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Show N0UTHWEST NOTES H Frank Merger, n sheepman, shot himself at Canyon Ferry, Mont., aud 'mllcatlnns point to suicide. United States Senator V. 13. Warren Jf Wyoming Is at Hot Springs, Ark., vherc ho will rccuporato from tho Mrnlti of tho recent campaign. Harry Sanyo, a tailor of Whlteflsh, Mont., was Instantly killed by being' btruck hy a passenger train. Ho was walking long tho track toward tho Kffortn are being mnde for a strong' baseball leaguo In Wyoming next sea-6on, sea-6on, to Include tho towns ot Cheyenne, Laramie, Hock Springs, Douglas and A wreck of a freight train In tho Harvey tunnel, forty-llvo miles from Ureal Falls, Mont., caused consider-iblo consider-iblo damage to equipment, hat no lives wero lost. Carl Jncobsou, a Swedo laborer, who is coullncd nt the Cheyenne city Jn.ll, is unusual in that ho Is mentally unsound and knows it, having request-cd request-cd that ho bo sent to tho nsylum. Tho secretary ot the treasury has decided to accopt tho donation ot a slto for tire new pustolllce nt Goldfield, HBl Nov., tho triangle hounded -hy Main, HH Hroadwny, Miner nnd Gold streets, HH President J. K. Chllberg ot tbo HH Alaska-Yukou-Pacltlc exposition Iiuh HH written President Roosevelt asking HH that his trophies of tho chase In Drlt- HH Ish Kast Africa be mado tin exhibit at HB tho exposition. HB An eastbound overland Burlington HH passenger train crashed Into a bwltcli HH engine In tho Hillings, Mont., yards, HB Injuring George Lulloff, ilreman ot BBj thu passenger train, nnd badly shak BB lug up tho passengers. BBj Selling pools on horse raceb aud BB maintenance of betting rings at raco BBj tracks aro under tho ban of tho law BB lu tho state of Washington, according' BB to a decision of tha stato superior BB court, bunded down last week. BB Tho Routt County Development BB Lompnny, which Is constructing a sys- BB torn of irrigation work along tho Colo- BB rndo-Wyoming lino near Haggs, Wyo., BB has Installed n giant steam shovel and BB Is now lifting 1,000 yards ot dirt dally. BB William Monroe, a farmer of Hutch BB Inson, Kan., has arrived at Laramie, BB Wyo., and Is prepared to spend u for- BB time, the savings of a llfctlmo, in do- BB (enso or his sou, Harry, who is charg- BB pd with the murder ot It. H. Kinloy, a BB ranchman. BB Word has readied tho Northern Pa- BH due directory thnt the extra dividend of $11.'JG which was recently declared BJ by tho Northwestern Improvement BB company for the bencHt of tho North- BH cm Pucllc stockholders, will ho paid 9it December 3. BH KImor Hlnton, tho young man who killed Contractor Mahanoy nt Round- up, Mont., during n quarrel over B wages, has been captured in Fergus Hfl county. Hlnton asserts that the brain-Ing brain-Ing ot Mtihanoy with n ncckyoko was in net or self-defense. H A Butte Miner dispatch from Wash- Bl Ington states that tho president's com- B mission on country life will bo in Bozcman, December G and 7, and will Hfl five Irearlngs to fanners, tho Stato Agriculture college professors, and others Interested in the subject. Twenty voters cast tlielr ballots for Bfl a dead man in Kureka county, Nevada, B Then thoy voted for Andrew V. Stln- Bfl son for a county olllccr. Stlnson waa HB i.trlcken unconscious whllo making an HH election speech tho day before olec- IIJ tlon nnd died a fow hours afterward. HH For tho third tlmo within two yearn HI a disastrous II ro swept tho rail- IH road construction camp of Taft, Mont., HH hist wcok, nnd approximately one- HH third ot tho town is In ruins. Two HH theatres, several saloons, a grocery, H btoro, a restaurant and a number ot HJ lunk houses woro among tho build- HH lugs destroyed. H Near Billings, Mont., on tho Bill- lugs & Northern railroad, n Monte- HH no gran workman was killed and two IH others badly hurt. Thu men wore rid- HH lug on a hand car and wer run down HH by n train which carried no lights, HH they being unable to see It approach- lug. Tho man. who was killed was HH Irlgthrully mangled. HH Word has been received from tho HJ headquarters of tho Wyoming Wool HJ Growers' association in Cheyenne stnt- HH lng that Assistant Forestor A. F. Pot- HH ler, of tho bureau of forestry, will, ear- HH ly in tho coming summer, Investigate HH conditions on the Black Hills national ITiM forest, near Newcastle, with a view k! of admitting sheep. The woman who attempted to kill sjtffc herself, Miss Helen Philips, daughtor tfm of Mrs. Genevieve Clinhler Phipps, 2K rnd two policemen In Denver, after : tho fnlluro of her attempt to extort Sjr' 20,000 from Mrs. Phipps, has been ' ' fat Identified ns Mrs. Allen Heed, wifo of n druggist of Denver. Mrs. Heed Is 0.: hcllored to bo Insane. fK i The llrst renl flght In tho twenty- WC eighth annual conrontlon of tiro Amor- . .i' lean Federation of 1tbor, at Donrer, i occurred on tho roport of tho credon- j i ) tlnls committee, aud resulted In the t-' unseating of the delegates of tho Flint . f Gloss Workors by n practically ununl- y,' moiis voto. .j. .'4 With un empty bottlo of carbolic I'cld by his side, tho body of Ivan Hal- inrd, a machinist, was fo'upd on a rf pllo of ties about two miles east of a Bono hy a tramp, who notified tho uu- $ , thorlties. That tho man committed aJ; tmicldo wns indicated by n letter nd- dressed to his mother. fft A magnificent silver sorvlco of Bjj thirty-four pieces, purchased nt a cost :H of 5,000 by popular subscription by IKJ tho pcoplo of Montana, ha6 bceu pre- (H ttentcd to tiro cruiser Montana. Chief Justice Theodore Brantley of the su promo court of Montnnn made tho pro- fll tentatlon In a fitting U'lduss, |