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Show NORTHWEST NOTES. The will of Governor DeForest Richards of Wyoming, filed last week, places the value of his estate at $225,-000. $225,-000. Harry Allen, station agent of the Oregon Short Line at Dillon, Mont., is short in his accounts and has absconded. ab-sconded. Emll Thornton, colored, has been fined $150 by a Cheyenne court for sending an obscene photograph of herself her-self through the mails. John Reynolds, who shot and killed William McNally at Wilbertson, Wash., some months ago, has been sentenced to be hanged. Advices from Kalispell, Mont, are to the effect that the melting snow In the mountains has swollen the streams and a serious flood is threatened. Samuel Jackson, boss of a shearing crew at Kaycee, Wyo., was shot and killed by Dr. J. N. Potts of Gilbertson, as the result of a quarrel between the two men. As the result of a cave-in in the lower level of the Liberty Bell mine at Telluride, Colo., two men were crushed to death and two others were badly injured. A piece of gold quartz weighing about eighty pounds, which was last week found on the John Day river in Grant county, Oregon, contained about $3,000 in gold. Joseph Bashaw, who died at Salem, Ore., last week, was, as near as can be figured out, 114 years of age. He drove an ox team to Oregon in 1847, and was then an old man. A second time bids for the erection of the governor's mansion, for which the last Wyoming legislature provided $40,000, have been rejected because the contractors asked too much. The strike of the millmen, loggers and choppers at Sumpter, Ore., has been settled, the arbitration committee commit-tee deciding that the wage scale as paid in the past was fair and equitable. The government office of Irrigation Investigations located at Cheyenne has decided to detail two experts to assist the state authorities of Utah in adjudicating ad-judicating water rights on the Weber river. Marvin Fowler, an elevator boy ih Butte, was assaulted by a man and two boys while at his work and badly beaten. It is believed the assault was the result of the refusal of Fowler to join the Butte Elevator Boys' union. The grand jury at Cheyenne has indicted in-dicted Mrs. Helen Jenkins on a charge of blackmail. It is alleged that she sent a letter to I. N. Bard, a prominent ranchman, threatening that unless he paid her $100 she would reveal evidence evi-dence in her possession that he stole two head of cattle from the Two-Bar ranch. Henry Berg, a rancher living near North Yakima, Wash., shot and killed his six-year-old foster son, Charley August Berg, and then committed suicide. sui-cide. He shot the boy while asleep and then put the muzzle of the rifle ii: his mouth and pulled the trigger with his toe. It is supposed that Berg was insane. |