Show NORTHWEST NOTES left his summer home at pelican lodge on klamath lake oregon where he has spent a months vacation on friday of last veel tom and lawrence creed were sentenced enten ced to 15 and 18 months re for stealing a quantity of watermelons from a union pacific car at cheyenne james gibbs of del norte colo a seriously injured in a runaway at the four mile ranch near boggs wyo a few day ago when the horses started to run gibbs was thrown over the dashboard H J martin a freight conductor formerly of ogden utah was crushed to death in a collision on the north era pacific railroad at avon about fifty miles west of butte martin was sleeping in the caboose of aal extra freight train the warlike clutes of inyo county cal who have been always more or birss hostile to the whites occupancy of their territory are now so vigor bously objecting to the seizure of their rights by los angeles that the settlers fear trouble james stanwood pierce aged 78 years Is dead at his home in tacoma of apoplexy he was a cousin of pre aident franklin pierce and Ms grand fc ther nathaniel pirce gave to the federal government the site for the bavy yard at portsmouth N H jack dunn the outlaw who recent murdered a man near spearfish S D is believed to be in hiding near hulett in the northern part of crook county wyoming A sheriff and several deputies have taken the trail and hope to bring in the outlaw all the wyoming coal mines shut down by the strike of the miners have supplies of coal on hand and there Is ittle fear of an dimmed ate coal fam ii e A butte dispatch announces that the amalgamated copper mines have a six weel s staci of coal on hand after september 13 apple growers ot the pacific northwest will be re quiren to pay a sharp increase in freight rates to market their apples in the east the biggest advances are made to points west of the mis aurl river whereas advances to joints east of the missouri river are bight dewey the 10 year old son of F back a cheyenne contractor tc ind a cartridge in the alley at bis home and after extracting the bullet te placed the shell on a rock and hammered it until it exploded A aliece of the shell young back in the left breast killing him almost instants ins tanti sheriff smalley of cheyenne has i unearthed near thed a quantity of dynamite and se in the backyard of the home decently lecent ly occupied by charles smith ho was et a few days ago while resisting arrest and who is believed to have robbed a large number of eatores and residences during ahe past few ears it is reliably reported at new castle wyoming that the narrow railroad extending from spear ash S D to the black hills na t onal forest north of Nw castle is to be standard zed and extended to newcastle early next year the 1 resent terminus of the road is only 25 miles distant passenger and freight rates anthe coast may be increased if the plans considered at a meeting of of f bials of the union pacific railway at the annex hotel at achl ca gothe other day are fruitful the i eating was a secret one but it was declared cec lared that an increased tariff rate to the coast had been considered the northern pacific and subsidiary companies which are defendants in a suit recently instituted by the gov eminent to recover immensely able coal lands in montana filed their answer last week which in effect is that the government cannot go back inder its classification under which the tracts were awarded the mine whistles d d not call the miners to work at dietz monarch Carney ille kooi and riverside side on september 2 seven hundred men are out at dietz at monarch at Carne at kooi and 25 at riverside side the miners are tic sergeant bower of troop D fourth ca iry who wandered away from camp in the crow creek reserve while suffering from injuries received by his horse tailing on him was f ind in laramie and is being cared tor at a local hospital he will re acer coal miners and operators for the montana district met in conference at helena on the 3rd for the purpose of fixing a wage scale for the ansu ing bear the operators are under stood to be desirous of reducing wages which will be resisted by the miners mrs kobert chapman an aged oman from oakland cal who with 1 er husband has been visiting their on george chapman adreno neva aa was found dead by her husband at an early hour she had used chloroform io alleviate a headache and took to much after building out to fort russel the cheyenne tramway company will build a line from its present us ait oit beyond the chain of lakes to the north of frontier park skirt the lakes and return to the city via the cemeteries lake minnehaha and fast cheyenne the talmadge bunting land corn I 1 any which is constructing irnia alon wort s and reclaiming a large area on the laramie plains has awarded a contract to H E owens the railroad contractor of grand en camp ment for the excavation of a CO mile canal on september 16 and 17 the people f pine bluffs wyo will hold their fire r annual fall festival pine bluffs in the center of the dry farming district which for several years has I 1 reduced bumper crops A program cf races band concerts broncho bust ing etc has been arranged it is announced at the headquarters had quarters of the national wool growers asso aaion in cheyenne that as a result of the recent meeting in salt lake city utah the assoc aaion will send a committee east to the several sites offered the sheep for their wool warehouses |