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Show NORTHWEST NOTES. The first snow of lb season fell at Denver on October 1st, The benefit held In Rutle last week for the striking miners of Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania netted In tho neighborhood of 13,000. A Chinaman who had leased the Sal raon creek placers, near Itakcr City, Ore., found a gold nugget last week worth 917,000. Two trains collided on a curve between be-tween Columbus and Park City, Mont., two men being killed and the engine and mall cars wrecked. ' Patrick Kelly of Helena, sged 03 years, fell dead In the hallway of tho first floor at the Flnten hotel at Ilutte on Friday as a result of heart failure. An eighteen-year-old boy who was cut In two by a Union Pacific tralu six miles east of Cheyenne has been Identified Identi-fied as Albert Trudeoo of Sioux City, Iowa. Henry Ilreltcnstcin, editor of tho Labor News and Socialist candidate for governor, has left Wyoming, and the Socialists will have to tlud another candidate. Thomas McCormlck, a rancher living near Laurel, Mont., wus thrown from his horse and dragged a considerable distance, receiving injuries which may prove fatal. While Charles llooth, aged 8, was playing on the railroad tracks at Great Fulls, Montana, he was struck by a switch engine and Instantly killed, being be-ing badly mangled. A mau entered a saloon at a railroad camp near i.arlln, Nevada, and ordered the proprietor to throw up his hands. Instead, the proprietor whipped out a revolver aud shot the would-be hold-up, killing him Instantly. John W. Hums, Labor party candidate candi-date for sheriff und for thirteen years u miner in tho Rocky Fork minus, was killed at Deer Lodge, Moot., by falling from a ledge of rock to the floor of the room, a distance of eight feet. The ordinance rcceutly passed by tho Cheyunuu council mulling gambling a misdemeanor punishable by lino or I in-prlsonmunt in-prlsonmunt wus last week enforced for thu first time w hen three proprietors of gambling houses weie lined S100 each. The coroner's jury that investigated thu Union Piiciliu wieck thut occurred ut Rawlins, Wyo., lu which four men lost their lives, returned u verdict that tho wreck wnsdue to gross carelessness i on the part of the railroad, Thu wseclc was caused by the fulluie of tho air brakes of a freight train to work, Hop-picking in Washington is now practically over, Hup-growcrs aru disappointed over the yield, which Is oue-tiflh below what was expected. Dry weather 'prevented tho hops from maturing. Oregon crops are just reversed re-versed and will reach BO.00O to 00,000 bales, as compared with 70,000 lust ycur. A resolution has been Introduced In the Portland city council allowing gambling houses, slot machines and disorderly houses to run under police regulations. It is claimed thut tho revenue, which thu city w ill derive from these various sources if the resolution Is passed will be in excess of 815,000 per month, A riot occurred at Fenelon, Nevada, ono day last week, as a result of which J. , Sullivan sustained a serious gunshot gun-shot wound. Tho riot occurred between be-tween about thirty O reeks and Sullivan, Sulli-van, who Is a sub-contractor. Thu trouble arose over a misunderstanding about wages. The Greeks attacked Sullivan, and In the melee he was shot, lioyd Kirk, an engineer at the elec" trie light housu at Rawlins, Wyo , was Instantly killed by an electric shock. No ono was In the room with him at the tlmo of the accident, and it Is not known just how It happened. It is thought that Kirk, in making the switch, had tuken holdof the rods with both hands aud received the full forco of 2,300 volts through his body. The Colorado & Southern has commenced com-menced the strengthening of the bridges of its Wyoming division pre paratory to the hauling of heavier shipments of ore from the mines at Sunrise to the wcrka of the Colorado Fuel. & Iron company at Pueblo. At present about 350 tons a day are hauled, but after November 1st the output is to be Increased to 2,000 tons a day. A family of Pole living at Great Falls, Montana, lost tAOO In a peculiar manner. Tho family, whose name Is Kossuitl, bad been using a straw tick for banking purposes, and In It had IC00 In currency and 8C0 In gold. Through some oversight the tick was taken out into the yard with some other rubbish and a bonfire was made of it before It wus remembered that it was also a bauk. John Hunt, a negro, last week plead guilty to stealing 81.40 cents from I J io room of Ed Sohuarcz, during the Frontier celebration at Cheyenne, and wis sentenced to eighteen mouths In the penitentiary. An uecessoty, George Pash, turned state's evidence and was released, Mrs. August Anderson, 28 years of age, committed suicide ut Leadville, "".olo., by plunging head forward through un open scat In an outhouse, striking on her head, causing lnslaut deuih. Mrs, Anderson has been ailing for some lime and her mind was undoubtedly un-doubtedly deranged. |