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Show NORTHWEST NOTES H Frank A. Roberts has been appoint' cd postmaster at Thaync, Uinta coun-ty, coun-ty, Wyoming. Tho city halt, city jail nnd flvo ot tho principal business houses of Farm-Ington, Farm-Ington, Wash., woro destroyed by flro I last week. ( Before 8.000 to 10,000 spectators, , Brigadier General Funston on Sunday reviewed tho troops of his command in Camp Tacomn. John Gorst, ono of tho pioneers ot J Port Orchard, Wash., accidentally I shot nnd killed himself whllo hunting bear near that town. I Llttlo Pitt, one of tho three escapes , from tho Novnda stato prison, wns ll captured nt McKlnney's, Nevada, by LH Indian Dick Bender nnd Indlnn Jim. ' Flro destroyed tho saw mill and all IH tho other buildings nt Parkcrsburg, Ore., on tho Coqulllo river, except tho residence of Manager Kroncnburg and ono other. Fire, which Is bctlovcd to havo boon started by a careless tramp, destroyed nbout $20,000 worth ot property nt Watcrvlllo, Wash. M. D. Bcrgeson was severely hurt. Joseph T. Carroll of Butte, ono ol tho most prominent men of the stnto, was found guilty In tho United States district court at Helena of Illegally maintaining fences on tho public do-main. do-main. Tho annual session of tho grand lodge, Knights ot Pythias, ot Wye- mlng, was hold In Laramlo Inst week. T. H. Butler of Ilanna was selected as grand chancellor for tho ensuing year. A man whoso nnmo Is supposed to havo been D. A. Smith of Scattlo at-tomptcd at-tomptcd to board a moving car as It was leaving a pleasure resort at Pert land, nnd was thrown under the trucks and killed. Congressman Joo M. Dixon ot Mis-souli, Mis-souli, who has represented Montana in the lower houso for two terms, has announced that he Is a candidate for United States senator to succeed Sen-ator Sen-ator W. A. Clark. Tho Republican state committee ot Montana has called tho stato conven-Hon conven-Hon to meet at Helena, September 15. Tho only nominations to bo made are for congressman and associate justice ot tho supremo court Archlo A. Cook, president of the Travelers' Protcctlvo association ot Oregon and Washington, a well-known commercial traveler, died at St. Vln-cent's Vln-cent's hospital, Portland, of appendl-cltls. appendl-cltls. His ago was 3G years. Tho sensational report of Jobbery In connection with tho turning over ot tho water rights to a privnto company on tho Shoshono reservation by tho stato of Wyoming aro positively do-nled do-nled by tho stnto authorities. Tho pol(co bcllcvo'thoy havo a clue in tho caso of Charles Smith, found murdered in his cabin nt Tonopah, No- J vnda, nnd have a man nnd woman un-dcr un-dcr arrest, but .conceal tholr Identity 'M nnd connection with tho crlmo. W. E. Stark, an engineer In the cm-ploy cm-ploy ot tho Short Line, was drownea H in the Box canyon ot tho Snake, below Huntington, Oregon. Ho was working In a dangerous placo and slippod from tho rocks upon which ho was perched. An open Bwltch nt Barratt's Siding, near Dillon, Mont, resulted In a pas-Bongor pas-Bongor train crashing Into tho rear ond of a freight train, Conductor Ewalt ot tho freight train being killed and tho engineer, fireman and ono passon-gor passon-gor of the passcngor train Injured. fl Tho bureau ot nnlmal Industry ot tho department of agriculture, having refused to disregard government cor-tlficatcs cor-tlficatcs Issued to sheep brought to Wyoming and treat them nccordlng to tho Wyoming laws, tho stato board ot sheep commissioners will employ a forco of Inspectors nnd quarantine and HBl treat all Imported sheep. It Is considered probable that a stato tournament will bo hold at Lara- x mlo, Wyo., during tho coming county fair by tho different gun clubs ot tho stnto, under tho auspices of tho Lara-mlo Lara-mlo Rod. and Gun club, with clubs rep- BBl rcsontlng Cheyenne, Rawlins, Hannn, HBl Douglas, Evnnston, Rock Springs and perhaps Ogden. jH Ownership of almost one ono- hundredth part ot the stato of Oregon jH changed hands last wcok, when tho old Oregon Central military road grant lull was transferred to a syndicate ora- flS9 posed of eastern nnd Cnllfornln c:tp! hKI tallsta. ywfl Thomas G. McEwen, who lost his aEl right leg In a railroad nccldent In Wjim Laramlo n fuw years ago, was kicked rW'J by n horse last wook nnd his remain- t4j3 Ing leg broken. Ho lay In tho open for ft&T twolvo houiB before being discovered iht by pnsserB-by, 1" 14 Tho largest wool clip over grown In America wns shipped from Billings, ''pfi Montana, to Boston and was the prop erty of C. M. Blair. It wolghod 1,500,- ,M 000 pounds nnd required forty-four cars to carry It. Twenty-four cents a L' pound was refused for it. UJ. Tho filing for lands in tho Shoshone reservation began on tho 15th nt Sho- jwi Bhono In tho special land office at that , K placo. Ono hundred nnd twenty-flvo pcoplo will fllo each day, the ones I'll whoso names wero first drawn in the 11 lottery nt Lander filing first Jfl |