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Show NORTHWEST NOTES The Wyoming legislature has H passed a law appropriating $7,500 for H dry farming experiments. fl Tho annual meeting of the Trana- H continental Passenger association wilt H bo hold In Seattle on Juno 8. H . Joseph Snntorl, aged 18, laborer at A the' Annconda smelters, was Instant- IH y killed by being struck with a huge H John Marvin and James Ross, mln- H ors, were killed by a fall ot coal In H the mines of the Cnrbonato Coal com- IH pany near Tncomn, Wash. Tho bodies IH were recovered. A Claire McGco, a youth of 22, killed H himself nt Missoula, Mont., by shoot- H Ing in a hnrn nt his mother's rest- H denco, because his sweetheart, Mln- mm nlc Vnn Dorn, hnd Jilted him. A Last year Montnna plnntcd 20,000 H acres ot potntoes, yielding a total of H ,7C0,000 bushols, or 138 bushclB to H tho ncro, which brought an avorngo H price of 70 cents a bushel, making tho H vnluo $90.70 nn acre. A "Attempting to go from his ranch to A Belle Fourchc, S. D during a blizzard, x H W- J. Chlesman, a prominent' ranch- H man ot Sundance, Wyd., was overcome ' H by cold nnd perished besldo tho road. H Ills body, frozen stiff, has Just been H As a Jesuit ot tho burning of the H Florcs theater at Acapulco,. Moxlco, H Iho stnto' bonrd of flro commissioners H ,1s conducting nn Investigation of the H moving picture theaters both In Den-ver Den-ver nnd throughout tho Mate ot Colo- A' farmer who a fow years ago took up a homestead near Grover,' Colo., and began dry farming, has been of- H iered $2,000 for a relinquishment ot his 1C0 acres, but has refused to. part H with It. Ho bollovcs In the future oC jJ dry farming. In ordor to raise $1,000 that they may secure $20,000 promised by Clar- once Mackay, the students of the Unl- J vcrslty ot Novnda gave u "bull's head" breakfast at tho university nt Reno on Washington's birthday. Plates woro laid for 1,500 poople. J Henry Miller Nlckol, of San Fran- J clsco, a grandson of Henry Miller, J .senior partner in tho firm of Mlllor & jJ Lux, was frozen to death while en-dcavorlng- to mako tho flfteen-mtlo Journey between tho Alvord ranch und Wild Horso,Na village In Novada. jA Edward Myers, brother ot Al Myers, J tho millionaire mining man, shot himself through tho head In his room nl a hotel In Goldllold, inflicting u A fatal wound. Despondency Is assigned as tho causo for tho act. Myors J leaves a wlfo and several children. After being out thirty hours, the J Jury in tho trial at Great Falls, Mont., A of Albort Hatch, charged with par- A tlclpatlon In tho robbery of passon- J gers on a Groat Northern train', re- A turned a verdict of guilty. The do- A fendant, who is only 1G years old, A will probably be sent to tho reform -H school J. W. Snundora, a printer, was A killed by n passongor train whllo beating his wny between Knllock nnd Elko, Novnda. Whllo trying to cs-enpo cs-enpo observation ot tho trainmen tho unfortunate follow was caught be- A tweon two of the cars and held In such , a position as to cause his body A .to be crushed Into a pulp. After lying for two nights and three days with his arm pinioned under a wheel ot n large freight wagon out on tho wind-swept desort near Boyer, jH Nevada, Thomas Lovelock, son of tho ) Into Gcorgo Lovelock, founder of tho town ot Lovelock, Novada, was res-cued res-cued by a passing freighter, and Is mm now In Lovelock under tho care ot rhyslclnns. Mrs. D. Knvzevlc, who Is eurouto from Austria to Rock Springs, Wyo., having started for this place to Join her husband, will bo greoted by tragic news on her arrival. Knezevlc, who 'M 'vorked hard for several years to .save Eiifflclont monoy to bring his wife to' mm America, was killed In a mlno nccl-dent nccl-dent recently, Retrenchment in tho expenses of tho local division ot tho Denver & Rio 'W Grande railroad was announced Fob-ruary Fob-ruary 17 upon tho arrival at Grand Junction, Colo., of tho pay car. It Is stnted that a reduction ot $10,000 will jH bo mado In tho monthly pay roll, tho chief reduction probably being mado mm n tho machlno shops, Blowing a safo In tho genornl store ol Schu Brothers, nt Knpowsln, M Wnsh., two yeggmen escaped with $1,000. Taking a hand car from a siding, thoy redo to Fern Hill, whoro 'H thoy ditched tho car nnd escaped to Tncomn. Tho safe was blown by nl-troglycorlu nl-troglycorlu nnd with tho feather wedgo and soap method. m An Important doclslon to ovcry county In Wyoming has boeu ren-durod ren-durod in tho caso ot Messenger vs. U the Commissioners of Converse conn- m ty, In which Messenger, who Is shorlft M ot tho county, sought to compol tho M commissioners to return him $300 ot W horso Inspection foeB which ho had collected land turned into the county. Tho Judgo decided tho county Is en-titled en-titled to tho fees. Col. W. F. Cody (Buffalo Bill) nnd A John Reckless Davis have lott Cody, Wyo., for Tucson, Ariz., where they JJH nro Interested in mining property. Bo- ,A foro returning to Cody, the colonel 'A will go to Washington to ho present nt A tho Inauguration of Prestdont-olect mm Robert D. Brockuns, formerly ot A Choycnuo, brother ot Joseph A. Brock- A ens, clork to Senator Warren, ot , A Wyoming, hnB reslgno'd as .itJnltVit A States attorney for HawalK 'lle'Jo- fused to give up tho lmlopondohVprae- -H i Icq ot law -In order to retain the' small salary of tho olllco. .. ' . - , y A ' A .. i it mm |