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Show NORTHWEST NOTES 1 A blizzard general over that section struck llutto on October 2, lx Inches of snow falling, crippling telegraph service and delaying trains. Joe Soolsby, motorman at Union Pacific mlno No. 8, Rock Springs, Wyo., was badly crushed In tire mine, pnd is in tho hospital in a serious condition. The coal mines of Wyoming resumed re-sumed operations Saturday morning. September 20, when nearly 8,000 men wont back to work. This undoubtedly undoubted-ly marks tho end of tho strike. Friends of Jerry Perninn, tho young Nobraskan who disappeared several days ago, aro now satisfied that ho was drowned In Brown's lake, and that his body Is fast In the mud, hays a Itawllns dispatch. A work train on tho logging railroad of tho Chapninn Logging company was wrecked about Ilvo miles west of Scappooso, Oregon. Five members of a repair gang, which was riding on the train wero killed and eight Injured. Tho thirty-fourth annual convention of the American Hankers' association, held nt Denver last week, camo to an end with tho election of George M. Reynolds of Chicago, president, nnd Lewis 13, Plcrson, of New York, ilrst vice-president. Tho third annual state fair held at Wheatland, Wyo., despite tho stormy weather, was well attended. Tho fair is now a fixture and preparations havo already been mado to mnko tho next event even greater than the fair just closed. In an altercation at Rawhide, Nevada, Ne-vada, Jack J. Wall, formerly of lititto, Mont., seriously cut M. Daly, an Anaconda Ana-conda mining man, with a razor. Wall was arrested and tnken out of town on account of threats of lynching mado by Daly's friends. Miss Elizabeth Kelly, principal of tho public schools at Tacomn, Wash., for tho past ten years, died at Pittsburg, Pitts-burg, Pa., in a hospital, from paralysis. paraly-sis. Miss Kelly was en route from Tnconia to La Trobo, Pa., to visit a brother when sho wns stricken. A sister of M. U. Preston, who was nominated for tho presidency on tho Socialist ticket and Is serving twenty-llvo twenty-llvo years In tho statu penltentlnry at Carson, is In Reno for tho purpose, It Is said, of circulating a petition to be presented to the board of pardons when It meets, asking for tho pardon of Preston. In all probability tho government will Install an electric light nnd power plant at Its big Slum ho no dnm, mid furnish light and power to the Mirrotindlng towns. Tho power house will be built at Corbett, Wyo., and power will be generated from tho water from tho Corbett tunnel, which has a drop of over fifty feet. With his arms tightly clasped about tho neck of n largo buck deer, which had died of a bullet wound, tho liouy of Cioorge Huxton of Urockwny, In tho southern part of Oregon, wns found in Olalla canyon by a searching pnrty. Huxton had evidently wounded wound-ed tho animal and was preparing to cut Its throat when nttacked. A final settlement has been mado between the Wyoming operators and tho miners, and tho papers havo neen signed. Tho wngo scale is practically tho sumo bh tho ono In force prior to tho strike, and regulations remain virtually vir-tually the same. Concessions were mado by both sides, nnd tho Wyoming coal controversy Is now ended. .Tho friends of Charles E. Holll-biiuijli Holll-biiuijli have mnde application to Governor Gov-ernor Hrooks of Wyoming for a pardon par-don for Holllbaugli, who was convicted con-victed at Buffalo of murder In the second sec-ond degreo In March, 1001, and sentenced sen-tenced to life Imprisonment. Tho reasons rea-sons for nsklng for llolllbaugirs pardon par-don nro not given by his friends. At the headquarters of tho Wyoming Wyo-ming and tl.o Nattonnl Wool Growers' associations In Choyonno It Is announced an-nounced that tho fifth annual convention conven-tion of the fonnor will ho held In Rawlins. Wyo., on Monday and Tuesday. Tues-day. Janunry 11 and 12, 1009. Tho national convention will bo hold In Pocatello, Idaho, January 14 to 10. Articles of Incorporation wero filed nt Cheyenne last week for tho Montana, Mon-tana, Wyoming & Southern railway, , with a capital of $ri,000,000. The com-puny com-puny plans tho construction of a lino Trorn Sheridan. Wyo., to Miles City. Mont., and may also extend southward south-ward to the present terminus of tho Colorado & Southern at Orln. Wyo. A dispatch from Chicago says: Colonization Col-onization of tho western country will , bo materially retarded If tho intlroads i between Chicago and tho Pacific coast carry out a plan which has been ad-, ad-, vanced by the executlvo olllclals. j Nearly every rail i Had In tho Wastorn I Passenger association has agreed to 1 abolish all low or reduced rates after ! January 1, 1009. Tho Joint conference of operntors and coal mine workers In Helena reached an agreement to maintain the present scalo of wages for two years. Tho operators hail wanted a redue- I Hon, but ngroeii to tho same scalo, i provided tho contract was signed for i two yours. j The leading merchandise storo of Rnwhldo, Nevada, was almost entirely demolished by an oxplosion of dynamite, dyna-mite, and H. L. Glcason, proprietor, nnd his wlfo worn seriously Injured. A. Leo has been arrested nnd lodged 111 Jail on tho cliurgo ot having caused tho explosion. Peter Dlckorson, champion steer roper of Arizona, who was urrosted at Choyenno, charged with crlmlnnlly assaulting MrB. Ida M. Coimcus, principal prin-cipal of tho South Choyenno nclioolr, was given a preliminary hearing and bound over to tho district court lu tho sum of $!,U00. |