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Show NORTHWEST NOTES Next year's convention of the National Na-tional Wool Growers' association will be held in Helena, Mont. Fred Greenback, a whlto man, was badly stabbed by Gcorgo Johnson, n negro, In n quarrel about a card gnmo tn a saloon in Laramie, Wyo. Johnson l in the county Jail. Tho senato hos passed a houso bill extending tho tlmo Mr homestead cn-tryinen cn-tryinen on lands embraced In tho Shoshone Indian rcsorvatlbn in Wyoming Wyo-ming to establish rcsldenco. Tho Spokane Rod and Gun club hna accepted tho offer ot tho Interstate Sportsmen's association to hold tho Pacific coast handicap championship moot In Spokane, September 10, 11 and 12. Senator F. E. Warren was re-elected president ot tho National Wool Grow-cm' Grow-cm' association at tho Salt Lake convention, con-vention, while Gcorgo S. Walker, tho Cheyenno newspaper man, was reelected re-elected secretary. L. D. Thomas, a prominent farmer of Plains, Mont., blew his brains out In tho presence of his fourteen-year-old son. The boy claims his father was removing cartridges from a revolver revol-ver when one exploded. Mrs. Jcnnlo Cobs, formerly ot Rawlins, Wyoming, was found dead In bed In Salt Lako City, at a private residence whero she had "bogged to be allowed to sleep. Over indulgence In morphine led to hor death. The Oregon legislature met on the 14th and effected temporary organization. organiza-tion. 'When the legislature convened con-vened Frank Davey waa elected speaker, speak-er, of tho house and E. W. Halnea, of Washington, president of the senate. Congressman Josepn M. Dlxen republican, re-publican, of Mlsaoula, waa formally elected United States senator from Montana, on the 16th, for the six-year six-year torm, beginning March 4, next, succeeding Senator W. A.. Clark, ot Butte. Nathan Jacobs, arrested In Portland, Port-land, Or., and taken to Los Angeles on a charge of forgery of the names of several United States district custom officials and others, pleaded guilty in the superior court and was sentenced to serve five years In tho state prison. With a terrible gash In his forehead, fore-head, where he had apparently been struck by an ax, and lying In a pool ot blood, W. Zimmerman, a jeweler and well-known citizen of Pentlcton, B. C, was found lying dead in the rear of his store. Ho had been murdered mur-dered and afterward the storo had been robbed. The 'senate has passed tho Warren bill Increasing the military corps of the army. The total Increase, which Is to reach Its maximum in five years, Is1 6,197 officers and men, which, with the Increase In certain salaries of men In soparate grades, such as electricians, elec-tricians, machinists, etc, will cost $243,324 annually. The latest report of San Francisco bank, clearings, as announced by tho California promotion committees, show's a continuation of the heavy in-crcaso in-crcaso manifest -for Borne time past over corresponding periods during the preceding year. This would show that San Francisco Is prospering, despite the 'terrlbio losses sustained by the earthquake1 and fire. Burglars enterod tho residence of J. N. Grover of Seattle, choked Mrs. Qrover Into unconsciousness, and then dragged her to a bathroom, locking her Inside. Later they ransacked tho houso and stole $31 In money und a large quantity of Bllverware. Mrs. Qrover was a prisoner for two hours, when she was released by a member of the family arriving home. i The funeral of tho late George Terry,.' Ter-ry,.' who was murdered by an unknown un-known assassin on tho Wind River reservation, Wyoming, on tho night of January 10, took placo from his former for-mer home at Drnpcr, Utah, on tho lOlh. Terry wad a half-breed Indian, his fathor being a white roan, Joshua Terry, now an aged resident of Draper, Dra-per, and his mother a full-blooded Shoshone Indian. Terry was bom at Smith's Fork, Wyo. W. J. Bryan, Introduced by Lieutenant Lieu-tenant Governor Coon as the "most distinguished prlvato citizen in the world," addrossed tho state legislature legisla-ture ot Washington for over an hour on the 18th.. Not a member was absent ab-sent from his Beat and tho galleries wero crowded. Mr. Bryan spoko generally gen-erally of legislative mutters and made an uppeal for a big appropriation for tho Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition, paying 'that ho favored c'ducatlonal exhibitions f of that kind, but was opposed op-posed to 'appropriations which enriched, en-riched, persons and corporation a. Firo Suriday afternoon in tho Berlin block, Tacoraa, Wash., caused a loss of $16,000, mostly covered by Insurance, Insur-ance, A. L. Jackson, who had a photographic pho-tographic studio on tho sixth floor, lost a valuablo collection 'of negatives which had taken twenty years to gather. Finnic Carpenter, aged 16, has con-fussed con-fussed tho murder of George Johnson, a ranch hand aged 65, tu tho Deer l.oago valley, Montana. Carpenter Implicates John Berborlch, aged 19. Johnson caught the hoys robbing tho safe In the Parrott ranch, and they i killed him. |