The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-01-28
INORTHWE EST NOTES.

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! $4,000, and will demand Immediate
| trial
John IT. Horner, proprietor OF the
hotel at Deitz. Wyo., dropped dead on
January 20, from heart disease. Hor-
ner was well known in hotel circles
If Utah, Wyoming and Montana.
The Butte Miners union is raising
fund for a, monument to the late
George A. Pettibone of Orchard muir
| ier.trial fame Subscription lists are
still open. The shaft, it is said, will
he raised in Denver.
Sterilization of the criminal insane
is the object of one of the important
measures introduced in the Oregon
legislature. The measure is being ad-
vocated by many physicians, and 1t is
arousing unusual interest.
A richly dressed woman was found
lace down in a skiff half filled with
water, floating in the bay at Seattle.
The only clue to the identity of the
woman was a dellcately tattooed
bracelet on the left arm with the word
"Milly' on 1t.
1t is believed that DR.. II. l.. Stuart
who left Ocean Springs, Miss, in
March 1907, for the gold fields of
Nevada has perished in the desert
The last word received of DR.. Stuart
was from Wellington, near Walker
Lane, and Reno.
After prolonged debate the Ore
gon senate refused to memorable
congress to adopt measures for the
suppression of polygamy. Republican
members declared that Utah, the
state aimed at. is capable of taking
oare of the question.
WiNiam Rocket OF Fall River
Mass, formerly employed at the Utah
Construction company on the Western
Pacific railroad, was found dead sit,
ting wright in a chair in "a back
room of a saloon in Reno Nevada.
'"he cause of death is unknown.
At a meeting of the executive com
Inittee of the Colorado Federation OF
Womens clubs in Denver, Mrs,
Adrianna Hungerford, president OF
the Colorado w. c. T. u, charged that
polygamy was being practiced openly
III the southern portion of the state,
Because of financial losses and poor
! Lealth, II. d. Cough, state organizer
| for the Woodmen of the World, and
| we'll known in Montana, made des-
! rerate but probably unsuccessful at
! tempt to commit suicide at Living
ston, slashing his wrists and throat.
The Central Colorado Electric Pow
| er company has closed contract for
! building the Baker reservoir dam In
| Boulder county at cost of 100000.
| The new dam will be the largest in
! Colorado and will impound 500,000-
| 600 cubic feet of water 1t Will be
| $50 feet high and $50 feet long on the
! crest.
The first serious mishap on the
Montana Northern Pacific as a result
of the high water caused by the warm
weather of last week, and the conse-
| quent melting of the heavy snowfall,
occurred at Eddy, Mont, when 120
! teet of track was washed out and
through heavy train service brought
J to standstill
p. S. Hanson, head carpenter OF the
! Meyer & Chapman bank in the course
cf construction in Red Lodge, Mont,
was instantly killed by the door and
framework of the vault, weighing $500
pounds, falling on him. The acci-
dent occurred while Hanson was talk
ing to the wife of one Of the owners
of the building.
1t develops that w. l.. Seeley, who
| killed his wife and daughter at Seat
tie, and then committed suicide had
reached the end OF his means. had
borrowed money, saw no way TO pay II
back, and let false pride keep him
from making known his desperate
financial straits to his friends or rela-
tives, and ended the struggle.
The trial of George Frankhauser at
Helena on the charge of robbing a
Great Northern train near Rondo in
September, 1907, is now on The evi-
dence adduced tends to show the
presence of Frankhauser and his al
legged companion in crime, Mcdonald,
in the vicinity OF Rondo Immediately
prior to the sensational affair.
Radical changes are proposed by
sportsmen in eastern Washington as
| amendments to the new code of laws
for the protection of game to be sub
mitted to the legislature, now in ses-
sion at olympia, by the Washington
State Game and Fish Protective asso-
citation.
Governor B. p. Brooks, as com
mander-in:chief of the Wyoming mi
iitia, has reappointed Adjutant-Gen-
oral p. A, Gatchell and Assistant Ad-
jutant-General w R. Schnitger. Tho
remainder of the staff was reap
pointed with one or two minor ex.
ceptions.
| With his hridn of thrnn r,nnthr