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Show j. NOliTHWEST NOTICS. G Oil has been struck In tlio now Hen- dorson well at Lander, Wyo., nt a ' depth ot 800 feet. Choycnno experienced n coal famine s last week, the shortngo being occa- I- iloncd by tlio falluro of tlio railroad ' company to deliver eiders. ,' Forty-eight business houses and L? " , manufacturing concerns of Portland i havo prepared nn exhlolt for tho OBkn, p" Japan, industrial exposition, David tllilln, foreman of a quarry ' nenr Portland, Oro., suicided by cut ting his thront with n butcher knlfo. No cause Is known for tho deed. Two woman suffrage bills aro boforo tho Montana legislature. Two bills providing for tho Initiative nnd rofer- I ; ondttin havo nlso been Introduced. At Portland, Ore., C. A. Wilson Bhot his mother-in-law, mistaking her for a 1 burglar. Tho wound Is In tho left i breast, nnd tho woman Is oxpectcd to L die. , Thrco women held up n man In Denver ono night laBt wok, shooting tho victim In tho fnco when ho ro- f Blstcd. AH threo of tho hold-ups wore captured. ; Hector Reel, who wns Interested In tho most extensive cattle-raising bust- :' ncss of Uinta county, Wyoming, died nt St. Augustine, Fla on tho Gth, of Drlght'a disease. High winds havo completely wrecked wreck-ed tho summer cottngo district of Estos Park, Colo. Largo trees wore tnken up by tho roots and tho damage to property will go up Into tho thou, sands. Joseph Smith has been arrested at Anaconda, Mont, on suspicion of being be-ing tho man who held up tho Northern Pacific train nt near Mouth on October Oc-tober 23 and killed Engineer Dan O'Neill. Tho mayors of tho various cities of Montnna gntherod In confcrcnco nt Holcna last Tuesday for tho purposo of discussing nnd recommending to tho legislature needed municipal legislation. leg-islation. Sheriff Nowmnn of 'Ely, Novnda, declares de-clares a reign of terror prcvnlls In that ' town, owing to Btrlklng miners nnd proprietors clashing, and fonrB It will ( bo necessary to call on tho governor 1 for troops. ' Tho postoDlco department has In Mr. contemplation tho establishment of a K number of now rcurnl frco delivery routes in Utah and Idnho, but tho of- K flclnls refuso to niako known tlieso Wl' routes nt this tlmo. Wff Tho englno of an oxtra freight broke ftji down near Chcrokeo, Wyo., nnd n K freight 'train which was following m crashed into tho caboose and ploughed through fourtoon carB. No ono was In- Si Jurcd, tho crow jumping. M Reports aro coming in to tho effect ft that tho wind storm that raged on tho K Lnrnmio plains tho paBt fow days did K considerable damage, fences being Br blown down, hay stacks scattered and jtt barns and sheds wrecked. B Tho oxccutlvo committee of the BR Wyoming industrial convention has ft extended to Secretary of Agriculture ?' Wilson an lnvltntlon to attend tho Hr second annual Industrial convention nt D; Choycnno February 3rd and 4th. The Wk, Invitation will be delivered by Scnntor W Wnrrcn, who will urgo tho secretary K to accept. D Shocpmcn in tho vicinity ot Cody, Hi Wyo., aro very lndlgnnnt over tho cro- BJt atlbn of a forest reset j, embracing lw fully one-seventh "f tho itrca of tho 'y state. All tnough tlio Cody country tV feeling is running high, and bloodshed ttuL is anticipated when tho tlmo comes Hp for closing the trails which the sheep- IH men havo used so long. IH- Ono of tho chief questions to conio HBtV' up beforo the legislature of Wyoming H ' will bo tho crtunllzntlon of tho assess- IBh, ment of railroad nnd telegraph com- H& pnnlos In tho state. Thcso corpor- Hh atlons pay taxes on but $7,G71,220.9S HJ worth of property, whllo It Is rccog- HR ntzed that their Wyoming holdings HE, are worth fnr moro than that amount. HE Asa Conn, n well known resident of Mr Novnda Valley, Mont., left homo on WE Sunday to go hunting. Ho did not re- HI'. turn by Tuesday, and search was in- Mil"' stltuted. Later his body was found in H f the woods Boveral miles from home. J 6 An empty shell In his gun nnd a bullet H R holo through tho body told tho story. B R", Ho hnd evidently boon killed accl- J K . dentally by his own gun. II A special from Dillon, Mont, says HK an Immense meteor fell on Rattle- jlfflf snake creek in Beaverhead county on Km tho Cth, It looked as largo as n hogs. jB head, nnd was vlslblo for fully e mln- iffil uto. The crash of its compact with Y' tho enrth ccma bo heard for miles. 1 Tho contract for tho steel for tho I first eighty miles of tho Denver, ' I Northwestern & Pacific rnllwny was j. Jet to tho Colorado Fuel &. Iron com- r flfir pilny ' I?unvor last welf- Tho con- A Mp tract calls for 10,000 tons of rails, ani I f. yfc- no Price is approximately $300,000, |