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Show ix Wmw- ivest News Notes From the Great Chain of States and Territories of the Northwest. A FEW UTAH NOTES MIXED IN. Idaho, Wy online-, Montana. Nevada, Washington Wash-ington and Oregon All Come in For Their Share of News. Payson, I'tah, is troubled with sneak thieves. Pocatello is overrun with a gang of darinir hold-uus and thieves. let Hy and down came the big game. It is a question which wag the most surprised, sur-prised, the boy or the deer. Hut it is safe to way tin) boy was a good deal excited, ex-cited, for he dropped his gun when the animal began struggling on the ground and rushing up beat its brains out with clubs and rocks. ' This is another illustration illus-tration of the wonderful resources of Washington, the deer are so thick in its magnificent forests that the boys kill them with clubs. It is not generally known, says the Laramie Republican, nor is it, on the other hand, any secret that there i just across the range of hills east of Laramie a very remarkable cavern that has been explored for several miles without any end of its labyrinths being discovered. lis existence has been known for years but no well organized exploring party has yet visited it. Pi'iitinuliittia trt a.hlura ,li ,, ri, li The furniture, jewels and clothing of the Newcastle, Wyoming, masonic lodge arrived last week. A rumor is current that the liuffalo. Wyoming, extension will be on the move by the 1st of March, ism. The Albuquerque' papers are crying out against the tin horns and bunco men, and demand that they be run out of town. Another man has taken a sudden departure de-parture from town and a lew crushed hearts are in mourning, is the poetic w ay the Laramie liooiuerang expresses it. ' Burglars blew open a 1000 pound safe bolonging to Day liios., lumber dealers, deal-ers, at Seal lie. but secured no money. All the money had been taken out the day before and put in a hank. Where do we get our news? asks the Payson Leader. Then it answers: We lead and think; we die into the cells of memory for treasures, both new ami old. We are awuke while sleeping. ! The governor of Nevada lias ap- ! pointed II. V. Daligherg. of Douglas, i J. K. ldatlley, of Kiko. and A. Peter- ; son. of Storev. to serve four vesrs ns i caern are i.ow being made. This is January 2-lth we believe. Well we could scarcely believe it when we saw the lleuton ' Lxcelsiors and Montana Mon-tana Northerns, two of the crack baseball base-ball teams of the great northwest engaged en-gaged in a practice game on North Peach today, and every mother's son of them in their shirt sleeves, flannel trusers and linen cars. At the same time the small bojs were playing marbles mar-bles in the comfortable shade of houses. Lor Benton River Press. A terrible tight in which a pistol and a pitchfork were the weapons took place at Spokane. The man wielding the pitchfork killed his adversary almost al-most instantly. The parties to the tight were Alfred' Call, corral boss, and Thomas King, walking boss for Peter I Costello, the well-known street grade ! contractor. The light took place in j Costello's stable on Washington street, and arose over a disagreement about : shoeing hores. No one else was pres-I pres-I cm at the time, but another employe. hearing a loud talk rushed into the stable and found King lying on his face and Call standing over him with a nitchforlv nistnl Wf nrMtrmti mit directors of the slate board of agriculture. agri-culture. The new $05 M)0 opera house at Pn-yallup Pn-yallup is receiving t he linising touches I and will be turned over to the owners ! within two weeks, it has a seating ea- i paeity of TOO, and will bu lighted with i electricity. I George Motzger, foreman of V. A. lluhbella ranch, ne:ir Zitni Salt lakes, New Mexico, 17?) miles west of Albu- i querque, arm ed in Santa 1 and an ' lioe.rtccd that he had shot and kiiied ' Jose Maria (.'haves. "Who Made JL-ii'-" is the title of a poem in the Pay-on, I'tah. Leader. Jly i remitting snilieieni to cover pmtage to Senator Ingalis. late nf Kansas, con- : siderabks light on why it was made: could doubtles- lie gamed ' Henry Kiberl, a brakeinan en the i Spokane and Pa'ouse passenger train, I was killed at Plaa last week. Niue i i . t i from King's hip pocket. King expired i in a few minutes. Call says they en-i en-i gaged in a fight and King attempted to j draw his pistol, whereupon he struck ! him on the temple with a pitchfork, i Call at once surrendered to the sheriff. Both are young men and unmarried. A correspondent of the Seattle Press, writing from a small town in Clallam county, gives the following bit of history his-tory regarding the manner in which the wolves of Clallam figured as ministers of vengeance in early days: "I cannot vouch for it nor would my informant, but he says that the tale runs that during dur-ing the early days an infamous crime was committed, with a woman as the victim There was no court, no justice and m re was needed. The perpetrator perpetra-tor of the crime was taken out near the lake, wtiere very few, perhaps, had beep, before, and his legs securelv manacled man-acled with, it is not improbable, the onlv oair of irons in the then nnoi-cnn. ized county. His hands were left tree, and food sufficient for several days was placed near him. There he was left, begging and imploring that he might be shot. He was heard shouting on the following day, or may be, crying out feebly would be the better phrase, but ' when the one assigned to the duty visited the vicinity on the second dav there was no sound. The manacles were there, and here was an arm bone and here a leg bone and there the clean picked skull, that did not seem to grin, as skulls are said to have a way of doing, but that the tinder fancied bore something some-thing of the look that the man's face must have borne as the wolves closed around him despite his puny blows and cries to frighten them." cars passed over nis bony, mutilating it beyond recognition. His remain were taken- to Pullman, where his mother and aistef reside. There is a rumor afloat in Newcastle, Wyoming, that Maud Rivers, formerly an attache of the Castle theater, died recently in Hill City, of brain fever, the effects of a blow on the bead w ith a gun in tiie hands of Doc Cornet. , Clarence Nelson, whose folks live about a mile from the bay. on the east side, is thc champion boy deer-slayer of this region, says the Allyn (Wash.) Times. Last Saturday was his Uth birthday, and to celebrate the event he shouldered his gun, a small single-barrel shotgun, and started out to look fofr pheaanls. A short distance from the house his dog ran a large deer out of the brush only a few yards away. Taking Tak-ing a quick aim at the an iuial's head he |