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Show NORTHWEST NOTES. At Spokano ono day last week tho H temperature fell to 3 degrees below M zero, tho coldest day for two years R Tho Lnko Taboo railroad has bcon Incorporated In Nevada. It Is for lum bcr truflla and summer tourist travel H especially. H James L. Morgan wns appointed H postmaster at Glllctto, Cook countyi H Wyoming, December 17, vlco A. J' M Spencer, resigned. H Tho following fourth-class postofficcs H will bo mado money-order ofllccs Jan- BB uary 3: Dccth, Klko county, Nevada; KH Skclton, Klko county, Nevada. ! At Los Angeles, Cnl., Clyde Denning- M ton, one of tho Oro Grando train rob- H hers, wns sentenced to life Imprison- ment lu San Quentln prison. H Tom Salmon, labor leader, who shot H O. F. Connor, superintendent, of tho M Rocky Fork coal mines nt Red Lodge, M Mont., hns been sentenced to bo hanged B on January 37, HBl In San Francisco Raymond Selllngcr, M n despondent German, shot and killed M his wife and then turned tho weapon M upon himself. He will die. Bellinger ' H had been unable to secure employment. M At the request of somo of the large M cattle men of Montana, Governor , Smith hns Issued a proclamation mod- ji ifylng tho quarnntlvo regulations of ) M tho state which went Into effect last ', M January. . , The annunl report of' Adjutant-Gen- ' ' cral Charles F. Hngllsh of tho National ;H Gunrd, of Montana, Bays that there aro I H 37,401 men In Montana liable to mill- U tary duty. Silver How county leads M the list with 5030. JH Joe Krevall, a Pole, who has been In H the employ ot tho Northern Paclflo H many years, was knocked down at H Livingston, Mont, by thieves who H robbed him of 31000. Krevall wan on aH his way to tho depot to take a train IH for St. Paul when tho hold-up oc- H currcd. The sheriff is looking tor M throo Buspeots. '-aal Rebecca Gillespie, an aged colored ' H woman, was burned to death in a tiro H beyond tho city limits of Fresno, Cal. H Sho bad entered the Iioubo again to H savo a grandchild, but was overcome by the heat and smoko, nnd falling H across the baby's empty bed, perished H rnlscrably.Ot hrr rcinainanothlnp; H vvasfoTiudBave tho Imblessjjljarred1 ;H trunk. 3 ''vl J. O. Gregory, lato post-trader at th H Walker Lako Indian reservation, was H robbed at Wadsworth of S040. He was H In bed at tho tlmo and two men came H into his room. Ono of them held him H down, with a gun at his head, whllo H tho other fellow took his vest, con- H talning SOOO In greenbacks and a gold H watch, and 840 In his trousers pockets, H and tho two made their escape. Mr. H Gregory aftcrwad found his vest with H his watch In tho pocket, but the 8000 H was gone. H Judgo Houghton of tho Grcoley, Colo., H district court has rendered a decision H which will bo of much interest in lo- cnlltlcs where farming is carried on by B means of Irrigation. The caso was ono SHj brought to restrain a farmer from dig- ! ging a ditch between an irrigation H canal and tho river to Interrupt the H seepage, before It could reach tho H stream. Tho court granted tho ro- H (training order, holding that no one Is H entitled to tho use of water unless It Is H taken from tho river In the usual way. jH Tho collector at San Francisco has H been ordered to arrest all Chinese In H tho city who secured admission into H this country on the grounds that they H wero actors bound for tho Omaha ox- H po'Ulon. Over 000 secured admission H on his plea. H ( orgo W, Savage, who shot and killed D. J. Nelson at Red Lodge, M Mont., because of alleged Intimacy H with Mrs. Savngo, was acquitted of H murdor by a Carbon county jury on tho H first ballot. Tho defense was tempor H nry insanity. IH William I. Adamshasbccn appointed register of tho Inndofllce at Lander, H Wyoming, whllo Mrs. Minnie Williams H has received tho appolntmeut as re H eclver ot publlo monies at tho sanio H place. Roth appointments have been H confirmed by the senate H Jake Harnett, a gambler, was shot H nnd almost instantly killed by Nettle H Wilson, a woman of the town, In her H bagnio ou Mercury street, in Huttc. H Thoy had quarrlled, and the woman H claims tho killing occurred during a H struggle for the possession ot a pistol. H Louis Gardncnux, an Inmate of tho H Ncvuda penitentiary, has been com- H mltted to tho Insane asylum at Reno. H Ho had bcon confined at tho prison H for the murder of Julia Ahern In White H Pino county, and sentenced from that H county to life Imprisonment, H In tho Wright and Hdwards shaft at Darker, Mont., December 10, a mln- H or named Qallaghl was Instantly killed. H Ills head was driven into his body by H a weight striking him which weighed H 800 pounds. Ills comrades brought H tho corpse in pieces. H A train of fourteen car laden with H California canned fruits, jams nnd Jel- lies, left Oakland Wednesday for Mon- H tana. This Is the first shipment of the kind, and should it be received with H favor, a new uiarkot will be opened for California products. H |