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NORTHWEST NOTES A switch engine jumped the track at Laurel, Mont., and three men were killed, ona of them being Dan Anthesa the yard master. It now develops that the mysterious Mr. Craig of Pasadena, who pur chased for an unknown consideration $3,000,000 worth of Portland property two years ago, is the Harriman Bys tem. The supreme court of Montana has affirmed the decision of the district court of Jefferson county in the case of Street and others against the Delta Mining company, a controversy over a mining claim. Mrs. Carrie Kersh, charged with murder in connection with the death of W. A. Johnson at Portland, has been convicted of manslaughter. Jess Webb, the woman's accomplice, has been convicted of murder. Denver has Installed a municipal paving plant, and is manufacturing its own paving materials. The work so far has proven satisfactory, and the report is given out that the materials are up to expectations. A seven and one-half carat blue diamond, valued at $5,000, which was stolen from the home of Crawford Hill, owner of the Denver Republi can, in Denver, has been found in a Pueblo pawn shop. The gem had been sold for $300. The coroner's jury investigating the explosion at the Delagua, Colo., mine of the Victor American Fuel company November 8, in which seven ty-nine perished, has returned a verdiet exonerating the company from any responsibility due to negligence. Bert Rose, convicted at Big Tim ber, Mont., of assault in the first degree, committed June 18, on Miss A. Whitney, when the prisoner attempted to rob the lady, and because she resisted, he tried to kill her, has been sentenced to ten years' imprisonment. Going suddenly insane, Harry Bob, a rancher in the western part of Lincoin county, Montana, attacked and severely injured his neighbor, Robert Wheeler, and then killed himself, Wheeler was struck over the head and stunned, and then stabbed fourteen times. He may recover. All charges against Binger Her. mann, formerly congressman and for mer commissioner of the general land office, growing out of the Oregon land fraud indictments, were dismissed in the federal court at Portland, on the motion of Francis J. Heney, the gov ernment's special prosecutor. The sheep ranging in the White Pine country, Nevada, are afflicted with a peculiar disease. Its origin is not known. No method has been dis covered by the woolgrowers by which the malady can be eradicated. Death occurs within twenty-four hours after the disease attacks the sheep. Nate McCauley. a pioneer Montana ranchman, is dead at his home near Forest Grove, Mont. Mr. McCauley was one of the early settlers in the Judith basin and amassed a large fortune, and in addition to his large land and stock interests. was a director of the Frst National bank of Lew. istown. The body of William Watson, for mer surveyor general of Washington under the second Cleveland administration, who died at a hospital in Seattle. has been sent to Nashville Tenn. for burial. Mr. Watson was the locating engineer of the old Seat tle & Montana railroad, now a part of the Great Northern. In the election contest brought at Phillipsburg. Mont., by D. A. McLeod against Frank Morse, Republican, for the office of sheriff, the court declared Morse elected by a majority of one vote. The official count had given Morse a majority of one, but rumors of irregularities In the count at certain precincts furnished the grounds for the contest. There will be at least two members of the forthcoming legislature at Helena who will favor the enactment of a woman's suffrage law in Montana Both of Dawson county's representatives have pledged themselves to support such a measure. Itemized statements showing the receipts and disbursements during the campaign of 1910 of both the Demo cratic and Republican state central committees of Montana have been filed. The reports show the Democrats spent $17,776 on the campaign, while the Republicans spent $22,200. A new cattle-feeding grain has been developed at the Wyoming experiment farm at Worland after four years of experimenting. The grain, which is a cross between the Russian spelt and American wheat, is called ommer. It is said to be drought-resisting, adapted to irrigated or arid soli, and capable of giving & yield of from 90 to 100 bushels to the acre. Dick Stalcup of Meadow Creek, Mont, had a harrowing experience while out hunting in the Upper Madison valley. He became separated from his party and wandered around in the deep snow two and a half days before reaching a saw mill camp. Suit has been filed at Helena by Phillip Tillinghast, receiver of the First National bank of Billings, Mont., to collect $135,800 from P. B. Moss, former president of the defunct instltution, averred to be the amount of
