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Show I NORTHWEST NOTES. Kid Fredericks was knocked out in he third rouni by Aurelio Herrera it But te. About 400,000 pounds of wool have been sold in Wyoming at from 12 to 14 cents. An earthquake shock was felt in the Grand Valley in Colorado on Friday Fri-day of last week. The city election at Reno, Nevada, last week resulted in the selection of a Republican mayor. George Benz was shc-t and killed in Butte last week. Two women rue being held but their names are being withheld by the police. . P. T. Buschmann, a prominent wholesale fish dealer of Tacoma, suicided sui-cided by shooting himself, the tragedy occurring in an isolated spot. As the result of the collapse of a building in Denver Friday, a number of people were injured, Mrs. Thomas McKernon being probably fatally hurt. By the explosion of a boiler in the Oregon Lumber company's planing mill at Vineto, Oregon, five men were severely scalded. It is thought they will all recover. With a penknife for a pick and his fingers for a shovel, Mike Ryan, arrested ar-rested on a charge of burglary, dug his way out of the Gallatin county jail at Bozeman, Mont. A report published in Cheyenne that Senator Francis E. Warren is a candidate for the vice presidency on the Republican ticket in 1904 is stoutly stout-ly denied by the senator. Governor Toole of Montana has called an extra session of the legislature legisla-ture to meet May 26, to provide for a i state exhibit at the St. Louis fair. Members will serve without pay. Acting Governor Fenimore Chatter-ton Chatter-ton has issued -a proclamation announcing an-nouncing that, in accordance with the law, he has assumed and entered upon the duties of governor of Wyoming. The mail stage from Coose Bay to Roseburg, Oregon, was held up and robbed by two masked men between Camas valley and Olalla. The three passengers on board were relieved of their valuables. Under a law passed by the last Wyoming legislature, Superintendent of Instruction Thomas T. Tynan is preparing to take a census of the children chil-dren of the state between the ages of 6 and 21 years. "Uncle Dan" Yancey, who lived in Yellowstone park for thirty years, and whom President Roosevelt visited on his trip there, is dying of old age. He is one of the most famous characters of the place and a famous hunter. James Van Cleve, a miner, committed commit-ted suicide at Oakley,' Wyo., by discharging dis-charging a revolver into his mouth, the bullet passing through the top of his head. He had quarreled with a woman with whom he had been living. Mrs. Margaret Sorter, who owns a ranch near White Sulphur Springs, Mont., was attacked by George Dolph, a farm hand whom she had discharged. dis-charged. Dolph feiled the woman to the ground and commenced c.icking her. She escaped from his clutches, secured an ax and ran him off ;ho ranch. Professor Robert N. Hartman, one of the most popular teachers of the State School of Mines at Golden, Co'-orado, Co'-orado, was asphyxiated while at work in his laboratory, and in a heroic effort ef-fort to rescue the body from the gas generating in the room before life was extinct, Professor Charles Darwin Test 'nearly lost his life. Only tne timely discovery of the two bodies prevented the death of both. |