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Show " " -WWftrn.1... it.. m'.a... - NORTHWEST NOTES. K B. Aldrlch, formerly of Stockton, Cal,, died in Scnttlo Sunday from Injuries In-juries received by tho explosion of a gnsollno tank Friday. Tho Colorado O. A. It encampment, by resolution, denounces the efforts of tho AntMmperinllstlo league to ham per tho government. Ilobert, Fulton, an engineer working in tho ynrds at Itoclc Springs, com mlttod sulcldo by taking morphine. He loft n noto saying ho was tired of llfo. Tho superintendent of tho mint In Ban Francisco, In his official report, places the total production of gold in California in 1809 nt 915,000,478, and of silver bt 8114,055. A tragedy occurred at llayflcld, Colo., Sunday morning, In which W. H. llrincklcy was shot and instantly killed by William Wicland. The latter Is In jail In Durango. Jnck Ilnycs, an old-thno Wyoming miner, died last week. Hayes was a well-known character of the state and has mado several fortunes, but it is said ho died In abjoct poverty. Tho Municipal Traction cotnpnny hns been Incorporated In Denver with nn authorized capital stock of 51,000,-000. 51,000,-000. It will fight the combined com. panics by putting In a new system. Senator Livingston of Carson, Nov., hns- wired tho managers of FItzslm-mons FItzslm-mons and JcfTrles that ho would glvo 8:o,000 for the fight, to tako placo In Carson, under tho management of tho Carson Arena club. United States Sonator W. A. Clark of Montana, who has been in Paris for somo time, making an effort to form nn Anglo-French copper combine, hns finally succeeded in his endeavors. Ho would glvo no details, however, stnt-tlug stnt-tlug that the necessary information would bo made public In duo course of time. Governor Thomas of Colorado Is doing do-ing everything In his power to have the volunteers now In tho Philippines released. Ho declares that they nro boing unjustly dotnlncd, as they enlisted en-listed for the Spanish war, nnd do I clarcs Hint under tlio constitution tho volunteers would bo perfectly justified In lnying down their nrms and return lng home. A company of California capitalists aro figuring on raising tho water of lllue lakes, near Carson, Novnda, for Oaklaud, and nlso transmitting power to tho City of Oaks. It Is understood that they nro completing arrangements to begin work on the proporty, nnd havo put in considerable tlmo hunting np tenms In Carson valley to do tho hauling. In nccordanco with the recommendation recommen-dation of Mujor Footo, Hovcrnor Rich nrds has promoted Sergeants Tom Williams and Walter Plnnoy to bo lieutenants lu the Wyoming Infantry; Second Lleuteunut Checver was pro motcd to u first lieutenancy. The governor also sent a request that tho cannon captured by tlio Wyomlugboys at San Pedro Mecatl bo turned over to the stnto of Wyoming. William Casey, n former Inmate of tho Insane asylum of tho stato of Colorado, Is out with an affidavit ollcg ing that while hiving temporarily in tho state lu '08, ho was sent as a pa tlent to the insane nsylum, and that the treatment of patients wns outrageously outra-geously inhuman nnd brutal; that tho inmates wero knocked down and ! kicked, and that Incidents of this ' character wero a matter of every-day ' occurence. Asa result of n feud of long stand-' stand-' Ing, Andrew Salmon shot and instantly instant-ly killed Ucorgo Haas, near Lander, Wyoming, on the Oth Inst. Haas had ' recently been confined lu the county i jail upon a warrant sworn to by Sul-! Sul-! inon, and upon his release threatened to kill Salmon. On the day of ths shooting he went to Salmon's ranch with a Winchustcr, und a duel was fought between the two men which resulted re-sulted In the death of Haas. On the nth Inst, n man wns found In an Unconscious condition In n cellnr at St. Louis, Mo., and tiled a short time after being removed to tho hospital. There was nn nlrof mystery surrounding surround-ing the denth of tho man for the tlmo being, but it now nppcars that tho man was a wealthy miner namodSlegol, of Cripple Colo., who was en route to New York to purchase somo machinery, machin-ery, and had been fauly dealt with, 1 whllo btopplng lu the city on the lllg Muddy. 'the dam of tho Wyoming Development Develop-ment company across the Laramie river near tho head of the irrigation sjstera which supplier tho Wheatland colony with water, was washed out by ' iloods In the river last week. The dam will be rebuilt at onco. Tho Denver police stopped a fight between be-tween "Hcdtly" Coognn nnd "Kid" Turnor, two local pugilists, boforo the Pandora club, In defiance of nn injunction in-junction issued by Judgo P. L. Palmer of the district court. Tho city council of Hrnnd .Tunotion, ' Colo., has authorized and Instructed I tho mayor, clerk and treasurer to sign up the 805,000 of municipal bonds voted by the people In 1897 fur tho construction con-struction of n system of waterworks. There was but one dissenting voto in the council. Tho matter has been In tho courts for somo tlmo. Considerable activity Is reported in central Wyoming Just now, and business busi-ness is hotter than it has been for years, At Walton, a new town in the wostorn part of Natrona county, a sheep-shearing plant of flfty-flvo machines ma-chines is lu operation, nnd is ehenrlnj; 4,500 head of sheep per day. At Cuspoi n plant of forty-flvo machtnos Is working work-ing and turning out 3,000 head of sheep dally. Tho central Wyoming Hock mastors nro enthusiastic over the building of n wool waruhouse ai Casper. 1 |
