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Show NORTHWEST NOTES Oovornor Charles 11 Hughes, of Now York, has formally accoptod an Invitation Invi-tation to visit tho Alaska-Yukon-Pnclfle exposition. Ho will comolato In July or uarly In August. Orvlllo Kyle, who shot nnd killed John Elites, manager of tho Cow Creek Sheep company, at Wnmsutter, Wyo., nbout throo months ago, has been convicted ot murder In tho second sec-ond degree, Whllo engaged In mixing n flashlight flash-light preparation In IiIb apartments In it Butte hotel, C. A. Bousset of Seat-tlo Seat-tlo was torribly burned about tho fnco nnd hands, ns tho result of tho explosion explo-sion ot tho mixture Tho new plant of tho Astoria nnd Puget Sound Packing company, on Chttcknnut bay, threo miles south of Bolllngham, Wash., burned Inst weok. cnuslng n loss of $50,000. The plant was well Insured. William McOregor, aged, 28, a well-known well-known young business man of Vancouver, Van-couver, B. C, met denth whllo cleaning clean-ing a rifle which ho did not know-was know-was loaded. Ho wns the bou of a prominent lnsurnnco man. John Knln, aged 33, was killed at Uoldfleld. .Novada, In n runaway. Tho team rnn closo to n trestle of tho Consolidated Mines company nnd ono of tho t'mbers came Into contact wlti Kaln's bend, fracturing his skull. When tho leglslntlvo committee that Is Investigating stnte offices mot at Olympla, Wash., May 12, scaled charges against State Land Commissioner Commis-sioner R. W. Ross were filed. All tho state offices are to bo Investigated. J. E. Allen, who is in a hospital at Ely, Nevada, becamo suddenly Insane, broke a window pane nnd cut his throat with the glass, also hacking his body In a score of places. Although Al-though badly Injured, It Is believed ho will recover. In tho nrrest at Reno, Novada, of Frank Webb, tho pollco believe they have secured tho Hammontrco livery Btnblo holdup desperado who rollcv1 ed A. L. Hammontreo and M. Victor ot $85 and wantonly Bliot Jack Monroo through tho bowels. Tho state council of tho Knights ol Columbus of Montana met at Butte, May 11, in nnnual session, State Dcp uty Jackson presiding. Official ro ports show a gain ot 800 In member ship during the year, the councils now aggregating a total of 2,000. Tho big Casino danco hall at Tono poll, ono of tho largest resorts ot Hi kind In Nevnda, and mndo famous ai tho training placo for Marvin Hart, Mlko Schrcck, Joe Cans, Jack "Twin" Sulitvnn nnd other prize fighters, wnt partially destroyed by fire last week, Harry Beebo, a Lander, Wyo., cowboy cow-boy with Buffalo Bill's show, died in Now York on May 14, from paralytic rabies, a rare form ot disease. Beebe's great too was soverely bruised by bolng -topped on by a horse ridden by n follow cowboy, Partial paralysis developed and death followed. fol-lowed. Charles I Oustafson, an elcctrh clan, died at Anaconda, Mont., from the effects of burning oil. Oustafson was- at work on a switchboard at tho substation ot tho Washoe smelters when a short circuit caused a blinding blind-ing flash of electricity, exploding a can of oil which the electrlcan had In bis hands. Officials of tho state of Wyoming aro preparing oik hunters' licenses as usual and will Ibsuo them to applicants ap-plicants before and during tho big, game hunting season next fall. Tho technicality in the new gamo law, which unintentionally forbids tho hunting of elk before 1912, will not bo regarded. Broker C. W. Cockrell, who had been confined In jail at Butto two weeks, because of inability to satisfy sat-isfy a Judgment hnd by A. W. Deu-vltt, Deu-vltt, has been discharged from custody by Judge McClornan of the state district dis-trict court. An attempt was made, under un old law to keep Cockcrell Imprisoned for debt. That William Garrison, whose body was found near tho river at Cheyenne with u bullet hole through his head and a revolver lying near by, was murdered, Is Indicated by further Investigation In-vestigation of the case. It was bo-Hoved bo-Hoved at first that ho hod committed suicide. A fire that sUrted In the California beer Tiall at Rawhide, Novada, at midnight, mid-night, which threatened a repetition ot the disaster ot last September, wben tho town was reduced to aSJes. was controlled after it had destroyed tbo beer hall and soveral buildings, adjoining. Tho postolllco nfc Bremerton, Wash., situated closo to the Puget Sound navy yard, was entered by professional profes-sional cracksmen, who drilled tho safe and took away its strong box coni tatnlng $9,000 worth of Mamps, a dla mond ring valued at $250, and nearly $200 in cash. Arthur Oeorgo, a clerk, aged 40, shot and killed his wlfo, Elizabeth, nt her homo in Brighton Beach, neap Seattle, and then, taking their two children, boarded a street car and Went to pollco headquarters, whore he announced tho crime and surrendered surren-dered himself. Surveyors moving mystorlously In Cheyenne havo resurrected tho old report re-port that tho Burlington Is preparing-to preparing-to make a construction dash tit rough the city, seizing a street or alloy for Its right of way. Tho Union Pacific has token tho report sufficiently serious se-rious to set guards. Tho Christian Endeavor organizations organiza-tions and similar organizations ot Choyenno have decided to. Join the broader organization of such societies Sn Colorado nnd New Mexico, and It is expectod that all such societies In Wyoming will tiIsq become affiliated with this organization, |