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Show (NORTHWEST NOTES U- ) Frank ilnino, keeper of n notorious Mnln Hlock dive, pleaded guilty Inst week of attempting to bribe Chief of Police Hen Hlco, of Spokane. Ho was fined $4G0. , B. P. Johnson, a Union Pncldc brnke-man, brnke-man, fell beneath a box car at Carter, Wyo., and was so badly Injured that ho has slnco died. Johnson's homo was at Green Hlver, Wyo. Emmett Walsh, deputy district attorney, at-torney, has recommended to Justlco of tbo Peace Henley, of Goldfleld, Nevada, Ne-vada, that men who beat women bo tied to a post to ho erected In n public plnco nnd labeled "womnn beater," In accordance with tho provisions of an old law which yet remains on tho statutes stat-utes of the state. Edward (Arlotta, aged 37, was pounded pound-ed nnd choked to death by anothor in-tmne in-tmne patient, Thomns J. Urown, of Tacomn. In the hospital at Fort Stollacoon, Washington. Tho men were sleeping ln the same room vhen Brown, In a violent nttack ot acute mania, . attacked his sleeping companion. Blanche Nye' Stanton, tho girl wlfo of Major W. A. Stanton, left tho Stanton Stan-ton homo In Goldfleld Inst week. 8ho alleges that her husband beat her se-vcrely se-vcrely recently, nnd throw a lamp nt her. The physician who attended her said that her body und limbs wcro bruised and her throat showed the marks of fingers. Cecelia Wclssberg, a girl of 13 years, has sued Dr. Uenihclm, of Butte, for $25,000 damnges In the district court, and charges him with assaulting lier and with "bruising her body in divers places" on August 29, 1907. Miss "Welssbcrg Is n well known musician. Dr. Bernheim Is ouo of the city's most prominent physicians. The Denver Republican publishes an Interview of J. E. Welborn, prcsldont of the Colorado Fuel & Iron company, com-pany, in which ho denies the Btory printed nnd telegraphed throughout tho country, thnt ho had reslgnod. "I havo not resigned nnd thero Is no probability prob-ability that 1 will resign," said Mr. Welborn. Joseph Case, a -well-known business mnn of Butte, was thrown from a horse, sustaining a frncturo of tho base of the binln. His condition Is critical. Mr. Case was ono of tho nc-tlvo nc-tlvo members of tho well-known dry goods firm of Case, Gravelle & Irvln of Huttu, before Its absorption by the Symons company. The twonty-llrst nnnual report of tho Denvor & Hlo Grnndo Railroad company, com-pany, Issued by President E. T. Jef-fery, Jef-fery, shows that tho Income of tho company for tho llscnl year ending Juno .10, 4907, was 21,G52,420, an In-crenso In-crenso of 11,704,181, as compared with tho provlous year, und tho not earnings were $8,150,929, an Increase ot fS74,98G. Tho YellowBtono park season Is over. This hns been the greatest tourist tour-ist year In th6 hfstory of tho park. Tho park has been visited by tnou-sands tnou-sands of tourists who came ln from all directions. Tho trnvel was heavy nil summer over tho Oregon Short Lino, although tho road was -only completed to within twenty mllels of tho park. A collision In which flvo Japnncso -wcro killed and flvo were seriously Injured In-jured occurred nt Dlllard, Wash.. Tho construction train was standing on a siding preparing to back out when s north-bound trnln ran through nn open switch, crushing tho construction construc-tion cars. Tho wreck caught flro and threo of the Jnps wero burned to death. Johnson Ruso was shot ln tho back by Mark Edwards ut Medicine How, Wyo., nnd wus badly Injured, tho bullet bul-let passing entirely thrdugh his body. Rose nnd Edwnrds's wife were ln tho back yard at tho Edwards homo whon tho husband camo upon Rose. Ho ran, nnd Edwards fired. Ho had been wurncd n year ago to avoid meeting Mrs. Edwards. While attempting to cross tho river near Mountain City, Nevada, Robert McGlnnls nnd his horso wero caught in a whlrpool. Tho horso went under, but McGlnnls trlod to swim out. Af.er n futile effort ho gavo up and wus drawn down and did not rise. Poter Indnrt, who was with him, had a narrow nar-row escape, from being drawn Into tho same iko1. Suit recently Instituted by tho state of Oregon ngalnst tho Pacific Tele-phono Tele-phono compnny, to compel'tho company to pny a state tax of 2 per cent on Its gross earnings for the year 190(1, is resisted liy tho company in nn answer filed Inst week, tho grounds being that tho Initiative and referendum law, by means of which tho tax law was put Into existence, is unconstitutional. Wheat growers In tho Palousu belt, south of Spokane, whoro several counties coun-ties will each yield moro thnn 9,000,000 hushols of grain this season, hnvo organized or-ganized a farmers' union, for tho purpose pur-pose of handling their product und establishing es-tablishing Independent warehouses to combat tho railroads. Tho will of tho lato Colonol Wing of Hnyfleld was opened nt Washburn, Wis., last week. Ho loaves an oBtato volued at nearly ?1, 000,000. Tho bulk of tho estato goes to his sister, Mrs. A. J. Benjamin, of Spoknno, Wash. Ho also leaves $119,000 In cash to nineteen nine-teen relatives nnd frlonds. Tho tclegraphei-s of tho Rocky Mountain division of tho Northern Pacific Pa-cific hnvo voted for an IncroaBo ot 10 por cent in wngea and an eight-hour eight-hour day, tho oporators threatening to join tho commercial telegraphers In their strike If tho railroad company infuses to grunt their domands. A, A. Jones, chairman of tho Democratic Demo-cratic territorial central committee of Now Mexico, announced last week thnt ho would oppose tho calling of a convention to draw up a constitution for presentation to tho next congress as a basis for nn application for iep irate stutohood. |
