Show II NORTHWEST NOTES II r Warren Zubrlck knocked out Youn Mansfield In two minutes before the Vancouver Wash Athletic club William Broad Bert Coffman and Prod Johnson were killed in the Opp ulna at Jacksonville Ore by an ao sldental explosion of dynamite George L Brown has been arrested it Bellingham Wash on a charge of counterfeiting A fomplete counter felting outfit was found In his room A sixtymile wind from tho southwest south-west blow over Reno Nev unroonnd houses and blowing down a larg < j freight shed a frame residence and destroying many trees Mrs Sally Barry of Northport Wash the Insane woman who hold possession of a car at Girard Kan for five days has been committed to the asylum at Medical Lake Jugaburo Asuka a Japanese who was in the employ of the Southern Pacific company was killed Instantly at Preblo siding near Golconda Nov by being struck by a locomotive Fred T Sherman has been arrestad In Seattle charged with having bribed George T Wright mayor of Tacoma 6000 being the sum In question Mayor Wright denies having received the money Three counterfeiters have boau placed under arrest by a secret service I ser-vice officer at Seattle and hundreds of tollers worth of spurious 16 and flO I gold places with the paraphernalia used ln their manufacture was OAP lured Ed and Bob Franc and their mother have been arrested at Phllllpsburg oil Mont charged with the murder o George Reed a woodchopper who wad known to have had money and whoso body was found in a shallow grave near the Franz ranch The commissioner of the general land office announces the secretary oil the Interior has withdrawn from all forma of disposals except under the mineral laws 1300000 acres of public lands lying in Missoula and Flath a4 counties Mont and Koatenal count Ida for the proposed forest reserve Mrs C L Bybae of Lander Wyo recently gave birth to a mite of 0 baby which is probably the smallest ever born in Wyoming The child q girl weighed but one and a hall I pounds and is only nine Inches rn I length Its head in clrcumf U about dual to the rim of a silver flol lar Active preparations for the con Btructlon of the Milwaukee line through the Snoqualmle pass in WashIngton Wash-Ington are being made and construction construc-tion work will soon bo commenced Already Al-ready tie camps are being established along the Snoqualmle rout and the cutting of ties under contract has begun be-gun The International and Empire Retail Re-tail Dealers association at their annual an-nual congress in Spokane unanimously unanimous-ly adopted a resolution endorsing 1 President Roosevelts action to bring about a law to fix and enforce reasonable reason-able railroad rates and will request I the delegation In congress to give him all support Judge W H Hunt in the United States court at Butte told Dennis Burke Samuel McBride Peter Larson and Oharles Ahtm convicted of 11 legal timber cutting In Missoula coon tr that the government must protect Ito Umber interests and the practice of cutting timber on the public domain do-main must cease He fined McBride and Burke 300 each and Larson and Ahlm j160 each The people of Montana continue to enjoy great prosperity and the outlook out-look for the future Is exceedingly bright The mining men and in fact nil classes of business men had n good year last year and a feeling 01 security prevails A snowilldo carried Harry You mans and Fred Davidson Into Nellie gulch near Lake City Colo The former for-mer succeeded In digging hlmsolf out and hastened to organize a searching party to rescue Davidson who was burled beneath the avalanche Joo Rodgers and John Anderson fare been placed under arrest by tho police on suspicion of having been the principals in the frequent holdups hold-ups of saloons In BUtte recently An dersons mask slipped during a robbery rob-bery It is claimed and he was recog nixed Edward Kcastor a well known stockman of Hlghwoods Mont com knitted suicide by shooting himself through tho head Koaster lately sued his wife for divorce on the ground of Jnfldellty Tho wife fought the charges claiming that Keasters mind Was unbalanced After considering the case 113 hours and forty minutes and establishing estab-lishing a new Montana jury record the jury In tho casa of Camlle Romey tried at Helena for killing Wasson Oliver was unable to agree and Judge Smith discharged them It is asserted 114 ballots were taken The house has passed Representative Represent-ative Mondells hill extending the public pub-lic land laws to the tca mlle squara tract of land In Wyoming ceded by the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians to the government on June 7 1897 This land has heretofore been subj ot to entry under the homestead law only |