Show NORTHWEST NOTES the twenty eighth convention of tin tbt montana state christian association was held in billings last week montana was the last state in tho the union to hold its democratic state convention to elect delegates to denver twice within ten days tho the carnegie library at couo nevada has icen been robbed about IG 16 being taken from the money drawer C D frazier frahler of portland was chosen be second cond vice president of the trav slurs protective association at the milwaukee meeting tle tile eight year old daughter of mrs samuel stevenson was burned to death at carson city nev her dress dresa catching fire from a firecracker joseph wallace was killed by a train two miles west of laurel mont trainmen say the man was slee sleeping pina on the track his head pillowed billowed pill owed on ti rail egbert smith aged 41 years ono one ol of the best known mining engineers in america lied died at his homo home in colorado springs last ladt week death came as aa a result of an illness contracted in mex fee last winter the body of 15 year old harry sit sf ford who mysteriously disappeared from reno heno nevada has been found at stillwater over fifteen miles from where ho he was supposed to have gono gone bathing in nil an irrigating ditch boycott of oregon hops and barley worth annually la Is threatened by the brewers because of the stand for prohibition taken by most of the counties of that state according to a prominent california brewer the isthmian canal commission has discontinued tho the purchasing agency at tacoma wash and haa transferred the work which consist ed principally in the inspection ol of lumber to an army engineer at seattle A defective rail caused the wrecking of a passenger train near garry carry town mont and engineer J J mul mill len was instantly killed fireman george W was seriously injured but it la is believed lie he will re cover the directors of the montana independent telephone company at a meeting held in butto butte elected officers for the year one change was made W H hall of butte being elected as aa vice president to succeed P B moss mosa of billings after scarcely three hours of dellb deliberation era tion a jury at dutte butte acquitted johll sutherland of the chargo charge of first degree murder in tho the killing hilling of J 1 kerr november 7 last this wag sutherlands herlands Sut second trial sutherland struck kerr with a brick mayor taylor Tny lor a mine superintendent and ID W priest an ex constable lied died at goldfield last week within three hours houra of each other as a result of a desperate street duel with pis in which the two men almost rid ad died one another taylor charged priest with trying to break up tip alq home henry weber a prominent mining Dp operator orator and society leader one of the pioneers of goldfield has been sentenced to serve seven years in the state penitentiary weber was con of embezzling belonging to the doctor mining company of 0 wonder of which he was president ind manager fifty years ago on juno jund 27 the lit itile band of Goor georgians glins known as the green russell party pitched camp on cherry creek creck where denver stands after a wearisome journey across tho plains and later they built tho the first farst cabin on the site of the city tho the event was commemorated last week by a celebration of the pioneers tit alie 0 two year old oia son of mr and aid 1 mrs tony was run oyer b by y a runaway team in dutte butte and instantly killed the hoofs of the horses crushed in the skull of the child tho runaway was started by small boys exploding firecrackers near th the 0 horses miss aliss leonora pearce convicted at denver of having obtained 4 valuable ring from mrs harriet crows an aged blind widow by palming painting herself oft off as a spiritualist capable of restoring sight was sentenced to serve three to four years in the colorado penitentiary two destructive fires in colorado started by careless campers have destroyed timber valued at the fires fire occurred in the western part of jefferson county and the estremo extremo northern centrum part of park county the latter being known as mount evans district tile tho andy hempel brokerage company the pioneer mining broket brokerage firm in reno heno was sold last week to J W longley E D cushman aria and D F all of tonopah To nev where they are prominent in business circles the company will be reorganized and capitalized zed at james E steele en route from jerome ariz to boston mass became violently insane on a santa fe at trinidad colo and was removed to the county jail ills his brain Is supposed to have become affected by the high altitude of raton mountain over which tho the train passed I 1 |