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Show IS .SOUTHWEST NOTES Robert L. Wootcn, who was Injured nt tho Hoyscn dam at Shoshone, Wyo., died After mifferliiK terrible pain for 1- more than six days, f News has boon received In Hntte of the death at Jtedlands, Cat., of Dr John S. Marshall, who, as manager ol Bf the Montana hotel, Anaconda, during BBJ Marcus Daly's time, was tho best BVj known bonlfaco In Montana. In a duel on tho desert near Rhyo BBf Jlte, Novada, John Smith was shot BJ' and killed by John Cyty, an Italian, BBf- -who was wounded In tho nrm. The BBV' jnen qunrreled over xomo mining BJBJ property. BB The board of control of the Dry BB' Farming congress, which Is to meet at PH Chcycnho February S3, announces HB that requests for accommodations arc BJflji' comlnK from various sources, Indlcat BBE Ins widespread belief that tho congress BJ Is to bo held this month. B President Roosovclt will not make BBf, a display at the Alaska-Yukon raclfic BBY- exposition of (ho trophies of his South African hunt next year. In reply to BBu a formal request. Secretary Locb, for BflR tho president, has replied that It will Hijf bo Impossible to comply. HS Because of tho Importance ot the . forestry rosorvo problem and other Hf public questions In which tho west Is BJK vitally Interested, President Toft will H bo Invited to attend tho annual con- PJpJ ventlon of tho Trans-Mississippi con- B' cress In Denver next August. B George H. Soolt, county clerk and a BBm prominent Republican, and Attorney BBB William II. Maloncy, a Democratic BBB loador, fought one hour and five mln- BBJ nteu In a gulch at ISutto, under prize BVB' rlriR miles, (o settle an election bet BBS Ihu (iKht was finally declared n draw. B In order to provldo foil the widows BBH and orphans of tho victims of tho re- HVJ cent mlno disastor at Rod Wdge, HHJ Mont., when nine men lost their lives BJB each miner at Hod Lodgo has been as BBW tossed tiro sum of 9. Thoro are ovet BBb.v' 1,100 miner In tho camp, and tho ns- BBl scosmont will amount to 110,000. BBB Two men attacked Tom Loo, an BBB aged Chinaman of Reno, Intent or BVJ robbery, and was beating the old man VVJ lo death when his cries brought VVj scores of Chinamen, who drove the BBm jobbers off, but not until Loo was bad BVl ly Injured, The robbers are beUovcd BVB to bo members of an organized band VVJ ' Tho Northwestern railroad has dl BBb covered a large bed of gravel a.Wa VVJ haba, west of Shoshone, Wyo., and wll, BBM In the. Hprlng establish gravel pits and HVL 1 L- ballast Its entlro lino from lender to BVB Omaha. Tho gravel Is said to be slm BVjT; Uar to tho celebrated Sherman hill BBM . ballast on tho line ot tho Union Facltlo VVjK 'railroad. BBV- Ilelleved by the police to bo on u VVB stilt hunt for tho man who betrayed BBV t Joseph Garcia, alias Cordova, Into the BBBr r hands of officers of the law the night BBH " of May C, and Incidentally tho leader VVB of a Bung ot thieves who have been BBB operating In Seattlo for tho past throe BBV months, Sadlo Belcher Is under arrest BBB In Seattlo. Hn c; Ocorgo Lyman Dutson, ouo ot the BBBp best known residents of Star valley, VVV was Instantly killed whllo rolling log BBVL. In drover canyon, near A fan, Wyo BBflp Two sections of a log which his son VVB had sawed In two got away nnd rolled VVV& down hill toward Button, who flwl bo BBBr). foro them, but was struck, his neck BBV being broken. Vj The Western Pacific llallroad com BBH pany announced last wcelt the complo- VVV tlon of Its Flower Lako tunnel, whlcb VVVy cuts under the Pcquop mountains. In BBVT Nye county, Novada. Tho tunnel If BBH on the main lino of the Western Pa BBH ejflo and is E.C&7 feet In length. Al- BHH most the entlro distance Is through BbBT solid llmestonip. Br , An assessment of 1 cent per capita, BHH wTflilf will total $S9,000, and which will BBV; bo used for increasing tho member- BBH ship as well ns making the section BBH- . more efflctont In every way, was BBV .made by the building trades branch VVV of the American Federation ot Labor BBH at, the sessions of its annual conven- BBH" li tlon la Denver. BBB The pasBonrfor department ot the BBH Oregon Short Line railroad announcer BBH, that the Yellowstono park season, BBH,. which usually closes along In Soptom- BBHJ bsr, will be materially lengthened BSflR next, mimmor to nccommodato travel BBV to and from tho Alaska'Yukon-I'acttle BBH exposition. BBH At Amboy, Wash., Fred Swlndlo, a BBVf ' farm hand, shot and killed Ed Newell, BHH attempted to kill Mm. Newell, and BBVT thou killed hlmsolf. Hack or the trag- BBVT''' edy Is a story of unrequited lovo and BBH- despondency duo to tho marriage o! BBH, Newell to Mrs. Itoso Hoffman, three BBBT' nioRths ago. HHH Francis J. Honey, the San Francisco VVVf attornoy whd was shot by Morrta BBH HaaK, celebrated Thanksgiving day by BBVE taking an automobile rldo In Golden BBVPr Gate park. IIo wan accompanied by BBBi. wr- r)r' Beasloy, Hudolph Sprock- HVH, les, William J. Burns and James Foley, VVf his bodyguard. BBVT A strong effort will be mado at the BBVJ approaching session of congress to so- BBH ' cure the passage of the dry farm BBH ' homestead bill which encountered no HVBV many obstacles at the last session. BBVjt Senator Smoot of Utah will tako up BBBT ' tho fight In tho senate, as ho was the BBH original author of the bill. BBH, c The Wyoming Wool arowers' asso- BBH elation Is circulating two thousand IBBV pvtlt'ons oinong tho business men ot BBH' the state protesting against any rediic-BBK rediic-BBK - tfrrj- Ivf 'prea era dulicj uu- W!XW BBH hides, and asking for n higher scbe- BBVJ dula On wool ot tho third dag's, or BBH the so-called carpet wools. B9H Alfred Kenney. aged 31, manager of BVH.j c tho Postal Telegraph company III Hoi- BBHh ena, died last week of tuberculosis. BBHj' Mr. Kenney came from Washington, HflJB p. C four years ago for his health BBBI and for a time It wqs thought ho was Bb 'j , .Improving, but about threo wuqks ago BHH it he had, a serious hemorrhage. BBHk This year Wyoming has surpassed HHH Mon'ann both In wcol In tho grease BBHj nnd scourt'd wool products. This HHHk, year 4,510,300 sheep wore shorn In BVBHt Wjomlns; the lleoces averagMl eight BBBVjk tioandn In wrlght and the total produc-1 BBBJBi fljttii ktct of wool in tho grcaso was' np- BHnjrauJ,iHaUiy ye,9po,of)o pounds. 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