Show NORTHWEST NOTES Laramie Wyo was first Bottled In 18C8 wa Incorporated In 1869 and chartered M a city In 1884 Near Aberdeen Wash Fred Wren while hunting mistook Mrs Louise Lecass for a cougar and shot her dead met G F Hayes an Oregon pioneer death by falling down a shaft In the Union Companion mine near Baker City Ore At Collins Hot Springs Wash John E Lueth of Vancouver Wash gave his wife carbolic Instead of her medicine medi-cine She died In ten minutes The city of nock Springs Wyo has a population of about GOOO and It Is said there Is no place In the United States where a greater variety of languages lan-guages is spoken At Clealum Wash Mrs D B Bee cham was thrown from a buggy under un-der the horses hoofs and kicked to death She was the wife of the proprietor pro-prietor of < tho Hotel Reed The Jury after deliberating seventeen seven-teen hours failed to agree In tho case of the United States against Joseph T Carroll a Butte lumberman who was charged with Illegal fencing near Butte and he was discharged 1 By the collapse of tho east wall of he Butte hotel which toppled over on and crushed the Southern hotel a property loss of 60000 was caused No one was Injured as all the guests got out of the buildings when the trails began to crack A large force of men Is still In search of the little Brattain boy who disappeared from Tall Gate Walla Walla county Washington Evidence accumulates that Instead of being devoured oured by a cougar the child was kid naped by a sheep herder That a general strike of the union street car men of Portland must be the result of the present situation Is conceded by the Officials of the Port land Railway Light Power company com-pany The officials of the union say there will certainly be a general strike Warner Moody town attorney of Shoshonc Wyo was shot and killed about midnight July 20 He was a son of the late United States Senator Moody of South Dakota Frank Anderson An-derson on hearing the shots ran out 01 his tent and was shot In tho shoulder shoul-der He Is not seriously wounded The assassin escaped In the darkness Georgo A SImonds one of the personal per-sonal conductors of the Raymond Whitcomb excursion party bound for Alaskan points committed suicide at Seattle by shooting himself In the head while standing on the wharf just as the two steamers carrying the members of his party had pulled away from the dock Two girls traveling from Laramie to Ogden were found In an empty box car at Fort Steele Wyo The girls were very dirty but carried dress suit cases filled with clean linen and their other worldly possessions They said Laramie was too slow for them and they had set out to make Ogden In a box car Custln Lee an aged man who recently re-cently arrived In Billings Mont from Kansas City en route to Seattle Is missing and Is believed to have lost his life In the Yellowstone river His traveling companion Glenn Smith a young lad stated to the police that Lee had gone to the river to bathe and no trace of him could be found Contracts have been let by the Oregon Ore-gon Railroad Navigation company to Spokane contractors for bridges on the main line of the company between Portland and Huntington This Improvement Im-provement is In line with the heavy construction work now being done with a view to bringing the road up to 1lrst class condition Dan McGowan a ranchman living near Cutbank Mont has been con vletcd of murder In tho second degree for killing Charles Arnold on March 17 last Jealousy because of the deceaseds attention to his halfbreed wife Is believed to have prompted the crime I W W Flatt of Smith Brothers I Sheep company pleaded guilty In the United States court at Helena to 11 legally fencing public lands in Moa alter county Montana and was fined 500 and sentenced to the county jail for twentyfour hours by Judge Wolv erton The mills at Butte of the Montana Zinc company a New York corporation corpora-tion wore totally destroyed by fire starting from a defective electric wire Tho plant Is In the old silver mill of the Alice Mining company the oldest mill of the sort standsg in the state of Montana A party of surveyors for the Short Line on tho Snake river has had a rather exciting experience at Wild Horse Rapids 100 miles below Hunt Ington Their boat upset and every thing It contained was lost The men In the boat at the time escaped with their lives Robert Philip Menefee a well known pioneer succumbed suddenly to heart disease at Bozeman Mont Men efeo was 73 years of ago and has been a resident of Montana since 1862 coming across tho plains in a prairie schooner lie was one o Montanas first postmasters The wife of a foreigner named lines was killed on the road between Huntington and Burns Ore Going lon a steep hill they were blockinG he wheels of tho wagon with rocks when she slipped and fell under the wheel which passed ovw her neck |