| Show NORTHWEST NOTES howell williams aged 20 working on a ranch near lima mont has been convicted of forging a check for 73 on his employer mac roberts Is in jail at hawlins charged with shooting M allson with whom he had quarreled wilson Is seriously injured in butte the ant trust and labor parties combined and elected five al dermen the socialists elected one and the democrats two joseph graham a highly respected citizen of ontario oregon dropped dead at his home from heart failure he was 83 and a p aneer of this sec tion in anaconda mont the election ol 01 four democrats Demo crits and two republicans for aldermen and the utter defeat of the socialists was the result of the election that the united states should an nex the entire isthmus of panama is the startling suggestion made by sen ator john morgan in a letter to captain william W bates of denver the mail stage running between holt and big fork mont was hel 1 ip by a lone band t the stage driver was alone and was compelled to give up the ma 1 sack and other valuables in lis posse s on counterfeit halt ana quarter dollars are being manufactured in balna and shipped agh seattle into the unit ed states the imitation Is very near perfect the coin is of the otania d degree of fineness charles hurst who has been agent cor the pacific cypre ss at dillni mont for the past alx months has been arrested on a charge of em his peculations will mount to between 00 and bileca on day based off very qu egiy throughout antana be ng no great amount of interest biown as in mot of the towns only aide men were to be elected and i arty lines were not strictly drawn in many instances senator ciack ot wyoming has of an amendment to the sundry civil appropriation bill for the lish ment ot a fish culture station on baal s fork of green river in wyoming and appropriating 25 for that purpose secretary allson has decided to ex tend assistance to the cattle interests in montana north dakota and south dakota in the extermination of cattle itch or scab approximately fifty ex will be in the field shortly mak ing practical demonstrations of the methods of dipping cattle to stamp nit the disease eighteen indictments have been re turned by the grand jury at pueblo colo which his been in session sev eral weeks charles walker aljer man is charged with bribery in one count john L kirtland corn missioner Is indicted on four counts and ex city clerk W L smith has thirteen charges preferred against him the works at grand encampment wyo are again to be started up full force the concentrator is to be start ed at once and as soon as there Is enough material on hand the smelt ing processes will be placed in opera tion and ore will be going to the rail road for shipment in a very short time there are now about men on the payroll azel D galbraith formerly man ager of the topeka mine in russell gulch gilpin county colorado in jail in denver on the charge of milsap the company s funds con fessel to having murdered his wife and little son in his cabin in russell gulch on march 9 the republican state central corn cittee met in cheyenne on the ath ana selected laramie city and may as the place and time of holding the wyoming state convention to se elect lect delegates to the national conven tion under an ordea of the county court an attachment was levied at colorado springs last week on the nikola tesia electrical experiment station the it tach ment was levied to recover debt of due to the colorado springs electrical company for power fur dished buckskin jim an indian who lived on the coeur d alene reservation beven miles from tekoa wash was brutally murdered by his squaw three weeks ago the squaw had decall bated the body and was burning the remains when discovered by other in deans S D a barber of den ver shot and killed his wife and then attempted suicide but has even chances for recovery the couple had quarreled and separated returned and asked his wife tor money saying he was starving she refused and the shooting followed in the city election at helena mont the democrats elected R R purcell mayor J J grogan police magistrate and one alderman the republicans elected kirkendall city treasurer and seven aldermen the fight was made on the mayoralty on purely local issues at akron colo the jury in the murder case brought in a ver diet of murder in the first degree against george L tuttle perry tut t e and elmer shanks and fixed their punishment at life imprisonment the killing of grew out of a dis over the use of the open range there are encouraging reports from albany county wyoming on some mining properties the strong mine has struck a vein of ore in the shaft four feet eight inches wide and in the drift they have not yet determined the width the mine is fourteen miles sast of laramie there has been another strike at the albany in douglas creek wyo district it is reported that the min ers in cutting the vein in the shaft run into a rich body of pure sulphide of copper that will run 50 per cent in carload lots it also carr as good values in gold silver and platinum s 1 |