The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-03-25
NORTH Nv EST NOTES

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Hamilton Pollard. aged rs, president
Of the State Savings and Trust com
pany. formerly one OF the bestknown
cattlemen In southern Colorado. dled
at Pueblo, March II.
The federal grand jury at Carson
City, Nevada. has returned an indlcI'
ment against the Southern Pacific rail-
road for CHANTING secret rebates to the
California Sugar and White Pine
agency.
While attempting to evict CHINA
man from a small shack in Denver FOR
failure to pay rent, W. E. Thomp-
son, a real estate broker. was shot
and probably fatally wounded by the
Chinaman.
Although Andrew J. Davis, million
been dead more than twenty years. the
litigation over his estate, which has
been in the courts of Montana and
Massachusetts, is not yet flnishedN,
Reports of the washing out of the
Hauser Lake dam. now being rebuilt
on the Missouri river, eighteen miles
from Helena, were grossly exaggerat-
ed. No permanent work of any kind
was injured in the slightest degree.
Lindsay's hotel and two adjoining
buildings at Millers, twelve miles west
of Tonopah, New. were completely de-
stroyed by fire March 18th. The flames
broke out in the second story of the
hotel while dance was in progress
in the dining room.
Smiling cheerfully and declaring
he had nothing to say, Nick Petrick
convicted of numbering Harry Miller,
marshal at Kenton, Wash, April TO-
1908, has been senteced to be hanged
ac the state penitentiary at Walla
Walla on May 21.
During a quarrel over the location
of a fence near Knowlton, Mont, Will
liam Bradshaw shot Rudolph Casper
in the neck and Herbert Newman in
the leg. Casper's wound is said to be
a serious one. All the parties in
volved are ranchmen.
lowering between life and death at
hospital in Grand Junction, Colo,
Mary Trail, beautiful Mexican girl,
Is years old, victim of brutal as
Confined in the city Jail are two Mex
leans charged with the assault.
The news comes from Three Forks,
Mont, that gold was found few days
ago by man digging we'll. He had
dug about thirty feet when he found
gold pieces as large as pinheads. He
took bucket of the sand, which
proved to have $50 in gold in it.
Great Falls, Mont, has the distinc.
tion of having the largest concrete
smokestack in the world, even though
the work was done by German firm.
The stack is sos feet in height and
weighs 34,000,000 pounds, or II 1000
tons. 1t rests on a concrete founda-
tion rs feet deep and 100 feet in diam
eter.
1t is announced that before Clar.
ence H Mackay of the Postal Cable
company and son of Nevada's bo
nanza king, sails for Europe from
New York, April 1, he will make def
mite arrangements to donate to the
University of Nevada S250,000 for a
new library and administration
building.
A. e. Holt of Oakland has brought
suit against Sholtz G. Co of Denver
for $4,000 for damages for false i'm.
prisonment Holt was arrested with
George Sexsmith, who was charged
with taving stolen perfumery from
the Denver firm. Sexsmith was taken
back to Denver for trial, but Holt
was released
Alderman w. A. Poffenberger. of
Cripple Creek, Colo, who has admitted
accepting a bribe of $3.50 from pub.
lie utility corporation for his vote
against granting franchise to a rival
concern, and who has charged sew
several other aldermen with bribery.
has been removed from office and will
be prosecuted
From returns received by the state
board Of equalization, the total valua.
ton of the state of Montana is fixed
at $252,294016. Some of the chief
constituents thereof are Realty,
$124,32S,449; city lots, $49, 9,5SS,S7G; i'm
provements thereon, $2S, S,7s5, COS; mn
ing claims and improvements, S17S2,-
S1S; railroads. $36,O0O,OOO.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
line has been finished between Tacoma
and Missoula, Montana. But twenty
five miles of track remain to be laid
in Montana and then the line will be
complete from Chicago to the coas.
There is every reason to believe that
the last spike will be driven before
April 2, the date set for completion.
The mystery of the disappearance Of
forty head of cattle owned by Dan
Hudson of Riverton, Wyo. six weeks
ago, has been cleared by the discovery
that Indians on the Wind river teser.
walton are fishing steer carcases
from the Big Horn river and holding
high carnival on beef. The steers un.
doubtedly broke through the ice while
crossing the river.