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Show i-j -ujtl- S NORTHWEST NOTES , Flro at Cody, Wyo., last week destroyed de-stroyed property worth $10,000. Tho motion to quash tho now cases 'filed against Kemp V. Blgolow, who sent bombs to a number of promlnont Donvor men, argued before Judge Bliss, was refused. Flro, Btarted by tho overturning of a lnmp in the barber shop of William James, caused tho destruction of Granite, a small town twenty miles cast of Loadvlllo, Colo. William Goodrich, who was caught in a cave-In in tho Sandstorm mlno at Goldfleld, Novada, was taken out lifeless life-less a fow hours Inter by companions who came to tho rescue Ho had been burled under twenty-five feet ot Srock. Rcprcsontativo Mondcll of Wyoming twill bo appointed chairman of the pubiro lands commlttco to succcod JMr. Lncoy of Iown, who was defeated, for re-election. Ho has been opposing oppos-ing tho public land policy of tho administration. ad-ministration. John Thode, ono of tho oldest and wealthiest cattlemen In tho stato, died at Rawlins, Wyo., Inst week. In 1874 Thodo worked as section fore-,man fore-,man for tho Union Pacific at Carbon, Afterward l.o organized tho Thode Cattle company. Two men wero killed and ono fatally fa-tally Injured In a premature explosion on tho lino of tho Portland & Seattle railway, two miles west of Spokano Joe Ballck and Mlko Matlch-, both Aus-trlanB, Aus-trlanB, wero Instantly killed, and Mlko Opyr was fatally Injured. Frank Kuchors, aged 03 years, a prominent wholcsalo leathor dealer of Tacomo, fired a bullet Into his brain at his homo whllo the famlls was at breakfast. He was despond ent from Illness, having 'suffered for a long time with kidney troublo. Holding that the punishment Imposed Im-posed by the Jury when lt found Georgo Melville guilty of Bocond degree de-gree murder for tho killing ot Win-field Win-field Guthrio, near Helona last July, to bo excessive, District Judgo Clements Cle-ments reduced tho penalty from fifty to twenty-flvo years In tho stato penitentiary. Word has been received In Laramie that construction work on tho Harrl-man Harrl-man system; which was discontinued when the present financial flurry began, be-gan, will be resumed along tho line on Deconibor 1, including tho Lane cut-off, near Omaha, which waa within with-in a few days of completion at tho tlmo of shut down. Upwards ot twenty postmasters oi the presidential class In Montana met in Helena last week nt tho Instigation Instiga-tion of tho postmastors of Butto, Helena Hel-ena and Great Falls, to discuss tho gcnoral situation and especially tho situation relative to Increased salaries sal-aries to offset tho advanced cost of living In recent years. Mayor Hlckok, of Saratoga, Wyo., Is suffering from a severe wound sustained sus-tained whle trying to replace a stove pipe which had fallen out of tho chimney, nnd which wns endangonng tho houso. Mnyor Hlckok Is a cousin ot tho lato "Wild Bill" Hlckok, ono of tho best known ot tho bad mon of formor days In Wyoming. Tho body of formor Lieutenant Governor Beall, who lu tho early days was Bhot and killed by Georgo W. Plnuoy, United Statos marshal and editor of tho Post,, has been found by Grand Army comrades aftor an lntcn mlttent search, extending over a number of yoars, and burled In Foresl Valley comotery at Holona. Tho board of education of tho Laramie Lar-amie school district has begun tho enforcement of tho compulsory education edu-cation law passed by tho last state legislature, and which provides thai nil children between tho nges of 1 nnd 14 ycais, Inclusive, shall bo required re-quired to attend somo public, private or parochial school each school year Aftor a conferonco held In Butte, tho, commlttco appointed by tho Butto Central Labor council and tho Building Build-ing Tradoa council, nnd D. S. Murray, gcnoral manager of tho Rocky Mountain Moun-tain Boll Tolophono company, fnllod to como to an agreement, nnd tho Btrlko botweon tho tolophono company com-pany nnd tho employes will contlnuo. Ezn Mookor, who has accomplished a 3,000-mllo trip over tho old Oregon trail behind a yolio ,of oxen, called on President Roosovolt last wook and mado a plea to have tho Oregon trail mado a national highway. Tho prosl-dont prosl-dont listened with Intorost, but suggested sug-gested that, If dono, tho projoct would havo to bo on a commercial rathor than on a sentimental basis. John Pollard, charged with criminal assault on tho 13-year-old nleco ot his wlfo, narrowly escaped lynching by nn nngry' mob nt Anaconda, Mont. Whllo being taken to tho county jail at Mount Vernon, Pollard hrokoaway from tho sheriff at Burlington Junction Junc-tion nnd throw himself In front of nn approaching train, being horribly mangled. Guided by the advice ot an agod woman, who claims to bo a sooross, Leon Thomas and Tommy Froitos, two smnll boyii, dug up $4,000 In a vacant va-cant lot on tho. corner of Green and Powell streets, San Francisco, where onco stood the Chappello- lodging houso. Star valley, Wyoming, which supports sup-ports a population- ot about 3,000 people, peo-ple, has tho biggest creamery In the stato, which, In addition tq supplying tho home demand, ships out buttoi and chcoso to western Wyoming. Utah and even Washington and Oregon. Georgo Frlsbee, who fell from a train between Callento and Moapa, Nevada, and had his left foot cut off, probably saved his lire by flagging a train which camo along sovoral hours later, by setting flro to an envelope. Frlsbeo was picked up and Is now ia the hospital. t f i r. I... - 4r |