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Show NORTHWEST flOsds , The production of coal in the State of Wyoming during 190? was '5,002.021 tons, valued nt $7,330,951. It Is oxpoctod that the Navtulfi & Northern railroad will onjnloto ! line to Hly, Nevada, by tho'26Uu T. P. Purduo of Tiff Clly, Mo., Was shot nnd Instantly klffod at lUtfem. Mont, by Chief of Police .Flrtjpiarj Flauncry was shot through: ifiO life b PurtlUB previous to thu'kllifng. The Republican, stute conVonJto n Helena nominated' Clisries N.'I'tJr or Chouteau for congress nnd lloilt O-3mlth O-3mlth of LatvlB and Clnrlf cotlnjjy a the Justice of tho supreme "'TjL Fred in Palnto, riged' '$J$P ,n-atantly ,n-atantly klllrU In t lib lJjnBkli Spar nino nt Ilhyollte, NpvjutlmbeWdPi -ccnd!n3 on the buokeAi railroad j,u, col be) and control of tin a day. ai fell to the bottom. State Senator Franklin Plcrc,a.Ma$F' ex-RcprcscntjtUo Wlllard I. Jcjnos nnd Gccrgo Soionson wero com'ICtod In tho Dluo Mountain land fraud, caao (rlud nt Portland. Tho defendants will ask for a new tilnl. ' ' John Molntyro, wautctl nt Forthand, Seattle, Tucoma and Spokanq fu-con-ncctlon with charges of countsrjeit-Ing, countsrjeit-Ing, escaped from Deputy United States Murshpla W. B. Grimtlis,. and T. B. Foster near John Day, Ore - David Eccles, H. II. Rolapp, Adam Patterson, M. 8. Browning and Job Plngrcc, all of the Amalgamated Sugar Su-gar comp n), r.re In Montnrinjrlooklrg for a site for ti naw sugar fiefory. It Is likely that it will be located at Uozeman. Swlftwater Bill Gates,' the Alaska miner who has gained national notoriety no-toriety ns a spendthrift, filed a petition peti-tion to be declared a bankrupt In the fodpral court at 8eattle?last wsok. Gatos set up his assets as $200 in cash, wearing apparel worth $100 and a watch and chain. Court Judgments amounting to nearly $200,000 wero given ns his liabilities t A sensation was created In Gold-field, Gold-field, Nevada, last woek by the attempted at-tempted afreet of Wing B. Allen, man ager of tho Nevada office of tho Dally Mining Record of Denver, and. formerly former-ly of Salt Lake, on the charge of attempting at-tempting to extort money from G. O Rice, one of the principal owners of the Sullivan Trust company, prominent promi-nent mlno promoters. Deputy Sheriff W. S, Johnson of Wapauuka, I. T.," has' arrived at Ra,w-11ns, Ra,w-11ns, Wyo., having In", custody J. B Hickman, who has csnfessed to tho murder of Thomas Irwlne "-and his young son, Archie, while they wero traveling overland on tho Continental dtvldo'noar Rawlins last Juffo. Hick man in his confession Implicated htu cousin, Hugh Hlckmnn, for whom tho officers ere now soaichlng. Ono man killed, another dying and threo more cr less seriously lnjure.1 Is tho rosult of a shooting affray which took place In a Baloon at St. Paul, 0$i., tho outcome of a bruwi botwecn n crowd of roughs anij Town Marshal J A. Krechter and posse. Marshal Krechter la doud, and an unldontlllcd struugcr Is mortally wounded. Alfred Lambert of St. Paul, Ore., one of the marshal's posse, was shot In tho arm Two other strangers wore shot , II. T. Phelps, a Boise nurseryman, admonished John ' Rvans, at Ii Grando, Ore., when tho'latteVhad sat threo hours In a saloon while his chll -dren wero shivering In a buggy out-sldo. out-sldo. Evans' "reply was to knocJ4 Phelps, who Is aged C5 years, down and kick him In tho face. Tho nur-' serymon roso with a Itnlfo and stabbed; Kvans twice In tho right arm, nlmofit sevorlng the muscles. Pholps was arrested. J. G. Sullivan and Frank Mulvaney fell n dlstnnce of sovonty-lho feet from u buckpt In tho Townslte shaft at Ilhyollte, Novnda, both mon being badly bruised nnd suffering n number of broken bones, but will recover Two men, giving their nnmes as 8raltl and Green, wore arrested at Laramlo last week as desortors from the Eleventh Infantry, nt Camp Isla), the supply camp of the Crow Creek maneuvors. Green wns under arrest for stealing and soiling government suprJIes, and Smith had been guard Ing him, when both mon deserted. George Roberts, wanted In Seattle to answer a chargo of robbery, was ordorod discharged from custody by the superior Judge at San Franoiscc, last weeR. The records of the ease against him wore destroyed In the,, April conflagration. The Ash Meadows Water company, organized at Pprtland fpr thf purpose of owning, developing jand operating water power and privileges In the statos of Nevada and California, filed 4ts certificate of Incorporation nt Au--gusta, Me., last week. The Prohlbltlonlsto of Washington ,held their stnto convention at Seattle last week, with delegates from all parts of the state. For congroes A S I Catton of Olympla, William Evorett of North Ynklma and I. M. Wilkin of Seattle Se-attle were nominated without contest. Two gangs of thugs held up fourteen four-teen men In two different sections of Butte within two hours In one Instance, In-stance, during a division of the spoils, two of the highwaymen quarreled and ono shot tho other, inflicting a wound from which the bandit cannot recover. |