The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-05-06
NORTH w EST NOTES


Nyo., to eastern buyers. The highest
price paid was 20 cents.
j. p. Mooney, Northern Pacific
railway engineer residing in Missoula,
was badly hurt while switching at
Stuart Mont. His skull was crushed,
but 1t is believed he will live.
Ellwood C. Hughes, for twenty
rendered by President Taft an APP
pointment 10 the newly created fed.
eral judgeship in Washington state.
The Linwood Land company has or
dered a White steamer automobile
to be used in carrying land seekers
between Rock Springs, Wyo., and
their lands in Linwood and Lucerne
valleys
John Kirschweng of Butte a noted
inventor of smelling apparatus, killed
his wife and two children and COM
mitted suicide. April 20, on his broth
ers ranch near Ada, Mont. Kirsch-
weng was an escaped lunatic.
Fire of incendiary origin destroyed
two large hay warehouses at Boze-
man, Mont, April 2S, entailing heavy
loss. Indisputable evidence of incen-
diarism was found, and reward of
$500 has been offered for the culprits.
The Chicago police say that George
B. Kerth and N. Lawrence, under ar
rest in Seattle, charged with swind-
ling, are members of gang that has
robbed eastern business men of one
million dollars by fake directory
game
Ranchers and prospectors in the vi
entity of Helena are almost unani.
nous in the opinion that Montana is
likely to experience food this spring
similar to that which occurred last
year, when millions of dollars worth
of damage was done.
After clubbing a Chinaman into UNI
consciousness and locking him in the
cellar, four men robbed the Casino,
big gambling resort of Reno, Nevada,
of between $4,000 and $4,000. A night
Waterman, who intruded was cap
tured and locked in a closet
Mrs. Joe Burnes and Mrs. S. Camp
brell, wives of loggers, fought
bloody duel with butcher knives at
Lester, Wash. as a result of which
the former has a fatal cash below the
heart. The women quarreled over the
borrowing of kitchen utensils.
Thomas Henessey, hotel detective in
the employ of the Albany hotel, in
Denver, and formerly house detective
at the Auditorium hotel, Chicago, was
shot and instantly killed April 20, by
man named Seikirk. The shooting
was the result OF an old grudge.
The Laramie rolling mills OF the
Union Pacific railroad, which have
atoms at once. The mills produce the
continuous rail joints, tie plates, bolts,
nuts and spikes used by the Union
Pacific in new construction work.
Alive and conscious and scarcely in
jured, John Watkins has been res
cued, after being buried twenty-six
hours beneath twenty-eight feet of
river. near Rockport, Wash. An ava
lanche had overwhelmed an engi-
neers camp, all of the other men es-
Gaping.
d. c. Corbin, the millionaire rail
way builder of Spokane, is the central
figure in the largest mining deal made
in Spokane in several years. He has
taken an option on the Wagner group
of claims on Hall creek, a tributary
of the Duncan river, in British Co
lumbia. The price is stated to be 3d.
100000.
A coterie of residents of Helena,
who represent their wealth to be in
excess of s1.000,o00, have filed petit
ton in the district court to restrain
the municipality from issuing or dis
posing of an issue of bonds Of $780,
900, voted at a special election for the
purpose of constructing and installing
u municipal water plant.
Twenty-six of the leading lumber
of Oregon, Washington
and Idaho, who control, to large
extent, the rail shipments OF the pro-
duct from that section to the east,
met last week and attempted to re-
duce the production of lumber 40 per
cent. The order to the mills will go
out probably within two days.
The state of Montana was last week
the purchaser of the 100000 bond is
sue authorized by the last Legislature
for the erection of new wings to the
capitol This action was taken by
the state board of land commission
ers, and the funds from which it Is
to be taken will be those of the vari
Gus state educational institutions.
Governor Shafroth of Colorado has
signed the campaign expense bill and
the unique measure becomes law in
ninety days The bill provides that
the state shall contribute for cam
paign expenses every two years
sum equal to twenty-five cents for
each vote cast at the preceding gen
eral election, the sum to be divided
among the political parties according
to the vote cast for their respective
for governor.
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