Show I j t1rrd Jl J l NORTHWEST NOTES I To expedite tho laying ot 300 mile of double track on tho Union Pacific In Wyoming 1000 Greek laborers will bo put to work in n short tlmo Burglars entered tho Inland tmil nt Cumberland Wash blow open tho safe after binding and gagging Basic or Parker and got away with 2000 As tho result of a drunken quarrel William Hoff was shot and killed bye by-e A Ails n rancner at Carlton Mont Ails shot at Hoff throo times each shot taking effect W A Brothers government dlslmrC Ing agent for tho Pathfinder reservoir project with headquarters at Jasper Wyo was arrested last week tn n charge of embezzling government fundo to the amount of 5000 Tho Bank of Nevada at Rope has taken over tho banking business ot R L Douglas at Fallou Tho now bank will bo known as the Churchill county bank Its capitalization la 1 100000 I W Enunons agent for tho Union Pacific at Laramie Wyo has been awarded tho gold medal offered by tin company for tIme moat perfect depot nnd station on tho line ot tho Wyoming Wyom-ing division A special from Jacksonville Ore states tHat Thomas Ferguson a veteran vet-eran aged 75 years who lived near Phoenix that county was found dead with a bullet hole through his head The coroners Jury returned a verdict of suicide William Rice was probably fatally stabbed by William Hartley in a saloon sa-loon brawl at Huntington Ore Rico is a married man ant was employed in the lumber mills at Pleasant Valley Val-ley Hartley Is a well known character char-acter and hails from Salt Lake E S Gordon of North Bond Ore whoso alleged who Bertha Gordon Is waiting her preliminary examination in San Francisco on a charge of passing pass-ing a forged and fictitious note for G08 on Dr F W Vowlnckol has been arrested on a charge of conspiring with a woman to swindle the physl clan > clanA A gang of men has been placed at work in tho yards of tho i Laramlo Hanns Peak Pacific at Laramlo Wyo arranging for the operations ot the tracklaying outilts that aro shortly i short-ly to begin work on this road Enough steel is on hand and on route to complete com-plete the road to Centennial thirty miles out Mattlo Skagit an Indian woman Bald to bo 104 years old died last week at her farm at Bartow on the sound opposite Seattle She was a contemporary ofOld Seattle and Princess Prin-cess Angelino and for many years had been under tho care of Charlie Keo kuk one of tho best known Indians on the sound The fourtli county fair will be hold in Laramie Wyo in September It IB tho purpobe of tho management of the four county fairs and tho state fair at Douglas to agree upon dates that will not only not conflict but amiable owners of race horses and ox hlbltioti stock to go from one fair to another without loslngtimo While lying flat on tho floor of tho first story ot tho Merlcheany Manufacturing Manu-facturing companys building with their beaus projected over a freight elevator shaft directing streams of water Into the basement whero fire broke out Sunday morning Lieut Charles Kirk and Hoseman Herman Larson of the Seattle fire department were caught under the elevator and received serious injuries The store of If A Jewell at Tone pah N vnda was held up by a robber rob-ber with a red handkerchief over hlb face Ho made the bartender open the cash register from which ho took over 200 Ho then took 15 from a woman drinking at tho bar and escaped es-caped Sam Franeovlch an employment agent of Reno Nov shipped a gang of fifty men to Spring Garden on tho line of the Western Pacific last week This is the first of several gangs that will be sent to various points long the Western Pacific line within time next row weeks One man was killed one fatally wounded and another seriously hurt by the collapse of the house of J Riley In San Francisco It was a twostory frame structure in an unfinished un-finished condition A high wind was blowing and tho house went down before be-fore the pressure Peter Brecn one of the best known attorneys In Butte was fined 500 for contempt of court by Judge Michael Donlan who punished the lawyer for accusing tho judge of having delibor ately drawn tho jury panel in an irregular Ir-regular manner Breen will appeal to tho supremo court Should Secretary Taft decline tho presidents offer of a placo on the supreme su-preme bench to succeed Justlco Brown upon his retirement the ap polntmont may possibly go to Judga Willis Van Devcntor of Cheyenne Wyo of the circuit court of appeals of The Eighth circuit Chief of Police Joseph S Stiles ot Rugono Ore committed suicide by ahoptlnB himself In tile head Time cause of the docd Is supposedly in connection with present Investigations OC the grand Jury In regard to a Statutory Statu-tory charge combined with the giving of liquor to young girls 0 |