rhyolite. New, on the night
of May 25. securing $1,10O The rob-
bers worked with dispatch, making
two shots and muffling each so that
1t was heard but a short distance
away
Oscar De Long was struck by light
ming near Miles City, Mont, one day
last week, and seriously injured, but
will recover. His horse was instantly
killed. De Longs coat was ripped
from his back, and his underwear
was full of holes.
Al Gaines is dead as the result
of fist fight with man named Van
Wye on the streets of Dayton, Wyo
Gaines was knocked down and in
falling his head struck the curbing,
crushing his skull. Van Wye will be
charged with murder.
A tramp giving the name of l.. U.
Steinhoff has been arrested at Chey
enne, on suspicion of being an ac.
complice in the Union Pacific mail
robbery near Omaha. When arrested
bank notes to the amount of $500
were found on the prisoner.
The anti-gambling crusade reached
its climax in the criminal court in
Butte last week, when Deputy Prose
cutor Baldwin announced that here.
after the state will agree to no fine
less than $500, or $50 days in Jail, for
gamblers who plead guilty.
The laying of the cornerstone, last
week, for the Methodist church at
Hawthorne, New, marked the invasion
for the first time of that towns pre-.
cincts by place of worship of any
denomination of Christian faith Haw.
thorne has population of 1900.
Officials of the state of Oregon are
protesting to the management of the
Seattle exposition against rhe Jap
anese building, declaring it would re
suit in congregating large numbers
of Japaneses about the place, and thus
detracting from Oregon showing.
Waiter Mesch, aged 40 years,
prominent mining man. committed
suicide at Sheridan, Wyo., by stab
bing himself in the heart with o.
pocket knife, Mr.. Mesch had not
been feeling we'll for some time past
and, 1t is believed, was not in com
plete possession of his faculties when
he did the desperate deed.
Frederick Byrd, small coal opera
tor, was found guilty at Red Lodge
Mont, last week, of murder in the
secund degree and sentenced te
twenty-five years in the penitentiary
for the killing o. his partner, Rasnua
Petland, near Joliet, November 22,
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