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Show NORTHWEST NOTES Salt Lnke City Is making a determined deter-mined and mighty effort to secure tho groat qundrennlal conference of tho Mothodist Episcopal clrtirch. This gathering ga-thering will be hold In May, 1912, and will continue during the entire month, tho woik usually requiring thitry days for Its completion. Joe Gnns, accompanied by his wifo and a physician, is enrou e from Arl-zano Arl-zano apparently In n dying condition. Tho once famous lighter Is limiting nn effort to reach his home In Haiti more, Md.. nllve. By tho use of oxygen, oxy-gen, the doctor expects to bring hla patient throught. A Are of unknown origin Is raging In the Weiser national forest In Idaho, according to a telegram received thin morning by District Forester A. E. Sherman of Ogden. Tho message Informed In-formed tho chief of the fourth district that thirty men had been detailed to fight the flames. Robert W. Johnson, a saloon man, was shot and killed at Wlns'ow, iTiZ., by A. Miller, a bartender. Tho tragedy occurrod In Johnson's saloon, whore Miller becamo abusive and was ordered order-ed to leave. Drawing his gun he placed It against the breast of his victim and fired. Alexander B. J. Whitney, former state boiler Inspector, of Denver, charged with malfeasance In office, whoso bond was forfeited when he failed to appear for trial horo several weeks ago, and who was arrested In Auburn, Cal., last week, was brought to Denver tonight and lodged In tho county jail. Guy Armstrong was accidently shot nnd killed at Sterling. Colo, by Will Fedder, a 17-year-old boy, while the pair wero rabbit hunting. Fedder says Armstrong stooped down to permit Fedder to shoot over his head. After three shots had been flred he suddenly sudden-ly straightened up, receiving the fourth shot In the head. The court martial which Is trying Col. George F. Cooko, rotlred, U. S. A. of San Francisco, for neglect of duty In permitting a paymaster's clerk at Fort Gibbon steal $10,000 has returned to Seattle from Fort' Soward, Alaska, whoro tho court went to take the testimony testi-mony of Joseph Anlch of Tanitnn, an Important wltnosa. The court will continue Its sessions at Fort Lawton. Many of the prominent fruit growers grow-ers in and around Boise nre interested in the Northwestern Fruit exchange which was organized In Seattle tho last of July and which Includes In Its membership tho fruit men of Washington, Wash-ington, Oregon. Montana and Idaho. Although Idaho Is one of the few states according the ballot to tho women wo-men still thoro Is nn equal suffrage nssoclntion in existence, nnd of such vigor ns recently to estnbllsh new quarters att he Owyheo hotel and effect ef-fect a chango of officers. Tho coke plant at Electric, Park county, of the Montnna Coal & Coke company is now under the protection' of United States Marshal A. W. Mer-rilleld, Mer-rilleld, ho having been sent there by an order of tho federal court Issued on tho petition of W. J. Bradshaw, receiver re-ceiver of tho company, who feared that the works would be blown up by dynamite, due to labor troubles. Tho bones of throe human beings, supposed to bo those of Enoch Kendall, Ken-dall, his wife, Urn Kendall, and tholr eon, Thomas A. Kendall, 25 years old. woro found Wednesday afternoon on the Starbuck ranch, north of Santa Rosa. Tho Kendalla woro last seen allvo on July 25. The bones wore found In two piles, some distance apart. In ono pile was found n metal ring of a breastpin, such as the nolghbors say MrB. Kendall wore. In the other pile, containing the remnlna of two bodies, waa found a ring with the Initials. "T. A. K.," those of tho missing son. E. J Trowlth, 38 yenrs old, a lessee on tho El Paso Gold King mine in Poverty gulch, was killed by an explosion ex-plosion of dynamite in the mine shaft. Trowlth remained In tho shaft to spit the fuso and was caught In tho explosion. explo-sion. With his brothor, Richard, the dend man held the drilling championship champion-ship of tho state. Work Is progressing satisfactorily on tho new high lino of the Salt Lake Routo above tho Moadow, Valley wash. Denver pollco have been asked to assist In tho soarch for Lucille Green, the 16-yoar-old daughter of D. R. Green, said to bo a wealthy ranchman ranch-man of Bridgeport, Okla., who has boon missing for two weeks under circumstances cir-cumstances that loud her family to bollovo .sho has beon murdored In Denvor or on hor way to Denvor from Ilumansvlllo, Mo. Tho claims qf all but two of the sixteen passengers Injured In tho ro-cont ro-cont wreck on tho Bolso & Intorurban railway havo boon settled by tho com. pany, tJio widow of William Karwood tho inotornian who was killed, having accepted a sum of $1,000. |