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Show NORTHWEST NOTES President Illploy of tho Santa Fo asserts as-serts positively that tho Searchlight-Barnwell Searchlight-Barnwell railroad will bo completed within threo months. A Great Northern train went Into (ho ditch near Nashua, fourteen miles ;ast of Glasgow, Mont. Two or threo passengers wcro slightly Injured. Spreading rnlls caused tho wreck. Tho scarcity of labor In tho northwest, north-west, tho Increase In tho prlco of ma. erlnls nnd also In tho rnto of wages las caused great delay In carrying out government reclamation projects. Mnnagor W. It. Roust, of the Ta. soma smelt' h is announced n rcduc-:lon rcduc-:lon In tho -n king hours of nbout 400 rurnnce men. They havo been work-'ng work-'ng twclvo hours n dny, but hereafter they will work eight. K. K. Sherwood, employed at n Holenn laundry, hns disappeared, nnd ofllccrs nro searching tho adjacent hills for him. A small bottle of laud-nnum laud-nnum wns found under his pillow, lending to tho sulcldo theory. In a lit of tempornry Insanity, brought on by overwork, William J Akers, flnnnclnl secretary of the Seattle Seat-tle Labor council, committed Btilclde nt his homo by Inhaling gas. His accounts ac-counts wore found to bo correct. Tho slto of n now town, to bo cnllcd Armstead, has been ' surveyed and platted on tho Short Lino rnllroad, four miles north of Bed Bock, Mont. Tho now town Is named after tho superintendent su-perintendent of Iho Polaris mine. Tho fourth attempt to burn tho Capitol Capi-tol hotel, nt Laramie, Wyo., was made ono night Inst week, but tho lira woe Started In tho rear wall of tho building, build-ing, which consists of ndobo brick covered cov-ered with boards, and llttlo damage was done. Sheepmen nro Just commencing sncnrlng In southern Idaho. On ac Munt of tho largo number of sheep wintering In that portion of Idaho and tho Ontnrlo district of Oregon, there has been nn enormous demand for liny nnd that commodity is now bringing bring-ing $18 per ton nt American Falls nnd Ontario. Simon Brooks, hnnged nt Walla Walla Wal-la on tho 13th for murder, wns dogged by tho number 13. Thirteen years after af-ter leaving his homo ho was condemned con-demned to dlo on April 13. His prison cell wns number 13, and ho was hanged at 13 minutes nfter C o'clock, jtho stops leading to' tho gallows numbering num-bering 13. Tho Harrlmnn lines at. Portland have received from Omaha n lnrge gasollno motor car, which Is to bo put into operation within the next few days, between Portland nnd Forest Grove, Or. Tho car has a Bpccd ol built to climb heavy grndea nnd will from forty to sixty miles nn hour, Is carry fifty passengers. Tho Cambria salt works nt Newcastle, Newcas-tle, Wyo., expects to bo In operation this week, when they will produco about fifty tons of ordlnnry sack salt per day. A gallon of tho water used will leavo ono pound of salt when evaporated. Finer qualities will bo manufactured later on, tho machinery having already been ordered. Mrs. H. D. Richardson, wlfo of n rnnchmnn living cast of Laramie nnd ono of tho pioneer women of tho county, coun-ty, is confined to her bod from bleeding bleed-ing nt tho nose, and her physlclnn Booms unnblo to stop tho hemorrhage. Mrs. Richardson wnB tnkon with tho malady about two weeks ago nnd It hns been with hor nlmost iconstnntly since. Count Sllbon, who was driven from Tncoma threo yenrs ago undor a vagrancy vag-rancy chnrgo, returned Inst week from Paris nnd was astonished to find thnt property hold by him In tho then dls- roputnblo pnrt of tho city Is now worth $250,000. Municipal ownership of tho electr.lc light plant at Lnramle, Wyo., is belna discussed, tho now company having Incorporated tho posslblo snlo of Its plant to tho city nt tho oxplrntlon ol five years, nt tho time tho now" frnn chlso wns granted. Under tho leadership of Dr. Her mon F. Titus, n Socialist orator one writer, thcro Is bolng orgnnlzod nt Seattle a committee of union men tc ittend tlio Moyer-Hnywood trial In Idnho nnd to report on tho testimony given, ngalnst tho miners. James Gratton, a pioneer settler In Darver county, Minn., nnd for fourtcon yenrs n mombcr of tho Minneapolis pollco forco, shot himself through the head with his old police pistol in the shrubbery of tho University of Washing Wash-ing campus nt Seattle. Tho old Yancoy hotel, located In the Yollowstono National pnrk, was do stroyed by II ru on tho night of th? 18th. Tho flro originated from a defec tlvo chlmnoy nnd was so far advnnco; beforo It was discovered that nothlnc .could bo done to save tho property. Warrants charging complicity In-tlu murder of Jnck Boylo, tho ranchman, who was nssasslnntod at .tho ICtcliun' ranch noar Greeley, Colo., havo Men Issued for Tom O'No'l, Sam Scovllln nnd Fred Metzcr. O'Noll la u ranch man nnd Scovlllo Is u well-known broncho hunter. |
