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Show NORTHWEST NOTES Fire nt Laramie, Wyo,, destroyed tovcral business houses, entailing o loss ot $10,000. D. Bruen, a minor, was lnsjnntl killed on tho 300 lovel ot tho Francis Mohawk mlno at Goldflold, Nevada HIb neck was broken by falling rock Tho sudden death ot Miss Helcnt Murphy at Missoula, Mont., frou spinal meningitis, nnd tho prevalence ot ,not less than eighteen cases In tin city la causing consternation. During a heavy snowstorm forty hond of cattle on tho Keystone ranch near Trinidad, Colo., stampeded anc ran off a precipice, falling 300 feet Tho ontlro herd was killed. Bocauso of tho llttlo prr'cHon at forded sheep on tho rank's nt thlt Bonson of tho yenr, It Is feared thai great loss of young lambs will bo ro ported by tho rangers In tho vlclnlt of Trlnldnd, Colo. James Dorman, a cook, has beer, arrested at Sllvcrton, Colo., chargee with setting flro to a bunk houso li which scventy-flvo miners wero sleep Ing, tho men bnrcly cscnplng frorx tho burning building. The breaking up of tho lco in the North Laramlo river a fow days ag resulted In tho carrying out ot twt 1 bridges, ono nt tho Garrett crossing and tho other nt tho Gtllcspto cross Ing, on tho road between Rock Rlvei nnd Garrett, Wyoming. Tho United States circuit court ol appeals has affirmed tho conviction find scntenco of J. T. Carroll, the wealthy Butto merchant who was In dieted on a chargo of violating the public domain law at Woodvllle, be tween Helena and Butte. Tho Clark road has practically closed a deal for terminal facilities lu Goldflold. Tho depot will probnbly be located on tho old baseball grounds the slto of tho arena constructed foi tho Cans-Nelson fight, within font blocks of the center of tho city. In Union Pacific territory In Wyoming Wyo-ming about 1,000,000 pounds of wool have been sold nt prices ranging from 18 to 20 cents. Tho prlqe last year for the same class of wool was from 20 to 24 cents per pound, nnd the same figure was asked this year, but the buyer would not meet tho demand. de-mand. John Lackey, whoso parents rcsldo at Cheyenne, was killed at Cherokee, twenty miles west of Rawlins, by falling under tho wheels of an engine. en-gine. Ho wns a brakeman and wan riding on tho pilot of tho cnglno helping his train, when tho train and engine pnrted, throwing him to tho trnck. Herbert Moore, elected by tho re-f"m re-f"m forces nnd tho Republicans, wna an the 17th installed at mayor of Spokane, succeeding Floyd Daggett, Democrat. In his Inaugural address Mayor Mooro declared for closing all saloons from 1 to G a. m., and removing remov-ing all wine rooms from saloons and rcstnurantB. At Montello, Nov., n bunch of six hoboes who had been roosting in tho brush for several days mado a raid on tho Feteison restaurant and held up tho proprietor. They took nil tho money In the till $18.70 and helped themselves to tho cooked grub and departed for tho brush. They wero captured later. An tho Inhabitants ot tho state have not been enumerated slnco the census of 1900, which was prior tc tho mining revival, tho present population popu-lation of Nevada la an unknown quantity. quan-tity. According to tho census of 1900 tho population of Nevada was 42,335 Tho population today Is believed tc ho about 80,000. Rev. C. M. Barnes, who wns widely known as head ot tho Barnes company, com-pany, publishers of school books, died In Senttlo, Sunday morning, of heart failure, at Broadway hospital aged 74. Mr. Barnes sold out his in terest In tho publishing buslnosti threo years ago. Ho leaves a widow nnd Ave children. On July 27 noxt thoro will become subject to settlement but not to entry filing or selection until August 26 about 24,900 acres of land now toni' pornrlly withdrawn for forestry purposes pur-poses nnd adjoining tho Mtidlclue Bow Natlonnl Forest In Wyoming, within tho Choyeiinu land district, with ofllco nt Clioyenno. 'As tho result, of a meeting of tho executive committee of tho North Montnna Round-Up association at Great Falls, a now state livestock organization or-ganization will bo formed, with headquarters head-quarters ut Helena, and which to nil Intents and purposes will become the successor of the Montana Stockgrow-ors' Stockgrow-ors' association, of which President Roosevelt Is a member, but which through recent legislative enactment has been divested of Its powers and functions. Frank Wayno, the lender of the gang which robbed tho Sellwood Ore., po8tolllco several monthB ago was sentenced to nlno years lu the Federal prison on McNeil's Island and William Carter, another mombei of the gang, was sentenced to ten months. An Information has boon filed in tho district court nt Helena, Mont., changing Georgo Melville with first degree murder for tho killing of Win Held Guthrie nt Bald Butto. Mel vlllo admits the slaying of Guthriui but says It was done In tho heat ol I passion, |