The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-04-29
NORTH w EST NOTES

cents loat, or TWO loaNeS lot quar-
ter OF a dollar
Plans have been filed at Pueblo.
Colo. for an immense irrigation pro.
ject which will cost almost two million
dollars and which will reclaim 200,-
600 acres of arid land in southeastern
Colorado.
The Union Pacific is installing In
the Cheyenne yards a 100.ton car
scale, the largest west of Omaha. The
scale Is fifty feet in length and rests
in a concrete matrlX seven feet in
thickness.
Patrick Donovan, doorkeeper OF the
house of representatives at the last
session of the state Legislature and
prominent figure in local affairs, died
at Missoula, Mont, April %. He came
to Montana in 1861,
Three persons were injured by
jumping from second.story window
in the farm residence of George
Stahl, two miles southwest of Mis-.
soula. Mont, to avoid fire that to-
tally destroyed the building.
The biggest fur seal herd of years
is passing Sitka, Alaska, according to
special dispatch The natives are
killing hundreds of them. Japanese
poachers are following the herd. No
revenue cutters are In the district.
Bitter racial feeling exists at
Vashon college, Tacoma, over row
between a student named Adams and
Japanese engineer. 1t is said tho
Japanese stabbed the student and
the latter drew gun on the Aslatic
Harvey w. Scott Of the Portland
Oregonian has declined the ambassa-
dorship to Mexico, preferring to re-
main with the Oregonian. Henry L..
Wilson, now minister to Belgium, 1t
is said. will be promoted to the Mex
lean post.
The highest price paid for sheep
at Kemmerer, Wyo., this year is in
! volved in the deal whereby the
| Quealey G Peterson company takes
over 5000 head from Boyer Bros, for
a consideration of $4,000, or $3.50
per head,
Robert W. Brown was found dying
in Goldfield lodging house from an
overdose of dope" death ensuing o
short time later 1t is not known
whether Brown intended suicide OIL
merely took an overdose of the drug
by accident,
The incinerated body of John Lind
fors has been found in his cabin neal
Twin Bridges, Mont. Robbery and
murder are suspected, and the Of
ficials are investigating. Endfor.
was well known In mining circles Of
that section.
Donald Boyd, convicted Of kidnap
ing Patrick Mccoy, a wealthy Seattle
lumberman. in the woods near Bow
Mont, last October, has been sen
fenced to serve an indeterminate sen
tence Of from five to twenty-one year.
in states prison.
Rickert Assinna was shot and ia
tally wounded by Ole Nyserom, In |
lonely shack at Bass Creek, nea
Stevensville, Mont. Both men ar,
Firms and have been living together
Nyserom was taken to Hamilton an,
lodged in the county jail.
George Eccles, district attorney o
Virginia City, Nevada, in the bonanzi
days of the lode, and legatee Of ,
fortune of S150,000 from eastern rel
atives, was found dead last week II
a squalid cabin in Virginia City HI
died in penury and alone.
The smallpox epidemic which wa
raging among the Indians on the Coal
vile reservation in Washington prac
tically Is over. 1t is expected tn
quarantine which kept all white mel
from entering the reserve without pei
mits will be raised by May 1.
Within few weeks, when the bal
lasting of the tracks shall have bee
completed, the Chicago, Milwaukee
Puget Sound railroad will inaugural
train service between Butte an
Missoula. and this is expected to raj
idly resolve itself into through sci
vice from Chicago to the Puget SCUM
country.
: Judge M. J. Gordan. former counse
for the Great Northern railway, wa
arrested at Spokane last week on II
dictments by the county grand jur
He is charged with embezzlement c
. funds from the railway compan
while acting as its attorney. Hi
bond for appearance was fixed Q
$4,000.
The Montana Stock Growers asst
dictments by the county grand jur.
J citation, in session at Miles City, Mont
adopted resolutions endorsing tn
livestock inspection laws the wor
of the agricultural department, an
for enactment of needed railway legi
lation.
Senators Gamble and Crawford {
South Dakota have invited Preslder
Taft to attend the Missouri Rive
I Navigation congress at Yanktol
July z, s and g. The president sal
. he could not attend on the dates me
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