Show 1 f i w NORTHWEST NOTES I IA A trainload of thirty-four thirty full fuU cars of cotton arrived at Tacoma one day last week for shipment to Asia The recent heavy snow in Ro Rawlins lIns and Carbon counties Wyoming have caused consid considerable rable suffering to s stock ck A bill has been introduced In the Nevada legislature to repeal the famous prize-fight prize law and it may be knocked out Several men and their teams were caught in a near Cokeville Wyo last week and Bert Hardy was killed The slide was over a a. mile long A snow-slide snow near en ence n C Colorado lorado and several teamsters had a a. narrow w escape from d death ath The teams were buried but the teamsters escaped Both Jo the Colorado legislature legisla legisla- ture have adopted a a. joint resolution recommending other states to give a atrial trials trial to the woman suffrage system of Colorado lor do A 5 sugar sugar ga factory will vill be built at Grand Junction polo olo this season the site having been selected and sufficient capital guaranteed g for the of the plant Both of the Leadville s smelters elters are cutting down their work and are car carrying carrying car car- ar- ar n operations in their yards with the utmost utmost difficulty and arid at the loss ofa of ofa a large sum su sum of money money each ch d day y Charles Charles' Candler a bartender of Wyo has been sentenced sentenced sen sen- to six months in jail for intimidating intimidating ida ng citizens of that town He lie was barkeeper for John II oil wood the man mannow mannow mannow now in m jail for the murder of Charles Sayles and Chandler had been in intimidating intimidating timi- timi dating men who are to be witnesses in the trial Mrs or E. E Yost and daughter living near Buffalo Wyo yo were frozen to adeath death in a blizzard last week They had started to drive home from town and became bewildered in the storm Finally their sleigh was was overturned overt c cand and their team broke away They were ere beyo beyond d help when found found- some hours later r rA r. r A Rio Grande Western passenger passenger train had bad a narrow escape from destruction destruction de- de str tion about a mile from Red Cliff Colorado Engineer Russ saw a slide coming down the mountain side and reversed reversed re re- versed his bis engine in time to save the train though thou the engine was derailed the tender demolished and the fireman slig slightly hurt Bert Bert Clemens Cleme s. s a popular young min min- ingman man of Pleasant Valley Nevada was was murdered on on January 26 20 by Hill HUI Hamilton Hamilt n. n Young Clemens was starting start starts ing put out on a prospecting tour when Hamilton waylaid him bim and shot him him to death Hamilton has not yet been I caught but when be he is there will be bea a lynching bee I The Johnson county invasion bill willbe willbe will be passed by the Wyoming legislature This bill provides that the state shall pay Johnson county the sum of as reimbursement of expenses incurred ed d by that coun county ty in prosecuting ting the cases against the stockmen who invaded invaded in in- that c county in 1892 and battled with the cattle rustlers killing several The house committe on public lands has reported favorably a b bill to extend 31 31 lS time fo for the completion of of the classification of lands within the land grant limits of the Northern Pacific Railroad com com- pany These lands are in Mon Montana tana I and Idaho An appropriation of 30 is made to carry the law into effect I Reports' Reports received by the Denver stockmen from all sections of the west indicate but few v losses to date in Colorado Colorado Colo Colo- rado Utah and New Mexico but in j northern Wyoming and Montana w e mo most t of the e e cattle are aro o on th the open range itis feared that the losses losses' will be heavy unless a change comes almost immediately as the cattle were not so carefully gathered in the early winter as in Colorado and Utah Rene Curin a well known mining engineer who came to Dutte from Cala- Cala fornia forums in December has been missing since the of that month when ho he left Helena to return to Butte Dutte Detectives Detectives Detectives Detec Detec- tives employed by his wife have failed to find any trace of him and it is now v believed that he lie is one of several unidentified unidentified un un- identified men who were found murdered murdered mur mur- dered about the time of his disappear disappear- ance William Grant alias William J. J E. E Fisher was arrested at Cheyenne Sunday Sunday Sun Sun- day evening while attempting to pass passa a forged check in Harry Hynds' Hynds place The check ebeck was drawn on Governor De DeForest DeForest DeJ J Forest orest Richards and his business partner part part- ner nerA A A. J. J Cunningham signed by A. A i t J. J Reuse manager of the firm The signature was a a. forgery When Grant Va II was searched seven checks similarly drawn and for amounts from 25 to 50 wito found on his person |