Show NORTHWEST NOTES I 1 at the ia la state convention held in carson nevada the delegates w re instructed for william jenn bryan mrs U N leape and her daughter mrs airs vera mckelvie mels Mcl elvie who set out from portland me on may 12 to travel in an automobile to portland ore ar rived in cb ch cago on june 1 maurice McKel lingon an aged bust busi ness man of goldfield found guilty of murder in the second degree has been nen sentenced to ten ojars years imps the minimum sentence of thirteen delegates elect elected d by butte miners union no 1 W fi M to the annual convention of the west ern federation ot of miners to be held in denver in july nine are avowed socialists cia lists robert W speer was on june I 1 in augu rated as maor major of denver tor for a second term of four years the cere monies were held in the new city auditorium in which the democratic national convention will meet J july uly 7 william dempsey the augusta rancher who was shot by the boy bandits in the holdup of a train near creat falls mont is dead and the four boys rheams hatch creswell and randall will have to face a charge of murder charles R leonard of butte actor ney tor for F augustus hellige last week announced that mr heinze will soon return to butte to assume personal charge of his mining property in this state mr hellige has recently ac quiren some valuable montana prop erty the will of the late governor sparks of nevada was filed last week show ing the value of the property left by the governor to be the heirs are mrs nancy eleanora sparks the widow mrs maud mckenzie benton sparks C M sparks and le und sparks after negotiations consuming forty ona one days the miners and operators of the northern colorado lignite coal felds have disagreed and a strike seems imminent at the final session of the conference the miners depre senta tives rejected the proposition of th operators which would reduce the wages the friends of the late joe simp son the reno nev gambler who was lynched by being hanged to a tele graph pole at skidoo for shooting a saloon man of that place are now trying to find his wife it Is stated that he left over 25 and that his wife will receive the entire estate it if she will only apply for it william soper a passenger brake man who shot and killed james brothers a saloonkeeper of 0 oilman gilman colo declares he thought brothers was a train robber the crew having been warned that there would be an attempt to hold up the train and when he saw brothers running toward ard flip train soper shot him captain leonard bailey and three patrolmen discharged by the chief ot of P police olice of helena because of an order c cf f the mayor to reduce the police force of that city have kept their uniforms and have continued on duty on the advice of their attorneys the claim Is made that the discharge of the men is illegal and the case will be carried into the courts terry sturgis who recently es from the insane asylum at napa cal and took possession of a ranch near reno nevada has been captured after a bard hard fight sturgis lived in grizzly valley tor for several years his cabin was lined with sheet iron and on the outside he had set heavy bear traps to catch intrude ers john S macbeth one of the most prominent attorneys in colorado was severely injured in a runaway at goldfield nev as was also miss myra lockhart the 20 year old daugh ter of thomas G lockhart who with A D parker of denver owns the florence mine secretary garfield has issued an or der providing that on all government irrigation projects where not otherwise ordered operation and maintenance charges char 9 es for prior seasons must be paid on or before april 1 1909 in de fault of which no water will be fur dished thereafter I 1 the noted half breed indian who nho has successfully eluded the of fibers of the law recently compelled a ranchman in the augusta country in montania Mont aria to submit to a forceful exchange of horses leaving a crippled animal behind him the halt half breed was heavily armed mrs J dunn an aged pioneer worn an of virginia city nev was found dead in her home with her head bent back over her shoulders and her body wedged between the bed and wall her head was smothered in pillows and bed clothes the motive tor for the murder is unknown evidently tired of life and its hard ships george sievers went into the lavatory of the bilbie saloon at reno nevada and lashed his throat with a razor he then stumbled into the ard in the rear and tell fell to the ground where he slowly bled to death he was unknown in keno reno in accordance with a heavily signed petition the city council of reno ne vada has set october 24 as the date for a special election as to whether gambling will be permitted in the city of reno hereafter under the state law the law permits incorporated cities to pass on this question lewis penwell secretary of the montana wool company and who Is also at the head of eight of the largest sheep concerns in the state estimates that the growers will re belve approximately the same total in ash this year as they did last de the discrepancy in prices |