Show r r 1 1t t NORTHWEST NOTES 1 Governor Charles E Hughes of Now f York has formally accepted an Invitation 1 Invi-tation to visit the Alaslm Yukon uclfto exposition Ho will comclate In July or early In August j i Orvlllo Kyle who shot and killed i John Wilkes manager of tho Cow Creek Sheep company at Wamsutter J Vyo about three months ago has been convicted ot murdor In the second sec-ond degree While eng ell In mixing a flash Alight i A-light preparation in his apartments In a Butte hotel C A Bousset of Seattle 1 Seat-tle was terribly burned about tho face 1 and hands as tho result ot the explosion explo-sion of tae mixture Tho new plant of tho Astoria nnd Puget Sound Packing company ou Chnclt nut bay three miles south ot Bolllngham Wash burned lost week I causing a loss of 50000 The plant was well Insured William McGregor aged 28 a well known young business man of Vancouver Van-couver B C met death while cleaning E clean-ing a rifle which ho did not know was loaded lie was tho son of a prominent Insurance man John Knlu aged 33 was killed at Goldllold Nevada In a runaway Thu team ran close to a 1 trestle of tho Consolidated Mines company and one of the timbers came Into contact wltCi Kalns head fracturing 1 his skull 1 h When tho legislative committee that Is Investigating state offices met at Olymplft Wash May 12 sealed charges against State Land Commissioner Commis-sioner E W Ross were filed All tho rotate offices are to bo Investigated 7 13 Allen who Is In a hospital at Ely Nevada became suddenly Insane broke a window pane and cut hIs tVroat with the glass also hacking ills body In a score of places Although Al-though badly Injured It Is believed ho will recover In the arrest at Reno Nevada of Frank Webb the police believe they have secured the Hammontree livery stable holdup desperado who rcllev ed A L Hammontreo and M Victor t of 85 and wantonly shot Jack Monroe through the bowels The state council of the Knights ot Columbus of Montana met at Butte May 11 In annual session State Deputy Dep-uty Jackson presiding Official reports re-ports show a gain of 800 In mcmbqr ship during the year tho councils now aggregating a total of 2000 The big Casino dance hall at Tono pah one of the largest resorts of 1U kind in Nevada and made famous as tho training place for Marvin Hartj Mike Schreck Joe Cans Jack Twin Sullivan and other prize fighters was partially destroyed by flro last week Harry Beebe a Lander Wyo cowboy cow-boy with Buffalo Bills show died In Now York on May 14 from paralytic rabies a rare form of disease Boebo8 j great toe wan sevorely bruised by being stepped on by a horse ridden by a fellow cowboy Partial paralysis developed and death followed fol-lowed Charles L Gnstafson an electrician electri-cian died at Anaconda Mont from the effects of burning oil Gustafson was at work on a switchboard at the substation of tho Washoo smelters when a short circuit caused a blinding blind-ing Hash of electricity exploding a can of oil which the elcctrlcan had In his hands Olllclals of tho state of Wyoming are preparing elk hunters licenses as usual and will Issue them to applicants ap-plicants before and during the big game hunting season next fall Time technicality In the new game law which unintentionally forbids the hunting of elk before 1912 will not be regarded Broker C W Cockrell who had been confined In jail at Butte two weeks because of Inability to satisfy sat-isfy a Judgment had by A W Doa vltt has been discharged from custody by Judge McClernan of the state district dis-trict court An attempt was made under an old law to keep Cockerell Imprisoned for debt That William Garrison whose body was found near the river at Cheyenne with a bullet hole through his head and a revolver lying near by wast murdered Is Indicated by further In ventilation of the case It was be Moved 1 l first that ho l had committed suicide A lire that started In the California beer hall at Rawhide Nevada at midnight mid-night which threatened a repetition of tho disaster of last September when the town was reduced to asaes I was controlled after It had destroyed tho beer hull and several buildings adjoining i The postolllco at Bremerton Wash situated close to tho Puget Sound navy yard was entered by professional profes-sional cracksmen who drilled tho safe T and took away Its strong box con i mining 9000 worth or stamps a diamond dia-mond ring rained at 250 and nearly 200 In cash c Arthur George a clerk aged 40 shot and killed ids wife Elizabeth at ° her homo In Brighton Beach near Seattle and then taking their two children boarded a street car and went to police headquarters where he announced the crime and surrendered surren-dered himself Surveyors moving mysteriously In Cheyenne havo resurrected tho old report re-port that tho Buillngton Is preparing to make a construction dash through the city seizing a street or alley for Its Ught of way The Union Pacific has taken the report sufficiently serious se-rious to set guards The Christian Endeavor organizations organiza-tions and similar prganlzatlons of Cheyenne have decided to join tho broader organization of such societies tn Colorado and Now Mexico and It IsI expected that all such societies In Wyoming will also become affiliated with this organization y w |