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Show NORTHWEST NOTES Utah and Wyoming arei-now supplying supply-ing practically the entire west with coal. A report comes from Otto, Wyo., of the death from a gunshot wound of a young man named Hewitt. Albert Bellaire of Truckee committed suicide on the steps of the Cathedral in Sacramento, Cal., Thursday. A young girl named Sarah Requia has been arrested at Petrero, Cal., ou a charge of robbing the mails. Charles M. Webster has been con-jfirmed con-jfirmed as collector of customs for the district of Montana and Idaho. An unknown womau jumped from the railroad bridge into the Willamette river at Portlaud, Or., Wednesday night and was drowned. Eastern Montana is experiencing the coldest December weather ever known there, a temperature of 47 degrees below be-low having been recorded. The snow is fifteeu feet deep in the Summit of Elk Creek Mouutain, between be-tween Warrens and Thunder Mountain, which effectually blocks the trail. The force in the Cheyenne shops of the Union Pacific will be increased to 1000 before spring. There are now 732 men employed in the shops there. While leading a pack-horse near Basin City, Wyo., John Black was kicked in the face by the animal and then trampled upon, eceivirig injuries from which he cannot recover. Nicholas Kessler died at Helena last week of Bright's disease. He was a pioneer of both Colorado and Montana, having resided at Helena since 1864. He leaves a fortune estimated at 81,-000,000. 81,-000,000. '' President Roosevelt the 12th pushed the button that opened the convention of the Society of Woodmen of the World at Spokane, Wash. He also sent a message of congratulation and good will. Sheriff Smalley, of Laramie county, - Wyo., has arrested John Ulriek, a 19-J 19-J . yenr-old boy, who is charged with unlawfully un-lawfully killing cattle near the ranch of his uncle, Eli Bolin, twelve miles east of Cheyenne. Passenger train No. lux, west bouDd-ran bouDd-ran into a band of sheep near Point of Rocks, Wyo., Thursday morning, killing kill-ing between 300 and 400 animals. The train was delayed about two hours. No one was injured. Complaints have been made that the cattlemen have fenced the county road from Converse county, Wyoming, into Albany county and known as the Medicine Bow road. The authorities are investigating the matter. Brooks Grant (colored,) a barber's porter, who went to Portland, Or., recently from Montana, and Kelly Wiley, colored, have been arrested on the charge of robbing A. F. Lowenthal of 810,000 worth of diamonds. Samuel J. Groo committed suicide at a ranch near Sheridan, Wyoming, last Friday. He was found by the roadside road-side with a revolver in his hand and a bullet in his head. It is stated that he had ruined himself with drink. Herbert Wallace, who served as trumpeter in Torrey's rough riders during the bpanish-American war, was instantly killed by the premature explosion of a shot in the Copper King mine at Tie Siding, Wyo., last week, Gertrude Simpson, 15 years of age, who shot and killed her father, Dr. A. N. Simpson, coroner of Mineral county, Colo., on November 15th, has been acquitted ac-quitted after her trial on the charge of murder. The girl's defense was that her father abused her and threatened to kill her. At the recent meeting of the Natrona County, Wyo., Wool-growers' association associa-tion a committee was appointed to meet at Cheyenne next February with like committees from other organizations organiza-tions in the state and assist in the perfection of a state organization of wool-growers. Friends of Milton Howell, who was convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to be hanged in Montana, Mon-tana, have been advised that Howell's sentence has been commuted by the governor and he will be granted a new trial. Linn Foster, a young man of Buffalo, Wyo., last week shot and killed himself with a 38-caliber revolver. Foster went out into his dooryard to take a shot at a dog, but fell, and the gun was discharged, the bullet striking his heart. |