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Show NORTHWEST NOTES. J. Thomas Hall of Campbell, Texas, has been appointed a teacher In the Carson Indian school, Nevada. H. Sutton was murdered and robbed of S200 at Fairfield, near Spokane, by highwaymen, last Friday. He resisted the attempt to rob him and was shot. A passenger train on the Great Northern North-ern railway was derailed near Harlem, Mont., last 'Wednesday, the engine, baggage and mail cars and two coaches leaving the track. Seven persons were hurt, none fatally. Patrolman Jack Martin of Tacoma was shot and wounded by two men whom he was attempting to arrest, lie wounded and captured one of them, who proved to be Tom Moore of Butte, but the other made his escape. Mrs. Truman B. Hicks, the wealthiest wealth-iest woman in Wyoming, died last week and was buried at Three Rivers, Mich., her former home. She came to Wyoming in 1SG7 with her former husband, hus-band, Hon. A. R. Converse, who died in 18S5. J. T. English of Sumpter, Ore., has found a pocket of ore in the Golconda which will make him rich, as he expects ex-pects it to run 88,000 per ton, or S160,-000 S160,-000 for the car. One carload will be shipped to San Francisco this week, to be followed by others soon. The Wyoming bureau of irrigation in VPSti era t inn c lin nnl Uw.f rl miml of photographs, and is now engaged in making plans of irrigation works for exhibit at the Paris exposition. The photographs and plans will be uniform in size, being 18x22 inches in dimension. dimen-sion. At the trial of the mayor of Tacoma on a charge of bribery, C. B. Hurley testified as to conversations with the mayor relative to signing the ordinance authorizing a compromise of the million dollar judgment against the Water and Light company, Hurley swore the mayor demanded 812,500, and that he agreed to pay it. James B. Clark, a Seattle barkeeper, is under arrest on the charge of attempting at-tempting to murder his wife. Clark claims his wife shot herself and his story was corroborated by his wife until un-til she was warned that her wound might prove fatal. She then said she was shot by her husband. The board of health of Livingston has declared war on kissing. Notice has been served in school to the teachers teach-ers that they are hereafter forbidden to kiss their pupils on the ground that the practice breeds disease. The peculiar pe-culiar order has aroused considerable indignation and ridicule. Jimmy Tai-Pai-Newt, an Okanogan Indian held in the county jail at Spokane Spo-kane for trial before the federal court on a charge of murder, took his life in his cell last week. When found he was hanging in a noose formed by his handkerchief and a blunt stick broken from the cover of a fruit basket was stabbed three inches into his side. So remarkable was his fortitude that the I night jailer, sitting less than ten feet way, heard no groan. Private Thomas McVeagli, company G, First Wyoming volunteers, who was tried by general courtmartial convened at Imus, P. I., June last on the charge of striking his superior officer, and found guilty and sentenced to be shot to death, has had his sentence commuted com-muted by President Mclvinley to dishonorable dis-honorable discharge, forfeiture of all pay and allowances and confinementat hard labor for the period of three years. Alcatrez island, California, has been designated as the place of confinement Joseph Jenson, who is one of the two men who attacked Blackaby & Park's store at Jordan Valley on August 23, has been apprehended and is now in the penitentiary at Boise awaiting trial. Joseph Lawson, his partner, was killed at the time of the attack. The postoffice in the store was raided, which enlisted the government in the task of running the culprit to cover-Jordan cover-Jordan Valley is across the line in Oregon and Jensen will be tried in Portland. Jensen belongs to a desperate desper-ate gang, one of whom is a woman named Morgan, known as "Calamity Jane." This woman owed Blackaby & Park some money. Driving some cattle cat-tle into the town, she sold them and paid her debt of some $150. She had previously arranged with Lawson and Jenson to raid the store after she made the payment. The plot leaked out, aim guarus were stationed who opened fire, the result being that Lawson was killed. Oakland, Cab, has accepted the offer of Andrew Carnegie to give 850,000 for a public library building, providing that ai least 81.000 a year is guaranteed for its support, and has taken measures to provide the necessary amount by a slight increase of the tax rate. The Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone company will expend S200.000 on the line between Denver and Salt Lake The line will not follow the Union Pacific Pa-cific main line between Laramie ami Fort Steele, but turns southwest from Laramie to Penhampton; thence from Ptnhampton the main line runs west to Saratoga, from Saratoga northwest to Fort Steele and thence to Salt Lake When this line and the Denver-Mis-soun river connections have been established, estab-lished, Salt Lakers can talk to Chicago and New York friends by telephone ' |