Show NORTHWEST OTES charles A shernan former banker and oil magnate of casper wyo chopped dead at boone iowa last i of heart disease cleveland u manager of the montana co w coal company of el dredge states that he believes that a large deposit of coal lies under the yellow stone park an eastbound union pacific bag j gage cir loaded to the root with pouches of mall matter was burned at hanna wyo recently and cally all of the contents destroyed H cameron the engineer at the mine of the california pioche mining company at pioche nevada while ope aniag a hoist was dragged into the gear of the drum and hart so bad ly that he may die downhearted and discouraged be cause he was out of money and could not make his wife happy with christmas presents thomas hallm a denver plumber 1 billed himself py sending a bullet into his brain A bg laramie river wyoming rancher recently caught a native trout measuring twenty six inches end weighing nine pounds the fish as caught through the ice together with several other slightly smaller reebe convicted at helena on a second degree murder charge for the killing of his wife has ben sen fenced to twenty five years imprison ment the 1 illing occurred at their ranch home north of helena cark fi whose head was ca between two freight eagono at rawl ns several da s ago and whose recovery was not expected slowly improving and is now out of danger the engineer and fireman of the oregon railway navigation corn pany s train which was near portland hae positively identified hirry benson and oscar johnson as two of the men irnel bated in that crime while walking along the streets of great falls mont J M morris ap larent ly in good health fell dead ahe bursting of a blood vessel in the train caused his death mr morris was one of the early pioneers ot great falls patrolman edward burke of hel cna shot and killed a japanese early in the morning the policeman to ind the japanese assaulting one of the women of the estreet and interfered he turned on the policeman and in elf defense burke killed him the iry in the case of anthony wilde charged with attempting to criminally assault miss beatrice wills p sixteen year old girl residing near hartville wyo returned a verd ct of acquittal after having been out all night wilde Is mayor of Hartl lle at bal mont prank lebeau 1 as been sentenced to be hanged february 5 1909 tor the murder of t W yoakum and his son richard rich ard I 1 abeau s confederate joe v as also found guilty of murder in tl e first degree and his yas fixed by the jury at life imons james F kinney has supplied 30 bond and qualified aa adminis tra tor of the estate of the late M F brown who was 1 billed by his wife at thermopolis Thermo polis wyo recently under the law mrs brown who bahof the owner of the property will receive at least one third of the es tate the chicago northwestern rail load company has settled the dam ge claim of frank S bower of lan der wo whet was injured in the wreck of one of the company s trains last september by paying the claim ant 5 the claim of the estai 0 of M N hawl ins who was killed in the wreck has been settled for 2 J thomas convicted by a bel lingham wash jury has been sen fenced to life imprisonment for the murder of his divorced wife thomas killed his wife slept bebide the corpse from midnight to dawn and then buried the body in a potato patch where it was discovered two months later W dark an aged prospector who aas found dead across the threshold of his cabin on fish creek eighteen miles from butte was ably murdered for bis money as between 2 and 3 he was 1 to have kept in his shack is missing A man named has been arrested on suspicion victor johnson was fatally stabbed in ohp restricted district in butte by james 0 neil formerly manager of a local precipitating plant and aromi nent in mining circles after an ar aument in a restaurant 0 nell stab ted johnson and chased him and a woman of the district through the streets S lallis the wealthy banker and stockman of leemore cal recently convicted of illegally fencing govern arent land has been sentenced to servo a term of six months in jail and pay a fine of 1000 lallis has been released pending appeal paddy rodgers who twice escaped conviction for murder and who cap ped his career by an attempt to hold up a drug store in butte september Sept embel 19 and murder the proprietor and two of his brothers has been found guilty of burglary A charge of aa sault in the first degree remains estimating from the number of pelts t arned in ator bo aty if is sa mated that there were in the state ot wyoming on october 1 1908 at least coyotes and 1000 wolves this means that there was a coyote tor every five square miles and a wolf for every square miles the body of alien F gill former city engineer of spokane has been found in the brush near moses lake v est of apol ane the back of his head was blown away and bis shot gun showed that the weapon had been discharged while he was drag ging it through the brush the federal grand jury has aub bitted its report to judge hunt at helena and was excused tor the christmas holidays 0 twenty eight returned only eight were made public seven of these involve minor buch as introducing liquors on reservations and thefts |