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Show NORTHWEST NOTES William Garrett was killed at Hot Springs, Ore., hy Harry English in a fight over a dog. English formerly for-merly resided in Albany, Ore. He was employed as a teamster. Fire of unknown origin destroyed five buildings in the business section at Granada, Colo., causing a loss of $40,0000. The town has no fire apparatus, appar-atus, and for a time the entire city was threatened. Two men held up "Dick's" saloon in Carson City, Nevada. The two men entered the saloon, one remaining at the front door, wihie the other robbed the three men in the saloon. The robbers rob-bers secured about ?700. At a meeting of the Montana demurrage de-murrage bureau held in Butte, March 10, Robert Engle was re-elected director di-rector of the bureau. The session of the raikoad men was devoted principally princi-pally to the discussion of routine railroad rail-road matters. The Nevada assembly has passed a bill making it a felony for directors or any officer of a banking company to receive a deposit when a bank is insolvent. The measure was passed to remedy the defect in the Nevada banking laws. Prominent sheepmen from several parts of Wyoming arrived at Cheyenne, Chey-enne, March 11, 10 protest before the state board of equalization against the assessed valuation of sheep, which they claim is much higher than the present market price. The lower house of the Nevada legislature leg-islature has passed a bill providing for a graduated license for prize fighting. fight-ing. A state license costing $1,000 will be required for an unlimited round affair; $500 for twenty-five rounds, and $250 for twenty rounds. About 3,000,000 acres of land in the counties along the eastern border of Wyoming are to be thrown open at once to homesteaders, who will be allowed to take either 100 or 320 acres. The land cannot be irrigated and will be for use for dry farming only. Jesus Ramrez, a Mexican tramp, while endeavoring to board a fas'i freight train at Boewawe, Nev., caught his foot in a frog of the track and was pulled under the wheels, both legs being severed from his body at the thighs, death resulting an hour later. Enormous losses of sheep among the flocks of the Red Desert district of Wyoming are reported as a result of the deep snow and the inability of the sheep to get to feed. In some bands, it is said, the loss will amount to 50 per cent and one flockmaster is reported to have lost 5.0000 head in the last month. Despondent over continued ill-health, ill-health, without funds, and preferring a horrible death under the wheels of a locomotive to the county poor house, Palmer Paulson, a Norwegian rancher living at Elk Park, deliberately deliber-ately laid down with his head on the rail in front of a Northern Pacific passenger train at Butte and was killed. Captain J. A. Mitchell of company I of the Montana national guard, located lo-cated at Glendive, has tendered his resignation to Governor Norris and the court-martial at Helena, which was about to take testimony in connection con-nection with charges of infractions of the military rules and disobedience of orders, it is understood, has been dissolved. dis-solved. Edward Smith, city marshal of Moorcroft, Wyo., shot and instantly killed Herman Holcomb, a bartender, whom he found in company with Mrs. Smith at the postoffice at Gillette. Smith, it is said, has suspected improper im-proper relations between his wife and Holcomb, and came to Gillette to investigate. An explosion of a barrel of paint used for covering smokestacks came dangerously near causing the deai.i of Dallis Meyers and H. I. Johnson, ttojttoyei of the Southern Pacific shops, at Carlin, Nevada. The barrel of paint had been placed on a stove to thaw, when it exploded, covering the men with the hot fluid. The four Italians who held up and robbed Theodore Nedehft of $31, near Birdseye, Mont., February 24, and who were afterward arrested in Butte, pleaded guilty in the district court and were sentenced by Judge Clements Clem-ents each to one year in the state penitentiary. Senator Patrick Daly of Deer Lodge county, died suddently on March 8 at his home in Anaconda, Montana, of heart trouble. He was a brother of Marcus Daly, the Montana millionaire, million-aire, and widely known in Montana, Utah and Nevada. He leaves a modest mod-est fortune. Joshua Klein is on trial at Tacoma, charged with enticing by his strange teachings two Tacoma girls. Miss Sauvegeot and Miss Karasek, to nis chalet in Switzerland and holding them prisoners with a number of other women who had become devotees devo-tees of his cult. James H. Holt, found guilty last December of the murder of Henry E. Johnson at the Fort Worden military reservation, near Port Townsend Wash., whose body had been placed in a furnace, has been sentenced to life imprisonment. A motion for appeal ap-peal will be filed. Twenty-seven members of the In dustrial oWrkers of the World each of whom broke police rales by mak ing speeches on the streets of Spo kane. were given limit sentences ol $100 and costs and thirty days on th rock pile. Five of the twenty-sevei can speak English. An unmasked man entered the sec tion house at Burnham. Mont., on tin Great Northern railroad, inhabited b six Japanese. He ordered those wh had gone to bed to get up and dres and at the point, of a gun he mad them deliver all the cash in th party He Mcuiri about $100. a |
