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Show NORTHWEST NOTES. A cloudburst at Heppner, Ore., on Sunday did considerable damage ta property. Butte has been chosen as the convention con-vention city of the Western Federation Federa-tion of Miners for next year. The Carbon county Industrial association asso-ciation has been formed at Rawlins, to prepare an exhibit for the St. Louis exposition. ex-position. State Treasurer Hay of Wyoming has Issued a. statement, declaring he has not resigned and has no intention of doing so. Frank O'Keerman and Hans Austed, two bartenders, of Great Falls, Mont., were drowned while attempting to cross the Missouri river in a skiff. The secretary of the Interior has approved ap-proved permits for grazing 10,474 horses and cattle in Big Horn formal reserve, Wyoming, during the presett summer. Jeff. Johnson has been arrested at Sheridan, charged with cashing two checks for $25 each, to which he forged the name of Sam Davis, a ranchman. On July 1, the salary of the postmaster post-master at Cheyenne, Wyo., will be increased in-creased from $2500 to $2600. The office of-fice at Green River will be relegated to the fourth class. Every saloon in . the town of Bremerton, Brem-erton, Wash., has been permanently closed, owing to the ordinance passed by the town council, and the town is now strictly prohibition. Convict Williams, who escaped from the Wyoming penitenairy by climbing out on top of the building and letting himself to the ground by means of the bed clothe,' has been captured. While wrestling with Joe Beaumont, a friend, Frank Davlck, manager of the Deer Lodge, Mont., Electric Light company, broke his neck and died in-- in-- stantly. The two were wrestling for tun. About fifty Union Pacific striking machinists and boilermakers returned to work in the Cheyenne shops last wfcck, and it is understood that the blncl smiths will resume work. Th.i Rfrilrp in nrnrtirflllv ended. J. S. Barbee, a young ranchman of Carter Creek, Wyo., last week killed a large silver-tip bear measuring nine feet in length. Barbee's companion Qred at the animal, but missed, and bruin started for the hunters. -A'exander Healy of Buffalo, Wyo., was among those av-aided the bachelor bache-lor 0: science degree at the Massachusetts Massachu-setts Institute of Technology commencement. com-mencement. He has been taking the mechanical engineering course. George O'Brien, who killed John Flynn at Rexburg, Mont, on June 1, was last week found working in a railroad rail-road grading camp and arrested. O'Brien killed Flynn for the money In the till of. his store and saloon. J. F. Curran and F. M. Phares, two of the trainmen arrested for looting Union Pacific box cars, have been found guiity in the district court at Cheyenne. This makes four of the .-..ang of eight who will go to prison. The Western Federation of Miners, in sess ion at Denver last week, gave the striking smeltermen at Golden, Colo., notice ot' moral support, and tiave warned oil union men to keep iway during the: trouble at that place. The Wynmi;,g commission of the Louisiana Purchase exposition has hecn f,ivcn a free scholarship in the Missouri School of Iaw for one year, which will bo p. - ;enled to some stu-J stu-J dent from I.aramie county, Wyoming, |