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Show NORTHWEST NOTES. Angus R. Gibson hns been appointed postmaster nt Prospect, Eureka county, coun-ty, Nevada, vlco Ransom Q. Moss, resigned. re-signed. Mrs. Llzzlo N. II. Miller of Washington Wash-ington has been appointed matron in tho Western Shoshono Indian school, Novndn. John Rlloy nnd John Ncalon, laborers, labor-ers, wero killed by tho caving of a sower trench which they wcro digging in San Francisco. Tho San Jose, Cal., pollco havo no confidence In tho reported capturo ot Dunham, tho Santa Clara murderer, by tho Ilurllugton, Iowa, police. "Vlckshurg" Woods, known on most of tho raco tracks of tho country, Is In tho San Francisco jail charged with obtaining money under falso pretenses. Official notlco has been received by Major-Qcucral Merrlam that General Shatter Is to be again assigned to tho command of tho department of California, Cali-fornia, Superior J ml go Coffey has granted Mrs. Jnno L. Stanford nn order for tho final distribution ot tha estate of her lato husband, Loland Stanford. Legacies Leg-acies amounting to 83,113,000 havo been paid. Tho mrfrrlngo of ex-Senator Fred Dubois nna Edna Mlxflcld Whltcd, daughter of Mr. nnd Mrs. William Whltad hns been announced. Tho ceremony takes place at Chicago, January Jan-uary 11. Wyoming sheepmen aro coming in from tho rango nnd sny tholr flocks aro In excellent condition. To tho present time they havo had ample feed and water and tho losses havo been nominal. Work on tho battleship Ohio lias been commenced at tho Union works, San Francisco. Tho Ohio will bo tho largest ship ever built on the coast, nnd ono ot tho three biggest to bo built In tho American navy. Wheat shipments from Portland during dur-ing the year 1803 umountcd to 10,831,-C00 10,831,-C00 bushels; 483,000 barrels ot flour wore shipped to tho Orient during tho year. This season to date, 0,884,832 bushels of wheat have been shipped. A telegram has been received at I Phoenix, Arljj, from Sheriff llazenjj Lander, Wyo. , d Irootf ng-' Wiir fjl-iifi glial to hold lien Hanson, wanted at Lander for murder. Hanson was arrested ar-rested at Phoenix somo tlmo ago for bolng a tramp. Tho flro which broke out on tho fifth level of tho DlamondvIUe Coal and Coke company's initio No. 1 on Monday Mon-day of last week has been extinguished extinguish-ed and operations will bo resumed. It Is bclloved that tho damngo Inflicted will be small. United States Senator Stephen M. White has loft Los Angeles for Washington, Wash-ington, 1). 0. In an Intorvlew with a reporter, regarding tho Phlllpplno question, tho senator said: "I am utterly ut-terly opposed to the acquisition ot distant dis-tant and barbarous land." Tho actual figures for gross earnings earn-ings of tho Oregon Short Lino from Januury 1 to Octobor 31, lb98, wero 85,004,218.09. Tho figures on gross for tho year 1808 will be tho largest in tho history ot tho road. These figures will not bo out for somo weeks yet, but for tho year ending December 31, tho total gross earnings will be about 80,853,000. Two masked meu walked luto the Casgrlff llros. storo at Fort Steele, Wyoming, and, at tho point of their rovolvers, compelled tho clerks to deliver de-liver up over 83,000 In cash and checks. Ono ot the men who took part In the robbery Is believed to bo Charlie Stev-venson, Stev-venson, a noted hlghman who has committed com-mitted many similar depredations In various parts of tho stato. Tho fight botween thu "ono gallus'' and "silk stocking" factions ot the Republican Re-publican party lu Choycnno was decided de-cided In tho precinct primary December Decem-ber 30, when the "silk stockings" elected ninety delegates out of ninety-seven. ninety-seven. Tho delegates will suprort Mayor W. R. Schnltger for ronomlna-tlon, ronomlna-tlon, and will nomluato three Republican Repub-lican councilman, who will support tho presout city administration. The city election for mayor nnd threo council-mon council-mon will bo held Jnnuary 10. Prices of Montana cattle averaged 5 per cent higher this year than during any season previously In tho history of tho state, according to tho report of tho stato stock commission. The number shipped outside tho stato during dur-ing tho season of 1808 was 178,285, nnd 00,000 wcro kilted for homo consumption, consump-tion, making the consumption of Montana Mon-tana this year 232,220. Tho avorago price rocolved was 830 n head, a material mate-rial Inereaso ovor last year's nvcrngo prices. During tho year tho Montana Inspectors received 10,058 strays, worth 030.000. of which 8327,013,00 were paid through the Montana Stock Urowers' association. Alfonso Russell, a musician ot tho Twenty-fourth infantry, and Will Ross, a Choyenne colored man, quorrol In a bagnio nt Cheyenne, tho affair ending In a shooting, Flvo shots wero exchanged, ex-changed, but no was hit. The men wero find heavily and released. 8. II. Aggers has discovered near Rawlins, Wyo., a perfect petrification, In a good stato of preservation, of a monster Buurlan (lizard) which measures meas-ures 180 feet In length. The body Is 140 feet long, and a section sixty feet long can be taken out as a whole. |