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Show NORTHWEST NOTES Tho county court houso nt North Ynklmn, Wnsh., burned last week. Under the Truckec-Carson project In Nevada, about 20,000 acres are to bo Irrigated this year. An effort Is to bo made to liavo tho government fifth hatchery for Wyoming Wyom-ing located nt Laramie. Oeorgo Wilson pleaded guilty at Spokuue last week to tho robbery of of the bank of Rockford, Wnsh., In December, 1905, nnd was sentenced to ton years in prison. Maty McIJvlly of Helena, Mont., a pupil of Jean Do Reszkc, made her do-but do-but at Berlioz hull In Parts, ono night last week. A large American mull-ence mull-ence warmly received her. Tho report Is current nt Butte that F. A. Helnzo will succeed W. A. Clark as. senator from Montana, Mr. Clark having authorized tho announcement that ho is not a candidate to succeed himself. After forty years' service as Judge of tho United States district court ol the district of Colorado, Judge Moses Hallett has retired to prlvato life and Robert E. Lewis has been sworn In as his successor. Plncdnle Is the first Wyoming town to nnnouncc a Fourth of July celebration. celebra-tion. The affair will begin on tho 3rd nnd end on tho Cth, with frco pasturage pastur-age nnd camping grounds for everybody every-body that comes. Tho Corey Bros. Construction com pany of Ogdcn hns been awarded tho contract for tho construction of tho grado of twenty miles of railroad, running run-ning from Hasten to Fallon, on the Southern Pacific. Traffic Director Stubbs of tho Southern South-ern Pacific system has sent word (throughout tho cast notifying all agents to dlscourago people from coming to San Francisco for tho moro purposo of sightseeing. Mrs. Robert Bryant, n married woman wo-man with two small children, was shot and killed nt Butto by Harry Pcnna, who had been much In the company of tho woman. Pcnna confessed tho crlmo and says ho was Jealous ot tho woman's husband. Tho Shingle Mills Bureau at a meeting meet-ing at Seattle, attended by 150 manufacturers, manu-facturers, representing moro thnn CO per cent of tho total shlnglo output of tho state, voted to closo tho mills for ninety days, beginning December 1, with tho exception ot tho combination mills, which nro to closo for six weeks, beginning December 1C. Chlof Engineer F. II. Newell of tho government reclnmntlon servlco hns Informed the houso commltteo on lrrl tlon that from 25,000 to 30,000 acres of land would bo Irrigated nt tho bo-ginning bo-ginning of tho present Irrigation season sea-son from the lnter-stnto canal between Wyoming and Nobrnska, Most of this land is In Wyoming. Samuel H. Elliott, an Oregon pioneer, pio-neer, aged 78, was burned to death nt hla home near Hlllsboro, Oro. Ho was n paralytic and It Is supposed tho flro stnrtod from coals dropped from his pipe. Ills aged wlfo and son wcro plnntlng potatoes nt tho tlmo and when they saw tho flro, It was lmposslblo to reach him. Rcy Harris, said to bo a Salt Lake newspaper man, who was forced to leave Bannock, Montana, an old mining min-ing town In Beaverhead county, nftcr being ducked In nn irrigating ditch and daubed with paint, for surveying tho townslto for placer claims, has sworn out wurronts for sovontcen men, who, he alleges, committed tho outrage. out-rage. A sensation has been created nt Basin, Wyo., by tho arrost of Bishop J. Jolly, head of tho Mormon settlement settle-ment In Big Horn county, numborlng over COO membora, on tho chargo ol sustaining polygamous relations with two wives. In the Butto Minor, his own nowspu per, Senator W. A. Clark of Montana nnnounccs olllcinlly thnt ho Is not t candidate for re-olectlon to tho United States senate. Ho saya ho will return to Montana to operate his Interests, at tho closo of his present term. Tho nrmy appropriation bill which passed Inst week was amended by Increasing In-creasing tho Item of $80,000 for hos-pltnl hos-pltnl nt Fort Russel to $120,000, tho lncrenso bolng deomod; necessary by tho war dopartmont In view of making Fort Russell n brigade post. Mrs. Holon Cody Wetmoro, tho sis-tor sis-tor of "Buffalo Bill" Cody, having sold nil her property at Duluth, Minn., has nrrlvod nt Cody, Wyo., and will bo-como bo-como a permanent resident. Mr. Cody will return to Cody at tho end of his present European tour and remain permanently, per-manently, Charles R. Root, roprosonting Swift & Co., nnd W. J. Ryan, representing tho Cudahy Packing company, woro arrested ar-rested nt Laramlo, Wyo., last weok, charged with violating tho puro food laws, of tho stato nnd selling i.iincoij ham aud ham sausage, contalnlutr preservatives. pre-servatives. Whllo walking down nn unfreauent-od unfreauent-od street of Ranlor, Oro., W, O. Fisher, a prominent lawyer nnd assistant editor edi-tor of tho Hauler Advanco, a local Anti-saloon league publication, wan struck from behind by an unknown thug, knocked to tho ground and badly beaten. |