Show NORTHWEST NOTES Judge John P Caplea formerly consular con-sular representative of tho United States at Valparaiso CUUo died at Uortland on June 17 John Jacobson of Portland Oro had his left foot cut off while beating his way on tho Short Line at Ontario Ore and there Is little hope of his recovery At tho convention of the Wisconsin Wiscon-sIn State Federation of lAbor the resolution condemning Harry Orchard to tiro World of Hades was adopted by the voto of C9 to 8 I Tho lamb crop In both Wyoming and Montana Is short this year tho lambing In most parts according to I ate Information being 30 to GO percent per-cent against GO to SO per cent for a normal average Stanley Peck who was acquitted at Reno Nevada last week of tho charge of murdering Angolo Satoro went insane In-sane whllo on his way from Reno to San Francisco Peek was a nervous wreck before ho loft neno Timothy Reardon a bartender of Dllllngs Mont was shot and Instantly Instant-ly killed by Florence lloardon who professed to bo his wlfo by virtue of n marriage contract and to secure whoso validation she had brought suit I In tho district court Samuel Loppor a pioneer resident of Fergus county Montana mot his death by falling Into a well on n ranch near Mooro Leppor was I missed and a search revealed hIs body In tho well In which thero was about ten feet of water Twelve moro bodies victims of the explosions In mlno No1 of tho Union Pacific Coal company nt Ilnnna Wyo March 29 woro brought to the sun face on July 18 The bodies woro badly bad-ly decomposed and were Identified only by their clothing Twcntyllvo more bodies arc believed to bo In the mine As a result of a quarrel over tho division di-vision of work In caring for graves In the Odd Fellows cemetery at Heno Nevada Jack Dolan shot Frank Whit taker his aged fellow inmate In the county hospital three times with a pistol killing him Instantly Whltta kor fell dead over tho Bravo ho was watering m Enraged because Joseph E Fish a contractor of San Francisco drovo onto some freshly laid asphalt pavement pave-ment Lawrence Taggart a foreman in tho employ of tho asphalt com 1any seized a redhot Iron with which the asphalt Is smoothed down and thrust It Into Fishs face burning It horribly Eight men have been arrested on tho Crow Indian reservation In Mon tano charged with selling liquor tc the Indians A number of secret service ser-vice men are actively engaged In an effort to stop the sale of liquor to the Crows the law being so openly defied that Indians have been served ovoi the bars stove Adams member of tho West era Federation of Miners on trial nt Grand Junction Colo was acquitted of Urn murder ot Arthur Collins Adams alleged confession of the crlmo was excluded as evidence by Judge Shackelford and eight witnesses wit-nesses testified to an alibi for tho accused ac-cused man Suit has been Instituted at Helena Mont by tho government against the Northern Pacific Railway company the Rocky Fork Coal company and tho I Northwestern Improvement company to recover title to very valuable coal lands In Carbon county which It Is alleged wero procured through misrepresentation mis-representation Thomas Cooper land commissioner ot tho Northern Pacific railway on the stand In tho Minnesota rate hearing hear-ing introduced a paper which gave tho value of tho purchased lands of the Northern Pacific at 571325213 and of the donated lands 3G504875 It developed that from Its leased lands the company receives about 300000 a year dvlces from San Francisco say that the Western Pacific tunnel under Alameda creek Just west of Nibs will bo completed this week and tracklaying toward Oakland will bo pressed forward rapidly thero being but two minor bridges to build on the way Contracts have been awarded for tho rebuilding of the Hauser Lake dam and the construction of the Wolf creek dam Moro than 3000 men will bo employed and work will begin at onco Tho Wolf creek dam will be tho second largest power dam In tho world Clarence Don Clark United States senator from Wyoming was stricken with a nervous collapso and general breakdown at tho Auditorium Annex i hotel Chicago last week So serious seri-ous was tho senators condition that for a time his lIfo was despaired of Ho soon rallied however Sneak thieves entered tho bans at Ploche Nevada at noon and stole n package ot seventyfive onedollar bills and other moneys amounting to about 1000 all told Four suspects have been arrested but thoro Is as yet no direct evidence that tho men hold aro tho guilty parties Tho body of Qlusoppo Alia who was hanged at Canon City Colo for the murder of Father Leo Helnrlchs In St Elizabeths Catholic church Denver Den-ver February 23 last was burled In a rudo coffin In tho prison cemetery rn tho mountain side near tho entrance en-trance of tho Royal Gorge Tho caso of Mrs Alice Winters charged with tho murder of O G Baty went to a Reno Nevada Jury at 410 oclock p m and at 6 oclock returned re-turned a verdict of not guilty Thus ends ono of tho quickest murder trials In Reno the evidence and summing JD required less than three days |