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Show NORTHWEST NOTES The Wyoming legislature has passed a law appropriating $7,500 for dry farming experiments. The annual meeting of the Transcontinental Trans-continental Passenger association will be held in Seattle on June 8. Joseph Santori, aged 18, laborer at the Anaconda smelters, was instantly instant-ly killed by being struck with a huge Fteel ladle. John Marvin and James Ross, miners, min-ers, were killed by a fall of coal in the mines of the Carbonate Coal com- i pany near Tacoma, Wash. The bodies were recovered. Claire MeGee, a youth of 22, killed j himself at Missoula, Mont., by shooting shoot-ing in a barn at his mother's residence, resi-dence, because his sweetheart, Minnie Min-nie Van Dorn, had jilted him. Last year Montana planted 20,000 acres of potatoes, yielding a total of 2,760,000 bushels, or 138 bushels to the acre, which brought an average price of 70 cents a bushel, making the value $96.70 an acre. "Attempting to go from his ranch to Belle Fourche, S. D., during a blizzard, W- J. Chiesman, a prominent ranchman ranch-man of Sundance, Wyo., was overcome by cold and perished beside the road. His body, frozen stiff, has just been round. As a result of the burning of the Flores theater at Acapulco, Mexico, Ihe state board of fire commissioners is conducting an investigation of the moving picture theaters both in Deu-ver Deu-ver and throughout the state of Colorado. Colo-rado. A farmer who a few years ago took up a homestead near Grover, Colo., and began dry farming, has been offered of-fered $2,000 for a relinquishment of his 160 acres, but has refused to part with it. He believes in the future of dry farming. In . order to raise $1,000 that they may secure $20,000 promised by Clarence Clar-ence Mackay, the students of the University Uni-versity of Nevada gave a "bull's head" breakfast at the university at Reno on Washington's birthday. Plates were laid for 1,500 people. Henry Miller Nickel, of San Francisco, Fran-cisco, a grandson of Henry Miller, senior partner in the firm of Miller & Lux, was frozen to death while endeavoring en-deavoring to make the fifteen-mile journey between the Alvord ranch and Wild Horse, a village in NeVada. Edward Myers, brother of Al Myers, the millionaire mining man, shot himself through the head in his room at a hotel in Goldfield, inflicting a "fatal wound. Despondency is assigned as the cause for the act. Myers leaves a wife and- several children. After being out thirty hours, the jury in the trial al Great Falls, Mont., of Albert Hatch, charged with participation par-ticipation in the robbery of passengers, passen-gers, on a Great Northern train, returned re-turned a verdict of guilty. The de-fendant, de-fendant, who is only 16 years old; will probably be sent to the reform school. J. W. Saunders, a printer, was killed by a passenger train while beating his way between Kallock and Elko, Nevada. While trying to escape es-cape observation of the trainmen the unfortunate fellow was caught between be-tween two of the cars and held in such a position as to cause his body to be crushed into a pulp. After lying for two nights and three days with his arm pinioned under a wheel of a large freight wagon, out on the wind-swept desert near Boyer. Nevada, Thomas Lovelock, son of the late George Lovelock, founder of the town of Lovelock, Nevada, was rescued res-cued by a passing frelghteV. and is now in Lovelock under the care of physicians. Mrs. D. Knezevic, who Is enroute from Austria to Rock Springs, Wyo., having started for this place to join her husband, will be greeted by tragic news on her arrival. Knezevic, who worked hard for several years to save Hufficient money to bring his wife to America, was killed in a mine accident acci-dent recently. Retrenchment In the expenses of the local division of the Denver & Rio Grande railroad was announced February Feb-ruary 17 upon the arrival at Grand Junction, Colo., of the pay car. It is stated that a reduction of $10,000 will be' made in the monthly pay roll, the chief reduction probably being made in the machine shops. Blowing a safe in the general store ol Schu Brothers. at Kapowsin. Wash., two yeggtnen escaped with $1,000. Taking a hand car from a siding, they rode to Fern Hill, where they ditched the car and escaped to Tacoma. The safe was blown by nl troglycerin and with the feather wedge and soap method. An important decision to every county in Wyoming has been rendered ren-dered in the case of Messenger vs. the Commissioners of Converse county, coun-ty, in which Messenger, who is sheriff ot the county, sought to compel the commissioners to return htm $300 ot horse inspection fees which he had collected and turned into the county The judge decided the county is en titled to the fees. Col. W. F. Cody (Buffalo Bill) and John Reckless Davis have left Cody, Wyo., for Tucson, Ariz., where they are interested in mining property. Before Be-fore returning to Cody, the colonel will go to Washington to be present at the inauguration of President-elect Taft. |
