The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-06-24
NORTH WEST NOTES

the rooms of the Moore hotel, at
Moore, Mont, started a fire which de-
stroyed the hotel and another building,
causing loss OF $4,000
Mrs. Lizzie II. Welsh. OF Riverside.
Cal, wealthy woman who owns large
tracts of land In Pueblo county. has
given land valued at $4,000 to the Nc
Clellan orphanage of Pueblo, Colo
Four persons were seriously and two
slightly injured at klamath Falls. Ore,
by the overturning of a hotel bus. DR..
Relun. of Redding. Cal, was the most
seriously injured The driver was
hurrying to the station and made too
short turn.
After a desperate struggle with his
wife over the possession Of his re.
volver, Grover Cleveland HILL former
county clerk of Humboldt county. shot
himself through the head in his room
in hotel in Reno, Nevada, dying In
stantly.
Horse buyers from Iowa have been
making thorough canvass during the
past two months of Lewis and Clark
and Cascade counties, Montana, and
have secured between 1000 and 1900
head which will go to the Miles City
| and st. Louis markets.
Harry Croyla, a well known North,
.ern Pacific engineer, was fatally in
jured in peculiar manner in the
yards at Livingston, Mont Croyle
MO al
an injection pipe and when his face
was close the pipe exploded.
AS the result OF an explosion OF
| giant powder and a tank of gasoline,
| the roundhouse OF the Burlington Rail-
road company at Toluca, Mont was
destroyed June Is, and L. II. Kintz
and Alfred Wierschem, trainmen,
were badly burned and injured.
A drunken negro porter on wool
buyers special car, which was side.
tracked at Shaniko, Ore, during the
wool sales, shot and. seriously wounded
Bernard II. Trumbull, commercial
agent of the Illinois Central railroad
and John s. Mclaughlin, travelling
freight and passenger agent of the
| same road.
In the federal court at Helena last
| week, Judge Hunt declared the Mon
tana Kimberly Mining company, IN
which many Chicagoans are interest
ed, to be a bankrupt, and referred
the case to refree at Livingston.
The company has been involved in
more or less litigation between the
stockholders.
AS the result of a gas explosion at
the East Helena, Mont, smelter, five
men came near losing tneir lives, but
1t is believed all will recover. The
rooster had not been in commission re
Gently and the flue was cold, the re
suit being that instead of the case.
going out through the hue they came
out of the front.
The courts OF Montana will have Il
decide who is entitled to the rewar'
offered two years ago by the Northern
Pacific for the arrest of James Calvin
Towers, George Hastings and Harry J
Gruber, who held up and robbed tx
Northern Pacific coastbound passenge
train and killed Engineer Glow a
Walsh's spur on the morning of Ma,
7, 1907.
Mrs. Lee Self is reported to have
suicided at Sandusky, Mont, the
woman shooting herself through tn,
heart with a .45-caliber Colts siS
shooter. With the exception OF Har
vey, Mrs Self was the last OF thu
Curry family. notorious because o
the daring deeds of outlawry of Kit
Curry OF Great Northern train hold
up fame.
President James McCrea. of tn
Pennsylvania railroad. has been al
pointed agent of the Alaska Yukon-Pa
cfic exposition in the negotiation
with the city council of Philadelphia
for the loan of the famous Liberty bel
as an exhibit. There has been oppc
sition in Philadelphia to letting tn
bell leave the city.
The executive committee of the Mon
tana Development league met "A
Helena last week for the purpose @
taking steps along so-called publicity
lines. Governor Norris presided. an,
delivered an address urging the rails
ing of funds for the work of tn
league.
Frank Stevens, railroad brakeman
was the victim of a terrible acciden
at Las Vegas, Nevada. one of his arm
being jerked from his body, and hi
shoulder being so badly torn that PAL
Of lung was exposed. In spite of hi
frightful injuries, it is believed he wi
recover
Wyoming will produce forty millio
pounds of wool, for which the grower
will receive $S,OO0,00O gross accordin
to. conservative estimates from autho
itative sources. The clips averag
| oil 80 ,,l,t do a N