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Show mm iw imiiiii i m n mimmnnalmtmKmaMmmmtmttfmt NORTHWEST NOTES Frank A. Roberts' has bfen appointed appoint-ed postmaster at Thiiyne, Uinta county, coun-ty, Wyoming. Tho city hull, HI Jail nnd five o tho prlnclpil business houses ot Farm-Ington, Farm-Ington, Wush., were dostroyod by fire last wook. Before 8.000 to 10,000 spectators, Uilgndlcr General Funston on Sunday reviewed tho troops of his command In Camp Tacoina. John Gorst, ono of tho pioneers of Port Orchard, Wash,, accidentally shot and klllod htmsolt whllo hunting boar noar that town. Little Pitt, ono of tho three escapes fioni the Novada Main prison, was captured at McKlnney's, Novada, by tndlan Dick Bender uml Indian Jim. Flro destroyed tho siw mill and ull tho othor buildings at Parkorsburg Ore, on tho Coqulllo river, except the rcsldpnco of Manager Kioncnburg nnd ono other. Fire, which Is bollovcd to have been started by a carelesa tramp, dcstiojcd about $20,000 worth of property at Watcrvllle, Wash. M. I). Borgoson was soorely hurt. Joseph T. Carroll of Butte, one of tho most prominent men of tho state was found guilty In tho United Btatos district court at Helena of Illegally maintaining fences on tho public do. main. The annual session ot the grand lodge, Jnlghts of Pythias, of Wyoming, Wyo-ming, was held in Laramie last week. T. H. Butler of Hanna was selected as grand chancellor for tho ensuing year. A man whose name is supposed to havo been D. A. Smith of Soattlo attempted at-tempted to board a moving car as It was leaving a pleasure resort at Port, land, nnd was thrown undor tho trucks and killed. Congressman Joo M. Dixon ot Missoula, Mis-soula, who has represented Montana In the lower houso for two terms, has announced that he Is a candidate for United States senator to succoed Senator Sen-ator W. A. Clark. The Republican state committee of Montana has called tho stato convention conven-tion to meet at Helena, September 15. The only nominations to bo made are for congressman and associate Justice ot tho supremo court Archlo A. Cook, president ot the Travelers' Protective association of Orogon and Washington, a well-known commercial traveler, died at St. Vincent's Vin-cent's hospital, Portland, of appendicitis. appendi-citis. His ago was 36 years. Tho sensational report of jobbory In connection with tho turning over ot tho water rights to a prlvato company on tho Shoshono reservation by tho state of Wyoming aro positively do-tiled do-tiled by the state authorities. The police bellovo thoy havo a clue In the case ot Charles Smith, found tnurdored In his cabin at Tonopah, Nevada, Ne-vada, aud havo a man and woman under un-der arrest, but conceal tholr identity and connection with tho crime W. E. Stark, an engineer tn the cm-ploy cm-ploy of tho Short Line, was drownoo In the Box canyon of tho Snako, below Huntington, Oregon. Ho was working In a dangerous place and slipped from the rocks upon which ho was perched. An open switch at Barratt's Siding, near Dillon, Mont., resulted In a pas-songor pas-songor train crashing Into tho roar end of a freight tralu, Conduct6r Ewalt jf the freight train being killed and tho engineer, fireman and ono passenger passen-ger of tho passenger train Injured. Tho buroau of animal industry of tho department ot agriculture, having cfused to disregard government certificates cer-tificates Issued to sheop brought to Wyoming and treat them according to the Wyoming laws, the stato board of sheop commissioners will employ a force ot Inspectors and quarantine and treat all Imported shocp. It is considered probablo that a state tournament will bo held at Laramie, Lara-mie, Wyo., during tho coming countv fair by tho different gtin clubs of tho state, under tho auspices of tho Lara mle Rod and Gun club, with clubs representing rep-resenting Cheyenno, Rawlins, Hanna, Douglas, Rvnnston, Rock Springs and perhaps Ogdon. Ownership of almost one one-hundredth one-hundredth part of tho stato of Oregon changod hands last week, when the old Oregon Central military road grant was transferred to a syndicate composed com-posed ot eastern and California capitalists. capi-talists. Thomas G. McEwon, who lost his right lag in a railroad accident tn Laramio a few yoats ago, was kicked by a horse last week and bis remaining remain-ing lug brokon. He lay In tho open for twelve houis before being discovered by passers-by. The lurgest wool clip over grown In America was shlppod from Billings, Montana, to Boston and was ttie prop erty of C. M. Blair. It weighed 1.500,-900 1.500,-900 pounds aud required forty-four cars to curry It. Twquty-four cents a pound was rofusod for it. Tho filing tor lunds In tha Shoshono reservation began on the ISth at Shoshone Sho-shone la the special land office nt thai place. One hundred and twenty-five people will fUe each day, the ones whosovnames were first drawn In tUs lottery at Lander filing first. |