Show H r NORTHWEST NOTE W B Wolcott aged 40 a railway engineer was beaten and robbed by an unknown mulatto In tho redlight district dis-trict of Butte and has Since died from ill wounds Sam Davis an officer at McGlll Nevada ada was shot and seriously injured by n Greek who was resisting arrest The Greek was later shot by n member mem-ber of n posse and died from his rounds Auditorium plans accepted last week by tho DomocratlQ national committed on arrangements for tho national con entlon to bo held In Denver provld for seats for 14000 persons in tho convention hall I A resolution was passed by tho house on tho 22nd requesting tho president presi-dent to submit to congress a copy of ho reporter tho special commission sent by him to Investigate tho labor troubles at Goldflcld About 3000 unemployed men marched march-ed to the mayors olllco In i Seattle ono day lust week to ask for work Most of them are lumbermen who have been driven to tho city by tho closing of mills and camps By a vote of 178 to 11C tho annual convention of tho Colorado Horse Cattlo Growers association In session > in Denver went on record as opposed to the federal administrations policy sf public land control Francis J Heney In an Interview In Portland declares that land frauds are being perpetrated In Oregon today as of yore only that the prosecution of tho land grafters has made thorn more careful in their operations It Is stated by tho committee of local lo-cal bankers having charge of tho bankIng bank-Ing operations of tho Portland banks during tho recent depression that all of the 1000000 of clearing house certificates Issued during that time have been redeemed C Mathls absconding cashier ol ho defunct Exchange bank of Ulalne Washington which suspended two weeks ago has been arrested In Ash croft B C Ho agrees to waive extradition ex-tradition and return nnd try to straighten out tho banks affairs The verdict pf tho coroners Inquest over tho remains of Mrs Fred Sluter and her four children whoso charred bodies were found In tho ruins of their little ranch homo on the Musselshell In Montana recommends that Ole Nordell bo held for the crime Very strong evidence against him has been found Former United States Commissioner H H Hcndrlcks of Portland last week pleaded guilty to his share in the alleged Illegal fencing of land In tho Butto Creok Livestock Land and Lumber Lum-ber company This Is believed to bo preliminary to like pleadings on the part of other persons connected with ho land case All Western Pacific construction Work between tho CaliforniaNevada flute and Palisade Nov has been stopped temporarily on account ot shortage of funds About 200 men have been thrown out of work Tho contractors having charge of this worK state that worK will DO resumed by February 10 In connection with tho murder and partial Incineration ot Mrs Fred Schleuter and her four children at their ranch near Flat Willow Montana a rancher named Nordell has been arrested ar-rested Ho lives two miles from the scene of tho crime It is said ho was In lovo with Mrs Schlcutcrs 15 year old daughter Tho Mine Operators association las abolished tho card system which requires all employes to sign an agreement agree-ment renouncing tho Western Fedora tick of Miners and declared an open shop policy This action was because of tho fact that tho agreement which the men were required to sign Js In conflict with tho statutes of Nevada Jewelry heirlooms and costly clothIng cloth-Ing to tho value of 4000 wore stolen from the home of James Douglas In I Portland last week Included among the stolen articles were the sword and jeweled belt given to Sir James Douglas Doug-las grandfather of Mr Douglas by Queen Victoria when Sir James Douglas Doug-las became first governor of Brltlsb Columbia The senate judiciary committee hat favorably reported the bill of Senator Clark Wyoming increasing tho fees o < witnesses and jurors In the Unltoo States courts and before commission era courts to 3 per day with mileage mile-age at 15 cents per mile by stage and 5 cents by rail In Montana Wyoming Utah Oregon Colorado Nevada Idaho Ida-ho New Mexico and Arizona As a result of correspondence which has passed between President liooso velt Clifford PInchot and western lawmakers following suggestions ol J A McGuire editor of tho Outdoot Life It is likely that an Immense game preserve will be established by the government on tho Mapltl fork of the North fork of the Shoshone river In Wyoming N 1 Henrietta M Johnson was run down and killed In Seattle by an automobile driven by Guy C Stratton secretary of tho Acme Shingle company J FIves F-Ives vice president of the Btlrnson Mill company who was In the automobile auto-mobile and Mr Stratton gave 1GOC ball It is not unlikely that tho Goldfleie mx branch of the Western Federation of Miners will disband and tho members mem-bers join the independent organization launched by Thomas OBrien It is bo lleved tho new organization will receive re-ceive full recognition and the old wago scale will bo restored Crazed by drink and maddened over a trivial difference S Oneda a Japanese Jap-anese laborer shot and instantly killed M Kosnka at Butte Oneda when h j realized his act placed tho muzzle of the gun in his own mouth and fired sending a bullet through his brain and dying Instantly d + Wb |