Show NORTHWEST NOTES after a hot fusillade with a small posse backford Byc kford who shot and killed sheriff webb of 0 yellow stone county Alon montana tana while resisting arrest near billings committed sill bill cedo rather th than a it a surrender F P 11 II norcross judge ol of nevada has won the 1000 prize offered by senator bourne of oregon for tho the best written argument why president roosevelt should he be elected io to a third term the contest closed on an february 36 15 A crowd ot of forty tramps seized a freight train of the southern pacific company at orena nevada and forced tho the crew to run the train to lo winnemucca fifty nine miles where they stopped tho the train outside of the eow town n and scattered the town of tuscarora nevada one of af tho the oldest in tho the state has been almost populated depopulated de through news ot of tho the strike at gold circle the tua carora cadora news has suspended tion owing to the editor and printers all joining tho the rush to meet the demands of the fruit growers of california ten extra freight trains have boon been put on an the southern pacific during tho tha th a past two we weeks eks giving employment to something like sixty trainmen shoso whoso lorries lomes are in ogdon ogden officials of the montana Alon tana mine 0 owners wn association havo have announced that they flioy have completed arrange arrangements monts to take over the panhandle smelter at pen DOrel llo ida near sand point the association expects to bo be smelting smelling sm elting ores within thirty da days ys three bandits held up tip edward hoffman and secured belonging to the coalition mining company at reno nevada last week after which they made their way to schurz stole a handcar and escaped into the walker indian reservation one of the first coal mines in wyoming was opened by the stage company in 1865 near the old overland trail crossing rock creek in what la Is now albany county the coal was used for blacksmithing in tho th o vicinity of the opening and wad also carried to other places for the same purpose the town of rawhide nevada Is built along an arroyo that drains southerly to a desert flat surrounded by mountains on the east side of the arroyo are grutt balloon and murray hills connected one to the other by saddles while on the opposite side is sebury llo or hooligan hill W F armstrong a so called bad man from wyoming was shot and kil ledIn the palace saloon in winne bucca nevada by W H carter one of the managers eyewitnesses eye witnesses say the shooting was in self do defense T ense as armstrong accused an employee of stealing his money and when carter remonstrated pulled a gun the board of trustees of the university of wyoming have removed president frederick monroe tisdel on the ground of alleged insubordination and untruthfulness in university affairs recently president tisdel issued a public statement making graft charges against the trustees investigations made by the geologists of the united states geological gp logical survey have shown that coal beds ranging langling in thickness from a few inches to six feet or more occur at several horizons in the and sandstones of the western portion of the laramie basin wyoming though they appear to be irregular in their distribution attorney john B wellcome one ol of thu largest individual ranch owners owner of the state died on march 23 ol of pneumonia at his home in Nl madison adison county montana ho he was 49 years old and a native of new york As manager of W A darks clarks senatorial campaign in tho the legislature in 1898 he was charged with having offered largo large sums of money for votes for dark clark after expending a fortune in the search the engineers of the reclamation service have at last struck bed rock 65 feet below the bed ot of the Sl roshone river and work will at once begin on the shoshone dam of the reclamation service in wyoming a dam which will be feet high exclusive of 65 feet beneath jhb bed of the river the highest in the world and which will make possible the conversion into fields and orchards arc hards of acres of land forty acres of land six miles from caldwell last week sold for 1600 the land was all unimproved but with good water right western railroads have announced that during the national democratic convention special rates will be put in effect as follows the round trip between chicago and denver 20 30 between st louis and denver 25 and between omaha and kansas city and denver 1750 the democratic state convention of colorado to elect delegates to the national convention will beheld be held at glenwood springs june 15 the democratic state central committee issued the call for the convention and endorsed william J bryan for the presidential nomination |