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Show NORTHWEST NOTES George S. Sprackton has beon appointed ap-pointed postmaster nt Clnronco, Con-verse Con-verse county, Wyoming. The total registration for lands In the Shoshone reservation, which closed July 31, is 10,58:1.' Tho grentcst registration reg-istration wns nt Shoshone, where were registered 4,3"3. Dr. -lames 1). ICggleston, Jr., son of tho Pnclllt! Bxpress company president, presi-dent, whii hns been practicing as n dentist in Denver, wns nrrested hmt week on the charge of counterfeiting. The body of Hiram Cook, the Northern North-ern I'acltln civil engineer who was drowned In tho Yellowstone river below be-low Livingston, Mont., hns beun recovered re-covered from the river at a point sixteen six-teen miles east ot where ho went in. A sneak thief entered tho offlco nt Uiramle. Wyo., of the Lnramlo Steam Laundry whllu the mannger, A. F. Stltzer, was absent for n moment, nnd stolo n ennvns bag containing between $25 nnd $30 In silver. Kddlo Do Camp, son of a well known Helena artist, was drowned In the Missouri Mis-souri river north ot lwlston, Mont., while trying to ford thy river on horseback, his saddlo hiring nnd precipitating pre-cipitating him in the swift current. Frank Marolt, a miner, shot and killed his wife, Mary Marolt, in a boarding houso In llutto In which tho woman was employed ns a cook. Tho man mado his escape. Marolt and his wlfo had not been living together for Homo tlmo. Work on the doublo tracking of tho Northern Pacific from Hozemnn to Livingston, Mont., will commence at once. Contractors arc now on tho ground, arranging camps. Doublo tracking ot thu road Is duo to the Increased In-creased traffic. Tho Lewis and Clnrk Centennial Imposition Im-position corporation hns dissolved. Iast week tho capital stock was distributed dis-tributed and n dividend of 23 por oent on tho par valuo of the stock, $402,192, was declared, to bo distributed distrib-uted among 2,488 stockholders. Tho tonl receipts by tho exposition wcro $1,521,783.94. After a dramatic trial Mrs. Grace Hutchinson wus acquitted of killing Mrs. Mary ilodu at Sallda, Colo., last Juno. During the trial Mr. Hutchln son's husband admitted on the wltnoss stand that he had been intlmato with Mrs. Dodo nnd that ho had confessed to his wlfo tho night beforo the murder was committed. One ot the most disastrous fires evei experienced In tho Madison valley destroyed de-stroyed the Higbco & Watklns sawmill near Virginia City, Mont. Two hundred hun-dred thousand foot of rough lumber, 50,000 feet ot finished lumber, tho mill, bunkhouse, buildings, stablos and a granary containing 10,000 pounds ot outs wore burned. H. It. Coykondall, of Donver, Is In Cheyenne In search of his wife. Coy-knda)l Coy-knda)l patb thnt his wife left him several sev-eral months ago following a quarrel In which she accused him ot stealing and selling her Jowolry. Ho claims he baa slnco learned that her brother was tho thlof, and ho Is now looking for Mrs. Coykondall In order to effect n reconciliation. Davis T. Day, ohlof ot division of tho UnlUd States geological survey, who made an examination of the black lands of the Douglas creek placer Heidi uear Laramie, Wyo., reports that In half a pound of the sands, selected to represent the least value of tho field, he found gold of the valuo of $780.71 to the ton, 30 per cent ot magnetic Iron and 54 por cent of hemntlte. There Is alco platinum in the sand. The secretary of the Interior hns awardod a contract to Nels Olson of Butte, Mont., for tho construction nt division No. 1 of the Gnrlnnd cunnl, tho Shoshone .project In Wyoming, fifteen miles nurtjienst of Cody. Ol fen's bid was $270,74C. Oregon proporty-ownors hnvo about $10,000,000 flro insurance that Is worth llttlo moro than the paper on which tho policies nro written, as tlio result of four large Insurnnco companion which wero hcnvlly hit by tho San Francisco disaster going out of business. Charles McFadden, charged with manslaughter for the death of nn Infant In-fant child of Mrs. Anna Robinson, who It Is alleged ho starved to death whllo treating It under the guise of osteopathy, osteo-pathy, was given a hearing at Asotin. Wash., and hound ovor under $1.0im toml. Martin Healy accidentally shot nnd klllod Armond Ventch In Leadvllle, Colo. The boys wero playing "wild west" and wero using blank cartridges In a toy pistol. By some mistake n loaded shell got mixed with tho blanka. aud which resulted in tho death ot Vcatch. Frnnk Itrown was convicted i sotln, Wash., of tlu robbory of so-vral so-vral Clarkston stores anil wns son rwicod to threo years in tho state pen Itentlnry. Rrown Is one of the hit captured with tho nld of bloodhounds one of tho othor men. Frank Stagu being killed. A thorough oxnmlnatlon by nllonlstt appointed by the court lo Inquire inti tho sanity of ono R. J Mnhoney, n real estato hrokor of Seattle, who wns nr rested nt Portland, and charged wltl embozzlemont by a Chicago attorney J. P. Grler, shows that tho man Is hope lessly Insane. |