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Show NORTHWEST NOTES Robert Craig, thlrty-ilvo years old, dropped dead near Gardnervillo, Nevada, Ne-vada, from heart trouble. Two million feet of lumber, the property of tho California White Pino Lumber company, was bure'd at Verdi, Nevada. The loss is $50,000. Tho grand encampment of the Odd Follows of Montana camo to a close at Butte on Thursday, Holenn being chosen for tho next annual meeting place. Mrs. Ida Strobrldgo of Humboldt county, Novada, was awarded tho gold modal nt Seattle oxposlton by tho art department for tho highest skill In book binding. Tho Rhyollto townslto contest, which has beon waged beforo the land oftlce at Carson, Nevada, for some tlnio, has been decided In favor of the townMto company. Tut fire t'utt destroyed tho Denvor 1-otol In Hulh'ici, Wash., caused the dath of Edin Burch, who had a: rived from Alaska the provlous day. Threo other men were seriously, perhaps per-haps fatally, burned. Accidentally routed from his hiding place in a haystack by tho prodding or n pitchfork, Charley Williams, tho Hono burglar, who shot two men and stabbed ono In a hotel at Vinton, Cal., was subsequently shot to death by a po3so. O. L. Cudahy and James Smith, employes em-ployes of a steel company at Irondalo, Wash,, wore- drowned by tho car sizing of a sailboat In which they were crossing tho bay. A launch sent to pick up the men failed to reach them in time. An unknown burgular after shooting shoot-ing two men and stabbing a third in a battle, when ho was surprised In tho Vinton hotel, at Vinton, 35 miles northwest of Reno, Novada. on the Western PaclHc railroad, escaped and a posso Is In pursuit. Clarence E. Hunt, a woll known automobllo man, and Dr. Edward Grove of San DIogo, Cal., met death whon the automobllo In which thoy wero .riding turned turtlo on a grade while thoy woro speeding from Ramiona to San Diego. - Prominent attorneys of tho state ol Nevada aro preparing to wage a campaign cam-paign for tho passage by congress ot u bill authorizing another federal Judge for the 9th circuit, embracing Nevada, California, Idaho, Washing tonOregon and Montana. George Sabln, Thomas Diaz, Ed Eaton, B. Brink. M. A. Alexander, Charles Ferris and William Koyes, prominent stockmen of Big Horn county, coun-ty, are on trial at Basin, Wyo., charged with tho murder of Joe Alomandn and Joo Emge, sheep owners, and Joo Lazter, herder. Rocky Boy and his band of Chippewa Chippe-wa Indians, numborlng about 150 braves, encamped near Bird's Eyo, Mont., probably will owe their rescue from death by starvation to tho promptness of Indian ofilco offlcials, who havo takon means to relievo their desporato plight. A bond sufllclent to ball L. Gutierrez Do Lara out of prison, whero he is held on a charge of being be-ing an alien anarchist, has been pledged at Los Angeles, and "tho Da Lara DofenBO League," was organized to aid him in his effort to escape deportation de-portation to Mexico. Aftor beating her 18-month3-old baby's head to a pulp, Mrs. Lena Helny, wlfo of a sawmill employe, committed suicide by throwing horaelf in front of an lntor-urban electric car at Portland. Sho had shown Blgns of Insanity of lato and had been troated for a time In a sanitarium. It develops that tho man claiming to. bo Francis Schlatter, tho "divine hcalor," who died nt Hastings, Nob., was an Impostor. Porsons who saw Francis Schlatter in Denver In 1895 and who havo recently seen tho man who died at Hastings, declaro posi tively thoy wero not ino same. Mrs. J. Fonton, aged about 60 yoars, and claiming Reno as hor home, was found wandering on the desrot near Manhattan, Novada, and is In a critical criti-cal condition. Tho aged woman when found was nearly starved and said she had not oaten for threo days. Sho exhibited signs of dementia. Governor Norrls of Montana president presi-dent of the Dry Farming congress, will open tho International Dry Farming Farm-ing exposition at Billings, Mont., October Oc-tober 25, with impressive ceremonies. James J. Hill will deliver tho principal princi-pal address. Two hundred scnool children will sing national airs. The total attendance at tho Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition from tho time the gates opened on Juno 1 until un-til tho close, October 10, was 3,740,-551, 3,740,-551, Of this number, 2,706,083 woro paid admissions and 974,808 woro free, it is estimated "THot the fair earned a profit of $200,000, which -will be returned re-turned to tho stockholders. Klvo convicts of the Oregon pent-tontlary, pent-tontlary, working as trusties at the stato feeble-minded school, a few miles from Salem, ovorpowored three guards and escaped. Thoyv havo al) slnco been captured, ono being-killed and two wounded by a posse. I |