Show NORTHWEST NOTES A woman has been indicted on the too charge of unlawfully enclosing 2000 I acres of government land In Wyom Wom Wyom- Wyom ing Franklin M. M Barnes Is charged with having unlawfully unlawful I taken feet of timber Umber from government forest for e est tre reserves nee In San Miguel county Colorado It Is officially stated that represents th loss los to the Great Northern Express company In the robbery robbery robbery rob rob- bery of the company's strong box by b two bandits bandl l near Seattle The house committee on public lands landa has haa reported ported favorably a bill allotting In the state of Wyoming under under under un un- der the Carey act acres 01 of land to be subject to reclamation Meager details have been received of or the killing at Mont of a woman named Mrs Wesson The tragedy occurred In a saloon and two men are being held pending an In in- The federal grand Jury sitting at Denver has reported sixty Indictments Including twenty six for unlawful fencing of public lands thirteen for perjury In obtaining land and one for timber Umber trespass The body of William McCruden known as the Catholic Kid who was lost in the he mountains near Saltese Saltese Salt Salt- ese Mont early In December was found last week bya party of searchers search search- ers era including Robert McCruden a brother Twenty houses on the east side of the main street of ot Tonopah Nevada were destroyed b by a a. tire Ore which originated originated In a lodging house bouse A high wind was blowing and the entire city was wall endangered The loss Iou is estimated estimated estima estima- ted at at W W. J J. Arkell well known In Reno and once a prominent stock broker at Manhattan Nev Is a a. bankrupt His HI liabilities are and assets of Df some worthless mining stocks and about in money Arkells Arkell's liking for fast rast horses It Is said is the cause II of his downfall A case involving mining property I In the Silver Peak district valued at approximately and which has been In litigation In the Nevada courts for the past twelve years was as completed In the district court at Reno Nev last week and will be submitted to Judge Pike in briefs brIers It I is in announced that the Madison River er Power company has secured op- op trots tor cn en all the electric power plants cast east of ot Billings Mont Including those at Columbia Falls Forsythe Big DIg Timber and Livingston and will run runa a power system from the Dakota line to Billings from one central station Glen Holbrook was found not guilty at Antonito Colo on the charge ot of murdering M. M W. W Lowther whom he shot and killed at Alamosa ary 20 last Holbrook who was In Mrs Lowthers Lowther's apartments when her husband unexpectedly returned claimed claimed claim ed that he shot Lowther in self self-de- self de From his cell in the Alameda Cal Cat jail ail where he awaits sentence for the murder of Mrs Vernie Carmin formerly formerly for for- formerly merly of ot Springfield Mo 1 Mark a Wilkins Wilkins Wil- Wil kins has sent out word t that at the woman woman wom wom- an who had lived at Elmhurst ss au his wife wire and whose body he buried burled in a shed behind their home was not Mrs Carmin Federal Judge Hunt of or Helena has granted an injunction restraining Butte and Anaconda Typographical unions from Interfering with the transactions of the business of or the Butterick Publishing company of New York It was alleged that a boycott had been placed on the concern by b these unions Helena has been visited by two diet distinct dis- dis earthquake shocks one Tuesday and the other Thursday night of last I week The last shock was severe severe severe se se- se- se vere enough to throw on one West side woman Into Into- convulsions and It made several other people quite ill Houses rocked violently and dishes rattled and pictures became askew A Chicago man has patented a process pro pre process cess that will convert the sagebrush of the west into millions of or money by utilizing It in a scientific manner Potash is derived from the ashes which contain 61 per cent while ordinary ordinary nary wood ashes contain only 21 per percent percent cent centA A dramatic and unexpected feature of the Washington Republican state convention held at Spokane was the adoption of a a. local option plank by a vote ote of to The convention adopted unanimously a resolution favoring favoring fa fa- fa the candidacy of Secretary Taft Reno Nevada merchants have filed fileda a 8 petition with the Nevada railroad commission asking for an adjustment of freight rates that will enable them to compete with Salt Bait Lake City Los Angeles and San Francisco dealers The commission will Investigate their request L. L W. W Hawley expert on wood dis dis- distillation for the forest service left Washington last week for an extended visit to Oregon Washington Montana and Idaho to Investigate the possibility ity of a future turpentine Industry In Inthe Inthe inthe the northwestern portion of or the United United Unit Unit- ed States George Rock who with three other convicts made a a. desperate attempt to escape from the state penitentiary at Deer Lodge Mont during which they killed Chief Guard John A. A Robinson and desperately wounded Frank Conley Conley Con Con- ley has bas been sentenced to be hanged on June 36 16 Robert Lockhart a mining man of Rhyolite Nevada reports having visited visited vis vIs- at Mesquite Springs the camp ot of Walter Valter Scott who told him about the about the discovery of the remains of two men fifteen miles northeast of the camp There was nothing by which too the men could cold be l identified 2 |