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Show NORTHWEST NOTES Flro broke out. In tin; Hyde block and Fraternal hulls, two of the largest buildings in Spokane occasioning a heavy monetary loss. The strike on tho Tonopah &. Gold-field Gold-field railroad is over and trains are ngaln running as usual. The men went back to work on the company's terms. John Ilenly committed suicide on a Union Pacific train between Sherman and Cheyenne, while en route from San Francisco to Fort Chester, N. Y., cutting cut-ting his throat with a pocket knife nft-cr nft-cr locking himself In the toilet A man supported to he lljalmar Nllls-son Nllls-son of Yacbet, Wash., committed suicide sui-cide In Portland by Jumping from tho Ford street bridge into Jefferson street, 117 feet below. Ills body was reduced almost to a pulp. Two Inrge Industries of Tncomu were swept nway by lire on the 10th, entailing a property loss of about $125,-000. $125,-000. They were tho mill and plant of the North Shore Lumber company, and the l.lnilstroin-Iterg Cabinet Works, Incorporated. In-corporated. Hen C. Ilcllnmy, of I.aramle, Wyo., has been granted a first-class Ilccnso as a civil engineer nnd surveyor by the state board of examining engi neers, being the youngest engineer In the west. Mr. Ucllniny Is not yet 21 years of age. Frank Tucker has l'cn arrested at Granite, Ore., on suspicion of being an accomplice to the Harvey K. Ilrown murder nt linker City. Tucker mado a statement while under the lnllucnce of liquor nnd this caused his being taken Into custody. Judge Irn A. Town, a prominent member of the Tucoma bar, was stricken strick-en with paralysis In his olllco nnd is In a Bcrious condition nt his home. Ho enmo to Tncomn from Albert Lea, Minn., In 1S8I and was one of tho early mnyors of Tacomn. The Jury In the Hlnos murder case, nt (lOldlleld, returned a verdict of not guilty, nines was charged with murder mur-der In tho first degree for killing Count Podhorskl, n Husslnn nobleman, who had ruined nines' wlfo. The killing occurred in noldlleld. March 21 last. John Mcdurn enmo Into Carson City, Nevada, bedraggled and exhausted, and rolates a series of thrilling ndven-tures ndven-tures through which ho declares ho hns passed during three days time. Ho saya for liourH ho floated In tho swnmps of Washoe lake nnib escapen only by crawling through mud to dry land. The nnnuni meeting of the Wyoming Sheep and Wool Growers' association will be held In Lnramlo In January, and Colonel 12. J. Hell, the vlco president presi-dent of the association, estimates that between 300 nnd 100 delegates ann visitors will be present, includlnh sheep men from every county in tJio state. Montana railroads must obey tho law rolatlvo to tho posting of delayed trains and the reporting of nccldents In which lives havo been lost or property prop-erty of the value of $2,000 destroyed, or they will be prosecuted. This Is the essenco of two ultlmntums Just Is-ailed Is-ailed by tho stnte board of railroad commissioners. The physicians attending John D. Hyan, In llutte. reported that the patient shows marked signs of Improvement. Im-provement. Dr. Hillings, tho specialist who came from Chicago, expressed tho belief that Mr. Hyan. while still dun-gorously dun-gorously 111, would recover. Thero arc-no arc-no great alarming symptoms, but the patient has become weakened by his long fight against typhoid. Colonel John O. Hoylo. soldier, lawyer law-yer anil Journnllst, tiled at North Yakima, Ya-kima, Wash., on Oct. 8. aged 02 years. Colonel Hoylo was born In Ohio ann served through the civil war. After tho close of the war he studied law. After being admitted to tho bar ho be-enmo be-enmo assistant attorney general of Texas, becoming one of tho editors of the Post. At the time of his death ho was manager of the Dally Republic oi North Yaklmn. The house of bishops of the Episcopal Episco-pal church has created the missionary districts of Utah, Idaho, Nevada, Wyoming, western Colorado ' anil Kearney, comprising western Nebraska. Ne-braska. Hlshop Spalding Is assigned to Utah. Funston to Idaho, Graves to Kearney. President Fred A. Miller of tho Laramie, Lar-amie, Hahns Peal; & Pacific, whoso olllccs are In Laramie, Wyo., denies emphatically tho report from Donvei thnt tho Union Pacific has mndo an offer to buy tho road to prevent competition. com-petition. Ho says the story Is "simply hot air." Tho Great Western hotel, built In 1SG8, the oldest hotel building In Wyoming, has been condemned by the building Inspector of Cheyenno nnd will bo torn down. At tho tlmo of orcc-tlon orcc-tlon It wns tho finest hotel In Cheyenne, Chey-enne, but for ninny yenrs It has been an eyesore. Tho Union Pacific Is rushing n spo 'clal train of canned salmon from San Francisco to Chicago In competition with tho Santa Fo, which received a similar train at the same time. Tho distance by way of the Union Pacific Is 2,338 miles, and by tho Santa Fe It Is 2,078 miles. Tho Christina saloon In llutte wna held up and $119.35, together with threo gold watches, carried off by tho three masked men resembling tho thrto men who held up tho Cash saloon sa-loon twenty-four hours boforo. Thoro were nlno men In tho placo when the robbery occurred. Owing to tho great number of Bhoep which havo boon dying on tho rango In Wyoming, an exhaustive diagnosis of the cnuse has boon mado, and In the hoads of the dead animals have been found smnll grubs which wore supposed to have caused death by boring bor-ing Into tho brain. |