Show NORTHWEST NOTES at the Democrat do la state convention hold held la in ca aaraon nevada tho the dolega delegates teu ware instructed tor for william bryan mrs E H N deapo and her daughter mrs vera McKelv lo who set out from portland me on may majr 12 to travel in an automobile to portland ore arrived la in chicago on oil june 1 maurice McKel lingon an aged bustness business man of goldfield found guilty of murder in tho the second degree has been sentenced to ten years imprisonment the minimum sentence of thirteen delegates elected by bir butto butte minors union no 1 IV va M to the annual convention of the western federation of miners to be held in denver in july nine are avowed socialists cia cla lists robert W speer was on june I 1 inaugurated augu rated as mayor of denver for a second term of four yeara the ceremonies m were held in the new city auditorium in which the democratic national convention will meet m eat july 7 william willfam dempsey tho the augusta rancher who wag waa shot by the boy bandits in tho the holdup hold up of a train near near great falls mont Is dead and the tour four boys rheams rh eams hatch croswell creswell and It randall andall will have to face a charge of murder charles R leonard of butte attorney for 11 augustus dollize Hol lize last announced that mr hellice will ivill soon return to butto to assume personal charp charge of his mining property in this state mr hellige has recently acquired some valuable montana property the will of the late governor sparks if I nevada was filed last week showing the value of the property left by the governor to be tho the heirs are arc mrs nancy elleanora aleanora Ble anora sparks tile the widow mrs airs maud mckenzie Mc Kenzle benton sparks C AT sparks and le lc land sparks after negotiations consuming forty one days the miners and operators ol of tho the northern colorado lignite coil coal fields have disagreed and a strike seems beems imminent at the final session or of the conference the miners representatives senta tives i rejected ejected the proposition of th operators which would reduce tho the wages the friends of the tha late joe simpson the reno nov gambler who was jlynch cd by being banged to a telegraph polo pole at kiddoo tor for shooting a saloon man of that place are now trying to find his wife it la Is stated that he left over and that hi hip wife will receive the entire estate it she will only apply for it william soper a passenger brakeman who shot and killed james jamela Ll brothers a saloonkeeper of oilman gilman colo declares he thought brothers brothe was EL a train robber tho the crew haying having been warned that there would bs be an attempt to hold up tho the train irain and when ito he saw brothers running ta toward tho the train soper shot him captain leonard and three patrolmen discharged by the tha chief ot of police of helena because ot of an order vi ef the mayor to reduce the police force of that city have kept their uniforms and have bavo continued on duty on the advice of their attorneys the claim Is made that the discharge ot of the men to 18 illegal and t the case will be carried into the courts terry sturgis ls who recently escaped from the insane asylum at napa cal and took possession of a ranch near reno nevada has been captured after a hard bard fight sturgis sturgle lived in grizzly valley tor for several years his cabin was lined with sheet iron and on the outside he had bad set heavy bear traps trapa to catch intruders john S macbeth Mia cbeth one ot of the most prominent attorneys attorn eya in colore do ao way waa severely injured in a runaway at goldfield nov nev as was waa also aleo all miss as myra lockhart the 20 year old daughter ot of thomas G lockhart who with A D parker of denver owns tho the florence mine secretary garfield has issued an order providing that on all government irrigation projects where not otherwise ordered operation and maintenance charges for prior seasons must be paid on or before april 1 1909 in default or of which no water will be furnished thereafter the noted halfbreed half breed indian who has successfully eluded the officers of tho the law recently compelled a ranchman in the augusta country in Mont montana rma to submit to a forceful exchange of horses leaving a crippled animal behind him the breed was heavily armed mrs airs J dunn an aged pioneer woman of virginia city ney was found dead in her home with her head bent back over her bar shoulders and her body wedged between the be bed d and wall her head was smothered in pillows and bed clothes tho the motive tor for the murder Is unknown evidently tired of life and its hardships george sievers went into the tha lavatory ot of the saloon at reno ilene nevada and cd his throat threat with a razor he then stumbled into the yard lu in the rear and fell to the ground where he bo slowly bled to death lie he was unknown in reno in accordance with wit fi a heavily signed petition the city counch of reno nevada has set october 24 as the date for a special election as to whether 9 gambling ambling will be permitted in tho the city of reno hereafter under the state law the law permits incorporated cities to pays on this question lewis penwell secretary of the montana wool company and who la Is also at tho the head bead rf of eight of the largest sheep concerns in the state estimates that the growers will re calve approximately tho the same total in rash cash this year as aa they did last definite the discrepancy in prices |