Show 1 NORTHWEST NOTES after a lot fusillade with a small Horse thiet backford Byc kford ho shot and killed sheriff 0 yellow stone county montana while rel celstine stine arrest near billings committed sul cide rather than surrender P H supreme judge nevada has won the 1000 prize by senator bourne of oregon for the best written argument why president roosevelt should be elected to a third term the contest closed on february 15 A crowd of forty tramps seized a freight train of the southern company at orena nevada and forced the crew to run the train to fifty nine miles where they stopped the train outside of the town and scattered the town of tuscarora nevada one of the oldest in the state has been almost depopulated through news ol 01 the strike at gold circle the cicora news has suspended tion owing to the editor and printers all joining the rush to meet the demands of the fruit growers of california tn t n extra freight trains have been put on the southern pacific during the past two ft eel s giving employment to some thing like sixty tra amen whose are in ogden OTicia ls of the montana mine own ers association have announced that they have completed arrangements to take over the panhandle smelter at fen DOrei Ile ida near sand point the association expects to be smelting ores within thirty days three bandits held up edwarc Hof finan and secured 47 belong ing to the coalition mining company at reno nevada last week after chich they made their way to schurz stole a handcar and escaped into the walker indian reservation one of the first coal mines in wyo ming was opened by the stage corn I 1 any in 1865 near the old overland trail crossing rock creek in what is now albany county the coal was used tor in the vicin ity of the opening and was also car ned to other places for the same pur lose the town of rawhide nevada Is bu it along an arroyo that dihins southerly to a desert flat surrounded by mountains on the east s de of the arroyo are grutt balloon and murray hills connected one to the other by saddis while on the opposite side is or hooligan hill W F armstrong a so called bad man from wyoming was shot and killed in the palace saloon in winne bucca nevada by W H carter one of the managers eyewitnesses say th shooting was in self defense as armstrong accused an employee of stealing his money and when carter remonstrated pulled a gun the board of trustees of the hersity of wyoming have removed president frederick monroe tisdel on the ground of alleged t on insubordination and untruthful nesa in university affairs recently president tisdel issued a public statement making graft charges against the trustees investigations made by the ceolo fists of the united states geological survey have shown that coal beds langing in thickness from a few inches to six feet or more occur at several horizons in the and sandstones of the western portion of the laramie basin wyoming though they appear to be irregular in their distribution attorney john wellcome one 01 the largest individual ranch owners of the state died on march 23 0 pneumonia at his home in madison county montana he was 49 years d and a native of new york As manager of W A dark s senatorial campaign in the legislature in he was charged with having offered large sums of money for votes for dark atter expending a fortune in the search the engineers of the recia matlon service have at last struck bed rock 65 feet below the bed ot the shoshone shone river and work will at once begin on the shoshone dam of the reclamation service in wyom ng a dam which will be feet ich exclusive of 65 feet beneath the bed of the river the highest in ha world and which w 1 make pos sible the conversion into fields and orchards of acres of land forty acres of land six miles fron gildwell Pil dwell last week sold tor 1 GOO he land was all unimproved but good water right western railroads have announced that during the national democratic convention special rates will be put in effect as follows the round trip between chicago and denver 30 between st louis and denver 25 and between omaha and kansas city and demer 1750 the democratic state contention of colorado to elect delegates to the national convention will be held at glenwood springs jun 15 the democratic state central committee issued the call for the convention and endorsed william J bryan for the presidential nomination A reno nevada man is looking foi women to settle in a new colony to be started on a new operative plan on an island south of honolulu young girls old maids and married women will be on an equal has s and an effort will be made to establish an lda colony foi women at schurz nevada a saloon keeper named McKe lUgon shot and instantly killed a ban named harris using a double shotgun the row stained over town lots on which it wao claimed part payment had been made mckell go i has been placed under arrest by the state police the ores of the goldfield district la nevada occur in the form of masses of shattered altered rock of very irregular shape the common gangue of the ore is compact al mot flinty quartz which in most aises has resulted from the uon of rhyolite or andesite S nee ore runn ng from to 1800 to the ton in gold was dis covered in the granite mining dis tr ct twenty five miles north of ely nevada a rush of proportions greater than any seen in this district since the silver excitement of the has been on |