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Show mmmmmmKmmmmamMmmmmmmwmmmummmmmzmamm NORTHWEST NOTES Cantoloupos havo boon tho most profitable crop In tho Yakima valley, of Washington, this year. The first carload sent Into Chloago brought $10 n crate. Ira L. Fioiidontlial ef lltD quartermaster's, quarter-master's, department, Manila, charged, according to dispatches, with misappropriating misap-propriating funds, was npiolntod from Wjomlng. He had been previous service. ser-vice. D. II. Johnson, ftlnborornt tho round-houso round-houso nt LnrumlO, Wyo., had his loft arm taken off, undor tho wheels of an onglno. Ho was In the ash pit under tho engine and laid his hdnd across the rail. Governor Joe V. McDonald of Colorado, Col-orado, has called a dry fanning congress, con-gress, to bo hold In Dtnvor November 22, 23 aud 24 this year, Itfcprosontn-tlon Itfcprosontn-tlon Is Invited fronf nil slutfs west of tho Missouri river. Illtzvlllc, foity-sovon 'mlloB wost of Spokane, Is said tab the largest Initial In-itial wheat shlpplngpolht In tho wot Id. Last year tho receipts therij amounted amount-ed to 1,500,000 bushels, and tho year boforo to 2,000,000. Tho Prohibition Stato convontlon of Wyoming has nominated tho following stato tlckot: Governor, George W. ninlno of Douglas, treasurer, Dr. C. J. Sawyor of Laramlo; "congressman, O. II. Nlcodermis of Wheatland. While attempting to prevent a gun fight botween two mon at Twin Falls, Major Fred It. Iteed was shot, but only slightly Injured. He was wresting wrest-ing tho rovolvor from the man's hand, whon tho weapon exploded. Thomas C. Johnson charged with killing Thomas n. Tuttlo during a fight in ths Ranler-arana hotel in Portland, was found guilty of manslaughter, Tuttle was tho aggressor of tho fight and was fatally slashed with a knife. Mrs. L. W. Cooper and Miss Nelllo Manning of Charlotte, N. C, were severely se-verely Injured In Denver In n collision botween n street car and nn automo-bllo automo-bllo in which they were riding. Mrs. Cooper's spine wns injured and her right arm dislocated and It is feared also sho tins sustained Internal Injuries. In-juries. Demands for more cars, consequently consequent-ly nddltlonnl motive power, causod by tho enormously Increased traffic and tho opening of now lines, has necessitated necessi-tated tho purchase on tho part of tho Harrlman system of $1,422,000 worth of. equipment, for tho Oregon Railroad & Navigation and Southern Pacific lines in Oregon. ',s It is given out from what is con- iiiMiiiiii mm iiggMyhMiiii)ii 1 1 staured a rellablo Boarca mm uio Sierra Paolfio rnllwr.j; -k)j L connect at a point not far from Eprfnrlllo wltbj Sonator Clark'd NcrVndn railroad Hrj, thus giving him n oftljot to tho Pc-ific Pc-ific eoast nnd glvlnfe jo" Slera Pacific an opening Into Nevada nut; h0 (jold-field (jold-field district. Over one half the Gunttysoa tunnel In Colorado, wna'ctjjgptf by the first of Septeinbor, nalfiSr to the report of tho engineer. Tpppl length from the crtst portal, ' Jamison canyon, to hooding No. 1, AMlfspL, was 4.416 foot. Tho total JaffgTh from the wost portal. In Unconipuiigro vnUoy, was 10,896 feet. 'C Mining mon in thfl Medicine Dow forest roserve, uoar;iSiyrne, Wyo.aro uniting In n protest IbUio forest sor-vlco sor-vlco of the Interior iloparlmcnt against an advertised saloof nil tho living and dead lodge pojo spruce and plno timber In tho resorVOj about 165,000,-000 165,000,-000 board feet, asserting 'that It deprives de-prives them of tlmbore for mining purposes. pur-poses. - f , Tho Socrotary of tho Interior has awarded a contract to .Jcsso W. Crosby, Cros-by, Jr., of Wyoming" fo.rf completion of tho construction of apportion of the work In connection1, with "the Corbett tunnel, Shoshone irrigation project, Wyoming. S. Morlyama ard If. Mlfa, Japanese, who have been room-mates In Portland, Port-land, became Involved In ' a dlspute tho cause of which Is unknown. During the quarrel MIya shot Morlyama to death but beforo doing so wns stahhed fatally by Morlyama. Nicholas Oik, a resident ot Mainour county, Orogon, since 1876, dlod In Ontario On-tario on tho lOUi gf dropsy, agod 69 years. For manjr" years he was 5-ZZZZi 5-ZZZZi In fnxmins and stock raising nnd recently retired, 'H9 was highly rospected In that section" Miss Elizabeth Hunt, 'daughter of ludgo W. 11 Hunt of UuTUnlted States iourt of Montana and former governor of Porto Rico, was married at Helena, on tho 18th, to George Thompson, a New York stock broker. The affair Was largo and fashionable. The Orogon Bar association has Instituted dUbarmont proceedings against former Judge 'A. 11, Tanner, law partner of the late United States "Senator Mitchell, on tho ground that ho perjurod hlmsejf.- bgforo the federal Court in giving testimony m Mitchell's Mitch-ell's behalf. ' A Robert PUtock, a' resident ot San Diego, Cal., for tho past)flftcen years, died on the 20th. Ho'wnsjjtforn in London Lon-don 77 years agQnnd waslono of tho pioneonj ot PojtlnndOivJvhere he arrived ar-rived In 181ft'. Tfiero ho Va3 engagod In tho wholesalb 'grocery trado for thirty years. |