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Show NORTHWEST NOTES Because Mildred Pay no McComb. hlH 17-year-old wife of a year, had 'eft h4m and refused 10 return home. Friday. August 13. has been set apart as Rovernors' day at the Irrigation Irriga-tion congrels to be held In Spokane. A five-year-old boy Is alleged to r-avc started fires In south Portland last week that did damage estimated at J 150,000. The next session of the Dry Farming Farm-ing congress Is to be held at DUMngs, Mont., beginning October 25 and lasting last-ing four days, J. W. McComb, aged 38, a street car conductor of Seattle, shot and killed the girl wife as she lay asleep In n rooming house, and then sent a bullet Into his brain. Flro which broke out In a livery stable In Eugene, Ore., not only destroyed de-stroyed thnt building,, but a number 3f others, the monetary loss being about $75,000. ' Karl Kline, aged G3, has been con-v-lcted at Hcd Lodge, Mont., of tho murder of John Chrlstlanson, October 24, 1908, and sentenced to ten years In tho penitentiary. nurglars blow open tho safe in the postolllco at Manhattan, Mont., securing secur-ing about $200 In cash and somo post-ngo post-ngo stamps. It Is bolleved tho robbery rob-bery was tho work of amateurs. W. W. Duncan, a flshorman, nnd his C-year-old son, were drowned at Spokane. Their boat capsized Whllo anchored in mid-stream, and Duncan was drowned in a fiitllo endeavor to save his son. That work on tho proposed Iluttc-Helena Iluttc-Helena electric railway will begin during the, summer Is a statement mado by H. Gerry, Jr., chler engineer of tho Missouri Illver Power company cf Helena. Fifteen .pounds of Ice wns sent by mall from Itcno to Hawthorne, Nov., ono day last week, but tho experiment experi-ment did not provo a startling success, suc-cess, as eleven pounds was lost by shrinkage In transit. Albert Harrington, said to be a paroled pa-roled prisoner of the California 3tato penitentiary and a man whom the poire, po-ire, of tho west have been looking for tho past year, has been arrested and lodged in Jail at Reno, Nevada. A dispute over the ownership of n snail piece of rope causodi tho death cf J. M. Corp, a rancher, who wno shot and killed on Jackson prairie, twolvo miles south of Chohalls, Wash., by Joe Ware, another rancher. Yeggmen blew open the safo In the depot at Ithyollto, Nov., on tho night of May 25, securing $1,100. Tito robbers rob-bers worked 'with dispatch, making two Ehots nnd muffling each so that It was hoard but a short distance away. Oscar Do Long was struck by lightning light-ning near Miles City, Mont, ono day last week, and seriously injured, but will recover. His horse was Instantly killed. Do Long's coat was ripped from his back, and his underwear was full of holes. Al Gaines Is dead as the result of a fist fight with a man named Van Wyo on tho streets of Dayton, Wyo. Gaines wn,to knocked down and In falling his head struck tho curbing, crushing his skull. Van Wyo will bo charged with murder. A tramp giving tho namo of L. U. Stcinhoff has been arrested at Cheyenne, Chey-enne, on suspicion of being an accomplice ac-complice In tho Union Pacific mall robbery near Omaha. When arrested bank notos to tho amount ot $800 wore found on tho prisoner. Tho antl-gnmbllng crusado reached Its climax In tho criminal court in Butto last week, when Deputy Prosecutor Prose-cutor Baldwin announced that hero-after hero-after tho stato will agree to no line less than $500, or 250 days In Jail, for gamblers who plead guilty. Tho laying ot tho cornerstone, last week, for tho Methodist church at Hawthorno, Nov., marked tho Invasion for tho first tlmo of that town's precincts pre-cincts by a place of worship of any denomination of Christian ralth. Hawthorne Haw-thorne has a population ot 1,600. Officials ot tho stato of Oregon are protesting to the management of the Seattlo exposition against Cho Jap anoso building, declaring It would ro stilt In congregating largo numbori of Japancscs about tho place, and thui detracting from Oregon's showing. Walter Mosch, ngod 40 years, a prominent mining man, committed sulcldo at Sheridan, Wyo., by stab blng himself In tho heart with a pocket knlfo. Mr. Mosch had not. boon feeling woll for Bomo tlmo past and, It is believed, was not In complete com-plete possession" of his faculties when ho did tho desperate deed. Frodorlck Byrd, a small coal opera tor, was found guilty at Rod Lodge, Mont,, last week, of murdor in thq Bocond degreo and sentenced to tvonty-llvo yenra In tho ponltontlarj for tho killing oi his partner, Itasmua Petland, near Jollot, November 22, 1908. , Charles A. Strauss, formor cashier of tho Portland postofllco, has beet convicted of embezzling funds ot the ofllco. StraiiBB ploaded In dofenso that ho know nothing of tho Bhortago, boxing his ploa on tho condition of his eyesight. Tho amount Involved was $4,000. Tho Spokano & Inland Emplro railroad rail-road 1b considering plana for a branch lino twenty miles long Into tho Coeur d'Alono Indian reservation, which la to bo opened in August. An electric road will lenvo tho main lino near Ochlaro, Wash., and run to Plummor, Idaho. Hadji O. Mohammed Slgnl, nn oriental morohant nnd authenticated descendant of Mohammed, who has attended oyory world's fair slnco U10 Philadelphia exposition of 1807, died nt Seattlo, May 25, at tho ago of 60. Ho had como to Seattle to attend the 0 it position, mmmmmmimmmmmmmm |