The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-05-20
NORTH WEST NOTES

York, has formally accepted an invi-
tation to visit the Alaska. Yukon Pacific
exposition He will come late In July
or early In August.
Orville Kyle, who shot and killed
John Wilkes manager of the Cow
Creek Sheep company, at Wamsutter.
Wyo.. about three months ago. has
been convicted OF murder in the sec
ond degree.
While engaged in mixing flash
light preparation In his apartments in
Butte hotel, G. A. Bousset of Seat
tie was terribly burned about the face
and hands as the result of the explo-
sion of the mixture.
The new plant of the Astoria and
Puget Sound Packing company, on
Chuckanut bay, three miles south OF
Bellingham, Wash. burned last week.
causing loss of $4,000. The plant
was well insured.
William McGregor, aged 2S, a we'll
known young business man of Van
couver, b. c., met death while clean
ing rife which he did not know
was loaded He was the son OF a
prominent insurance man.
John Kahn, aged S3, was killed at
Goldfeld, Nevada in runaway. The
team ran close to trestle of the
Consolidated Mines company and one
Of the timbers came into contact with
Kain's head. fracturing his skull.
When the legislative committee that
is investigating state Offices met at
Olympia, Wash, May ~. sealed
charges against State Land Commits.
sioner r. w. Ross were filed. All the
state offices are to be investigated.
J.E Allen, who is In hospital at
Ely. Nevada, became suddenly insane,
broke window pane and cut his
t,roat with the glass. also hacking
ads body in score of places. AL
enough badly injured, 1t is believed
he will recover.
In the arrest at Reno, Nevada, of
Frank Webb, the police believe they
have secured the Hammontree livery
stable holdup desperate who reliev.
ed A. l.. Hammontree and NJ Victor
Of $S5 and wantonly shot Jack Monroe
through the bowels
The state council of the knights of
Columbus of Montana met at Butte,
May II, in annual session. State Dep
uty Jackson presiding Official re-
ports show a gain of 500 in member
| ship during the year. the councils now
aggregating total of 2,000
The big Casino dance hall at Tono
pah, one of the largest resorts of it's
kind in Nevada. and made famous as
the training place for Marvin Hart,
Mike Schreck, Joe Cans, Jack Twin"
Sullivan and other prize fighters, was
partially destroyed by fire last week.
Harry Beebe, a Lander, Wyo., cow
boy with Buffalo Bits show, died in
New York on May Ia, from paralytic
rabies, rare form of disease. Beebe's
great toe was severely bruised
by being stepped on by a horse
ridden by a fellow cowboy. Partial
paralysis developed and death fol
lowed.
Charles l.. Gustafson, an electrf-
clan, died at Anaconda, Mont, from
the effects of burning oil. Gustafson
was at work on switchboard at the
substation of the Washoe smelters
when short circuit caused blind
ing flash of electricity exploding
can of oil which the electrician had
in his hands
Officials of the state of Wyoming
are preparing elk hunters licenses
as usual and will issue them to APP
plicants before and during the big
game hunting season next fall. The
technicality in the new game law.
which unintentionally forbids the
hunting of elk before 1912, will not
be regarded
Broker C. w. Cockrell, who had
been confined in jail at Butte two
weeks, because of inability to sat
isfy judgment had by A. w. Dea-
witt. has been discharged from custody
by Judge McClernan of the state dis
trict court. An attempt was made.
under an old law to keep Cockerell
imprisoned for debt.
That William Garrison, whose body
was found near the river at Cheyenne
with a bullet hole through his head
and revolver lying near by. was
murdered, is indicated by further in.
vestigation of the case 1t was be-
lieved at first that he had committed
suicide.
A fire that started in the California,
beer hall at Rawhide, Nevada, at mid
night, which threatened repetition
of the disaster of last September,
when the town was reduced to ashes
was controlled after it had destroyed
the beer hail and several buildings
adjoining.
The postoffice at Bremerton, Wash
situated close to the Puget Sound
navy yard, was entered by profess
sional craftsmen, who drilled the safe
and took away its strong box con-
tanning $4,000 worth OF stamps a dia-
mond ring valued at $3.50, and nearly
$500 in cash.