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Show NORTHWEST NOTES Tho larger part ot tho business district dis-trict In Shoshono, Wyo., wns destroyed by flro on March 10, which started. In n saloon. Damage about $GO,000. Charles H. Moycr, president of tho Western Federation of Miners, Is nt a sanitarium In San Diego, Cab, suffering suf-fering from a povoro attack of asthma. ' Tho Republican state committee, In session nt Cheyenne, called n state convention nt Lander May 7 to elect delegntcs to tho national convention, und Indorsed tho candidacy or Secretary Sec-retary Taft for president. Four men wero badly burned na tho result of an explosion of gas In tho Iron Mountain Tunnel mlno near Mis-soula, Mis-soula, Mont. Among tho injured la Edwnrd Nelll, n brother of tho publisher pub-lisher of tho Helena Independent. A motion for a now" trial for Gul- seppo Alia, tho condemned murderci of Father Ico, has been filed by his nt- torncy. It is alleged that Alia was In- 1 sane when he killed tho priest nnd , should huvo been so declared by the Jury. William Nelms, who claims to bo tho last survivor of tho "Noblo Six Hundred" nt Hntaklnva, Is dead at his homo In Mannssu, Colo. Ho camo to America In 1S72 nnd later camo west, settling in San Luis vnlloy nineteen years ago. ! Hcv. Dr. Leonard W. Snyder of Ohio, known as tho "boys' minister ot Amorlcn," who has just finished his lecture lec-ture tour in Heno, Nevada, has announced an-nounced his disapproval of tho prohibition pro-hibition movement which Is being agitated agi-tated In Itcno. Tho flrst suicide In camp of Haw-hide, Haw-hide, Nevada, took placo early on tho morning of March 17, when John Slater blow his head off with a chargo of dynamite. Slater had been gambling gam-bling heavily for several days and. was very despondent. J. A. Vnn Orsdel of Wyoming, nsso-elate nsso-elate justice of tho court ot appeals ot tho District of Columbia, has been appointed professor of law In Gcorgo Washington university, and will havo chargo of tho law course In water rights and Irrigation. Contracts havo been let for tho building of tho llnwhldo Western railroad rail-road from Schurz to Hnwhlde, Nevada. All records for rapid railway construction con-struction will bo broken If tho contractors con-tractors aro ablo to cxecuto their plnns as mapped out. Tho body of Hilly Ford, a snloon-keeper, snloon-keeper, wns found In Ills yard at Cut-bertson, Cut-bertson, Mont., disfigured moro or lesr. nnd ns thero aro evidences of foul play, tho supposition 1b that ho was murdered. Thero Is no clew, howovor, to tho perpetrator. Threo bandits, heavily armed, over-camo over-camo Edward Hoffman nnd a companion compan-ion on n road two miles from Haw-hide, Haw-hide, Nevada, throw them to tho ground and made off In thulr victims two-horso two-horso rig, taking gold and bank notes nmountlng to nbout 117,000 with them. Upon statements mado to tho president presi-dent by n special commlttco from tho Montana Mlno Ownors' nssoclatlon concerning tho alleged fraudulent classification by tho commission In relation re-lation to tho mlnornl lands of tho Northorn Pacific railroad, a thorough Investigation of tho charges will bo made. Tho news comes from Delknap, Mont., that tho body! of Zann McNor-ton, McNor-ton, a lC-ycar-old girl, has beon found Bomo dlstanco from her homo. Sho was murdered. Tho girl loft homo In tho morning for a walk, and falling to return, a search was Instituted, resulting re-sulting in tho discovery of tho dead body. "To uso peaceful and lawful means to keop tho yellow and brown races nnd nil European coolies from lnndlng on tho shores of tho United Stntes, tiioreby protecting tho position of ovory laboring mnn," Is given as 0110 of tho objects of tho Iron Ilrothorhood, a now secret fraternal organization In Colorado. , Tho' famous Judith Basin of Mon-tana Mon-tana was brought nearer to eastern markets by 200 miles on tho opening of train sorvlces last week to Lowls-ton, Lowls-ton, Hnrlowton nnd Lombard by tho Chicago, Mllwnukeo & St. Paul railway. rail-way. Now tho territory wlUiln tho Mussol Shell vnlley will enjoy .rapid connection with central markots. Emll P. Hauptmann, connected with tho Searchlight (Nov.) News, who disappeared from Los Angolos as ho was nbout to return to Senrchlrght, Fobruary 1, Is supposod to havo been foully murdered. 01Ilcer8 all over tho west hnvo been asked to search for tho missing man. E. D. Kelly, surveyor genoral of No-vada, No-vada, died at his homo In Carson on March 18. IJo was 78 yenra old and was holding his third term na surveyor goncrnl, having been elected on tho fusion fu-sion ticket. Ho wns formorly editor of tho Wlnnemucca Silver State nnd tho Heno Jotirnnl. For his heroism in ovorpoworlng Giuseppe Alln, tho condemned miir-dorer miir-dorer of Father Leo Helnrlchs, when ho attempted to escnpo from jail, Guy Soxton, a prisoner In tho Denver jail, who wns serving n Bhort term for a small theft, has boon pardoned by Governor Huchtol. Tho Peoplo'B Nntlonal bank of Aspen, As-pen, Colo., has boon closod by ordor of tho comptroller of currency In conso-quouco conso-quouco of tho failure of its olflcors to put up $25,000 in order to mnko up tho capital which was Impaired recently by a loan of $10,000 mndo by former Cnsliler Pomphroy. Tho train robber who ovorpoworcd tho railway mall dorks nnd ransacked tho registered mall on tho Great Northorn westbound train betweon Honncrs Forry, Idnhq, nnd Spokane, secured only $2.40 for his six hours' work, according to tho statement of tho post ofllCQ Insppn'or?. |