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Show NORTHWEST NOTES Leland 11. Barnard, for a number of years cashier of tho Oakland branch of tho Sperry Flour company, Is In prison accused of embezzling JM.OOO from tho firm. Barnnrd has con fesqed his shortage. Charles A. Farre'l, deputy shorlff, blow his brains out whlje sitting before be-fore a largo mirror at Missoula, Mont. The previous day Farroll had led a party in pursuit of a lunatic, and it is supposed the heat affected his mind. Lucius W. Hoyt, president of the Colorado Bar association and dean of tho law department of Denver unlvor-slty. unlvor-slty. died In Denver, Juno 28, after a brlof Illness. He waa a member of tho general council of the American Bar association. Tho squirrels have been playing havoc with tlio wheat fields In the Whlto River valley In Nevada. About five hundred acres of wheat have been totally destroyed, and tho loss to farmers far-mers In that neighborhood will amount to several thousand dollars. Genoa, the county sent of Douglass county, Nevada, was almost completely complete-ly destroyed by fire on June 29. The loss Is estimated a over ?100,000. Genoa Ge-noa Is the oldest - town In Novnda, being tho first white settlement on that side of th6 Sierra Novada mountains. moun-tains. Periodically tho question arises as to whothor or not Chinese can bo naturalized. It may -be; said now that a Chinaman cannot be naturalized. A Chinese born of Clilneso parents In this country requires, no naturalization; naturaliza-tion; he has acquired his rights bv birth. . ' Georgo H. Parker, fiscal agent for the United Wireless Telegraph coni' pany for tho territory west ot the Mississippi river, has been arrested at Seattle on a federal wnrrant charging charg-ing tho use of the malls to defraud. Mr. Parker was released under $10,000 bonds. While In some localities In Montana there will bo short crops, bocauso of failure of farmers closely to follow tho prescribed dry farming methods, the acreage, especially of wheat, Is tho largest In tho state's history. On tho whole, the yield will be quito satisfactory. sat-isfactory. Immediately upon his release on Tuesday on parole from tho Colorado Colo-rado penitentiary, John R. Godding, tho formor banker of Rocky Ford, was rearrested, charged with accepting accept-ing deposits after ho know his bank was Insolvent. He will bo taken to the La Juuta Jail. While noarly a score of bathers were swimming around him, uacon-sclous uacon-sclous of his predicament, George D. Bowe, ago 21, a law graduate of the University of Washington, class of 1910, sank In tho swimming pool at the Luna park pleasuro resort at Seattle Seat-tle and was drowned. Carlos Ajchulota, a mall carrier, after shooting and seriously wounding Mrs. Juaulta Gallogos, with whom ho had been living at Vormejo Park, N. M and witnessing tho burning other ten-year-old daughter, committed suicide. sui-cide. Tho child's clothing caught fire from a lamp overturned 'by tho murderer. mur-derer. Tho United States army transport Buford sailed from Seattle on Wednesday Wed-nesday for Alsaka with 800 officers and men of tho Sixteenth Infantry. Tho regiment will bo stationed at various ports in Alaska. It formorly wns divided botweon Fort Crook, Nob., and Fort Logan II. Root, At-kausas. At-kausas. Poisoned by eating wild dogwood berries, little Jeanetto Campagni, 8 years old, died nt hor parents' homo in Seattle. Normnn and Roy Root-noy, Root-noy, aged 9 and 7, havo beon In a serious ser-ious condition and aro jusl recovering recover-ing and four other children wore mado sick by entlng berries in tho same patch. Under Instructions from tho war department, nn ordor has Issued permitting per-mitting tho negro soldlors of tho Twenty-fifth United S4ates Infantry, stationed nt Fort Iawton, near Seat-tlo, Seat-tlo, to leavo tho reservation. This Is tho first tlmo tho soldiers havo been allowed liberty since Juno 4, whn a woman was attacked by a soldier. Ono morning recently Peter Jacob-son, Jacob-son, llvlngnear Gardnervllle, Novada, went out to tho pump to got somo water, wa-ter, and was dumfounded to find water running from tho pump artesian water wa-ter from a drilled well. It Is supposed tho rocent earthquake stfi -ted tho artesian ar-tesian ilow. In ordor to show tho Jn i tho origin of tho troublo which led to Uio killing of Levi Tracoy, a colored man, In Cheyonno, Juno 12, a gamo of "craps" was played In court by John W. Mitcholl, a witness In tho trial of James Honry, charged with tho murder mur-der of Tracoy. Bertha Laffln, self-styled "the woman wo-man Bteoplojack," climbed th5 sixty-toot sixty-toot stack ot tho stato university at Missoula, Mont., ono day last week. Sho was attired In a most progressive progres-sive costume and had a small audi-' audi-' euce. |
