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Show NOllTINtSr NOOJES. Tho D of It. '. havo started a movement move-ment to establish a reading room at tho Y. M. C. A. nt Itawllns. Tho Portland woolen mills, loatrd at Sollwood, a suburb of Portland, hnvo been dcstKiyrd bv tire, ontalllriR a hiss of about Jl& 10 About ISO workmen are thrown out of pmpln-mcm. pmpln-mcm. Frederick .1. Malcomb, a clerk In the Portland, Ore, pobtofllco. committed commit-ted rulcldu by shooting htmnrlf In tho head. Ho was under temporary suspension sus-pension fromhjs duties and was dc spondent. Word has been received from the Notional park that a government scout In tho command of Scout Wagner, vns caught In a snowslldo near Mammoth llct Springs, and now lies dead under many feet of snow. Tba Jury In tho case of Mllovar Kon-ovlck, Kon-ovlck, the Croatian charged with slaying slay-ing ContrnctoSamucl T. Ferguson at West Mlddlcton, Washington county. Wash., on Sept, 26, returned a verdict of first degreomurdcr. Dr. D. RDjvIs, recently from Dover, Del., vPpo has been practicing mcdlclno nt RAwllns for four months, died suddcnlyn tho 17th, tho cause being attributed to alcoholism. John M. Bim., first grand master of tho Odd Fellows In Washington, ono of tho founders of Olympln, Wash., orlglnntor of JJio Odd Fellows' homo In Washington nnd Its flrst superintendent, superin-tendent, Is dead at tho ago of 81. Whllo tho revenuo cutter Areata was lying at Port Townscnd, Wash , somo of tho crow amused themselves by shooting at ducks, when Engineer William Snyro camo within range or Alfred Ooobcl's gun nnd was Instantly killed. A. D. Owon, n storekeeper at Camden, Cam-den, Wash., shot nnd fatally wounded Claudo Calhoun at Camden. Tho quarrel quar-rel arose over an Ico contract In which It apopnrs that Claude and Ernest Calhoun, Cal-houn, brothers, believed tht-y wero wronged. In a fit of Jealousy Miss Lou Adams Ad-ams shot nndjkllled Patrick II. King, Jr., n ranchman. In tho European hotel, ho-tel, nt La Junta, Colo. Miss Adams Is 25 years old. King's fnthor was for fevcral years a general contractor for the Santa Fp Sam Kohn, sewing machlno agent, committed ,suJcldo nt Spokane by Jumping Into tho Spnkano river. Beforo Be-foro Jiimplngffho removed both overcoat over-coat nnd undercoat nnd hat. Ho was seen to rlso once, waving his hands despcrntojy. William Fairly nnd James Moonoy, mombera of tho national board of tho United MlnqlWorkcrs from Alabama and MIssonrlVespectlvoly, wero wny-laldat wny-laldat TfJkWidf Oolo.,-'dragged-from their buggy and. beaten by eight men with stones nnd six shooters, nnd left lying In tho road. Both wero badly Injured. C, J. Martin, county treasurer of Grand county, Oregon, was found dend In his ofllco In the county court houso nt Canyon City, ho having suicided. Martin left a noto saying ho was short In his accounts, but that his estate would reimburse tbo county for all bis mistakes. Tho antl gambling law of 1901 la sustained by a decision announced by tho Wyoming supreme court Tho law was nttacked on tho ground of lr-regularities lr-regularities In tho houso proceedings and tho legality ot all tho acta ot tho sixth legislature waa Involved In tbo caso. Tour woodchoppefs. Dill Hampton, Jack Brown, Frank Manning and a man whose namo la not known, nro missing nnd nro supposed to havo been killed by a snowslldo which destroyed de-stroyed tho cabins occupied by thorn on Castle creek, flvo miles from As-pon, As-pon, Colorado. Albert J. Beclcman, who on October l&th last shot and killed Helen Kelly becsuso sbo rojectod him, after accepting ac-cepting presents from him. was found guilty by a Jun- in Judgo McClornan's court at Butto of murder In tho second sec-ond degroo and sontonccu to nlnoty nlno years In prison. Edwin F. Bennett, tbo oldest Inhabitant In-habitant of Carbon county, Wyoming, dlod vory suddenly on tho ICth, Bon-nott's Bon-nott's Peak nnd Bonnett's Forry across tho Piatt rlvor southeast ot Rawlins, points well known to tho oarly-day travoloni across tho mountain, moun-tain, were named for him. It Is claimed that tho party ot surveyors sur-veyors that Is running a lluo betweon Douglas and Orln Junction Is In tho employ of tho Bolgo-Amcrlcnn Drilling Trust, and that n railroad Is to bo built this year to connect Orln Junction with Landor, passing through Douglas and Caspar en route. Frajik O. Bonier, a railroad conductor, con-ductor, aged C2 yoars, killed his wife, aged -10, and committed sulcldo at tho woman's homo In Donvor. Tho couplo had separated and tbo woman had secured se-cured a dlvorco. Srntor attempted a reconciliation, and when sho refused shot her throe times. A delegation ot Pino Bluffs ahcop-men ahcop-men has filod n complaint with the Wyoming board of sheep commissioners commission-ers ngalnst Josoph F. Mllllgan ot Choyonno, charging him with taking a band of scabby sheep into I.aramlo county from Nebraska. Tbo stato board la investigating tho mattor. Senator Heyburn has Introduced an Amendment to tho nr ly appropriation bill, appropriating 1500,000 for the purchase pur-chase of 20.000 acres of land in Spo-kano Spo-kano county, Washington and Kootenai Koote-nai county, Idaho, for the establish, ment of a permanent enran ground for tho regular army and national militia, In voluntarily relinquishing his seat s n member of the houso of representatives, repre-sentatives, Mr. Shufroth ot ho First district of Colorado furulshej a profound pro-found sensatiqn Mr. Ghitrolh acknowledged ac-knowledged that his election had been tainted by fraud, but declared that he was In no way responsible for It I I |