NORTHWEST NOTES A wealthy company Is now driving a test well for oil and cas above Lovell, Wyoming. Representatives of labor anions are trying to organize the miners la Rook springs, Wyo. Several frosts have occured in various var-ious parts of Wyoming, nnd reports received Indlcato that much damage has beon done to growing crops. A number of Slavs engaged in a fight with knives In n saloon in Rock Springs with the result that ono man may dlo, and threo are bndly cut up. Tho fourteenth annual teachers' Institute In-stitute of tho teechcrs of Albany county, coun-ty, Wyoming, wns held In Laramie last week, a four days' session being held. Charles W. Knowles, for nlmoet halt a contury a hotel keeper In Portland, and probably known to evory traveling man on the Pacific coast, Is dead at the age of 71. Tho railroad Is nearly completed to Warland, Wyo., and It Is expected er long to connect with the Union Pacific noar Laramie, making a southern out let to tho basin. Mrs. Carl Bodo, wife of a railroad, cnglnoer, was shot and killed at Sail-da, Sail-da, Colo., by Mrs. Harold Hutchinson. ,wlfo of a switchman. Jenlousy wa tht cause of the murder. Tho business portion of tho town oi Lovell, Wyo., It is expected, will b moved down nearer the depot on ih now railroad town In the near future. Lovoll Is building up rapidly. The shaft houso and hoisting plant of tho Shormnn Copper Mining com pany at Shorman, cast of Laramie, Wyo., erected only a week or two ago burned to tho ground, entnlllng a loe 'of $2 000. Moses Gos's, Frank Taplin, Jr., nnd ono Cook: wero killed, and Henry Hormnhlcn was fatally Injured by 'tho premnture explosion ot a charge, jof giant powder at Shoemaker grade, noar Asotin, WaBh. Thomas Cullcn of Everett, Wash., jpne of tho best known timber crulsors (In the section, is dead as tho roeult ot a fall on tho sldownlk following a blow in tho face delivered by Frank Jones, a machinist. In wreck of an extra oastbound freight train, near Flolsh, sixteen miles west of Iteno, Novada, on the Southern PnclHc, two men wero so-rtously so-rtously Injured and four killed, the men killed being tramps. Tho North Pacific states glvo prom-Iso prom-Iso of raising this year tho largest crop of prunes in their history. The crop of Oregon, Washington and Idn-ho Idn-ho is now ustlmnted by doalors at something over 1,000 cars. Oscnr Stephens, n prominent and wealthy mlno ownor nnd cattle roan of Montana, died In a Salt Lako City hospital last weok. He owned twenty, seven ranchos In Montana, threo ot which embrace over 5,000 ncroi each. Steel rails are botng distributed along tho Union Pacific for tho now double track on the Wyoming division. di-vision. The wont of laying tho rails will .begin In about a week, sovoral largo gangs of meu being put to work. John Elckhoff, an employo of tho flurlington railroad, has confessod to the murder of Walter Oelslagor, a 10-year-old boy whoso body wns recently found near the water tank at Ran. Chester, Wyo. Kickhoff said that h mistook tho boy In tho darkness for another employo against whom ho hod a grudgo and shot him. W. R. Hall, a single man about 43 yoars of nge, was found dead In s small strenm ten miles west of Wal-den, Wal-den, Colo. He had taken a fit of some sort and fallen faco downward In tho, shallow wator, being unable to help himself. A young woman known ns Cecil Ia mont met n vlolont death In a gus Btoro in Portland whllo examlng a ro volvor, which sho said sho wished to purchase, Various facts connected with tho caso point conclusively to aulcldo. A killing frost occurred nt Larnmlo, Wyoming, on tbo 20th, biting potatoes, fcas, beans nnd flower gardens. Al lowoll, eight miles west, a large field ot potatoes was about ruined. Ic6 nn eighth of an inch thick formed al Laramlo. Mrs. Rmlly Watson, who was con vlcted In connection with tho land fraud expoBo In Oregon, nnd who 16 alio al-io under Indictment In connection wltb tho frauds, was brought to Portland from Oakland, Cal., last week and placed In Jail, J, It. DlnnB, formorly a lieutenant in tho United States army, stationed at Fort Davis, committed suicide by Jumping overlward from tho stoamei Ohio on tho afternoon of Juno 14 whllo tho vessel was en route from Nome- to Seattle. The Socialist stnto convention, the first stnte convention to bo hold In Wyoming this year, root In Larnmlo on the 20th, with II. 1). Stcodmnn o) Centennial as chairman ami W. L. O'Neill or Larnmlo as secretary A ptato ticket was unmed.