The Philipsburg mail., 1900-07-06
NORTHWEST NOTES.

Jacob Fry of Lander. wyo., has
been granted pension Of IS per
month.
A number of Utahns from Salina, are
IN Wyoming looking fors land suitable
for farming.
A new paper, the Capital, has been
launched at Santa Fe, N. NJ, it's mia
sion being to work for statehood.
st. Louis wool buyers last week pur-
chased of a Grand Junction, Colo, firm
13,5oo pounds of wool, being the clip
from one flock.
Fred Bartlett, of Butte, was convicted
of perjury in connection with his bank
| ruptcy and sentenced to ten months in
| Jail. 1t is the first case of the kind in
Butte.
The attorneys for Robert e. Lee Of
Cheyenne, Wyo., sentenced to the stats
penitentiary for ten years for train
| robbery, state that the case will not be
appealed.
Among the American missionaries in
the district at present threatened by
Boxers" in Pekin are the Rev. Edward
| K. Lowry and wife and Rev. George
! Lowry and wife of Denver, Colo,
Judge Knowles has handed down his
decision in the celebrated mining case
OF the Calusa-Parrot company, owned
| by ex-senator Clark, and the Anaconda
company, controlled by Marcus DAILY.
The decision is in favor of the Anaconda
| company.
| A monument to the memory of the
! late Rev. Myron Reed was unveiled in
Fremont cemetery, Colo, last week
under the auspices of the organized
| labor unions. A great throng of peo-
pie gathered to witness the unveiling
and appropriate addresses were deliv-
cred.
An incendiary attempted last week
to burn the Piedmont dipping and
shearing corral of Piedmont, Wyo. A
few shearing pens were destroyed.
|
rated with kerosene, but the fire was
distinguished before all of them We're
| burned.
The will of the late Nathaniel p.
Hill, formerly United States senator
from Colorado has been filed for pro-
bate. His great estate is bequeathed
to his wife and three children and is to
be equally divided among them. 1t is
believed the share of each will amount
to more than ST., Ooo,O ,O0O
The Northern Express company's
Office at Miles City, Mont, was robbed
last week of a $4,000 package and $500
received for the sale of tickets. The
robbery occurred during the station
agents absence. Two suspicious look
ing characters who had been lurking
about the station during the day are
missing.
There is not much new light on the
Red Canyon robbery which occurred at
Evanston, Wyo., last week. The
theory of Mr. Putnam, the bookkeeper,
is that someone was secreted in the
room and struck him in the back of the
head as he was putting the money in
the safe. checking up of the cash
shows that 81, ,6s1 is missing.
miner named Dillon, late-comcr
to Rock Springs, Wyo., shot a miner
named McDaniels in the forehead last
week Dillon gave himself up and is
in Jail He claims self-def fense, and
from what information can be gathered
McDaniels was the aggressor. The
wound is not fatal, the bullet having
glanced upward without penetrating
the skull.
The mud volcanoes situated in Lay
tonville, Cal, have bursted into alarm
ing activity. The disturbance is SO
violent that great redwood trees are
swayed when the mud and vapor shoots
high over the rims of the craters and
flows down the hillside like a lava
stream. The murky craters are filled
with blush mud of about the con-
sistency of boiling tar and is icy cold.
The roar of the volcanoes can be heard
for miles around.
Chairman Mclaughlin of the Popu-
list state committee of Washington,
has issued call for two conferences of
the party leaders. One will be held *
eastern Washington Populsts at Sp0'
kane, June 2l, and at Tacoma the sal4,
day the western Washington lcudelr
will meet. Many regard the move ats
aimed at Governor Rogers, who is saG
to be opposed by a faction of his party
with which Chairman Mclaughlin is
allied.
James Stricklan was arrested at
Rawlins last week and taken to Oregon