| Show NORTHWEST NOTES A suicide wave swept over the state of colorado october 4 five person 1 tiling themselves and one other mak ing an unsuccessful attempt herbert R morton an australian millionaire slipped on the steps ol 01 the vancouver opera house ana fractured his skull and will probably die because an engineer and a biake man were found taking a drink in a saloon at tonopah and discharged thu trainmen on the tonopah goldfield railroad w ent on a strike tying up the si stem the laying of steel on the borte athol hill cutoff of the wyoming divis on of the union was corn fenced last week the intention of the company Is to place the line in commission about the first of the year A reunion of the hand cart veterans was held in salt lake city last week when several hundred of the veterans who crossed the plains to utah in the handcart brigades listened to a program consisting of speeches and musical numbers general superintendent stewart ol 01 the laramie hahn s peak pacific railway company announces that the extension of the line aiom centennial to walden and to the coal fields of north park will be completed within the next year all the hotels in I 1 ar unie wyo which have been charging 25 cents for meals hate entered into an agree ment to increase the price to 35 cents due it Is claimed to the increased cost of provisions and expenses of serving meals H perham national president of the order of railway telegraphers arrived in denver last week to take personal charge of the grievance of the telegraphers against the denver rio grande railroad acting as adviser to the committee AJ D meyers the millionaire mining man of goldfield and los angeles is credited with having lost close to 30 at roulette at goldfield the past few days meyers dropped 20 in one play at the northern and various smaller sums at other houses P H cook charged with stealing a rifle and revolver from albert cook dot related but who befriended him pleaded guilty in the district court at laramie wyo and was sentenced to eighteen Ight een months in the penitentiary cook was arrested in new mexico because he failed to heed signs tor oldring the hunting of ducks chris stanl sich a 19 year old servian boy was shot and instantly killed by kelson at the mac white ranch four miles south of butte hunters who witnessed the shooting declared the killing to be unprovoked and very cow ardly A large american eagle rested on a live electric wire passing through the davis ranch at bakersfield cal and was slowly roasted when it fell to the stubble field below a mass of burning feathers it started a blaze which burned over 4 acres of gram and stubble before it was con tiered hon eli crumrine of laramie i state senator from albany county has written a letter to senator phil ander knox of pennsylvania con granulating him upon having been mentioned as a possible republican andl date tor president next year ana assuring him his support in case he Is nominated the topeka copper company hav ing one of the most promising claims in the centennial mining district in wyoming assays from the oies ol 01 which have shown a value of in gold to the ton is sacking sacks of are to be sent to a smelter at denvel or treatment to determine the future at the property two hundred and fifty members of he national wholesale druggist asso bation B ere in attendance when pres ident john carey called the con bention to order in denver last eek among the most important questions discussed were the effect of the na pure food law as applied to drugs and proprietary medicines jacq es laramie chapter daugh of the american revolution which baat year offered a prize of 10 for the bet essay on the overland trail has offered an other inze ot the same amount for the best essay by a student of the university of wyoming on the re of tort laramie to pioneer W oming As the result of investigations by D R babcock a special agent of the states treasury department sent to vancouver when the anti jap anese riots occurred a force of fed era officials will be installed at the international boundary line to keep back the scores of japanese who are daily crossing the border into the I 1 aried states alerton johnstone an electrician 27 ears old was electrocuted several miles southeast of butte and tell from the iole to the ground alma t beaida the unconscious form of his helper henry gagnon who had stunner by a similar shock gagnon was re J N cicior who built the southern california railway in the and jhc was its first superintendent Is dead at san bernardio mo cal victor b gan railroad raili oad ng in 1855 and for three years had charge of the military railway un de general mcpherson during the civil war according to the portland n an the portland eastern railway comi any that will build a road south basteri ea from portland through cen aral oregon to a connection with one more eastern trunk lines was qu et ly incorporated june 3 with a capital stock of 5 james dalton sentenced to be banged for the murder of officer hen ry stalks has been g anted a reprieve of sixty days by governor mead of oregon his attorneys pleading that his last appeal for clemency could not be perfected before the date formerly set for dalton s execution john daly united states survey or general slipped on the stairs in the selling hirsch building in port land and broke his neck daly was three times state senator and was a pointed by president roosevelt to su aeed henry M meldrum who was con of land frauds in oregon |
