The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-02-04
NORTHWEST NOTES

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will be the first worlds fair to be com
plete in advance of the opening day.
The Seattle Electric company has
expended 100000 for new cars to be
used next summer during the Alaska
Yukon-Pacihc exposition.
Motor boats exhibited at the Alaska
Yukon Pacific exposition will be en-
tered in race from Seattle TO Ju.
neau, Alaska, and return.
The Washington state exposition
commission will duplicate the prizes
offered by the Alaska -Yukon-Pacifio
exposition in the poultry show
John Doran miner, became vio-
lently insane in hotel at Reno, and
started in to demolish the furniture,
giving the officers a severe tustle be-
fore being landed In a cell.
c. Very Bartaga, coal miner who
was shot during an affray in a resort
at Diamondville, Wyo., and who was
brought to Rock Springs to be oper-
ated upon, died at the depot.
A bill has been introduced in the
Montana legislature which would Gre
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coal mine employees by levying roy
atty of one cent ton on all produc-
ton.
A new bill to prohibit pool rooms
and bookmaking, except at fairs, and
limiting race meetings TO six days In
any one year in a single county has
been introduced in the Montana leg
islature
Newspapers all over the United
States are going to send parties to Sc
attle next summer during the Alaska
Yukon-Pacific exposition. The par
ties will be composed of young ladies'
selected by contests.
The supreme court of Nevada has
rendered decision in the case OF T
B. Hickey, president of the defunct
state bank. in which is upholds the
constitution ality OF the Pyne banking
law passed years ago.
Following the arrival of United
States postal inspector, Postmaster
w. Kennedy of Searchlight, Nevada,
blew off the top of his head with re-
volver. A shortage of 5000 was dis
covered in his accounts.
TIL Seattle Aero club has offered
trophy for airship and balloon flights
similar to the Scientific American
clubs. The cup will be awarded to
the winner of the contest at the
Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition.
Alaska will show it's salmon fisher
les, sealing, halibut and cod fisheries
and the whaling industry at the
Alaska -YukonPacific exposition by
photographs and moving pictures. 1t
will be the most novel moving picture
show in existence.
George Frankhauser, convicted OF
holding up Great Northern train al
Rondo, Mont, when he and his com.
panion stole $4,000 from a registered
mail sack, has been sentenced to life
imprisonment in the military prison
at Fort Leavenworth.
The state of Wyoming has offered
beautiful gold and silver cup for
the best exhibit of dry-farming pro-
ducts made during the Transmissouri
Dry Farming congress at Cheyenne
next month. Other valuable prizes
have also been offered.
who was convicted upon his confes.
sion to an attempt to rob Henry Schil-
ling, well known business man of
Butte, has been sentenced by Judge
Michael Donlan to twenty years in
the penitentiary, the limit.
While riding along the big canal Of
the Wadsworth Light and Power COM
pany at Wadsworth, Nevada, Robert
Esden, aged 12 and son of the presi-
dent of the company, was thrown
from his horse and had his brains
dashed out against the trunk of
tree.
The Atlantic, Gulf & Pacific COM
iany has filed articles of incorpora-
tion at Reno, Nevada. The principal
business for which the company is
formed is dredging, pier and dock
fuilding, railroad construction and
general engineering and construction
work.
NJ Paxton, a rancher living near
Wyoming, shot his wife in
the face and his stepson in the groin,
and then attempted suicide, but all
of the parties will recover Paxton is
pShNNcu w De lHSdilt, ana Is COD1lne0
in the county Jail, awaiting an investi.
cation.
The infant daughter of Mr.. anc
Mrs. T. A. Boorman of KalispelT
Mont, was choked to death by a pea
nut shell becoming lodged in the
child's throat. The parents started
for Spokane to have an operation per
formed, and death ensued on the
train.
Governor Norris of Montana has
granted a respite of sixty days to
Frederick Lebau of Flathead county.
sentenced to be hanged February Is
Tor the murder of the Yokum family
Lebau's partner was given life sen