| Show iab NOTES the central girls on the bell telephone system at billings mont have struck for higher wages the report comes from pine ridge wyoming that the body ot of an un known man has been found the maa man having been frozen to death joseph smith a brakeman em aloyed by the southern pacific corn com pany at mina nev was run down b hia his own engine at that place and in scantly killed no lumber Is now obtainable a portland towing owing to the strike of saw mill employed emp loyes and it is merely question of days until all building op orations erat lons ions in the city will cease it Is announced at the war depart ment that the post of fort cashal ie in wyoming will be abandoned ma I 1 next and the reservation and build ings turned over to the interior de apartment part ment tor for disposition japanese papers received at victor la fa B C by the steamer athenia pub lish a report that fishermen took alive aliv mermaid off luchu islands and the mermaid was brought to tokio and exhibited at yeno park the labor troubles at goldfield are being felt by the railroad companies As a result of the inability y of the people of that camp to get men to unload their products from the cars a blockade virtually exists on the tonopah goldfield road it is stated that edward T kiltok chief engl engineer neel of the salt lake route will within a chort bhart time visit meadow valley wash A ih nevada for the pur pose of selecting a new survey designed to avoid the section that has on several occasions crippled the tern tem and tied up traffic for several weeks at a time the twenty year old controversy between the northern pacific rail road company and jacob and mar garet over the possession of lands in the town of palouse wash on which are located the comp company anys s warehouse water tanks etc was decided by the supreme court last week favorably to the slights the supreme court of montana holds that the trial court of silver bow county exceeded its jurisdiction in sentencing andrew F graves to the penitentiary tor for fourteen years on the charge of throwing corrosive acid in the face of a woman on the ground that the verdict of the jury did not show that the act was wilful angry at his two sons milton and fred because they built a fence when he had told them not to 0 so E G crow a fanner farmer at empire ne vada secured a rifle and shot both sons injuring them seriously his older son george was standing near and grabbing another rifle shot the father through the head killing him instantly frank J keete keefe when released from the state prison at rawlins last week having served a tour four years sentence for killing john baxter a rawlins policeman on the night of april 20 1903 was arrested on a warrant charging him and his brother wll wil ham liam keefe with the murder of tom king a railroad trainman at the same time the butte members of the inter national typographical union finally voted down the proposition of the butte and anaconda newspaper pub ushers that the compositors return to work at last years scale which would mean a reduction of 50 cents per man per day this leaves the newspaper situation where it was thirty days ago john arbuckle the new york cof fee king has ordered the manager of his big P 0 ranch containing 55 acres and lying north of C ley enne to sell the ranch at once together with the stock which consists of worth of cattle and horses as a result of the governments ac tion in forcing arbuckle to tear down forty five miles of fences erected on government land charles kelly a longshoreman was shot and probably fatally wounded early sunday morning by two masked men on townsend street near third street san francisco kelly refused to accede to the demand of the men to hand over 6 jack walsh formerly a railroad conductor shot and killed charles meyers and jack harrington at biair blair nevada the tragedy was the result of a gambling row the two men at tacked walsh it is claimed and he shot both of them miss grace parish who attained hei her year saturday committed sul cide at the home of her parents in los angeles sunday during their absence by inhaling illuminating gas the sul cide of miss parish Is attributed to worry resulting from III health the utah capitalists who some time ago purchased the blair coal mine at blairtown Blair town wo near rock springs have organized themselves them selve into a company that will be known as the wyoming coal and coke corn com pany with offices in ogden utah the roundhouse of the loyalton royalton Loy alton railroad company at boca nevala neva la was destroyed by fire last week a lo 10 co motive three passenger cars and several freight cars being destroyed the fire was caused by the explosion of the oil tank attached itt ached to the icon loco motive |
