| Show J I iNORTlIWEST NOTES + I fliarles A Shortnn former banker and oil magnate of Casper Wyo dropped dead nt Boone Iowa last week of heart disease Cleveland Hllson manager of tho Montana Coke Coal company of El dmdge states that ho believes that a large deposit of coal lies under tho Yellowstone park An castbound Union Pacific has page car loaded to the roof with pouches of mall matter was burned at Hanna Wyo recently and practically practi-cally all of tho contents destroyed I H C Cameron the engineer at tho I mluj of tho CallfornlaPlocho Mining I cpnpany at Iloche Nevada while i grating a hoist was dragged Into I he gear of tins clrnm and hurt so badly I bad-ly that he may die Downhearted and discouraged because be-cause ho was out of money and could not make his wife happy with Christmas presents Thomas Hamlln a Denver plumber killed himself by sending a bullet Into his brain A Big I ramle river Wyoming rancher recently caught a native trout measuring twentysix Inches pnd weighing nine pounds The fish was caught through the Ice together with several other slightly smaller William RearM convicted at Helena on a second degree murder charge for the killing of his wife has been sentenced sen-tenced to twentyfive years Imprisonment Imprison-ment The killing occurred at their ranch home north of Helena Chris Ratliff whose head was caught between two freight wagons at Rawlins several days ago and whose recovery was not expected If slowly Improving and Is now out of danger The engineer and fireman of the Oregon Hallway Navigation com panys train which was robbed near Portland have positively Identified Harry Benson and Oscar Johnson as two of the men Implicated In that crime While walking along the streets of Great Falls Mont J M Morris ap riircntly In good health fell dead Tho bursting of a blood vessel In the brain caused his death Mr Morris was one of the early pioneers of Great Falls Patrolman Edward Burke of Helena Hel-ena shot and killed a Japanese Early In tho morning tho policeman found the Japanese assaulting one of the women of tho street and Interfered He turned on the policeman and In self defense Burke killed him Tlio jury In the case of Anthony Wilde charged with attempting to criminally assult Miss Beatrice Wills a sfxteen year old girl residing near Hartvllle Wyo returned a verdict of acquittal after having been out all night Wilde Is mayor of Hartvllle At Kallspell Mont Frank Lebeau I has been sentenced to be hanged February 5 1909 for the murder of H W Yookum and his son RIchard Lobeaus confederate Joe Bobbins va also found guilty of murder In the first degree and his pnlshment was fixed by tho jury at life Imprisonment Impris-onment James F Kinney has supplied 30 000 bond and qualified as administrator administra-tor of the estate of the lato M F Brown who was killed by his wlfo at Thermopolls Wyo recently Under the Wyoming law Mrs Brown who shot the owner of the property will receive at least onethird of tho estate es-tate The Chicago Northwestern Rail load company has settled the dam ago claim of Frank S Bower of Lander Lan-der Wyo who was Injured In tho wreck of one of the companys trains last September by paying tire claimant claim-ant 5000 Tho claim of the estate of M N Hawkins who was killed In the wreck has been settled for 2500 J K Thomas convicted by a Bellingham Bel-lingham Wash jury has been sentenced sen-tenced to life imprisonment for tho murder of his divorced wife Thomas killed his wife slept beside tho corpse from midnight to dawn and then burled the body in a potato patch where It was discovered two months later W T Clark an aged prospector who was found dead across he thrcsltqlil of his cabin on Fish Creek eighteen miles from Butto was probably prob-ably murdered for his money as between be-tween 2000 and 3000 ho was known to have kept In his shack Is missing A man named Walsh has been arrested on suspicion Victor Johnson was fatally stabbed In tire restricted district In Butte by James ONell formerly manager of a local preclplatlng plant and prominent promi-nent fn mining circles After an argument ar-gument In a restaurant ONoll stab ted Johnson and chased him and a woman of tho district through the streets a C LIllis the wealthy banker and stockman of Leemore Cal recently convicted of Illegally fencing government govern-ment land has been sentenced to servo a term of six months In jail and pay a fine of 1 000 Ltllls has been releasCl pending appeal Paddy Rodgers who twice escaped conviction for murder and who capped cap-ped his career by an attempt to holdup hold-up a drug store in Butte September 19 and murder the proprietor and I two of his brothers has been found i guilty of burglary A charge of assault < as-sault in tho first degree remains Estimating from the number or pelts turned In for bounty It Is estl mated that there were In tho state 01 Wyoming on October 1 1008 at least 20000 coyotes and 1000 wolves This means that thoro was u coyote for ivory live square miles and a wolf or ever 100 squat < > miles WiIIIi |
