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Show NORTHWEST NOTES; Tho coutrnl girls on the Bell tele-phono tele-phono system nt Billings, Mont havo struck for lilglier -wnges. Tho report comes from Pino Ridge, "Wyoming, that tho body of an unknown un-known man ha3 been found, tho man having been frozen to death. Joseph Smltli, n brnkoman employed em-ployed by tho Southern Pacific company com-pany at Mlna, Nov., was run down by ills own cnglno nt thnt pbro and instantly in-stantly hilled. No lumber is now ohlahiahlo at Portland, owing to tho strike of sawmill saw-mill employes, and it Is merely a question of days until all building op-eiai'dm op-eiai'dm in the city will ceaso. U is announced at the war department depart-ment thnt the post of Fort WaBhaklc, in Wyoming, will bo abandoned May 1 next and tho reservation and buildings build-ings turned over to tho interior department de-partment for disposition. Jnpnncso papcrB received at Victor-la, Victor-la, II. C, by the steamer Athcnlo, publish pub-lish a report that fishermen took a llvo mermaid off Yacyina, Luchu Islands, and the mermaid was brought to Toklo and exhibited nt Yeno park. The labor troubles at Goldfletd aro being felt by the railroad companies. As a result of the Inability of the pcoplo of that camp to get men to unload their products from the cars a blockado virtually exists on the Tonopah & Goldfleld road. It Is stnted that Edward T. Tllton, chief engineer of tho Salt Lako Route, will within a short tlmo visit Meadow Volley wash, In Nevada, for tho pur-poso pur-poso of selecting a new survey designed de-signed to uvold the section that has on several occasions crippled tho system sys-tem and tied up trafllc for sovcral weeks at n tlmo. Tho twenty-year-old controversy between tho Northern Pacific Railroad Rail-road company and Jacob and Margaret Mar-garet Slaght, over the possession of lands in the town of Palouse, Wash., on which nre located the company's warehouse, water tunks, etc., was decided by the supreme court last week favorably to the Slaghts. The supreme court of Montana holds that the trial court of Silver Bow county exceeded its Jurisdiction in sentencing Andrew F. Graves to the penitentiary for fourteen years on tho chargo of throwing corrosive acid In tho face of a woman, on tho ground thnt tho verdict of tho Jury did not show that tho act was wilful. Angry at his two sous, Milton and Fred, because they built a fence when he had told them not to do so, E. O. Crow, a farmer at Empire, Nevada., Ne-vada., secured n rlflo and shot both sons, Injuring them seriously. His older son, George, was standing "near, and, grabbing another ritlc, shot tho father through the head, killing him instantly. Frank J. Keefo, when released from tho stato prison nt Rawlins last week, having served a four years' sentence for killing John Baxter, a Rawlins policeman, on tho night of April 20, 1903, wns arrested on a wnrrant charging him and his brother, William Wil-liam Keefe, with tho murder of Tom King, a railroad trainman, at tho same time. Tho Butto members of tho International Inter-national Typographical union finally voted down tho proposition of the Butto nnd Anaconda newspaper publishers pub-lishers that the compositors return to work at last year's scalo, which would mean a reduction of 50 cents per man per day. This leaves tho newspaper situation where It wns thirty days ago. John Arbuckle, tho Now York cof-foo cof-foo king, has ordered tho manager of his big "P. O." ranch, containing 55,000 acres, and lying north of Cheyenne, Chey-enne, to sell tho ranch at once, together to-gether with tho stock, which consists of $125,000 worth of cattle and horses, ns n result of tho government's action ac-tion In forcing Arbuckle to tear down forty-flvo miles of fences erected on government land. Charles Kolly, a longshoreman, was shot and probably fatally wounded early Sunday morning by two masked men on Townsend street near Third street, San Francisco. Kelly refused to accede to tho demand of the men to hand ovor $C. Jack Walsh, formerly a railroad conductor, shot and killed Charles Meyers and Jack Hnrrlngton at Blair, Nevada. Tho tragedy was tho rosult of a gambling row. The two men at tacked Walsh, it Is claimed, and he shot both of them. Miss Grace Parish, who attained hei 27th year Saturday, committed mil cldtt ut tho home of her parents In Lot An.-toles, Sunday, during their absence by Inhaling Illuminating gns. The sul clde of Miss Parish Is attributed tc worry resulting from ill heulth, Tho Utah capitalists who some time ago purchased the Blair coal mlnct at Blairtown, Wyo., near Rock Springs, have organized themsolvet Into n company that will be known as the Wyoming Coal nnd Coko com pany, with offices In Ogden, Utah, Tho roundhouso of the Loynlton Railroad company nt Boca, Nevada was destroyed by fire last week, a lo comotlvo, three passenger cars and several freight curs being destroyed. Tho lire was caused by tho explosion of the oil tank at Inched to ihu locomotive, |