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Show NORTHWEST NOTES llntte has population ot 80,229, according ac-cording to tho estimate of It. U Polk ft Company, publishers ot the city directory. di-rectory. Hollvcr Magorden, on trial nt Vale, "Ore., for tho murder of his wife, has been sentenced to be hanged on -June '28. 'Officials TccordB -show that slnco tho first of "May there havo been only twe 'dcatliB In Goldfleld, Columbia and Jumbotown, whoso aggregate population popula-tion Is 20,000. T. It. Christian, a farm hand who cut his throat, died In tho hospital at Hock Springs, Wyo. He was working on n farm near Rock Illvor, and quar eled with his sweetheart. John Engstrom, a saloonkeeper of Hannn, "Vyo lost a purse containing (400 in bills, somo lusuranco papers slid other documents from his pocket In n train from Rawlins to Hannn. "Blnza Kacovenz had his head blown from his shoulders nt Araila, a grading camp twelvo nillcs from Butto, by a (hot gun in tho hands ot another Austrian Aus-trian with whom he hnd quarreled. In tho city election at Reno, Nevada, Richard Klrman was elected mayor and Frank King city nttorney, ,tho only offices on which thero was nny contest. Under tho charter It was a non-partisan fight. , Snow Is now seven feet deep on tin lovel In tho southern "Wyoming moun 'tains. Slnco April 113 the sun has not Bhono and the storm has not ceased a moment. Tho tcmpornturo has beoc between zero and 10 degrees Uelow .during that time. W. A. Clark, Jr., and Alice Gcne-vlovo Gcne-vlovo Medln wero married at Butte last week, Tho ceremony was por formed by Judgo Michael Donlln, and was witnessed by n few intimate friends. Mr. Clark is a son ot fonnei Senntor W. A. Clark. Ernest McPherson, aged 2C, son ol n prominent cotton manufacturer ol Ontario, Canada, was drowned In the plunge at Gragson Springs, Montana, while swimming. McPherson came to Anaconda only n few weeks ago to work In tho smelters. Tom Brady, n. miner, lies In a Bntte hospital with a fractured .skull, fatally Injured ns tho result of n blow on tho head With an ax wielded by his fifteen-year-old stepson, Thornley Thompson. Thomp-son. 'The boy brained his step father for choking his mother. Judge George S. Brown hns signed a docreo, giving to Ely, Nevada, tho right of Bolt government, nnd commissioners commis-sioners havo been appointed to call and hold an election for mayor and threo trustees. Tho olectlon will prob-aby prob-aby take place June 8. News hns been received In Helena of the killing In the Bald Butte mining min-ing district of WInfleld Guthrie by Georgo Melville, as tho result ot Guthrie striking Melvlllo's wire. A there was no attempt at summary vengeance, It Is evident that tho largo forco of imincrs Justified Melville's action. Tho city council of Laramie has passed an ordlnanco carrying n contract con-tract with tho Union Pacific Railroad company for tho laying of a water 'main nearly two miles long, nt tho oxponso of tho company, from tho City springs to tho city, for a Joint water system. The cost will bo about (-10,000. Tho stato of Wontnnn, through Governor Gov-ernor Toolo, hns offored a rownrd'of (1,000 for tho nrrest nnd conviction of tho men, who, In attempting to rob tho TCorth Const limited paBsengor train nt Wolch Spur, lnstnntly killed Engineer Frank Clow nnd seriously injured in-jured Flromnn Sulllvnn. This makes (3,000 In rownrds offored. C. Horbort Mooro, candidate on the Republlcnn and Roform tlckot for mayor may-or of Spokano, was elected by a plurality plur-ality of 1,874 over Floyd Daggott, the present mayor, a Democrat. Tho roform ro-form forces entered tho district primaries pri-maries of tho Republicans nnd nominated nomin-ated Mooro In opposition to the choice of tho old-llii" Republicans. Serious trouble Is brewing nt Fair-view. Fair-view. Wyo., botween tho sheep and cnttlomou. A fow days ago Hlllstead and Tolmnn, while trailing a band of sheep went fired upon by men In nm-bush. nm-bush. A number of sheep wero killed. Lntor n number or cattlemen stopped tho sheepmen In tho road nnd demanded de-manded thnt thoy turn back. Tho Penn-Wyomlng Copper company's com-pany's smelter, convertor, tramway tcrmlnnl nnd crushor nt Grand Encampment, En-campment, Wyo., havo been destroyed by n flro bollovod to havo boon of Incendiary In-cendiary origin. Tho loss, nmountlng to more than (100,000, Is covered by Insurance. Josep.i Corby, Republlcnn? haH token his seat ns mayor ot Butto. Aleck McOowan, a former nssUtnnt nt-torney-geiioral of Novada, tho now police po-lice Judgo, Is u Domocrat, tho council coun-cil is Democratic, and tho Democratic Democrat-ic city treasurer, Phlll Goodwlni succeeds suc-ceeds himself. Tho Wyoming Woolgrowors' association associ-ation has Issued a circular advising sheepmen throughout tho state that a conspiracy Is being plnnnod by eastern wool buyers to force down th prlco of wool In splto of manufacturers' domnnils Producers ute advised not to sell their woll. |