The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-02-25
NORTH WEST NOTES

dry farming experiments.
The annual meeting of the Trans.
continental Passenger association w5H
be held in Seattle on June 8.
Joseph Santori, aged 1S, laborer at
the Anaconda smelters, was instant
ly killed by being struck with a huge
steel ladle.
John Marvin and Jaines Ross, min
ers, were killed by fall of coal in
the mines of the Carbonate Coal com
pany near Tacoma, Wash. The bodies
were recovered.
Claire MeGee, youth OF %, killed
himself at Missoula, Mont, by shoot
ing in barn at his mothers resi-
dence, because his sweetheart, Min.
ME Van Dorm, had fitted him
Last year Montana planted 10000
acres of potatoes, yielding total of
2,760,O00 bushels, or 1873 bushels to
.he acre, which brought an average
price of 20 cents bushel, making the
value $96.70 an acre.
Attempting to go from his ranch to
Belle Fourche, s. d., during blizzard
w. ]. Chiesman, a prominent ranch.
man of Sundance, Wyo., was overcome
by cold and perished beside the road
His body, frozen stiff, has just been
found.
AS result of the burning of the
Flores theater at Acapulco, Mexico.
The state board of fire commissioners
is conducting an investigation of the
moving picture theaters both in Den
yer and throughout the state of Colo.
RADIO.
A farmer who few years ago took
up homestead near Grover, Colo
and began dry farming, has been of
tered $4,000 for a REIMBURSEMENT OF
his 1G0 acres, but has refused to part
with it. He believes in the future OF
dry farming.
In order to raise $1,000 that they
may secure $4,000 promised by Char
ence Mackay, the students of the Uni
versity of Nevada gave bulls head"
breakfast at the university at Reno
ON Washington's birthday. Plates
were laid for 1900 people,
Henry Miller Nickel, of San Fran.
cisco. a grandson of Henry Miller,
senior partner in the firm of Miller &
Lux, was frozen to death while en-.
deavoring to make the fifteen-mile
journey between the Alvord ranch and
Wild Horse, a village in Nevada.
Edward Myers, brother of AL Myers,
the millionaire mining man, shot
himself through the head in his room
at a hotel in Goldfeld. infiicting a
fatal wound. Dependency is assigned
as the cause for the act. Myers
leaves wife and several children.
After being out thirty hours, the
jury in the trial at Great Falls, Mont,
of Albert Hatch, charged with par.
ticipation in the robbery of passen-
gers on Great Northern train, re.
turned a verdict of guilty. The de.
fendant, who Is only 16 years old,
will probably be sent to the reform
school.
j. w. Saunders, printer, was
killed by passenger train while
beating his way between Kallock and
Elko, Nevada. While trying to es
CAPE observation of the trainmen the
unfortunate fellow was caught be,
tween two of the cars and held in
such a position as to cause his body
to be crushed into pulp.
After lying for two nights and three
days with his arm pinioned under a
wheel OF a large freight wagon, out
on the wind-swept desert near Boyer.
Nevada, Thomas Lovelock, son of the
late George Love,ock, founder of the
town of Lovelock, Nevada, was res
cued by a passing freighter, and is
now Inv Lovelock under the care of
physicians
MRS. ID. Knezeyic, who is enroute
from Austria to Rock Springs, Wyo..
having started for this place to Join
her husband, will be greeted by tragic
news on her arrival. Knezevic, who
worked hard for several years to save
sufficient money to bring his wife to
America, was killed in a mine acct
dent recently.
ketrenchment In the expenses of the
local division Of the Denver & Rio
Grande railroad was announced Feb.
ruary IL upon the arrival at Grand
junction, Colo. OF the pay car. It is
stated that reduction of $4,000 will
be made in the monthly pay roll. the
chief reduction probably being made
In the machine shops.
Blowing a safe in the general store
OF Schu Brothers, at Kapowsin,
Wash, two yeggmen escaped with
$1,000. Taking a hand car from a
siding. they rode to Fern Hill, where
they ditched the car and escaped TO
Tacoma. The safe was blown by nj
troglycerin and with the feather
wedge and soap method.
An important decision to every
county in WyOminp has haan ran