Show NORTHWEST NOTES because mildred payne mccumb his 17 year o d wife of year bad left him and to return lome friday august 13 has been set apart as governors day at the irnia t on congress to be held in spokane A five year old boy Is alleged to have started fires in south portland last week that did damage estimated at the next session of the dry farm ing congress Is to be held at billings mont beginning october 25 and last ing tour days J W mccomb aged 38 a street car conductor ol 01 beattle shot and killed afe girl v ite as she lay asleep in a looming house and then sent a b illet into his brain fire which broke out in a stable in eugene ore not only de strayed that building but a number of others the monetary loss being about karl kl ne aged 63 his been con evicted at red lodge iiona 0 the murder of john october 24 1908 and sentenced to ten years in the ry burglars blew open the safe in the postoffice post office at manhattan mont cecur ing about in cash and some post age stamps it Is believed the rob bery was the v orl ot amateurs W W duncin a fisherman and his 6 year old son were drowned at spokane their boat capsized while anchored in mid stream and D mean was drowned in a futile endeavor a save his son that work on the proposed butte helena electric railway will beffa during the summer is a statement made by H gerry jr chief engineer of the river power company ot helena fifteen pounds of ice was sent by mail from reno to hawthorne nev one day last week but the expert ment did not prove a startling sue cess as eleven pounds was lost by shrinkage in transit albert harrington said to be a pa prisoner of the california state penitentiary and a man whom the po lice of the west have been looking for the past sear has been arrested and lodged in jail at reno nevada A dispute over the ownership of a s aall piece of rope caused the death of J M corp a rancher who waa shot and killed on jackson prairie twelve miles south of chehalis wash by joe ware another rancher blew open the sate in the depot at rhyolite nev on the night ot may 20 beci ring 1100 the robbers worked with dispatch making two shots and muffling each so tha that t it waa heard but a short distance away oscar de long struck by light ning near miles ty mont on day last week and seriously injured but will recover his horse was instantly 1 billed de longs coat was ripi ed from his back and his underwear was full of hole al gaines is dead as the result of a fist fight with a man named van we on the streets of dayton wyo gaines aba knocked down and in falling his head struck the curbing crushing his skull van wye will be charged with murder A tramp giving the name ot L V has been arrested at chey enne on suspicion of being an in the union pacific mail robbery near omaha when arrested bank notes to the amount of ivare found on the prisoner the anti gambling crusade reached its climax in the criminal court in butte last week when dauty prose autor baldwin announced that 1 ere after the state will agree to no fine less than or days in jail toi gamblers who plead guilty the laying of the cornerstone last week tor the methodist church at hawthorne nev marked the inva tor the first time of that towns pre by a place of worship of any denomination of christian alth haw thorne has a population of 1 officials of the state of oregon are protesting to the management of the beattle expo buon against bhe japanese building declaring it would re sult in congregating large number of Ja about tae place and thiu detracting oregon s bowing walter mesch aged 40 years t nent mining man coma ittel suicide at sheridan wyo by stab b ng himself in ane heart with a rod et knife mr mesch had not been feeling well for some time past and it is believed waa not in corn possession of his faculties when ha did the desperate deed diederick Fie derick byrd a small cobil opera tor was found guilty at red lodge mont last week of murder la the second degree and sentenced to years in the penitentiary tor the killing 0 his partner rasmus betland near jollet november 22 1908 charles A strauss former cashier of the portland posto fice has been of embezzling bunds of the office strauss pleaded in defense that he kne v nothing of the shortage basing his plea on the cond tion of Ms eyesight lie amount involved was the spokane inland empire rail load Is consi lenng plans tor a branch line twenty miles long into the cheur dalene indian reservation which s to be opened in august an electric road will leave the main line near wah and run to plummer idaho hadji 0 mohammed sigal an oriental merciana merci ant and authenticated descendant of mohammed who haa attended every world s fair since the philadelphia exposition of 1867 died at seattle may 25 at the age of 60 fe had corie cor ie to seattle to attend the tion when nineteen gamblers arrested la t tall in butte were called into court last it developed that x teen had left the city and tt at their bonds had baen lost or atel ron the sheriff s va lit the bonds aggregated 16 an invent gallon has been ordered the southern pacific company 1 as fi ed in the federal land office at car son nevada a map of a projected branch line that Is to be run ron twin fals ida to a on th main line near cobre nev and will open up a rich section in southern idaho and northern nevada |