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Show NORTHWEST NOTES A. N. Daley, a Shelby carpenter, who was shot In the back while endeavoring en-deavoring to . escape from jail ait Cut Bank, Mom., died at the hospi- ; taj, having been brought there to Lave his injury treated. Governor Chamberlain of O'egon has vetoed senate bill No. C8, which provides for the compulsory sterilization steriliza-tion of confirmed criminals, insaue persons, idiots, rapists and imbeciles tor the prevention of procreation. That the Nye & Ormsby bank at Reno, Nev., was closed, not because it was iusolvent, but because it was roving a failure as a business venture, ven-ture, since the expenses doubly ex-reeded ex-reeded the profits, is the statement made by an official. Following the discovery that thousands thou-sands of dollars have been secured ly means of forged time checKs on :he Consolidated Mines company ot Goldfield, Nev., the officials have unearthed un-earthed a complete 'counterfeiting plant in a house on Broadway. The Goldfield (Nevada) Evening ;hronicle failed to issue on February 2, owing to the fact that the plant lad been attached by the sheriff at :he instance of John S. Cook & Co.'s :.ank, which holds a heavy mortgage jn the building and material it contains. con-tains. Beneath an overturned wagon, to which was attached a team of frightened fright-ened horses, Ole Synnes of the Bear-'.ooth, Bear-'.ooth, one of the best known ranchmen ranch-men of Montana and noted as a crack 5hot, trailer and hunter, was dragged to his death in Prickly Pear canyon between Manila siding and Wolf creek. Convict William Hayes has for the second time been sentenced to be hanged for his part in the attempted escape from the penitentiary at Deer Lodge, Mont., a year ago, in which Chief Guard Robinson was murdered. George Rock, Hayes' pal. has already paid for the crime with his life. Hayes must hang April 2. After unanimously providing for the recall, the charter convention at Colorado Springs fixed 30 per cent as the necessary proportion of voters to call ai special election to fill the office of any incumbent. No mention was made of the liquor question in the proposed charter. This was decided de-cided without a dissenting vote, Thomas Rudd and Gunther Rttdd, bachelor farmers living near Belling-ham, Belling-ham, Wash., were accidentally blown up by dynamite while clearing clear-ing land. Thomas was hurled fifty feet away, his head being blown away and . nearly every bone In his body broken. Gunther Rudd is alive, but sightless, and horribly injured. The roof on the Morasci building at Manhattan, Nev., collapsed from the weight of snow. Tony So-farni So-farni was killed. The building had been used by. the ladies of the Catholic Cath-olic church for Sunday school pur poses and for social meetings. Had the roof fallen ten minutes earlier about fifty women would have been killed or injured. The people of Riverton. Wyo., are Incensed over the alleged cruelty of one George Drummond, a civil engineer, en-gineer, to fifteen year old Mamie Murphy, an orphan who had been living with the Drummond family, it being charged that because the girl did not get breakfast ready as early as Drummond wished, that he cruelly ; beat her with a rawhide quirt. I "Wanted for Fdlony" are the words in. big black type printed across circulars sent out by Sheriff Perrell of Reno, calling for the arrest ar-rest of Frank J. Grunenthal. Grunenthal Grun-enthal name to Reno from San Francisco Fran-cisco about a year ago, broke into newspaper work, was defeated for assemblyman as-semblyman at the last election and hen engaged in the poultry business. Jack Hunt, an alleged embezzler a.nd horse thief, has been captured by Marshal Hash of Battle Mountain. Nev., after an exciting chase of 140 miles. Both men were mounted on thoroughbred horses and were in the saddle twenty-seven consecutive hours. Hunt was found asleep with his head resting on his saddle, which he had removed frjm his horse, which was lying dead close by. Joseph Healy and Horace Ritchie have pleaded guilty to attempting a jail delivery at MfTVernon, Wash., and must serve at least the minimum sentence sen-tence of five years in the penitentiary. The men were captured while endeavoring endeav-oring to liberate a couple of counterfeiters. counter-feiters. While a train was running at full speed between Willow Creek and Three Forks, Mont., an exploding lamp set fire to the dining car of the westbound west-bound express on the Milwaukee road, the car being destroyed. None of the I passengers or crew of the train were injured. William Keppler has returned to Saratoga, Wyo., from a trip into the Red desert and reports winter conditions condi-tions there " phenominally severe. There are several hundred thousand Sead of sheep ranging in the desert rnd a great amount of feeding is being be-ing done. A cave-in occurred in the tunnel ivhich is being driven for the Northern North-ern Trunk sewer in Seattle and bur-'ed bur-'ed beneath 700 tons of earth eleven nen. two of whom were crushed to leath, while nine were entombed in the tunnel beyond the cave-in and later rescued. Governor H. P. Brooks died at Lewiston, Mont., February 25, at the age of 73. He was one of the best known citizens of Montana, coming to the state with the first goldseekers in the early 'GOs. Later he was a pioneer pio-neer in the stock business in the state and massed a fortune. Two men perished in the blizzard in Colorado on February 22. A Mexican Mex-ican sheepherder was frozen to death near Hugo and a white herder who accompanied him was so badly frozen that he is not expected to live. P. P. Kirkpatrick of Fort Morgan found frozen to death. |