Show r NORTHWEST NOTES Lieutenant Governor M M Hay wwi swoiii In aa governor of Wash ngton on March II to succeed tho alp Governor Cosgrovo The Naples authorities arc taking extraordinary ptccaulloiis to insuro tho safety of former President Roosevelt Roose-velt during his short visit to that city cityA A special train bearing portion of the Harriman party broko all ox Istlng records from Choyenno to Jutesburg Neb covering tho 145 miles In 115 minutes The United States Government has brought units in equity at Grand Junction Colo against sixty corporations corpora-tions and individuals charging them with cutting timber Illegally from tho government reserves It Is planned to make a test case of tho Southern divorce case being tried at Reno Nevada without either of the Interested parties being In time court room the lestlmony all being In the form of depositions After litigation extending over twentythree years Joseph H Boyd president of tho National Iron works In Spokane has been awarded a judgment ment of 100000 against tho Northern North-ern Pacific railroad Tho case began In 188G Governor Shafroth of Colorado has given endorsement of tho dry farming movement by attending the recent convention at Cheyenne and later expressing ex-pressing his pleasure at tho selection of Denver for the permanent headquarters head-quarters of tho congress The federal grand jury at Reno Nevada has returned Indictments against L L Patrick and M B OFarrell Goldheld brokers charging them with having used tho malls fraudulently in connection with the promotion of mining stock Tho pecessary grading on the cutoff cut-off between Wells and Deoth Nov has been completed by tho contractors and overtoiling is In readiness for the laying of rails and crossties and the construction of a section house on the sixteenmile stretch of roadway A special dispatch from Winnipeg Bays that a new alliance has been made between exPresident 11111 and McKenzlu and Mann proprietors of the Canadian Northern railway Joint negotiations are now going on for tho purchase of terminals of the Canadian Ca-nadian Northern on the Atlantic coast at Quebec Martin Walker and James Tanna hill were Imprisoned by a cavein in the Potosi mine at Virginia City Nov Men Were put at work in another part of the mine to open a 1 drift to the entombed miners and soon afterward the latter sounded on tbo tunnel walls Indicating they were safe nit men were finally rescued I Through a newspaper picture ot James 0 Boyle alleged kidnaper of Billy Achilla he was Identified by Detective D O Smith as the man who over a year ago is thought to have been accused of passing worthless worth-less checks at Tacoma While In Tacoma Ta-coma he posed as an employe of a well known oil company At Victor Mont the 7year ld daughter of Mr and Mrs George Fowler was burned to death ThG child was with her father in the field where he was burning stubble The father was attracted by the cries of the child whose dress had caught fire but before ho could do anything for tho little one she was beyond all hope v Theodore Maynarjd a wealthy farmer far-mer living six miles northeast of Del IIngham Wash drove into town witli his wife and as ho attempted to help her out of the carriage he found ho had been riding with a dead woman She had died some time during the drive By sawing their way through the bars of a window In the basement floor of the building four convicts made a bold attempt to escape from the penitentiary at Salem Ore The prison officials were cognizant of tho plot l however and tho break was prevented pre-vented The Fourth Dry Farming Congress will bo held at Bllllnga Mont in October Oc-tober when there will be exhibited the products raised by arid agriculture agricul-ture in tho western United States Canada Mexico Brazil tho Transvaal Trans-vaal Russia Australia and other countries After seventeen hours deliberation the jury in the case of Joseph Brown charged with tho murder of Robert Gllruth a ranchman near Lolo Montana Mon-tana February 28 returned a verdict of manslaughter and fixed tho penalty at ten years Imprisonment the maximum max-imum penalty tIn t-In an order received at the United States land office at Helena withdrawal with-drawal notice of five sections of land In tile Willow Creek district ot Montana Is made for the preservation preserva-tion of birds and other purposes This Is said to be the first order of its kind over issued As the result of the disappearance of Neis Olsen tho pioneer railway ti contractor of Butte who according to t a federal court suit has lied leaving his creditors losers to the extent ot 37500 Do firm of Olsen k Christian Chris-tian has entered a petition of voluntary volun-tary bankruptcy tl Methuselah also known as Ramc sib II a toad which was discovered in a rock pocket in a mine 50 feet below tho surface at Butte Mont two years ago died at his home in 4 tho Bronx Zoo on April 1 Ho was 1000 years old according to zoolo glum and geologists Joseph H Russell who came to tho state ot Montana as a prospector7 lathe la-the year 1867 died in Helena April 4 Upon his arrival In Montana ho took up prospecting in the Red Mountain Moun-tain district near Helena and madu a fortune but later came reverses land l-and ho died a poor man |