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Show NORTHWEST NOTES The Sorlnllsts havo again swept tho nulto Minors' union, the lnrgcsl locat In tho Western Federation of Miners, Mid President P. W. .Flynn has been to "elected by an overwhelming vote. A minor named Sage, dismissed from tho Boston-Ploche mlno at Plochc, Nevada, shot and seriously wounded tho foreman who discharged him. tClevo Carter, the victim, Is 28 years old. Hen Bollln, a flflecn-year-olil boy, confined in tho detention quarters ot the county Jail nt Canon City, Colo., escaped by cutting n hole In tho wnlB while Under Sheriff John Chetclct slept In nn ndjolnlng room. Four men woro killed in tho Ilia-uond Ilia-uond mlno nt Butte, through a pre- s nature blast. Two of them wcro mar- rled men and leave families. No ex- planntlon has as yet been made as to iho causo of tho explosion. Englneore of tho Great Northern Itallway company havo virtually completed com-pleted a preliminary survey or a new inilrond ror tho Hill Interests In Franklin, Adnms nnd Douglas counties coun-ties In eastern Washington. N Artcr n long debnto, tho Novadu, I'cnnte tabled tho bill making an appropriation ap-propriation for a stato exhibit at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition. This nction prnctlcally means that Nevada lll have no exhibit nt Seattle. After writing n note In which ho r.nld he was "too proud to beg and too honcBt to steal" and that tho pcr-f-on finding .tho noto "need not look or any friends." A. B. Kalinoy hanged himself In his room In Denver. Secretary John fT. Burns or tin; Dry Farming congress nnnounccd last week thnt tho permanent headquarters of the congress would bo located In Denver. The records nnd offices of l lie congress will be moved from I hcyenne to Denver soon. Reports received from Fprt Wa-shaklc, Wa-shaklc, Wyo.. nro to tho effect that n producing well of black nsphaltiim oil has been opened on tho Indian reservation. reser-vation. Although considerable prospecting pros-pecting has been dono In this vicinity, this Is tho first oil found In commercial commer-cial quantities. Great oxcllement prevails. pre-vails. Awakened by the police, who demanded de-manded admission to her homo to senrch for a fugitive, Mrs. Hurry lirldgo, of Sheridan, Wyo., undertook to awaken her husband and was horrified hor-rified to discover that ho was dead. Bridge succumbed to heart failure while nslcep, and had been dead bov-eral bov-eral hours. Governor Hay or Washington has expressed verbal approval of tho local option bill which wns generally nji-proved nji-proved by tho legislature, and will sign tho measure. The bill Is a compromise com-promise measure. Every Incorporated city under tho act Is n Bcparato unit nnd country districts In every county form n district unit. Judgo Farrlngton or tho United (i States circuit court at Carson Clty. Nevada, handed down a decision last week In tho caso of the Southern Pacific Pa-cific Itullrond company v. the Nevada . Itallroad commission. The decision Btistnlns tho commissioners In ever.v point and dissolves tho old Injunctions Injunc-tions ngntnst them. Tho Pnclilc const extension of the Chlcngo, Mllwaukoo & St.Paul railroad crosses Musselshell i Ivor. Montana, 115 times In 117 miles. It has broken every Amerlcnn record by building twenty miles of bridges on that por lion or the system, which begins at the Missouri rlvor, South Dakota, and ends at the city or Seattle. The effort of two powdor stulosincn to demonstrate to the mine officials nt SunrlBO. Wyo., that their powder" was snfer than tho vnrlety used In tho big mine thore, nlmost resulted fatally to half a dozen men. Including tho salesmen sales-men nnd tho officials. Tho snlosmon plnccd a blast of two kegs of powdor. which exploded soonor than wns expected. ex-pected. A lew nights ngo Otto Jones, a prominent Powder rlvor nhoopmnn, rode up to tho rnnch of Joseph 1-acoy at Klnncar, Wyo., on the edge of tho Wind Illver Indian reservation, boldly Mdnapcd l-accy's lGyear-old stepdaughter, step-daughter, Miss Martha Day, nnd gnl-loped gnl-loped with her to tho railroad, whero thoy took a train to Chadron, Nob., nnd "were mnrrlcd. Mrs. James II. Davis, the brldo ot ono or tho richest and bdst known mine opcrntors In Novnda, died at LofJ Angeles, An-geles, Mnrch 2. Sho wan ono or the most beautiful arid popular society fc-lrlB of (Joldfleld, tho daughter of a prominent physician, Dr. E. S. Gnllo-v.'uy. Gnllo-v.'uy. Mr. and Mrs, Davis had only recently returned from an extended wedding trip In Europo, Construction work on tho Dodson dam In Valley county, Montana, which Is being constructed for tho purposo or Irrigating Inrgo tracts or land lying along tho Milk rlvor, has been stopped by nn Injunction so-cured so-cured by tho Great Northern Hallway company upon tho ground that the bnck wator Ib threatening to undor-mlno undor-mlno tho railroad .tracks. A, n. RoynoldB, ono or tho earliest pioneers or Guernsey, Wyo,, nnd bo-lloved bo-lloved to havo been tho oldest rcsldont or Laramlo county, Is dead Irom erysipelas, ery-sipelas, at the ago of 89 years, Ho camo west In 1819, crossing tho plains In nn ox-cart, and searching for gold In CalUornln, Chnrles Horen, a woll known business busi-ness mnn of Laurel, Mont., was shot down and probably fsfally Injured by a supposedly Insnite Italian. Tho mou nnd mot and exchanged Uio compliments compli-ments of tho day when, without warning, warn-ing, tho Italian wheeled and flrod upon Horen. Ono of tho last nets of President Iloosovelt wns tho signing of, tho proclamations proc-lamations creating additions to thirteen thir-teen national rorestH In Nevada, California, Cali-fornia, Now Mexico nnd Arizona, .aggregating .ag-gregating 4,9S0,73(T ncros, bringing tho Iota! nntjonnl rorestry acreago up t 1 96,013,080 acres, m I |