The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-04-22
NORTHWEST NOTES


The body of Fireman Mailman has
been found at White Pine, Mont. be-
meath his engine tender, the body
being literally ground to pieces and un
recognizable.
Secretary Ballinger of the interior
department, has agreed to attend. II
possible and make an address at the
National Irrigation congress at Spo
kane next August.
Albertus H. Johnson, chief of the
correspondence division OF the postof
fee department, has been designated
to represent the war department at
the Alaska-Yukon-Pacif exposition at
Seattle, Wash.
Eastern wool buyers are again in the
vicinity of Lewiston, Mont. and the
offers made are little in advance of
those last January by perhaps cent,
81 cents now being offered for the best
class of wool.
Donald Boyd was convicted at
Mount Vernon, Wash. of kidnapping
Patrick Mccoy, wealthy Seattle
lumberman, in the woods near Bow
last autumn, with the intention OF
holding him for a ransom.
Luis McFadden, a Seven Troughs
teamster, fired two shots with a re-
volver at his wife. Mary, at Reno,
New, shooting away finger and pro
ducing an ugly wound In her neck. Be
lieving her wounds mortal, McFadden
killed himself.
w. r. Onyon, assistant cashier OF
the First National bank In Lovelock,
Nevada, was found dead with bullet
wound through his heart. 1t is be-
leved that the wound was self-inflict.
| ed Bank officials declare Onyon's ac-
counts are straight
The state board of health of Mon.
| tana has issued a new set of rules and
| regulations for sanitation and ventila
| ton purposes. applicable on all rail.
| roads operating within the state, effec.
| tive June /, and which is said to be
| the most stringent on record.
Only $1,000 worth of property was
left by Major William A. Stanton of
Goldfield. New, who killed himself by
| shooting in the California hospital
last week. according to a petition for
letters of administration filed in the
superior court at Los Angeles.
The twenty-fith encampment of the
| Montana division of the Grand Army
OF the Republic convened at Billings
| on April Is, the encampment being at
tended by about 125 members of the
Montana post and an equal number OF
members of the Women's Relief Corps
Two persons were seriously injured
one probably fatally, when touring
car containing wv e. Worden, bust
ness man, his wife, three children and
Amasa Inscho, horticulturalist, was
run down by train at San Diego, Cal.
Mrs. Worden and Inscho being injured
Nine heavily loaded freight cars
which formed portion of Northern
Pacific freight train being pulled into
Helena, were wicked. Just as the
train was passing the station cou
| pliBg in the middle of the train broke
and nine cars were hurled from the
track.
Suit has been instituted against the
Helena Hot Springs company in the
district court by James Breen, of Spo
kane, for $4,000. The Helena Ho
Springs company Is the concern or
ganized by F. Augustus heinze to take
over and conduct the Broadwatel
hotel, a noted health resort of Helena
Mont.
Dick Anderson, arrested at Lara
ME, Wyo., on forgery charge, pre-
ferred by the Dillon, Mont, authori
ties, escaped while being returned tt
Dillon by leaping through the toilet
window of an Oregon Short Line trair
near Idaho Falls, Ida, while the trair
was travelling at a speed of forty miles
an hour.
Thomas Grouse, of Helena, Mont.
has just concluded negotiations for the
sale of his Fergus county ranch, to 6
Chicago syndicate, headed by w M
Powers, banker. The deal includes
the largest cattle, sheep and horse
ranch in the state of Montana, ant
the purchase price is near the million
dollar mark.
Applications for lands under the en-
larged homestead law will not be re
ceived by local land Offices until tn,
lists are received from Washington
The officers at Washington will desig
| hdlS Iic lduuS suDJSCl W eulIy, anu III
applications for unlisted lands will bt
received.
Joshua Klein, the radio active
philosopher" will be deported from
Tacoma. Klein recently was convicted
OF an attack upon a woman who wal
trying to persuade him to recall t
America two Tacoma girls whom h,
had persuaded to join his colony il
Switzerland.
Juan Niculas, Filipino. was exc
cuted at the Washington penitentiary
on April 16 for the murder of an
other Filipino and a white boy at Por
Blakely. Niculas died with a smile
on his face. Niculas Is believed Il
be the first Filipino ever executed il
the United States.
, Harry Gillig, well known in Califor
MIA and New York. died April ID II