The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-07-15
NORTHW EST NOTES

Judge Conger, of Dillon. Mont, whoa
was struck by an automobile, July 81
and thought TO be fatally injured, Isl
improving and will recover.
The Filipinos OF Seattle have
through committee. protested
against the exhibition OF unclad Igor
rotes at the Alaska Yukon Pacific ex.
position.
The Mccormick Lumber company's
plant, located about thirty miles from
Chehalis, Wash, was destroyed by
are last wee he loss being esu-
mated at 100000.
Ed Dowell, brakeman on the Chi
cago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound rail
road. fell off his train at Kinsie.
Mont, rolled under the cars and his
body was cut in two.
Before adjournment, a movement
wac set on rO.L.uy tne delegate 10 Ihd
National Good Roads convention, In
session at Seattle, for the formation
of a National Good Roads association.
Two Denver e. Rio Grande freight
trains met in head-on collision at
Una, Colo, thirty miles east of Grand
Junction. The crews escaped injury.
Both engines and ten cars were de.
stroyed.
The coolest July night Nevada has
experienced was recorded at Reno on
the 9th. Small bodies of water had
layer of ice, and the wheat in the
northern part of the state is reported
to have frozen.
Three children lost their lives when
the home of Bert Oliver of Summer
vile. Ore, was destroyed by fire and
the father and mother were severely
overturning of lamp.
A lone bandit held ur Assistant
Cashier Olson, Of the Bank of Com
merce at Everett, Wash, shortly be-
fore the bank closed on July 6. wound
ed Cashier Lyon and escaped with a
few hundred dollars
William McClammah pleaded guilty
at Helena, Mont, last week of intro
ducing whisky in the Fort Peck Indian
reservation, November 20, 1908, and
was sentenced to serve sixty days in
jail and pay fine Of s100.
A murder shrouded in mystery was
committed at Reno, Nevada, July g.
when Miss Maria Fava, cook, was
shot in the back and killed by man
whom the police believe to be For
n N n inn y1,. te.
Gov Burke, of North Dakota, has
been elected president of the Missouri
River Navigation Congress. Jerry
Sullivan, of Fort Benton, Mont, was
elected one OF the vice-pres dents.
Omaha was voted the next congress.
Henry Saulstraw, a farmer living
near Colbert. Wash, is dead with
bullet wound through his head, and
Edward Scholl, a neighboring rancher,
is in jail, charged with murder, as the
result of quarrel between the two
men.
The national convention OF the
American Woman Suffrage associa7
ton, in session in Seattle, elected
Rev. Anna Shaw as president The
question of the next convention city
was left to the general officers for
decision.
The attendance at the Alaska-Yu-
kon-Pacific exposition on July broke
the record for Sunday crowds, 1856
people passing through the turnstiles.
This brought the total attendance
since the fair opened June / up to
791,140
A Virginia City, Mont, special an
nounces that over an area two miles
in width and indefinite in length.
hailstorm on July played havoc with
the crops, the ground in places being
covered several inches with hailstones
of unusual size.
Mrs. James McMasters, aged SO,
well-known woman throughout Mon
tana, who has been living at Superior
recently committed suicide in the ho-
tel at Superior by drinking poison.
Dependency is supposed to have az
fected her mind.
corpse was discovered fioating In
the kootenai river about Ave miles
above Libby, Mont. 1t Is that of a
man about 5 feet 6 inches tall, dark.
smooth shaven, index finger and
thumb of right hand gone. It had
evidently been in the water for some
days.
w. p. Hammond, the "dredger
king" and a party of California capi-
tahsts, have exercised an option held
on the complete interests of the Reno
Power, Light & Water company, oper-
atmg Trans-Nevada system. Ham
mond took the reins of control on
July /.
Mrs. Louis Bronco, wife OF a tim
herman at Wilkeson, Wash, was MUIR
dered by a robber, who secured 5000.
The man enticed her from the house
by telling her that her brother was
dead, crushed her skull with a stone.
secured the money from, tho ho,., a., \