The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-06-17
NORTH WEST NOTES

June T. many sidewalks being de-
stroyed and other minor damages be-
ing done.
Samuel ID. Stewart. one of the trail
blazers of the west, died at his home
in Butte on June z. He was born in
Illinois in 1886. and came TO Mon
tana in 1866.
While engaged in a swimming race
at Portland In the willamette river,
Charles +. Vaughn is years old was
seized with cramps and drowned in
full view of his two companions.
A Union Pacific freight tram was
caught by land slide near Walcott.
Wyo., the slide striking the cars be-
hind the engine No one was hurt,
but the trainmen had narrow es-
cape from death
A. Il, Elliott, a well-known resi-
dent of Miles City, Mont, was drown
ed in slough north of that city
while on a fishing trip. 1t is sup
posed he attempted to cross the
slough in an old boat.
ID. w. Connole, pioneer of Iowa
er in Butte, and president OF a ma
tional bank at Anthem. Iowa, suffered
stroke of apoplexy in Butte last
week that proved fatal.
Frank A. Lucy, prominent mining
engineer, who was recently appointed
superintendent of the Florence Gold
field company at Goldfeld, Nevada,
fell down shaft last week and was
instantly killed He leaves a widow.
Chris Olson. former cashier or the
defunct First Scandinavian bank OF
Everett, Wash. was acquitted last
week because the prosecution failed
to show that he had accepted money
from depositors vdtn the intent to
defraud.
A dispatch from ontario, Ore, an
nounces that there is every pros
pect that the Ontario Emmett rail-
road, planned four years ago but
abandoned at the time of the financial
panic, will be built within the COM
ing year.
Two mounted and masked men
blew open safe In a saloon In Butte,
Mont, at o'clock in the morni-V
seized 5000 in cash and escaped with
out leaving any clew to their identity,
although they were seen by num-
Der of people.
For the first time in the history of
the new town, Midvale, Nevada. will
celebrate the Fourth of July this
year, the committee planning cele-
bration which is expected to draw a
crowd to Midvale from every town
in the county.
While trying to board moving train
at Willis Station, 2S miles east OF
Missoula, Mont, Edward Saul, a North
ern Pacific workman, fell under the
trucks and was 30 badly injured that
he died while being rushed to the
hospital at Missoula.
Construction work began June ] on
an independent telephone line from
Spokane to Seattle, which is being
built by the Local and Long Distance
Telephone company, new corpoa-
ton, of which F.. e. Woods of Occur
dAlene. Ida. Is president
John Williams has been placed in
jail at Armsted, Mont, and a fellow
workman is lowering between life
and death, as the result of a fight
between the two men at railway
construction camp, Williams practi-
cally disemboweling his opponent.
Secretary Ballinger has withdrawn
temporarily from entry as a pow-'
site four hundred acres of land on
Gray Bull river, Wyoming, in aid of
proposed legislation. This withdraw
al is in accordance with the policy
which Secretary BaIlinger has adopt
ed of withdrawing for power SITE pur-
poses.
Twenty-year-old Richard Hooking
has been sentenced to serve eighteen
| months in the federal prison at Leav-
| enworth Kans.. and pay fine OF
| $1,S72 for embezzling money while
employed in the money order depart
ment of the post Office at Butte. Horse
| racing was the cause of the youths
| downfall.
Pack horses are being used to
carry supplies from Missoula, Mont,
! to the Hartman surveyors who are
working from Lewiston, Idaho,
through the Bitter Root and Clearwa-
ter country, locating lines for the
| proposed extension of the oregon
Railway & Navigation company to
Missoula.
Members of the Modoc and Kla-
math Indian tribes have filed com
| plant with the secretary of the inter
Tor against Fl. G. Wilson, Indian
agent on the klamath reservation, in
Oregon, alleging neglect in the edu-
cation of their children and naming
other alleged offenses for which they
| ask his removal