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Show NORTHWEST NOTES. F. H. Fusselman, a sporting man, formerly of Seattle, dropped dead at Reno, Nev., last week. Heart failure was the cause of death. The Audubon society of Wyoming is preparing to take steps to enforce the state law prohibiting the killing of song birds at any season. Marvin G. Tufford, an old soldier 65 years of age, with only one leg, was run over and killed by an electric car on the Piedmont line at North Albina, Ore., last week. Ten suspected crooks who were arrested ar-rested and held In Cheyenne during the visit of President Roosevelt, were released from custody after the departure depar-ture of the president. A coroner's jury sitting at Noxon, Mont., returned a verdict to the effect that Paul Wagnitz, the missing county coun-ty assessor, whose remains were found in the river, was murdered. His skull was crushed in. Binger Hermann, Republican, was elected congressman in the First district dis-trict of Oregon last week to succeed the late Thomas Tongue, defeating A. E. Reames,. uemocrat, by approximately approxi-mately 1,800 plurality. By a vote of 33 to 31, the delegates to the convention of the American Labor La-bor union have voted to retain the headquarters at Butte, Mont. The proposition was to remove the head- quarters to Denver. John Flynn, a wealthy farmer living near La Salle, Mont., was found dead in a saloon in La Salle at 4 a. m. one day last week. He was known as a peaceable man, and it is believed he was murdered for his money. The saw mill of Sclagel Klingen-smith, Klingen-smith, at Athens, Mont., burned to the ground one day last week, entailing entail-ing a loss of $10,000. Flying sparks set the plant of Kelsey Brothers afire, and that mill was also destroyed. Edward Spencer, convicted at Spokane Spo-kane of the murder of Ella Mundt, has been sentenced to thirteen years in the penitentiary. Spencer was paying attention to the young woman, and shot her while crazed with drink. James S. Keerl, one of the best known mining engineers in the Northwest, North-west, was found guilty at Helena last week of murder in the second degree for killing Thomas Crystal, a barkeeper, bar-keeper, several months ago. Keerl had been on a protracted spree, and after quarreling with Crystal, shot the latter. At Walsenburg, Colo., the house of Claudis Martinez was struck by lightning light-ning and Mrs. Martinez was instantly killed. Her husband was shockingly burned and four other members of the family were more or les hurt. A remarkable re-markable incident was that a baby carried In the arms of Mrs. Martinez escaped without a scratch. Nimico Guieau, a Frenchtown ranch hand, has caused the arrest of Jules Gabriel, a rancher of Missoula, Mont., who, he says, hitched him to a plow and drove him beside a mule. Guieau says he was in debt to Gabriel, and that the latter detained him by force and made him work the debt out, using him as a beast of burden. The Wyoming Louisiana Purchase exposition commission has placed with J. E. Stimson, official photographer for the Union Pacific, an order for the finest collection of Wyoming photographs pho-tographs ever gathered. There will be twelve large colored views of scenery in each of the thirteen counties, and twelve views taken in Yellowstone park. |
