Show NORTHWEST NOT NOTES after a hot fusillade with a small posse backford Byc kford who shot and killed sheriff webb of yellow stone county montana while resisting arrest near billings committed sul cide rather than surrender P F H norcross supreme judge of nevada has won the 1000 prize of by senator bourne ot of oregon for the best written argument why president roosevelt should be elected to a third term the contest closed on february 15 A crowd ot of forty tramps seized a freight train ot of the southern pacific company at orena nevada and forced the crew to run the train to winnemucca fifty nine miles where they stopped the train outside of the town and s scattered catt ered the town of tuscarora nevada one of the oldest in the state has been almost depopulated through news ot of the strike at gold circle the carora cadora news haa has suspended tion owing to the editor and printers all joining the rush to meet the demands of the fruit growers of california ten extra freight trains have been put on the southern pacific during the past t two wa weeks giving employment to some thing like sixty trainmen whose homes are in ogden officials of the montana montano mine aline own ers association have announced that they have completed arrangements to take over the panhandle smelter at pen DO dorceille lle ida near sand point the association expects to be smelting ores within thirty days three bandits held up adward hoffman and secured 47 00 belong ing lug to the coalition mining company at reno nevada last week after which they made their way to chulz stole a handcar and escaped into the walker indian reservation one of 0 the first coal mines in wyoming was opened by the stage corn com lany I 1 any in 1865 the old overland trail crossing rock creek in what Is now albany county the coal was used tor for blacksmithing in the vicin ity of the opening and was also car ried to other places for the same pur pose the town of rawhide nevada la Is built along an arrojo that drains southerly to a desert flat surrounded by mountains on the east side ol 01 the arroyo are grutt balloon and murray hills connected one to the other by saddles while on the appo site side Is or hooligan hill W F armstrong a so called bad man from wyoming was shot and killed in the palace saloon n in winne ducca nevada by W H carter one of the managers eye witnesses say the shooting was in sif s if defense a armstrong accused an employee oi of stealing his money and when cartel carter remonstrated pulled a gun the board of trustees of the uni hersity of wyoming have removed president frederick monroe tisdel on the ground of alleged tion insubordination and untruthful ness in university affairs recently president tisdel issued a public statement making graft charges against the trustees investigations made by the ceolo fists of the united states geological survey have shown that coal beds langing 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 D wellcome one ol 01 the largest individual ranch owners of the state died on march 23 of 0 pneumonia at his home in madison county montana he was 49 years old and a native of new york As manager of W A clarks clark s senatorial campaign in the legislature in 1898 he was charged with having offered large sums of money for votes for dark clark after expending a fortune in the search the engineers of the recia matlon mation service have at last struck bed rock 65 feet below the bed of the shoshone river and work will at on once c e begin on the shoshone dam of the reclamation service in wyom ing a dam which will be feet high exclusive of 65 feet beneath the bed of the river the highest in the world and which will make pos sible sibie the conversion into fields and orchards of acres of land forty acres of land six miles from caldwell last week sold tor for 1600 fhe land was all unimproved bi 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 30 between st louis and denver 25 and between omaha and kansas city and denver 1750 17 50 the democratic state convention of colorado to elect delegates to the national convention will 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 A reno nevada man Is looking for women to settle in a new colony to be started on a new cooperative plan on an island south of honolulu young girls old maids and married women will be on an equal basis and an effort will be made to establish an ideal colony for women at schurz nerada nevada a saloon keeper named mckelligon shot and instantly killed a man named harris using a double shotgun the row s arted over town lots on which it was claimed part payment had been made mckelligon has been placed vader arrest by the state police A |