The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-01-14
NORTHW EST NOTES

failing a loss OF $4,000.
A new postoffice named Taft has
been established in Uinta county, wyo.
1t will be served from Kemmerer. 28
miles south. Marie Isenhart is post.
mistress.
State officials are asking game
wardens of Washington to scatter
grain for quail and other birds. I'M
less this is done most of the game
birds will be killed by the snow and
cold.
The report of the state board of
equalization of Montana shows that
the value of the realty is S124,32S,449.
Of which S49,5SS,S76 is in farm lands. &.
while city lots are assessed at $685.
014,040.
A special from lewiston, Montana.
says that in battle betweeen Deputy
| Sheriff AL Morgan and John Pflager
in the Snowy mountain district, the
latter was killed Morgan has been
on Pflager's trail for several days.
The seventeenth general assembly
of Colorado met at noon on January
6. Both branches are Democratic, and
the election of Charles ]. Hughes, Jr..
of Denver to the United States senate
to succeed Henry M. Teller, is assur-
red.
Representatives of all train service
railroad organizations in Montana, held
meeting in Helena last week and
selected Joint executive board for
the purpose of securing desired legis-
lation at the hands of the eleventh leg
islative assembly.
All hope that Butte would be "open"
for boxing and gambling. entertained
by the liberal element, which elected
Sheriff O'Rourke, was dssipated when
that officer, who took his seat last
week, announced that he means to en-
force the statutes.
Five Frenchmen who left Stony
Plain for Macleod river three days
previous were frozen to death three
miles west of the Nine-mle house on
the Grand Trunk-Pacific railway sur
vey, according to dispatch from Ed
monton. Canada.
The suit brought at Reno, Nevada,
by Warren Miller, formerly vice-presi-
dent of the corporation, to dissolve the
Nat c. Goodwin Brokerage company,
and asking 100000 damages, alleging
fraud and mismanagement of funds.
has been dismissed.
Patrick J. Graham, a native of Ire
land and a pioneer of Minnesota and
Montana, died at Butte last week Of
senile debility. The exact date of Mr.
Graham's birth is not known, but
members of his family claim he was
over 100 years of age.
Frozen feet are seldom heard Of in,
Los Angeles, but Joseph Robinson,
17-year-old negro, was taken from the
brake-rods of an incoming Southern
Pacific train suffering from that cause
He had come flom El Paso and the
cold of the desert had frozen his feet
William Thompson, 80 years old,
was found dead in his room In Seat
tie with bullet hole in his heart,
revolver clutched in his hand, and
Bible open at the twenty-third Psalm,
as If he had been reading the passage.
The Lord is my shepherd, shall
not want. He maketh me to lie down
In green pastures"
The charges brought by James
May, the Nevada gambling king,
against Harry Macmillan, the Nevada
mining man, that Macmillan had
passed worthless checks to the
amount of $4,000, have fallen to the
ground. Macmillan was charged with
having given the checks in payment
for gambling debts.
Joe Sullivan, who led plot to tun-
mel from the cells in the Montana
state penitentiary nine years ago, and
when discovered made hard fight,
was released from prison through an
error last week, and Immediately dis
appeared although the officers are
searching for him, and hope to effect
his capture.
The report of the secretary OF the
state board of stock commissioners
of Montana shows that there were.
shipped from Montana during the year
1908 total of 241 800 head of cattle.
or this number 219S91 were shipped
to the eastern markets, 1927 to the
coast market, 10,152 10 Canada, and
1t is estimated there were used by
local consumption 5000 head.
Leo Little, who died at Godfield last
week was one of the first to enter
Dawson. when the gold fever was at
its height, and built the first cabin in
Nome. After residence OF several
years In Alaska he went to Goldfield
where he had been for the past three
or four years.
Edward Barrett, machinist, was
literally ground to fragments, and L
p, Fitzgerald severely bruised in the
Steptoe valley smelter at McGin. New.
when a power clutch propelling the
machinery slipped, and it started in
motion. The men were engaged In
making repairs,