Show NORTHWEST NOTES Flro at Cody Wyo lant week dtf btroycd property worth 10000 Tho motion to quash tho now cases filed ngalnnt Kemp V DlI low who sent bomb to a number of prominent Denver men argued before Judge Bllfrs was refused Fire started by tho overturning ota ot-a lamp In tho barber shop of William James caused tho destruction of Granite a small town twenty miles mint of Lcadvllle Colo William Goodrich who was caught In a caveIn In tho Sandstorm mlno at Qoldflcld Nevada was taken out lifeless life-less a few hours later by companions who camo to tho rescue Ho had been burled under twcntyflvo feet of i rock Ilcpresontntlvo Mondoll of Wyoming will bo appointed chairman of tho public lands committee to succeed Mr Lacey of Iowa who wits defeated for reelection Ho has been opposing oppos-ing the public land policy of tho administration ad-ministration t John Thodo ono of the oldest and wealthiest cattlemen in tho state died at Knwllns Wyo last week In 1871 Thodu worked as section foreman fore-man for the Union Pacific at Carbon Afterward he organized tho Thode Cattlo company Two men woro killed and ono fatally fa-tally Injured In ri premature explosion on the line of tho Portland Seattle railway two miles west of Spokane Joe Ballck and Mlko Mntlch both Austrians Aus-trians wero Instantly killed and MlkQ Opyr was fatally Injured Frank Kuchers aged C3 years a prominent wholesale leather dealer of Tacoma fired a bullet into his brain at his homo while tho family was at breakfast He was despond ont from Illness having suffered for a long time with kidney trouble Holding that the punishment imposed im-posed by tho Jury when it found George Molvlllo guilty of second do grco murder for tho killing of Win field GuthrIe near Helena last July to bo excessive District Judge Clements Cle-ments reduced tho penalty from fifty to twcntyflvo years in tho state penitentiary I Word has been received In Laramie that construction work on tho Harrl I man systpm which was discontinued When tho present financial flurry began be-gan will bo resumed along tho line on December 1 Including tho Lane cutoff near Omaha which was within with-in a few days of completion at tho time of shut down i Upwards of twenty postmasters oi the presidential class In Montana met In Helena last week at tho instigation instiga-tion of the postmasters of Butte Helena Hel-ena and Great Falls to discuss tho general situation and especially the situation relative to Increased salaries sal-aries to offset tho advanced cost ot living in recent years Mayor Hlckok of Saratoga Wyo Is suffering from a severe wound sustained sus-tained whle trying to replace a stovepipe stove-pipe which had fallen out of the chimney and which was endangering the house Mayor Hlckok is a cousin of tho lato Wild Bill Hlckok one ot tho best known of the bad men of former days In Wyoming Tho body of former Lieutenant Governor Dealt who in the early days was shot and killed by Georgo W Plnnoy United States marshal and editor of tho Post has been found bj Grand Army comrades after an luten mlttont search extending over a number of years and burled in Forest Valley cemetery at Helena The board of education of tho Lap amid school district has begun the enforcement of tho compulsory education edu-cation law passed by the last state legislature and which provides thai all children between tho ages of 1 I and 14 years Inclusive shall be required re-quired to attend some public private or parochial school each school year After n conference hold in Butte tho Committee appointed by tho Butte Central Labor council and tho Building Build-ing Trades council and D S Murray general manager of tho Rocky Mountain Moun-tain Bell Telephone company failed to come to an agreement and tho strike between tho telephone company I com-pany and the employes will continue Fan Meeker who has accomplished a 3000mllo trip over the old Oregon I trail behind a yoke of oxen called on President Roosevelt last week nUll made a plea to have the Oregon trail made n national highway The president presi-dent listened with Interest but suggested sug-gested that If done the project would have to bo on a commercial rather than on a sentimental basis John Pollard charged with criminal assault on the 13yearold niece of his wife narrowly escaped lynching han h-an angry mob at Anaconda Mont While being taken to the county Jail at Mount Vornon Pollard broke away from the sheriff at Burlington Junction Junc-tion and threw himself In front of nn approaching train being horribly mangled Guided by the advice of an aged woman who claims to bo a seoress Loon Thomas and Tommy Frolics two mall boys dug up f 4000 in a vacant va-cant lot on tho corner of Green and Powell streets San Francisco whore once stood tho Chapp clio lodging house Star valley Wyoming which supports sup-ports a population of about 3000 people peo-ple has the biggest creamery In the state which in addition to < supplying tho homo demand ships out butter and cheeso to western Wyoming Utah and even Washington nnd Oregon Georgo Frlsboo who fell from o train between Callento and Moapa Nevada and had his left toot cut off probably o ved his life by flagging a train wnlch came along several hours later by setting fire to hn envelope Frlsbeo was picked < ip and Is now in the hospital |