Show I NORTHWEST NOTES I AI hen Winters aged Gj living near Armington Cascade county Montana was struck by lightning while on horseback Both rider and horso were killed Tho Portland Telegram says E II Harriman will spend 10000000 In railroad building In tho states of Oregon Washington and Idaho within the next year On account of proposed irrigation work tho secretary of tho Interior has withdrawn from entry fi120 acres ol the Choyenno land district and 2CGO acres In the Lander district Wyoming I The Ixnvls and Clark officials an nounco that with tho attendance Wednesday of last week of 27420 tho million mark has been passed tho total to-tal attendance from June 1 to date Including In-cluding passes being 10111Ml Soward Alaska has finally been connected with the outer world by telegraphic tel-egraphic communication With tho completion of tho Seward Vaides cable the government now has about 2300 miles of cable In Alaskan waters In a wreck on tho Great Northern at Mid Canon fifteen miles from Great Fnlia an ore train of eight cars went to the ditch tying up traffic along the road for about seven hours The wreck was duo to a bioken flange Nobody No-body was injured William II Goss a Salt Lake mining man and S F Hunt of Challls have Just returned from the new and sensational sen-sational gold discoveries on Parker mountain some twenty miles west of Challis Idaho They report a discovery dis-covery of what appears to he tellurium ore that runs Into the thousands In goldA A disastrous lire swept through tho justness section of Wlnnemuccn No vada Saturday burning sixteen business busi-ness houses and Inflicting damage variously estimated from 80000 to 100000 It started In Armory hall and raged for several hours The heaviest loser Is tho Eagle Jewelry Drug company its loss amounting to 24000 An arrival from Roosevelt Idaho gives a story of the Lefonto tragedy which shows there were three men engaged en-gaged In the shooting that it 1 occurred at night and that only ono shoT out of some 18 or 20 took effect Tho visitor heard the testimony at tho preliminary hearIng which resulted In tho discharge dis-charge of William West the man who did tho killing William W Stevenson was shot dead by Chllllon Bowen in a room oft of-t San Francisco lodging house where tine murdered man had found Dowen In company with Stevensons wife Bowen was arrested at tho point of a revolver and ho and Mrs Stevenson nro In prison charged with murder All those concerned aro residents of tho stato of Nevada Two accidental drownlngs occurred In the WIlHnmetto river Just below Portland Sunday The first was that of a young man named Erie Blgelow recently from Chicago who In company com-pany with a companion was bathing Tho second drowning was that of Floyd Hnvlrd aged 17 who In company com-pany with several I boys was paddling about tho river on a board Ralph E Spurrier a telegrapher and formerly a member of tho Mill and Smeltermens union of Butte refused re-fused to Join the striking operators on tho Northern Pacific road and several hundred Bineltermen held a meeting and marched In a body to tho depot surrounded the structure and compelled com-pelled Spurrier to quit work under pain of being escorted from town an expression which is significant in Butto circles Town Marshal Charles Blackman ol Cheynoy Wash on Sunday morning shot and killed a man supposed to bo George Sherman Sherman was loitering loit-ering about the Northern Pacific depot de-pot was ordered under arrest and started to run Ono of tho regions whero tho Bartlett Bart-lett pear Is most extensively grown is the Yiikima valley in Washington and reports from there are that the valley Is blessed this season with bountiful crops rime trees are literally liter-ally laden with luscious fruit During a terrific rain and thunder storm at Kallspell Mont lightning struck Austin Blair a farm hand kill Ins him instantly Two cows and three horses were killed by tho same stroke A barn was sot on lire and I completely destroyed i ExJudgo Dell Stuart a prominent attorney of Portland member of the Masons Knights of Pythias and other orders exdistrict judge of Iowa and exmayor of Osceola la died at St Vincents hospital In Portland as tho result of an operation Lester Rlchnrdbon 19 years old son of respectable parents who Is under arrest for burglary has confessed that In tho last two months ho has looted wenty rooms In various hotels In Seattle securing money and Jewelry which ho lavished on his friends With the world apparently against tinn and with no prospects of betterIng better-Ing his condition J A Forsyth swal lowed tho contents of a bottle of car olic acid at Reno Nevada and after suffering great agony died Forsythe was a carpenter and was out of work |