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Show lNOBTIIWEST notes During a quarrol between a coupto H -lot Finland miners at Oakley, Wyo., B one of tho men was shot and killed. P Judge Miles Polndexter or Spokane Tbaa won tho congressional nomlna-'tlon nomlna-'tlon over n field of six candidates, thre of theiri In Spokano county. Hl;' Too Western Boosters' shooting MSj onmament was held In Anaconda MB 'jrtnt week, with well known marks-mV marks-mV men from all parts of tho Untied F tiiates In attendance MB Arthur McCant, a one-eyed colored fl mart, wanted nt Canon City, Colo., for HB ' tho murder of a colored man, was ar Ii tested on n Union Paclflo train at Cheycnno by a deputy sheriff, f W. P. Claycomb, employed nt the Jdoncrelffo saw mill, near Cody, Wyo,, lost ono thumb and two fingers from the right band n few days ago "by coming In, contact with a saw. Tbu State Mining congress of Colo-I Colo-I imlo has appointed n commlttco of f thirteen to taV.o stops to retain tho homo of tho Amorlcan Mining congress con-gress In Denver and the erection of f $1,000,000 lemplo. I A. few days ago at his Red Dank ranch In tho nig Horn basin, ox-dot-crnor Richards of Wyoming, whllo I beheading chickens, accidentally (hacked his left thumb, almost sovor-I sovor-I Ing It from his hand, It Is thought . the thumb can bo saved. '. Wishing to sco If a llvo wlro, which had Just given a sovoro shock to ' young Chnrlcs Mann, a deaf rauto, : was still chargod, Olcnn Saunders, a man 24 years of ago of Maker City, Ore., touched tho wlro with a nail and was Immediately electrocuted. Dr. Cabollo Whitehead, general manager of tho Soward Peninsula , railroad In Alaska, Is dend at Nomo, as tho result of an accident on the road. Tho car In which Dr. Whitehead! White-head! was riding was overturned and ho fell Into a) shallow body of water. Chairman Harry Humphries of tho ' Republican stato central commlttco pf Nevada, and Chnlrman P. J. Som-crs Som-crs of tho Democratic commltleo, 1 have formally entered Into an agreement agree-ment binding tho legislative candidates candi-dates of both parties to abldo by the . 0 popular vote for United States sena-! sena-! tor. President Holbrook of tho Wyoming Wyo-ming Coal company at Monarch, 'Wyo., has purchased tho right-of-way for a railroad from Monarch to Miles " City, Mont., and proposes to build a G line of railway down Tonguo river to !' , the Montana city, where it will con-I con-I ttect with the Milwaukee & St. Paul 1 , The first step toward the construe-. construe-. tlon of the Chrystal Lake reservoir, p . 24 miles west of Cheyenn. and & which will form a part of the city's water storage system, was taken last Week, when condemnation proceed- Inss were Instituted ngalnst tho own-i own-i ers of land which will bo flooded by 'the lake. , The warden of the stato penitentiary peniten-tiary at Hawllns, Wyo., Is already r Wondering what he Is going to do with the largo numbor of convicts being be-ing received. Thcrp are now 200 prls-cuors prls-cuors In the pen, and with district cpurts In session In scvoral counties, Itj; is expected this numbor will shortly short-ly be Increased to 275 or 2S0. "The sheriff Is searching for J. W. Manning, who camo to Choyonno fom Denver recently and who Is wanted on charges of obtaining i- money under1 false pretenses, beating , V.Ib board bill, stealing a diamond ring and various other alleged of-1 of-1 tenses. Manning represented himself ,to bo a man of wealth, 1 Fearing he would bo convlctod on I, . f the charge of committing a criminal ' assault upon a 14-year-old girl, for , , which ho was arrested, J. II, Jones, a bricklayer, 50 years old and mnrrled, j committed suicide at Durango, Colo., yi soon after being locked up In a cell a, at the county jail by cutting his P throat from ear to car with a pocket knife. The first trouble growing out of tho present strike of Wyoming coal miners oocurrod at Sheridan, whon I Charles Klopchlck and Joe Tomerl were arrested, charged with Interfering Interfer-ing with workmen ot the coal com- Pny whllo thoy woro building a bridge r.Mrs. John Davis, wlfo of ono of . the leading real cstato dealers of Se-attic, Se-attic, committed suicide by taking carbollo acid. She was 23 yoars old, he was 48, and they had been mar-. mar-. lied only stneo March IB last, but I, tho , couple had frcquontly quarreled . , of l'ato, Tho president has issued a procla-1 procla-1 matlon opening to settlement 800,000 acres of tho surplus lands of tho y Rosebud Indian reservation In South Dakota. Tho drawing will tnko pinco f Dallas, S. D., on Octobor 18. Tho minimum price fixed on tho lond Is , $G per aero. Two convicts In tho stato prison at Folsom. Cal,. made a break for lib- erty. They wcro fired upon by two of tho prison guards and ono of tho con-vjcts, con-vjcts, A. Barrett, serving a' 10-yenr rentenco, was klllc'd. the rtflo ball p. parsing through his head. Ills com T jpanlon was captured. L' John E. Engle of Denver, whllo at- tempting to beat his way on a freight y; train out of Huntington, Ore., got in ft ( between two cars on which tho draw-'heads, draw-'heads, wero gonoond fastened togothor t With a chain, and when the englno MjM. Mopped the cars came together, ML ' crushing hint to death. BBV' Al Williams, n ranchman living HBK rear Sheridan. Wyo., has a freak Bfi Iamb that will shortly bo placed on MMLahjl'lljM.,fi..lP.TriJ). t",,.0 ..mmiths-V ..mmiths-V . (Old and has six perfectly formed HJp "' n lugs, The two extia legs are a trlllo HHfiv' ;' fcborter than lh( othor tour and are KB , , not used In locomotion, MW ' The four-3'ear-old daughter ot a tt:1 lindane; Wyo., woman, who recent-BjW recent-BjW 4j Sloped with a negro, has been re-MML re-MML jp' i 'ftbr The woman jB'' " rtrfld wr found in an Iowa 1 MMflK Sfis W colored lover had HsMffik fPJr4 her. Mo etfort will be mad MMM' "og ui womaa bark'. |