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Show NORTHWEST NOTES I Frank A. Roberts bu been appoint- I -ed postmaster at Thayne, UlaU coun I ty. Wyoming. I The city hall, city Jail and Ave of H the principal business houses of Farm- I Ington, Wash., wero destroyed by Are last week. M Before 8,000 to 10,000 spectators, m Brigadier General Funston on Sunday K reviewed, the troops of his command B in Camp Tacoma. John Gorst, one of the pioneers of B Port Orchard, Wash., accidentally K nhot and killed hiniBelf while hunting Wt bear near that town, K Little Pitt, one of tho three escapes Wt from the Nevada state prison, was R captured nt McKlnnoy's, Nevada, by Ml Indian Dick Bender and Indian Jim. JSr, Flrc destroyed the saw mill and all R the other buildings at Parkershurg, Ore., on the Coqulllc river, except tho residence of Manager Krunenburg and -one other. S Fire, which Is believed to have been jr. Btartod by a cnreless tramp, destroyed ! about fl 0,000 worth of property at "Watervlllo, Wash. M. D. Bergcson was scvci'ely hurt. Joseph T. Carroll of Butte, one ol tho most prominent men of the stato, was founo guilty In tho United Statos district cOirt at Helena of Illegally maintaining fences on tho public domain. do-main. The annull session of tho grand i lodge, Knlgtts of Pythias, of Wyo- I ruing, was held In Laramie last weok. I T. H. Butler of Hanna was selecUsd I as grand chancellor for tho ensuing 1 year. I A man whole namo Is supposed to I have been D. A. Smith of Seattle at- I tempted to board a moving car as il was leaving a pleasuro resort at Port. land, nnd was thrown under tho trucks J and killed. ! Congressman Joo M. Dixon of Mis soula, who halt represented Montana 1 In the lower hcuso for two terms, has announced that ho Is a candidate for h United States r.enator to succeed Sen- ator W. A. Clsrk. The Itepubllran state commlttco of Montana has called tho stato convention conven-tion to meet nt Helena, ScptomberlS. The only nominations to be niado are for congressman and associate Justice of the supremo court Arch I o A. Cook, president of tho Travelers' Protectlvo association of Oregon nnd Washington, a well-known p commercial traveler, dlod at St. Vln- I. cent's hosnltnl. Portland, of aDDCndi n cltls. His n go was 3C years. jyi The sensational report of Jobbery In connection with tho turning over of tho water rights to a prlvato company on tho Shoshono reservation by tho ntato of Wyoming are positively do-nled do-nled by the stato authorities. Tho pollco bellovo they havo a clue In tho caso of Charles Smith, found murdered In his cabin at Tonopah, Nevada, Ne-vada, and have a man nnd woman under un-der arrest, but concent their Identity und connection with the crime. W. E. Stork, an engineer In the cm-tiloy cm-tiloy of tho Short Line, was drownea I In the Box canyon of the Snake, below Huntington, Oregon. He was working In a dangerous place nnd slipped from tho rocks upon which ho was perchod. An open switch nt Barrett's Siding, near Dillon, Mont., resulted In a pas-nengor pas-nengor train crashing Into tho rear ond of a freight train, Conductor Bwalt of tho freight train being killed and the engineer, fireman and ono passenger passen-ger of the passenger train Injured. Tho bureau of nnltnal Industry of tho department of ngrlculturo, having refused to disregard government certificates cer-tificates Issued to snoop brought to Wyoming nnd treat them according to the Wyoming laws, tho stato board of nhcop commissioners will employ a Torco of Inspectors nnd quarantine and treat all Imported sheep. It is considered probablo that a stato tournament will bo hold at Laramie, Lara-mie, Wyo., dm lug tho coming county fair by the different gun clubs ' tho ntato. under tho auspices of the Laramie Lara-mie Hod nnd dun club, with clubs representing rep-resenting Cheyenno, Ilnwllus, Hannu, I Douglas, ICvnnston, Hock Springs and perhaps Ogdcn, Ownership of almost one one-hundredth one-hundredth part of the stato of Orogon J 'changed hands last week, when tho old Oregon Central military road grant wna transferred to a syndicate com-- com-- . posed of eastern and California cap.. tallsts. Thomas G. McKwon, who lost hla right leg in a railroad accident in Laramlo a few years ago, was kicked by a Jiorse Inst week und his remaining remain-ing leg broken. Ho lay in tho opon for twelve hour boforo being discovered by passers-by. Tho largest wool clip over grown In America was shipped from Billings, Montana, to Boston and was the property prop-erty of C. M. Blair. It wolghed 1,500,-000 1,500,-000 pounds nnd required forty-four cars to carry It, Twenty-four cents a pound was refused for It. The filing for lnnds In tho Shoshono reservation began on the ICth nt Sho-ehono Sho-ehono In tho special land offlce nt that ! place. Ono hundred and twenty-flvo poople will file each day, the ones whose names wero first drawn in tho lottery at Lander filing first |