Show NORTHWEST NOTES I Rainstorms In tho hop districts ot Oregon has caused considerable damage dam-age to tho huh Industry Denver Is now a closed town all tho gambling houses having been closed h > order of the city authorities H Mcgordon convicted at Vale Ore of mtiidcrlng his wife has been sentenced to be hung on November 21 Cora McFrecley aged 15 suicided in Seattle taking strychnine becalm her lover had forsaken her for another girl Tho Summit hotel and two ndjolnln cottages at Monlda Mont wero destroyed de-stroyed by lire which started In the top story of tho hotel building entailing entail-ing a loss of 10000 It Is now estimated that tho loss occasioned by tho recent fire In llntto was 600000 with Insurance of GHG 000 The blocks destroyed are to bo rebuilt at once Tho machinery of tho railway shops at Larumlo and Cheyenne Is being overhauled 1 preparatory to the reopening reopen-ing of the mills A complete air hoisting hoist-Ing plant Is to bo Installed at Laramle at once Tho Shingle Mills bureau an association asso-ciation to control tho output of Washington Wash-ington rod cedar shingles was organized organ-ized in Seattle last week About O per cent of tho total output of tho state was represented C F McCoun a sheep herder for tho Swan Land and Cattlo company was found dead on the prairie about 10 miles from Rock River Wyo and Is supposed to have been frozen to death rho coroner will Investigate A special from Guersoy Wyo says that Mrs A W Ladd of Hartvlllo Junction and Leonard Briggs of Sunrise Sun-rise wero killed 1 in a train wreck there Two others Thomas Morgan and Charles Moyers railroad em ployes wero Injured Announcement is mado that the Chicago Chi-cago Northwestern railway will push to completion tho new line now under construction from Casper Wyo west to Lander and the Wind river reservation where one and onehalt million of acres of publlo land will be thrown open to homestead some time next June George Berger local superintendent of tho Pullman Palaco Car company was arrested In Seattle by customs officers on tho charge of smuggling With him was taken F D Stevens bettor known as Big Steve and Stevens Ste-vens wife Tho trio woo caught with 30 pounds of opium In their possession pos-session Miss Mary McDonald tho prclty 17 yearold basketball player whom W 1 Adams a prominent athletic instructor instruc-tor of Butte and well known In business busi-ness circles Is charged with kidnap ing was arrested in Groat Falls last week Adams who is a married man and the father of three children Is out on 5000 bond A public reception was held at Lara mlo one night last week for Fred Douglas Wlllan and wife old residents of that town who sail shortly for England Eng-land where they will reside In tho future fu-ture Douglas Wlllan came to Lara mlo plains with tho Sartorls company and engaged in tho ranching business many years ago Tho visitors to tho Yellowstone park this year wero double In number what they were last year travel to the park having Increased Immensely Last year by September 12 tho number num-ber of pcoplo who had entered tho park during tho season reached 5337 This year tho number of visitors at that data was 10080 Tho Wyoming State Sunday school association closed a threedays session ses-sion at Laramlo on tho 2Sth selectIng select-ing Evanston as the mooting place In 190C and electing as president Dr Avon Nelson Laramie vicepresident Mrs A T Powolson of Cheyenne James Conway a young ranch hand near Laramlo Wyo was found guilty of striking tho wife of his employer Mrs Peter Pcruc across tho back with a Quirt In retaliation for hayIng hay-Ing been reprimanded for abusing horses and was given flvo months in tine county jail u lino of 30 and costs of prosecution John Read a convict under sentence of 13 years for attempt to murder committed several months ago on a freight train between Truokee Cal and Reno Nov escaped from tho state penitentiary nt Carson Nov by climbing a water plpo and scaling tho walls N E Iinlmus ot Baker City Ore a French I scientist who is In Oregon as manager of tho Flagstaff mine In Baker county has discovered and patented a process whereby common sagebrush can bo utilized to mako paper and to provide nn oil to bo used as tho basis for high grade perfumes Because ho wrote on a postal card to School Commissioner W It Power of tho Howol district in Cobb county Georgia asking for his salary as a school teacher J B Lynch has been placed in tho county jail at Chattanooga Chatta-nooga Tonn Emma Blauvelt a young woman operative In an overall factory at Los Angeles was almost entirely scalped by having her hair caught by a rapidly revolving shaft which propelled pro-pelled the machinery for riveting buttons but-tons on the garments |