The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-06-10
NORTH EST NOTES

railway are carried out, many miles OF
road will be constructed In Montana
this year.
Yellowstone National Park was
thrown open to visitors June 3, for the
season OF 1909. when the train service
over the Park branch was placed in
effect.
Owing to the recent heavy rains and
warm weather. the Elk river, which
runs through Crows Nest valley, Brit.
ish Columbia, is in food, and train
service in that section is demoralized.
Harry Bussey, the l4-year-old son
of ED Bussey of Kendall, Mont, was
killed by lightning while blowing In
field on his fathers farm. He had
three horses and one of these was
killed.
new ore tariff on the Great
Northern has been put into effect.
giving the rates from every mining
camp on the line to the four smelt-
ing points-Butte, Anaconda, Helena
and Great Falls.
In letter to her mother at Oregon
City, Ore, Miss Mary Adele Case
makes the announcement that she Is
engaged to be married to young Claus
| Spreckels, of San Francisco, son of the
millionaire sugar magnate.
James ]. Hill has been summoned to
| appear before the Spokane county
| grand jury in the case of M. ]. Gordon,
former counsel of the Great Northern.
against whom seven indictments for
embezzlement have been brought
George Budnash. young man EN-.
| ployed in the Cottonwood Coal com.
pany's mine at Stockett, Mont, was
Killed and John Zasilko was badly hurt
as the result Of falling rock while en-
gagged in fixing portion Of the tunnel.
Counsel for Paddy Rogers, now serv.
ing term at Deer Lodge, Mont. for
robbery, and twice acquitted of muir.
der charges in Montana, have given
notice of fresh appeal to the supreme
court, Rogers first appeal having been
| denied.
A new indictment charge Of per.
jury against j. II. Schiveley, state In
surance commissioner Of Washington.
was returned by the grand jury last
week. 1t takes the place of an earlier
indictment which was found to be de-
fective.
e. A. Haven, an aged mining man of
Rhyolite, committed suicide by swal
lowing cyanide of potassium. He was
Respondent and not cent was found
in his pocket He wrote a pathetic
poem just before he committed the
rash act.
1t is rumored that the burning OF
Colonel Davis mill at Dayton, New.
following Immediately the burning of
the court house at that place is likely
to result In the removal of the county
seat of Lyon county from Dayton to
Yerington.
Miss Fern Granting, daughter of a
Butte and Helena mining man. has
been awarded the diamond medal and
worlds scholarship at the Chicago
Musical college. The class consisted
of vocalists from all parts OF the
United States.
Mrs. George Shea, of Duluth. Mimi,
has reported to the police of Seattle
that she was robbed Of $4,000 on the
opening day of the exposition. She
had brought small fortune in bills
to the exposition city with the inten
tion of investing in real estate.
The jury in the case of William
Haniey, on trial at Portland. Ore.
charged with unlawfully fencing gov
eminent land in Haney county, re
turned verdict of guilty. Counsel ror
Hanley were given thirty days In
which to file a motion for new trial.
dispatch from Dawson, Yukon ter
ritOry. says that Edward Hambridgt
and William Harvey have beer
drowned in the Yukon river from q
I small boat. which capsized in Five
/ Finger rapids. The men were travel
ing from Prince Rupert to Dawson.
John Hall, former United States dis
trict attorney, has been sentenced b,
t a Portland judge to pay a fine of 81 ,00'
! and serve sixty days Imprisonment II
I the county Jail, for conspiracy to de
5 fraud the government in connection
. with the Butte Creek Lumber compan,
| cases
A. T. HOLSTER, brakeman, had hi
neck broken while coupling cars a
Drummond, Mont, and lived unit
taken to Missoula where he died II
the hospital, HOLSTER was caught be
tween two cars in such manner tina
his neck was fractured near the bas
Of the brain.
Edmund A. Smith, president of
cannery machine company. and il
ventor of the iron chink," machin
that revolutionized the salmon car
in business died al Seattle 8 Ha
2, from burns received as the result Q
the explosion of the gasoline tank O
his automobile.
Mrs. Ann l Chamont, San Frar
cisco woman who received decora
| ton from the French government fo