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Show NORTHWEST NOTES Governor Charles E. Hughes, of New York, has formally accepted an invitation invi-tation to visit the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition. He will comelate in July or early in August. Orville Kyle, who shot and killed John Wilkes, manager of the Cow Creek Sheep company, at Wamsutter. Wyo.. about three months ago, has been convicted of murder in, the second sec-ond degree. While engaged in mixing a flashlight flash-light preparation in his apartments in a Butte hotel. C. A. Bousset of Seattle Seat-tle was terribly burned about the face and hands, as the result of the explosion explo-sion of the mixture. The new plant of the Astoria and Puget Sound Packing company, on Chuckanut bay, three miles south of Bellingham. Wash., burned last week, causing a loss of $50,000. The plant was well insured. William McGregor, aged 28, a well-known well-known young business man of Vancouver, Van-couver, B. C met death while cleaning clean-ing a rifle which he did not know was loaded. He was the son of a prominent insurance man. John Kain, aged 3", was killed at Goldfteld, Nevada, in a runaway. The team ran close to a trestle of the Consolidated Mines company and one of the timbers came into contact witf.1 Kain's head, fracturing his skull. When the legislative committee that is investigating state offices met at Olympia, Wash.. May 12, sealed charges against State Land Commissioner Commis-sioner E. W. Ross were filed. All the state offices are to be investigated. J. E. Allen, who is in a hospital at Ely. Nevada, became suddenly insane, broke a window pane and cut his throat with the glass, also hacking his body in a score of places. Although Al-though badly injured, it is believed he will recover. In the arrest at Reno, Nevada, of Frank Webb, the police believe they have secured the Hammontree livery stable holdup desperado who reliev ed A. L. Hammontree and M. Victor of $S5 and wantonly shot Jack Monroa through the bowels. The state council of the Knights ol Columbus of Montana met at Butte, May 11, in annual session. State Dep uty Jackson presiding. Official re ports show a gain of S00 in member -v-Tii ship during the year, the councils nott aggregating a total of 2,000. The big Casino dance hall at Tono pah, one of the largest resorts of its kind in Nevada, and made famous as the training place for Marvin Hart, Mike Schreck, Joe Gans, Jack "Twin Sullivan and other prize fighters, wai partially destroyed by fire last week. Harry Beebe, a Lander, Wyo., cowboy cow-boy with Buffalo Bill's show, died in New York on May 14, from, paralytic rabies, a rare form of disease. Beebe's great toe was severely bruised by being stepped on by a horse ridden by a fellow cowboy. Partial paralysis developed and death followed. fol-lowed. Charles L. Gustafson, an electrician, electri-cian, died at Anaconda, Mont., from the effects of burning oil. Gustafson was at work on a switchboard at the substation of the Washoe smelters when a short circuit caused a blinding blind-ing flash of electricity, exploding a can of oil which the electrican had in his hands. Officials of the state of Wyoming are preparing elk hunters' licenses as usual and will issue them to applicants ap-plicants before and during the big game hunting season next fall. The technicality in the new game law, which unintentionally forbids the hunting of elk before 1912, will not be regarded. Broker C. W. Cockrell, who had been confined in jail at Butte two weeks, because of inability to satisfy sat-isfy a judgment had by A. W. Dea-vitt, Dea-vitt, has been discharged from custody by Judge McClernan of the state district dis-trict court. An attempt was made, under an old law to keep Cockerell imprisoned for debt. That William Garrison, whose body-was body-was found near the river at Cheyenne with a 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 believed be-lieved at first that he had committed suicide. A fire that started in the California beer hall at Rawhide, Nevada, at midnight, mid-night, which threatened a repetition of the disaster of last September, when the town was reduced to ashes, was controlled after it had destroyed the beer hall and several buildings; adjoining. The postofhee at. Bremerton, Wash., situated close to the Puget Sound: navy yard, was entered by professional profes-sional cracksmen, who drilled the safe and took away its strong box com taining $9,000 worth ot stamps, a dia mond ring valued at $250, and nearly $200 in cash. Arthur George, a clerk, aged 40, shot and killed his wife, Elizabeth, at her home in Brighton Beach, near Seattle, and then, taking their twflj children, boarded a street car and Went to police headquarters, where he announced the crime and surrendered surren-dered himself. Surveyors moving mysteriously in . Cheyenne have resurrected the old report re-port that the Burlington is preparing1 to make a construction dash through the city, seizing a street or alley for its right of way. The Union Pacific has taken the report sufficiently serious se-rious to set guards. The Christian Endeavor organizations organiza-tions and similar organizations of Cheyenne have decided to join the broader organization of such societies! in Colorado and New Mexico, and it i expected that all such societies in Wyoming will also become affiliated with this organization. |