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Show J- INOUTHWEST NOTES Earlo Ryan, aged 22 years, killed his young wife, of whom ho was Insanely Jealous, at their homo In Colorado City, by shooting hor In tho bond, and then blow out his own brains. Governor Toole of Montana has tendored his resignation to tako effect April 1. Ho will ho succeeded by Licit , tenant Governor Edwin Norrls. Th governor's health has been bad foi somo time. Refusal of eastern railroads to make a special rato to Dcnvor noxt November Novem-ber may cause that city to loso tho nnnual convention of tho Amerlcnn Federation of Labor, scheduled to tako placo at that time. President Roosevelt last wcok sen' 1 to tho house of representatives tho report re-port of tho special commission of Investigation In-vestigation Into tho Goldfield laboi troubles, In reply to n recent resolution resolu-tion requiring him to do so. Governor Sparks has received a meS' sngo from President Roosevelt nn nounclng that Federal troops would bo withdrawn from Goldfield, Marclr 7. It Is expected that tho stato police forco will bo organized by that date. Tho stato of Wyoming paid Into tho forest fund In tho last fiscal year $102,919, divided Into tho following Items: Timber sales, $91,430; grazing graz-ing fees, $C9,G15; supplementary timber tim-ber snlcs, $1,511; special privileges, $302. Wolfo Coplnus, ono of tho flrBt men to engngo in business In Anncondn, nnd a pioneer merchant of Montana, died at Rochester, Minn., on February f, ns a result of nn operation performed in tho hospital there. Coplnus opened tho first storo In Anaconda. Col. n. F. Shaw, commander ol Washington volunteers during tho Indian In-dian wnrs of 1855-50, pioneer of Washington Wash-ington territory, died suddenly nt his homo in Portland from n burstcd blood vespcl, following a violent attack of coughing. Ho was 7 years old. W. N. Cooloy of KallBpoll, Mont., a senior student In tho engineering department de-partment of Stanford university, wns shot and killed nt 1 o'clock in tho morning by W. Uhlmnn, engineer at tho University power houso. Cooloy hnd been to Menlo Park and when ho returned ho got Into Uhlman's houso by mistake. Jacob Hilt, who was arrested somo tlmo ago on a minor chnrgo and whoso caso was dismissed, hns confessed to tho pollco of Portland thnt whllo ho was in Jail his cellmate, Joseph Anderson, An-derson, confessed to him that ho had killed Harry Logan, who wns shot to death on tho Fourth street bridge sov cral months ago. Henry J. Grubor, on trial at Bouldor, Mont., for tho hold-up of a Northern Pacific train near Butto Inst May, and tho murder of Engineer Clow, has submitted sub-mitted a written confession, Implicating Implicat-ing Gcorgo Hnsklns, still to bo tried, anil Georgo Towers, last week sentenced sen-tenced to nlnoty-nlno years In tho penitentiary pen-itentiary for tho crime. A publicity bureau has been crcnted . In Dcnvor by tho oxccutlvo commltteo , of tho Denver convention leaguo, which Is acting In connection with tho commltteo on arrangomonts for tho Democratic nntlonnl convention. Tho ; purposo of tho bureau Is to send out nows nnd fenturo stories about Don-vor Don-vor nnd Colorado from now until tho convention Is over. i An eloquent address wns delivered In tho sennto by Senntor Pylcs of , Washington, In favor of an approprla-1 Hon by congress of $700,000 for n gov-1 ornmont exhibit nt tho Alaska-Yukon-1 Pacific exposition to bo hold In Seattlo 1 next year. Mr. Pyles pictured In vivid j Inngungo tho settlement of tho great I northwest In tho faco of predictions mado by distinguished Btatesmen nd j vorso to tho practical utility of thai region. 1 By an order signed by Judgo Lynch of tho Stnto District court at Butte Robort M. Lyons, receiver In charge of tho Aotnn bank, which failed In Oc-tobor, Oc-tobor, 1900, Is directed to bring suit ngalnst F. Augustus Helnzo, former director, and A. B. Cloments, former I treasurer, for $97,500, tho amount ol cash duo for stock held by Helnzo In tho bank and which, lt has developed Helnzo novor pakl for. A special from Lowlstown, Mont , snys John Walsh, nged 14, accidental-1 ly shot his 12-y car-old brother while ( playing soldier on a rnnch twenty miles from town. Tho youngor boy died instantly. Tho two wero nlono on tho ranch whon tho accident oc- j currcd. Jamos Cavln Towors, charged with tho murder of Engineer Frnnk Clow, of tho North Coast Limited train on tho Northorn Paclflc, was found guilty, nt Bouldor, Mont., of murdor In the second degree Tho Jury recommended recommend-ed that tho court Impose a Bontonco of 99 years. Stato Englneor Wado, who has Just mado a plat of tho town of Cut Bank, Mont., will report to tho Btnto hoard of land commissioners thnt practically every buslnoss houso and rcsldonco of thnt town is situated upon land owned by tho stato and by tho Groat Northern North-ern railroad. It was announced Sunday that Gen-oral Gen-oral Stewart L. Woodford had boon choson president of (ho Hughes Lcnguo of tho United States, and that at a notification meeting to bo hold at tho Manhnttnn hotel February 17 vlco presidents nnd an advisory commltteo will bo chosen, Thrco directors of tho defunct Colorado Colo-rado Stato bank, B. H. Frcomnn, Frank Eldildgo and W. C. Chapman, woro nrrcstcd at Durango, Colo., last week, on tho clinrgo of recolvlng de-posits de-posits at tho branch bank at Pagosa Springs whon thoy knuw tho paront |
