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Show NOllTinVEST NOTES A woman has boon Indicted on tho chargo of unlawfully enclosing 2,000 acres of government land In Wyoming. Wyom-ing. Frnnklln M. llnrnes is charged with having unlawfully taken 3,000,000 feet of timber from gqvornmont forest for-est resorves In San Miguel county, Colorado. It Is omclally stated that $5,340.20 represents tho loss to tho Great Northern Kxprcss company In tho rob-hory rob-hory of tho company's strong box by two bandits, near Seattle. Tho houso commlttoo on public lnnds has reported favorably a bill allotting In tho stnto of Wyoming, undor un-dor tho Cnroy act, 1,000,000 acres 01 land to bo subject to reclamation. Mcagor details havo been received or tho killing nt Mussollslrcll, Mont., of n woman named Mrs. Wesson. Tho trngody occurred In a saloon and two inon aro bolng hold pending an investigation. in-vestigation. Tho rcdornl grand Jury sitting nt Denver has reported sixty indictments, Including twcnty-Blx for unlawful fencing or public lands, thirteen for perjury In obtaining land, and ono for tlmbor trespass. Tho body of William McCrudcn, known as tho "Catholic Kid," who was lost In tho mountains near Salt-esc, Salt-esc, Mont,, early in December, wns found last weok by a party ot searchers, search-ers, Including Hobort McCrudcn, a brother. Twenty Iioubos on tho cast sldo of tho main streot of Tonopah, Nevada, woro destroyed by a flro which originated origi-nated in a lodging house. A high wind wns blowing nnd tho entire city wns endnngored. Tho loss Is estimated estima-ted nt HDO.000. W. J. Arkell, well known in Itono nnd onco a prominent stock broker at Manhattan, Nov., Is a bankrupt. lUs llnbllltlcs nro $279,010.00 and assets of Homo worthless mining Blocks and about $200 In monoy. Arkoll's liking for fast horses, It Is said, Is tho causo of his downfull. A case Involving mining property In tho Sliver Peak district valued at approximately $10,000,000, nnd which has bocn In litigation in tho Novnda courts for tho past twolvo years, was complotcd in tho district court at Ilono, Nov., last week, and will bo submitted to Jttdgo Plko In briers. It, ia umiuiinctd that tho Madison Uler Power company has secured options op-tions on alt tho electric power plants oast ot Hillings, Mont, Including thoso at Columbia Falls, Forsytho, Dig Tlmbor and Livingston, nnd will run n power system from tho Dakota lino to Billings from ono central station . aicn Holbrook wns round not guilty at Autonlto, Colo., on tho chnrgo ol murdering M. W. Lowther, whom ho shot and killed nt Alamosa, Fcdru-ury Fcdru-ury 20 last. Holbrook, who waB In Mrs. Lowthor's npartnionts when her husband unoxpoctcdly returned, claimed claim-ed that ho shot Lowthor In self-defense. From his cell In tho Alameda, Cal., jnll, whoro ho awaits scntenco for tho murdor ot Mrs. Vornlo Carmln, ror-morly ror-morly or Springfield, Mo., Mnrk n Wll-kins Wll-kins 1ms sent out word that tho worn-nn worn-nn who had lived at Elmhurst aa his wlfo, and whoso body ho burled in n shod behind their homo, was not Mrs. Carmln. Federal Judgo Hunt of Helena has granted nn injunction restraining Uutto and Anaconda Typographical unions rrom lntoricrlng with tho transactions or tho business or tho Uuttorlck Publishing company or New York. It was alleged thnt a boycott had been placed on the concern by these unions. Helena has been visited by two distinct dis-tinct enrthquako shocks, ono Tuesday and tho other Thursday night ot last week. Tho lost shock was so-voro so-voro enough to throw ono West sldp woman Into convulsions, and it mado sevoral other people qulto 111. Houses rocked violently nnd dishes rattled and pictures becamo askow. A Chicago man hns patented a process pro-cess that will convert tho sagebrush ot tho wost Into millions or monoy by utilizing It in a Hclentllio manner. Potash Is derived from tho ashes, which contain CI por cent, whllo ordinary ordi-nary wood ashes contain only 21 por cent A dramatic and unexpected renttiro of tho Washington Itepubllcnn statb convention, hold at Spokano, was tho adoption or a local optlou plank, by n voto ot EOG to 258. Tho convention adopted unanimously a resolution favoring fa-voring tho candidacy of Socrotary Taft. nouo, Nevada, merchants hnvo filed a potltlon with tho Nevada railroad commission, asking for nn adjtnitmont ot rrolght rates that will ennblo them to compote with Salt Lako City, Los Angelos and San Francisco dealers. Tho commission will Investigate their roquost. L. W. Hawloy, export! on wood distillation dis-tillation for tho forest fcorvico, loft Washington last week for nn extended visit 0 Orogon, Washington, Montana and Idaho, to invcstlgato tho possibility possibil-ity of n futuro turpontlno industry in tho northwestern portion or tho Unit; od States. Gcorgo Hock, who, with throo other convicts, mado a desporato attempt to escapo trom tho state penitent Inry nt Deer Lodge, Mont, during which they killed Chlet Guard John A. Robinson and dosperntoly wnundod Frnnk Con-toy, Con-toy, has been sontenced to bo hanged on Juno 1G. Itobort Lockhart, a mining man ot Ilhyollto, Nevada, reports having visited vis-ited at Mosquito Springs the camp ot Wnltor Scott, who told him about the dUcovory of tho remains of two men fifteen mllos northeast or the camp, Thoro was nothing by which tiro men could bo Identified. |