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Show NORTHWEST NOTES. The Guild Mercantile company lias just completed the telephone line be- tween their stores at Piedmont and Fort Bridger, Wp., the necessity hav. ng arisen for direct communication .. ibetween tbe stores. A team pulling- a wagonlond of pie-jnickers pie-jnickers ran away and dashed into a '.pivery stable at Deer Lodge, Mont. Lee Montgomery, Mrs. Winscott and daughter daugh-ter and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Miller, of Butte, were all seriously injured. '. Officers of the Central Navigation & Construction company (Mohr-Portage jroad) confirm the report that the work of construction has been suspended, "but say negotiations are under way to secure money to complete the construction construc-tion and start operations. An eastern syndicate has secured an option on the nroperty of the Nevada Mining company at Galena, Nevada, lor which they agree to pay SBO.OOO. ' The proposition has for some time been marketing high grade silver and lead ore. . - .. E. C. Ilirrls, formerly superintendent of the Wyoming division of the Union i .Pacific, stationed at Cheyenne, has '.. 'purchased a controlliag interest in the First National bank of Chadron, Neb., od will resign his position with tbe railroad. Mrs. P. B. Leslie died at Helena, Mont., oo the 3rd. at an advanced age. (She was the wife f Governor Leslie, who had tbe unique distinction of being governor of two states, Kentucky and Montana, amd wbo sarvires her at the , age of 8J. I The Puget Sound salmon pack will . fall 60,000 cases sbortof lastyear. The catch was only 25 per cent of 1899, but cold storage men have taken a larger ahare than usual. Cancers estimate the season's pack at 225,000 cases as against 600,000 last year. i.ne uemocrauc idu duiw yi nc. v.. Nevada have effected fusion and nominated nom-inated G. G. Newlaods for joogress. The Silver party passed a resolution denouncing United States Senator W. W. Stewart, who recently announced that he would support the Republican national ticket, and demanding bis , resignation as United States senator. I Fire was discovered in the roof of tbe Good Samaritan bo-pital at Portland, Ore , on the morning of tbe 5th, and for a time there threatened to be a serious Iobs of life, but owing to the courage displayed by the employees and nurses the inmates were rescued without accident, while the firemen subdued the flames, the property loss being nominal. John McDonald, an old prospector and miner of Basin, Mont, who resided In the CataracUdistrict for more than twpnlT vears. died on the 2nd; leaving n fortune of $60,000. McDonald was an eccentric character, aod for twenty years had lived alone in a cabin, making mak-ing occasional visits to Basin for supplies. sup-plies. About a week before his death be was taken sick at his cabin and was taken to Basin for medical treatment. He was between 75 and 80 years of age end his death waslargely due to failure to take proper care of himself. Reports from Sharpsdale, in southern. Colorado, say that the feud over the use of the range, which has long existed ex-isted between cattlemen and sheepmen, reached a climax recently when the cattlemen drove 3,000 sheep over a high precipice,' the maddened animals being driven over tbe brink by cowboys. cow-boys. Some of the last who fell on the i : bodies of the first were not killed, but i the majority were killed. It is stated that serious trouble is likely to result, the entire country having taken up arms. Perhaps the strangest case that has . arisen in the courts of Wyoming for ' " aometime is now before the district : .court at Cheyenne. A man, who. does ' ' not want his name known, is suing for a divorce from fiis wife, wo. he believes, be-lieves, has beemdead for fifteen years. '. -T7i ..t;iWu.viilenceof thedeath .-'' of his wife, but to make matters sure he has brought suit for divorce. ' - A number of small bands of sheep have been slaughtered in the mountains -- . near Rawlins, Wyo., recently.. Tim perpetratorsin one instance werefound. out, and being threatened with arrest, they settled with tbe owners for all sheep killed. Tbe sheepmen are indignant in-dignant and will have the killing in-' in-' vestigated and the persons committing the depredations punished. Promt action on the part ot Snperin tendent Swindler of the DeLamar in Nevada baa overcome tbe effect of the recent fire at the pump station in Meadow valley, and tha mill is again running, while tbe town is getting the usual volume of water. |