Show NORTH NORTHWEST AVEST NOTES after being closed for coinage pur poses tor for more than twelve years the united states mint at carson fity rity nevada gevada may be reopened within the aest few months negotiations between the lalor unions of butte and the rocky moun ain bell telephone company are apparently arentie ly off the situation indicating a struggle to a finish the break in the transmission wires of the nevada power company which threw goldfield into darkness and which was charged to the striking miners it now develops was caused by a general fun funston Fu niton ton has ordered a gen eral court martial to convene at gold field this order would indicate say army men that the troops now on duty at that place would be held there tor for some time to come judge bourquin of ohp th state district court at dutte butte instructed the jury to acquit A B clements cashier ot of the tailed failed aetna bank on a felony charge growing out of the alleged receipt of deposits when be lie knew the bank was insolvent A dispatch from den demer er says that james R barber and summer G moon the millionaire lumbermen at of eau claire WIs indicted with sen ator borah tor for alleged conspiracy in land frauds may be taken to idaho for tri trial al colonel william crooks assistant to the general manager of the harri harrl man lines in the pacific northwest died in portland on the of corn growley out of a cold con about six weeks ago he lie was 76 years old the supreme court of montana has granted a writ of habeas c corpus in the case of G S E wisner an ana aria conda bank ban employee who had been convicted on the charge of receiving deposits when he knew his principal to be insolvent I 1 the smelter city bank of durango colo a state institution capital 30 has closed its doors lack of con cori due it is said to the indict ments of prominent citizens on the charges of land frauds under the fed eral laws led to the suspension 0 C dallas chief clerk and J D mcleod at the head of the survey de apartment part ment in the office of united states surveyor general gene ralin in helena have been arrested the indictment alleges for gery and conspiracy to defraud the government of the united states the state board of pardons of mon tana has approved the action of gov arnor tooele thoele in granting a pardon to elizabeth morrison a butte woman who upon conviction on a man slaughter charge for the killing of richard finnegan had been sen san fenced to the penitentiary for three years the hamilton powder company a 0 works blew up sunday mor morning ning at departure bay B C the loss Is fia 40 no one was killed or injured in van couver thirty five miles away houses were shaken so badly that it was believed an earthquake had occurred and many persons rushed to the street la IA alarm alarin pelia pella dl DI ria ills was arrested at sa attle together with two discharged employees of the seattle electric company charged with a conspiracy to take the life of 0 tony restive foreman of construction work for the se so attle electric company who dis charged the in men for incompetency from the construction gang in an address issued by the executive committee of the western fed aeration of miners labor union men are urged to rally to the defense of 0 officers and members of the federation charged with the murder of former governor of idaho and other crimes and of the goldfield miners who are on strike michael C carroll a pioneer guide died at his home in laramie La rainie wa last week he selected the site tor for fort sanders three miles south ot of laramie in 1866 when the union pa effic railroad was bein being built and acted as mediator with the indians going unarmed to meet chief friday who was on the warpath and prevent ing a slaughter ot of whites in an opinion rendered last week Attorn attorney uy general albert J galen galer ruled tl trat at christmas songs cannot be barred from the public schools of montana on the ground that such use constitutes denominational or sec see tarlan tartan teachings the decision was made at the request of the state su perin of public instruction james R kirwan who rad nad been acting secretary treasurer of the west era ern federation of miners tendered his resignation last week on account ol 01 ill health and ernest mills a member of the executive board from british columbia assumed the duties of thai that office martin obrien a prominent lawyer of rawhide nevada while under the influence of liquor chot and killed bessie gardiner a woman of the half world and wounded a bystander 0 brien had become infatuated with the woman and the kil ing was the result of jealousy neither the colorado state bank ol 01 durango and its branch bank at pa gosa springs nor the smelter city state bank also at durango both ol 01 which closed their doors a short time ago will be able to reorganize and reopen according to H M beatty state bank commissioner A denver dispatch sas reduced ex press rates for utah and california may be secured by george J kindel after he has atte attended nied the session 0 the interstate commerce commission in washington F february 6 when ar will be made in the denver express rate case cao filed by him |