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Show NORTHWEST NOTES H. S. Glenn, a brakeman, fell under the wheels of a freight train at Wilcox, Wil-cox, Wyoming, and suffered Injuries which proveU fatal. The coal situation In tho Yaklinn valley, of Washington, Is growing worse. The weather Is colder and some families are suffering. According to the annual report made public last week, the gold production pro-duction of milieu of the Black Hills for tho past year was $6,986,900, a decreased of $250,000. Howard M. O'Huvor of Denver Is dead from Injuries received by being run down by an automobile driven by Miss Ulrdle Appell, a young daughter of J. S. Appell, a prominent merchant of Denver. Nicholas Do .lausscruud, second assistant as-sistant engineer of the Olobu Navigation Naviga-tion company's steamer liiireka, was drowned at Seattle In falling from ft gang plank that led from the wharf to the boat. John Walker of Des Moines, la., arrested ar-rested charged with holding up and robbing women us they alighted from street cars In a fashionable residential residen-tial section, made an unsuccessful attempt at-tempt at suicide In the city Jail. A deal was consummated In San Francisco last week by which Sonatot poorge S. Nixon, of Nevada and Oeorgo Wlngfleld, who recently effect ed a $50,000,000 merger of mines In ttte Qoldfleld district, acquired the Combination mines, mills and watet power in tho Ooldfleld camp. Mrs. Julia Thulko and her son have been raptured at Farnle, 11. C, and will be brought back to Spokane Mrs. Thulko Is accused of obtaining $3,000 from Charles Do Neff, an old German farmer, having persuaded him to give her his money "for saft keeping" on the eve of their wedding day. Word comes from British Columbia that the Hindoos imported to work on railroad construction are suffering Intensely In-tensely from the cold, not being provided pro-vided with clothing suited to this ell mute. It Is said several of the llln doon have perished and that low torn perature and thin garments are the cause. The chief point brought out lu the trial of oldney ioann for the murdei of his father at Seattle was the tcs tlmony of Charles Coleman that the defendant was a petty thief who tapped their cash register and robbed Jhe slot machine In his father's store (The defense Is trying to prove mental irresponsibility. A gigantic mining stock swindle, from which Dr. .1. Ornnt Lyman, ol New York, Is declared to havo realized real-ized $300,000 within thirty days, wat uncovered at Goldflold by the arrest of h. H. Iatlnier, his secretaty, and a statement made by Sheriff Bradley that ho has wired instructions to the chief of ikiIIch at Pasadcnu, Cat., to apprehend Lyman. Claudo Shea, a young man from near Heno, Nevada, was taken to Ogden Og-den last week suffering from frozen feet. He was taken to the hospital for medical treatment, In tho hope of saving his feet, though the physicians who are caring for him fear the Injuries In-juries are too serious to be able to save them entirely. The Harmony Lutheran church on the Laramie plain, Just organized, having determined to erect a log mooting place on the agreed slto, called for volunteers to chop and haul the logs from tho forest In the mountain. Tho response was so hearty that the congregation voted unanimously to begin tho erection of the building without further delay. August Trablng, ono of the plnncei merchants of Wyoming, once member mem-ber of the territorial legislature of. Wyoming, member of tho bourd ot county commissioners and mayor ol Laramie, died on the 29th at his homo oast of Laramie, of pneumonia. About 150 cltlzeiiB of Ontario, Ore held up a westbound freight train at 12 o'clock ut night and ordered the engineer and conductor to switch from tho train four cars of coal. The order was oboyed and the coal famine in Ontario for a time In settled. Articles hnve been signed by representatives rep-resentatives of Joo Oans and Kid Herman and the Casino Athletic club for a finish light for the lightweight championship of tho world, to take place nt Tonopah, Nevada, on New Year's day, for a purse of $20,000, Wool producers havo cqmplnlnod that the shrinkage reporttt from Boston, Bos-ton, Philadelphia and other wool centers cen-ters was greater on Wyoming wool than othors, and the experiment station sta-tion has begun tests to determine the exact shrinkage of wool in scouring. Dolelna Palmer shot and killed her cousin, William I), Palmer, at tho homo of her father, near Albany, Oro Apparently there waH no provocation for tho act. Tho woman formerly was an Inmate of an asylum. Following tho shooting she became violently Insane, In-sane, Fred A. Shepperd was hanged at the penitentiary nt Salem, Ore,, on tho 30th, for tho murder of Denjamln F. Seell In Crook county, Sept. 24, On tho scaffold Sheperd confessed the murder mid said some one was guilty with him, but ho did not give tho namo |