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Show NORTHWEST NOTES Lieutenant Governor M. E. Hay was sworn in as governor of Washington Wash-ington on March 9. to succeed the late Governor Cosgrove. The Naples authorities are taking extraordinary precautions to insure the safety of former President Roosevelt Roose-velt during his short visit to that city. A special train, bearing a portion of the Harriman party, broke all existing ex-isting records from C'heyenne to Jutesburg, Neb., covering the 143 miles in 145 minutes. The United States government has brought suits in equity at Grand Junction, Colo., against sixty corporations corpora-tions and individuals, charging them with cutting Umber illegally from the government reserves. It is planned to make a test case of the Southern divorce case, being tried at Reno, Nevada, without either of the interested parties being In the court room, the testimony all being in the form of depositions. After litigation extending over twenty-three years, Joseph H. Boyd, president of the National Iron works in Spokane, has been awarded a judgment judg-ment of $100,000 against the Northern North-ern Pacific railroad. The case began in 1886. Governor Shafroth of Colorado has given endorsement of the dry farming movement by attending the recent convention at Cheyenne and later expressing ex-pressing his pleasure at the selection of Denver for the permanent headquarters head-quarters of the congress. The federal grand jury at Reno, Nevada, has returned indictments against L. L. Patrick and M. B. , O'Farrell, Goldheld brokers, charging them with having used the mails fraudulently in connection with the promotion of mining stock. The necessary grading on the cutoff cut-off between Wells and Deeth, Nev.. has been completed by the contractors and evertyhing is in readiness for the laying of rails and cross-ties and the construction of a section house on the sixteen-mile stretch of roadway. A special dispatch from Winnipeg says that a new alliance has been made between ex-President Hill and McKenzie and Mann, proprietors of the Canadian Northern railway. Joint negotiations are now going on for the purchase of terminals of the Canadian Ca-nadian Northern on the Atlantic coast at Quebec. Martin Walker and James Tanna-hill Tanna-hill were imprisoned by a cave-in in the Potosi mine at Virginia City, Nev., Men were put at work in another part of the mine to open a drift to the entpmbed miners and soon afterward the latter sounded on the tunnel walls, indicating they were safe. The men were finally rescued. Through a newspaper picture ot James C. Boyle, alleged kidnaper of Bally Whitla, he was identified by Detective D. O. Smith as the man who, over a year ago, is thourht to have been accused of passing worthless worth-less checks at Tacoroa. While in Ta-coma Ta-coma he posed as an employe of a well known oil company. At Victor, Mont., the 7-year-ld daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Fowler was burned to death. The child was with her father in the field where he was burning stubble. The father was attracted by the cries of the child, whose dress had caught fire, but before he could do anything for the little one, she was beyond all hope. Theodore Maynard, a wealthy farmer, far-mer, living six miles northeast of Bel-lingham, Bel-lingham, Wash., drove into town with 'his wife, and as he attempted to help her out of the carriage he found he had been riding with a dead woman. She had died some time during the drive. By sawing their way through the bars of a window in the basement floor of the building, four convicts made a bold attempt to escape from the penitentiary at Salem, Ore. The prison officials were cognizant of the plot, however, and the break was prevented. pre-vented. The Fourth Dry Farming Congress will be held at Billings, Mont., In Oc-! Oc-! tober, when there will be exhibited the products raised by arid agriculture agricul-ture in the western United States, Canada. Mexico, Brazil, the Transvaal, Trans-vaal, Russia, Australia and other countries. After seventeen hours' deliberation the jury in the case of Joseph Brown, charged with the murder of Robert Gilruth, a ranchman near Lolo, Montana, Mon-tana, February 28, returned a verdict of manslaughter and fixed the penalty at ten years' imprisonment, the maximum max-imum penalty. In an order received at the United States land office at Helena withdrawal with-drawal notice of five sections of' land in the Willow Creek district of Montana, is made for the preservation preserva-tion of birds and other purposes. This is said to be the first order of its kind ever issued. As the result of the disappearance of Nels Olsen, the pioneer railway contractor of Butte, who, according to a federal court suit, has fled, leaving his creditors losers to the extent of $37,500, CDe firm of Olsen & Christian Chris-tian has entered a petition of voluntary volun-tary bankruptcy. Methuselah, also known as Rame-sis Rame-sis II. a toad, which was discovered in a rock pocket in a mine, 50 feet below the surface, at Butte, Mont., two years ago, died at his home in the Bronx Zoo on April 1. He was 1,000 years old, according to zoolo-gits zoolo-gits and geologists. Joseph H. Russell, who came to the state of Montana as a prospector in the year 1SC7. died in Helena, April 4. Upon his arrival in Montana lie took up prospecting In the Red Mountain Moun-tain district, near Helena, and made a fortune, but later came reverses and he died a poor man. |