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Show NOfiTHWEST NOTES. Cut worms are doing great injury to the crop in the Puyallup valley, Washington. Wash-ington. A $10,000 rock depot will be built at Rock Springs by the Union Pacific The town council will build a viaduct over the track where the crossing now is. Forty-seven canneries in Fraser river will close down for the season, the dead-lock between cannera and fishermen fisher-men being as far from settlement as ever. The condition of the deciduous fruit crop is most disastrous to the southern California growers, as many of them will have absolutely nothing to sell this year. S. Harold Webb-Peploe, alias J. A. Powell, alias Preston, is under arrest in San Francisco awaiting extradition to Ouray, Colo., on a charge of larceny, as bailee and another of embezzlement. A Portland special gays General Wilson, Wil-son, chief of engineers, has approved the recommendations of Captain W. W. Harts with regard to the taking of surveys of the Snake river from Lewis-ton Lewis-ton to Riparia. ' John L. Beveridg, ex-Governor of Illinois and a former member of Congress Con-gress from Illinois, announced himself as a candidate for the Republican Congresssonal nomination in the Sixth California district. The Chinese merchant of Portland recently held a meeting and adopted a resolution that the Chinese citizens of Portland, Or., condemn and disapprove the awful outrages perpetrated on peaceful foreigners in China by the usurper Prince Tuan and bis hordes of Boxers. A band of 2,000 sheep, owned by Caulson & Calhoun, were shipped east several weeks ago from Gillette, Wyo., by Caulson. Since that time neither Caulson nor the sheep have been heard of, and officers have been put on the t.rMflr If. IB thnntrtit tlio antU fllr was sold by Caulson, who then skipped out. Prof. Auguste Matbez, the eminent mining expert of Denver, and party, who early last spring went to China in the interests of Samuel Newhouse, and who a few weeks ago had to flee from Pekin for their lives, not having time to collect and take their baggage with them, have reached San Francisco in safety. The title to forty acres of ground in the heart of Stratton's Independence mine atCripple Creek has been attacked by a suit filed in Teller county. The plaintiff, who is a dentist of Cripple Creek, claims the ownership of a half interest in the forty acres comprising the Wilson Creek placer, which is embraced em-braced in the property sold in London about a year ago by W. S. Stratton for 810,000,000. Frank Carter, G. E. Studley, J. M. Curley and A. J Campbell have been run out of Rosburg, Or., for alleged complicity in a plot to burn store buildings and rob a milliner. A lynchimg movement was uorrowly averted. Curley left hurriedly when suspicion first fell on him. It is claimed that Carter and Studley confessed. Campbell protests his innocence. The three remaning men were given until 6 o'clock to leave. One left at 6 in the morning, the others at 1 in the afternoon. It is stated the object was to provide employment for the conspirators. Judge W. H. Washington, a direct descendent of Augustine Washington, Washing-ton, father of George Washington, died recently of consumption at Castle Creek Hot Springs, Arizona. He was 45 years old and a lawyer of recognized ability. The army worm is doing great damage dam-age in the vicinity of Sumner, Washington, Wash-ington, and Governor Rogers has ordered or-dered an entomologist from Pullman to make an investigation and suggest a means of getting rid of the unwelcome army. Fire at Spokane last week, in the Eolland-Horr lumber yaid, caused a loss of 850,000. The fire resulted from a dust explosion and soon spread over acres of dry lumber. Several firemen were overcome by heat, but subsequently subse-quently recovered. ' John Meeker, wbo disappeared from Phoenix, four years ago, aud against whose wife a suspicion of murder has gince rested,. has been located in Arkansas. Ar-kansas. He claims to have suffered a sunstroke and recently came to himself him-self in an asylum. A Salvation Army colony has been Established at La Junta, Colorado. Most of the colonists hail from Chi-cago Chi-cago If the venture proves successful success-ful the sending of people from over crowded cities to the country will be made a featnre of army work. |