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Show NORTHWEST NOTES A mountain of alum has "been discovered dis-covered in tho Walker Lake district, In Nevada. S. II. Day has heen anointed to bwc-coed bwc-coed John L. Consldlno as warden ot the stato -prison of Nevada, A trapper near Snrvcyors Park, Wyoming, Tibs been fined $75 for killing kill-ing elk for bait for his trnpB. Tho Btcamshlp Aralila cleared from Portland, on the 4th, for Hongkong and Yokohama with T2,34G barrels of flour for tho starving 'Chinese. A. M. Starzel, of Rawlins, Wo., last "week sold his sheep at $G.25 a head, considered a splendid prlco for, tho wholo band ot Bovcral thousand. Rosebud Is now on the wlro with Vernon, Soveu Troughs and Lovelock, tho Northern Nevada company's telephone tele-phone Jlne to .those places having been completed. Frederick Scliapcr, a German cobbler, cob-bler, wns run down by a street car In Seattle and Instantly killed, his body being cut In two. Tho motorman has been arrested. James Wlsner, a German, killed himself by hanging, nenr Eloctrlc, Mont. Ho was found in a barn, suspended sus-pended from n rafter, his feot dragging drag-ging on the floor. Charles Miller shot and probably fatally Injured Bert Wright in the Columbia club saloon, ono mile north of Goldfleld, Nevada. Tho tragedy was tho result of a family quarrel. Richard A. Miller, part owner of tho Eta Wonder Mining and Leasing company, was dangerously Injured ,by a rock falling upon him, fracturing his skull. Ho was taken to his home in Goldfleld. E. J. Bell, the largest sheepman on tho Larnmlo plain, will erect a shearing shear-ing pen at Mlllbrook, Wyo., driven by power, for tho benefit of his own lm-' lm-' mense flocks and other flocks owned In the neighborhood. One hundred, teamsters employed on street work at Tacoma, are on strike, demanding $G per day for man and team, instead of $5.50. Tho strlko ties up soveral hundred thousand dollar's worth of worku Tho dipping plant was placed in operation at tho Riverside ranch at Laramie, Wyo., last week, whero from 3,000 to 4,000 cattle will be presented for treatment. Tho plant handles cattle cat-tle at tho rate of from 1,500 to 2,500 per day. Colonel J. H. Pratt, of Clcarmont, Wyo., has been sued for divorce by his wife. . Tho colonel is 82 and his wife is 41, nnd when they were married mar-ried one ot his grandsons "stood up" with him as groomsman and gavo the grandslro away. Tho body of a well-formed femalo child, which had evidently been placed under tho ico whllo yet alive, wbb found In tho Big Popo Agio river, riv-er, a mile above Lander, Wyo., nnd turned over to Sheriff Stough and Coroner Sohoo. Tho body of nn unknown man, who had to all appearances been brutally murdered was found on tho ranch of John McConnell, seven miles west of Billings, Mont. Tho body was badly cut and gashed by knife wounds and n heavy blood-stained club, which told Its muto story of tho crime, lay near by. The municipal elections In Montana resulted In a Republican landslide, only on-ly two cities in the stato electing Democratic mayors, whllo tho opposing oppos-ing party was successful In all other Instances whero pnrty nominations wero made. As a rule, pnrty lines wero closely drawn nud a heavy vote was polled. Boring for oil nnd gas Is to be started on an extenslvo scale near Ontario, On-tario, Oregon. C. W. Taylor, an expert ex-pert ot long oxperlcncc, has secured oil and gas leases on 14,000 acres of laud In that vicinity nnd Is preparing pre-paring to begin boring. Tho doctors of Reno, Nov., nro discussing dis-cussing the subject ot spinal meningitis. menin-gitis. Within tho past ten djjys ten dentlis havo occurred In tlint clt which nro dlngnosed ns cerebro spinal meningitis, nnd the community Is becoming be-coming somewhat alarmed. C. F. Nicholas of Threo Forks Mont,, Is dead at tho ago of 72.- Mr Nicholas was ono of tho old and prominent Settlers of tho Gallatin valley val-ley and mado his homo lu Boznmnn until about four years ago. Ho emigrated emi-grated to Montana In tho 'GOs. Al Everman, 19 years old, was shot .down and Instantly killed nt Loon Lako, thirty miles north of Spokano, whllo walking along tho lnko front In company with Mrs. May Hesner. The assnsidn stood behind a trco closo to tho couple and fired n single shot. Combined Innd owners In tho neighborhood neigh-borhood of Hudson, Wyo., ono of tho richest sections of Fremont county, havo closed a contract for tho construction con-struction of n four-mllo canal, which will Irrlgnto 10,000 ncros of land, tho canal to bo ready for use this season. Tho heavy snows of last week will bo of Immuuso vnluo to tho ranchmen ranch-men of eastern Colorado. Slnco early October thero has boon but llttlo mols-turo mols-turo and tho mountains from which Colorado draws Its water supply dur-, Ing tho summer months wero destitute' of snow. |