The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-03-18
NORTH w EST NOTES

william Garrett was killed at
Hot Springs, Ore. by Harry English
in fight over dog, English for
merly resided in Albany, Ore. He was
employed as a teamster.
Fire of unknown origin destroy ed
FIVE buildings In the business section
OF Granada Colo, causing a loss OF
$40, 10000. The town has no fire appar'
atus, and for time the entire city
was threatened
Two men held up Dicks" saloon In
Carson City, Nevada. The two men
entered the saloon, one remaining at
the front door, while the other robbed
the three men in the saloon. The rob-
bers secured about $500.
At a meeting of the Montana de-
murrage bureau held in Butte, March
10, Robert Engle was reelected d.
rector OF the bureau. The session OF
the railroad men was devoted princi-
pally to the discussion of routine rail-
road matters.
The Nevada assembly has passed
bill making it felony for directors
to receive a deposit when a bank Is
insolvent. The measure was passed
to remedy the defect in the Nevada
banking laws.
Prominent sheepmen from several
parts of Wyoming arrived at Chey-
enne, March IL, to protest before the
state board of equalization against
the assessed valuation of sheep,
which they claim is much higher than
the present market price.
The lower house of the Nevada leg
islature has passed a bill providing
for graduated license for prize fight
ing. state license costing $1,000
will be required for an unlimited
round affair; $500 for twenty-five
rounds. and $3.50 for twenty rounds.
About 100000 acres Of land in the
counties along the eastern border of
Wyoming are to be thrown open at
once to homesteaders, who will be
acres. The land cannot be irrigated
and will be for use for dry farming
only.
Jesus Ramrez, a Mexican tramp,
while endeavoring to board a fast
freight train at Boewawe, New,
caught his foot In frog of the track
and was pulled under the wheels,
both legs being severed from his
body at the thighs, death resulting an
hour later.
Enormous losses of sheep among
the docks of the Red Desert district
of Wyoming are reported as result
of the deep snow and the inability OF
the sheep to get to feed In some
bands, 1t is said, the loss will amount
to so per cent and one fiockmaster is
reported to have lost 10000 head in
the last month.
Despondent over continued i'll
health, without funds, and preferring
a horrible death under the wheels of
locomotive to the county poor
house, Palmer Paulson, a Norwegian
rancher living at Elk Park, deliber
ately laid down with his head on the
rail in front of Northern Pacific
passenger train at Butte and was
killed
Captain J. A. Mitchell of company
I OF the Montana national guard, To-
Gated at GIendive, has rendered his
resignation to Governor Norris and
the court-martial at Helena, which
was about to take testimony in con-
nection with charges of infractions of
the military rules and disobedience OF
orders, 1t is understood, has been dis
solved.
Edward Smith, city marshal of
Moorcroft, Wyo., shot and instantly
killed Herman Holcomb, bartender
whom he found in company with Mrs
Smith at the postoffice at Gillette
Smith, it is said, has suspected i'm
proper relations between his wife
and Holcomb, and came to Gillette to
. investigate.
An explosion of barrel of paint
used for covering smokestacks came
dangerously near causing the dea,4
of Dallis Meyers and II. I. Johnson.
ssapleyes of the Southern Pacific
shops, at Carlin, Nevada. The barrel
of paint had been placed on a stove
the men with the hot fluid.
The four Italians who held up an6
robbed Theodore Nedehft of s3l, neal
Birdseye, Mont, February "a ant
who were afterward arrested in Butte
pleaded guilty in the district court
and were sentenced by Judge Glenn
ents each TO one year in the state
penitentiary.
Senator Patrick Daily of Deer Lodge
county, died suddenly on March s
at his home in Anaconda, Montana,
of heart trouble. He was brother OF
Marcus DAILY, the Montana million
aire, and widely known in Montana
Utah and Nevada He leaves mod
est fortune.
Joshua Klein is on trial at Tacoma
charged with enticing by his
strange teachings two Tacoma girls
Miss Sauvegeot and Miss Karasek, to
MS chalet in Switzerland and holding
them prisoners with a number OF