The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-07-22
NORTHW EST NOTES

PROMINENT ury ldIuleT vi fOTl fleITt,
s. ID.
A. w. Hobbs, well known iancher
living about twenty miles from
Havre Mont, was killed by kick
of horse,
Martin Nelson, 10 years old, died at
Bellingham, Wash, July 13, of tetanus
contracted through a wound from
toy pistol on the Fourth of July.
The plans for the addition to the
capitol building at Helena, Mont,
have been practically agreed upon.
The work Is to cost half a million dol.
lars.
Ross Titus. an attache of circus,
was fatally beaten on the circus
grounds In Butte, dying later. The
police suspect man who has disap
peared
Immense quantities of asphaltum
have been found on the Shoshone in.
dian reservation, and stampede
from Lander, Wyo., to stake out
claims and secure land from the In
dams is taking place.
nt utitEditS W lIlt
conference Epworth League of the
United States and Canada, spent July
18th at the Alaska-Y Yukon Pacific ex.
position, where the day had been
named in their honor.
President Taft has notified the Off.
cials Of the Trans-mississippi Com.
mercial congress that provided the
tariff bill is disposed of by August 1
he will attend the meeting of the con
gress in Denver August 16.
Margaret Sellick, aged 10, wife of a
driller at Copper Flat, Nevada, was
was attempting to start a fire with
kerosene. her dress ignited and she
tainted at sight of the flames.
An unknown man walked into O
construction camp near Ravenna
Mont, and begged the camp cook tc
cut his throat, and upon his refusal
the crazed man seized butcher
knife and cut his throat from ear tc
ear.
Because of the prevalence of scar
let fever and diphtheria in the city
the health board of Great Falls, Mont.
has ordered that no public meetings
including churches, theaters, dances
etc, shall be held for the next thirt,
days.
TwentY-seven special trains have
already been engaged by commercial
| organizations in various parts of tn,
! country to bring their delegations t
| the seventeenth session of tue Ma
tional Irrigation congress in Spokan,
| August to Ia.
Bids for the contract to construc
the Missoula-Kooskia division of tn
Northern Pacific railroad, known a
! the Lolo Pass cutoff, were opene,
by the Northern Pacific at Missoula
Mont, last week The new line vii
cost nearly $50OO,00o.
"Durum Bread Day" is the lates
idea of the wheat growers of the DR.
Farming regions of the United States
Already the farmers of the Dakota
and Minnesota have petitioned thei
respective governors 70 proclaim thi
new agricultural day.
The Commercial club of Reno. New
has issued very attractive bookle
on the town and its resources and a
fractions. The book shows the SUI
roundings of the place, with fine farr
lands adjacent, and emphasizes it's L
cation on the Truckee river
i There is reason to believe that tn
climate of Montana is undergoing
change, and 1t is likely that, follow
ing the experience of other states,
viii be found the more the land
broken up and cultivated the NOR
pronounced this change will be.
The body of Richard Samples,
Mispah rancher, has been found in
pasture twenty miles from Miles City
Mont. He had been drinking heavil,
and evidently committed suicide, as
bullet hole was found over his lei
eye, and his face was powder-market
In desperate fight near the Nortl
era Pacific depot at Missoula, Mont
Special Officer "Chick" White wa
stabbed in the throat by negr
named Archie Welmore. White a
tl"pted TO arrest the negro, who wa
acting in a suspicious manner, an
the negro turned upon him with
knife.
Concerning the report circulating /
the west that the Cole-Ryan interest
ave become identified with the Ely
Goldfeld project, c. 3. Zabrskit
head of the syndicate preparing t
build the road, said last week that S
tar as he is aware these interest
have no connection with the under
taking
Because Donnels G. Steinmetz G
Reno, whose bid was $4,000 highe
than theirs. was awarded the contrac
10 furnish the governor of Nevada
mansion, the John Bruner compan
has filed suit at Carson City, Nevada
enjoining the state officials from pa,
ing any money to the successful cor
tractors.
The explosion of 100 pounds of pow
4 der in barracks of battery A, at Fol