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Show NORTHWEST NOTES. The Colorado regiment willed from Manila on the transport Warren. Hy n premature blast In the Leonard Leon-ard ahaft at llutte, Matt llolita mi In-atantljr In-atantljr killed and lien Wilton badly 'injured. Klwood Mead has resigned lila poal-'tlon poal-'tlon aa atale engineer ot Wyoming to devote hla entire time to tils new posl. .-lion of irrigating expert. l'rraldent A. !. Mohler of the Ore-gon Ore-gon Hallway ,t Navigation company Ihae been naked to take the presidency of the lllg l'our at a salary of $13,1)00 i year. Indian Agent Clnpp of the I'lne .KIdge agency ilenlca the reported tint tie between con boys and Indians on ! the Cheyenne river, which mis re- j -cently acntout. j Charles W. ltyiuen of Cheyenne has been recommended to the president ' for supervisor of the census for tho district of Wyoming, by both Senators j Warren and Clark. The old fountain geyser In the Yel-'lonstono Yel-'lonstono National park has broken out In another portion of tho crater. The eruptions, which tiro enormous, throw out rocks ninl pieces of wood. According to the Iteno Journal, or lera have been received from Wash-' Wash-' Ington for all the silver at the Carson mint. There are eight or ten carloads of dollars and bullion In storage there. Near l'lno drove, Wyoming, Qua Smith was engaged In hauling wood when the wagon tongue broke, his team ran away, tho wagon was upset and Hinllh landed underneath the load, j killing 1)1 in Instantly, I Another big ahlpment of cattle from i White l'lno county, Nevada, wna aent ' out last week. The herd was composed , of nil klrdsof rnngo cattle, having quite a per cent of cows and calves. They were shipped to the eastern mar I lct J ' Montana authorities are looking lor .1 Frank lloyle, a former Salt I.aker.who j Js accused of swindling Montana men I by representing Himself as an agent of i the Western Loan fc Savings company , of Kilt Lake and selling stock, pock eting the proceeds. ;.' The atenm shearing plant of Messrs, ShurllllT .t Houtx at Milliard, Wyo I was destroyed by tiro Sin ml ay. The j lots Is S:,000 with no Insurance, and includes thirty shearing machines, engine boiler and buildings. The Are Is believed to liavo been accidental. Senator Warren in response to an , inquiry made by him to tho war do- J -. r XiarlroanU.roilvd tit following ro-' ro-' ply froin the adjutant-general: "Wyo- I rnlng troops will leave Manila aa soon as Grant can be coaled. Delay has ' been caused by heavy rains and de structive typhoons." The barbed-wire on ranch fences in ' Jderccdeaeounty, Cala., is being utilized I with success for telephoning between j towns. 11. C. Dickinson of Stockton, ',' .put In batteries and boxes anil tried the novel system. It was about four , miles over the line and he claims that i the sound waa carried better than by ; the regular system. There are now a hundred men emir em-ir ployed on the site of tho new town ! near Truckee, Nov., where the pulp j plant will bo built. These are prln-' prln-' olpally engaged at present In building I dwellings for the employees of the J company. llxcavatlon hive also been j made prepatory to building the dam I : to divert the water from the river. ! Thirty car-loads of brick. for the build-' build-' Ing have been ordered. j The supremo court of Colorado has affirmed the validity of the law eatab- llshlng the new county of Teller, I which embraces tho Cripple Creek district. dis-trict. The county waa formed from ' portions of 111 l'aso and V'reraont coun- 'j ties by tho last legislature and citizens f of tho latter county resitted the action Ion the ground that it was contrary to the constitution of tho state. Fred Harvey, 10 years old, waa gored to death by a bull on a farm about ; 'eleven miles from Spokane. The boy's I body waa found lu a clump of bushes by his father. . Tho lad had crawled to a tree, pulled himself to a half.re- cllnlng position and died In that nttl- . tude. No one saw the bull's savage ft attack and young Hurvey was not 'j missed until supper time. ; The supremo court of Colorado has unanimously decided that the I eight-hour law Is unconstitutional. j The eight-hour law, which was enact- ed at the Into session of tho legislature, : applies only to mines, smelters and for I the reduction of tho ores. The refusal , of tho American Smelting nni! Itcflnlng I company to pay tho name wages for ' eight hours aa had been nald for ten j nml twelve, hours caused its smelters to bo closed on June IS, when the new ! law became operative. Governor Hlcharda has called the at- I tintton of the authorities at Washing- J ton to tho fact that Indians are un lawfully killing gamo In Wyoming. (Last week an Indian was arrested at Wells with a quantity of game in his ; possession, A party of fourteen In diana are reported to bo killing game in Jackson's hole. They are from the j Fort Hall agency nnd havo passes to 1 visit the Hboslionee at Fort Washakie. The governor will ask that the grant- I Ing of passes during the closed season ft be stopped. |
