Show m a NORTHWEST NOTES Tho pr dlllent ha nominated Chas p Hopkins to bo marshal for the western west-ern district ot Washington broken mil two miles west of Sedan caused tlio switch engine to leave tho track Just an they crossed a trestle The Big Horn railroad company hog awarded contracts for grading 100 miles from Worland to MusUrnt Wyo n II Nicholls a fortyniner and a 1 member of Nevadas first legislative hotly Is deed at his homo In Kanko hoe 111 Ii M Fox an engineer In charge o > tho Kollspel Mont yard qnglite was killed 1 whlla hnullng n string of empty cars from Kallancl to Marlon A Joseph Collins foreman of a crow at tho U C Cnmp Low Pass on tho Western Pacific lallwny was killed Vchrnary 28 by a powder explosion The body of an unknown man was found beside tho railroad track afi Porters spur three miles south of Napavlno Wash Tho head was sev I ered from tho body Twentytwo sticks of dynamite exploded ex-ploded on John McCluros farm near Tacoma scattering time bodies of two Japanese a hundred feet They wero thawing the dynamite In an oven An effort Is being made by tho citizens cit-izens of Saratoga Wyo to socurd tho location at Saratoga of tho government gov-ernment flsh hatchery provided for In Senator Varrens and Congressman Mpndells bills At Mount Vernon Wash Judge Joiner sentenced L D Ferguson convicted con-victed of murder In the second degree de-gree for killing William Fattonson November 6 1005 to twenty years In tho penitentiary The detectives engaged In ferreting ferret-ing out tho mystery of a pool of blood and ropes and torn pieces of clothing found In a vacant house havo come tc the conclusion that tho crime was n case of Infanticide Miss Harriet Hlclmrds a schoolteacher school-teacher twentythree years old who arrived recently from Barnard Mo committed sulcldo by poison In Seattle Seat-tle last week Ill health and despondency despond-ency arc supposed to bo the causes W E Sears of Encampment Wyo has just completed a canvass of tho stockmen of tho Platte valley In tho Interest of tho Saratoga valley stock growers association having secured 400 to ho used as a wolf bounty fund wolves and coyotes having becomo so numerous and aggressive as to cause alarm A special from Vancouver D C says that Harry Hazard of Now York received a fouryear sentence and Wallace Harrington of Portland Ore five years for robbing McMillans jow + olry store there Barrlngton before being sentenced confessed that hn broke tho window of tho store and seized tho diamonds Tho coroners jury decided that Thomas Hampton who was killed In t a duel with Stewart Carter In a saloon sa-loon at Reno canto to his death as tho result of gunsnot wounds Inflicted by a party or parties unknown Thrca different sized bullets were lodged in his body nono of which wero of tho slzo used In Carters gun Carter Is still behind the bars Tho state of Washington has been granted leave to file In time supremo court of time United Stales a bill of complaint against tho state of Oregon to secure a judicial determination of n tho boundary between tho two states Tho controversy deals with tho jurisdiction juris-diction over several small Islands In tho Columbia river valuable for fish tng purposes only Chief of Police Michael Delany of Denvordeclares that George Mitchell recently arrested has confessed that ho cleared more than 10000 by the theft of a mall pouch at Hazen Junction Junc-tion Nevada the offonso with which ho Is charged Doctor Charlie Can a Chinese physician phy-sician who has been a resident of Butto for thirty years was murdered at his quarters on Colorado street Robbery was probably tho motlvo for tho crime as tho Chinaman was reputed re-puted to bo wealthy Tho Cheyenne Tribune states that tho Big Horn railroad company has awarded contracts for grading 100 miles from Worland to Muskrat Wyo Tho road It Is said Is to bo a part of tho Burlington system which Is now extending to Worland William Giles has been found guilty of murder in the second degree by a Fort Denton Mont Jury Ghee was a soldier Nit Fort Asslnnlbolnq and killed another soldier named Ross over a game of cards at a roadhouse Giles escaped but was later captured Governor John Sparks of Nevada has extended an Invitation to President Presi-dent Roosevelt to mako a visit to that stato and Join In a hunting expedition for bear and mountain lions Tho president has replied to the Invitation to tho effect that he will likely join In tho hunt Mrs Annie M Barkloy of Lee Angeles An-geles became Insane on a train near Sparks Nevada and armed with a revolver re-volver left the train and began terrorizing ter-rorizing tho community She was captured cap-tured near Nlsta east of Spanks ana hold until her husband arrived to take her homo |