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Show NORTHWEST NOTES. Jacob l-'ry of 1. under, Wyo.. has been granted a pension of S1 per montl). A number of I talms from Saliua. arc in Wyoming Linking for land suitable for farming. A new (;ii,-r. the Oipiuil. has been launched at a..ia l'e. N. M. . its mi.-sion mi.-sion I'eiii" to wt'rii lor statehood. i St. Louis woo! buyer It' -I week pur--ciiased of a ra nd .1 unc! ion . Colo., firm j::..mhi pounds of wool, being the clip I from one dock. Fred Hart let t. of Untie, wascoiivicled of perjurv in connection w ith his bankruptcy bank-ruptcy and sentenced to ten months m jail. It is the first case of the kind in Pntte. The attorneys for Uobert F. Fee of Cheyenne. Wyo., sentenced to the state neniteutiury for ten years for train robbery, state that the case will not be a ppealed. Among the American missionaries in the district at present threatened by lioxeis" in I'ekin arc the Kev. Edward K. Dowry and wife and Kev. George Dowry and wife of Denver, Colo. Judge Knowles has handed down his decision in the celebrated mining ease of the Calusa-l'arrot company, owned by ex-Senator Clark, ami the Anaconda company, controlled by Marcus Daly. The decision is in favor of the Anaconda company. A monument to the memory of the late Kev. Myron Heed was unveiled in Freemont cemetery. Colo., last week under the auspices . of the organized labor unions. A great throng of people peo-ple gathered to witness the unveiling and appropriate addresses were delivered. deliv-ered. .. 1 An luceiuiiary aiieiupieo mat to burn the Piedmont dipping and shearing corral of Piedmont, Wyo. A few shearing pens were destroyed. Several of the wool racks were saturated satu-rated with kerosene, but the lire was extinguished before all of them were burned. The will of the late Nathaniel P. Hill, formerly United States senator from Colorado, has been tiled for probate. pro-bate. His great estate is bequeathed to his wife and three children and is to be equally divided among them. It is believed the share of each will amount to more than SI. 000, 000. The Northern Express company's otlice at Miles City, Mont., was robbed last week of a $5,000 package and M0i received for the sale of tickets. The robbery occurred during the station agent's absence. ' Two suspicious looking look-ing characters who had been lurking about the station during the day are-mi are-mi ssiug'. There is not much new light on the. P,ed Canyon robbery which occurred at Evanston, Wyo., last week. The .i ..r m .. i, 1 U.i bnok If c.ener. tneoiy oi .ui. l iilu.."., 1 is that sotneoue was secreted in the , room and struck him in the back of the head as he was putting the money in the safe. A checking up of the cash shows that 1.081 is missing. A miner named Dillon, a late-comer to Koek Springs. Wyo., shot a miner named McDaniels in the forehead lust week. Dillon gave himself up and is in jail. He claims self-defense, and from what information can be gathered McDaniels was the aggressor. The wound is not fatal, the bullet having glanced upward without penetrating the skull. The mud volcanoes situated in Uay-tonville, Uay-tonville, Cnl., have bursted into alarming alarm-ing activity. The disturbance is so violent that great, redwood trees are swayed when the mud and vapor shoots high over 1 lie runs 01 me r... Hows down the hillside like a lava stream. The murky craters are tilled with a bluish mud of about the consistency con-sistency of boiling Inr and is icy cold. The roar of the volcanoes can be heard for miles around. Chairman McLaughlin of the Populist Popu-list state committee of Washington, has issued a cull for two conferences of the party leaders, due will be held of eastern Washington I 'opu lists at Spokane, Spo-kane, June '.'I, and at. Tacoma the. same, day the western Washington leaders will nice l. Many regard the move a? aimed n 1 Covet nor P.oj.ers. who is said to be opposed by a faction of his parly with which Chairman McLaughlin is allied. .lames Strickland was arrested nt pawiins last week nnd taken to Oregon where he is charged with killing a ; i-v whom be charged with seducing his wife. He lived in Po.-k Springs before coming to Kawlins. Three years ago !. married Anna Kbincs. Strickland ret u rued lo Oregon without reipiicilioii paper. He admitted ad-mitted the kiiliug but. claimed he. did it in sel f d.-feiie. The senate bill granting homesteaders homestead-ers on the abandoned Port Ketlcrnian military reservation in Wyoming the right to enter one ..uarter section of public land on said ro-ervut ion an pas-I pas-I tu.-e has been reported favorably to ihe house. The Colorado-! V. ; mlel oh ii Repilbli-j Repilbli-j can club was oigauicd at Pruvrr la6f ! week. Marl li. oe i f the Denver Tinxjs is president. The club i". organized for the purpose rn iit'endii.; the Republican Repub-lican eonver.'.inti. A hpf-in.! train will be secured foi : t.e club. |