Show NORTHWEST NOTES A man supposed to be Anton Fritz of Portland was decapitated at San Fernando Cal by tho westbound i Santa Barbara pasonger train Alexander Findley a carpenter aged B3 years was burned to death nt Butte onestory In a fire that destroyed tho frame building In which he was living killed Ole Martenson a Swede was by an Irishman named Roberts at Encampment En-campment Wyo Roberts Is In Jftll at Ilawllns and will be tried for murder mur-der The plant of the National Reduction mills halt a mllo from Florence Colo was entirely destroyed by fire last week Loss 150000 with no Insurance Insur-ance Thomas Brant and Thomas Rick hart two Northern Pacific engineers were killed at Cedar Creek spur near Garfield Wash when a passenger train collided with a light engine 0 0 Yergy of the Yergy Lumber company and a well known Helena man while driving across tho streetcar street-car tracks In Helena was struck by an electric car and almosst Instantly killed A strike of gold ore on the one hundred I hun-dred foot level of tho Annla Laurie claim belonging to the Manhattan Mining companys group at Manhattan Manhat-tan Nevada goes better than 1500 per ton Edward A Homer formerly of Lead vllle Colo has organized the Roosevelt Roose-velt third term national league In Chicago and says that clubs will be organized In every county and city In the United States E Wllletts a stockman from Idaho enrouto cast with stock fell from p car In the yards at Rawlins on the night of the Ith and when picked up by yardmen the following morning died In a few minutes Senator Heylmrn of Idaho has proposed pro-posed an amendment to the railway rate law which will require the railroads rail-roads to give Boise Spokane and other interior points the advantage I of the long haul rates I Because the Montana Coal Coke I company refused to reinstate a miner who had been discharged some week ago 400 miners struck tielng up tho mines and coking plants of the company com-pany at AldrIdge and Horr Mont The gold output of Montana for 1905 was 20SD51 less than that of 1904 Tho silver output was 1491315 less coinage values than for 1904 Tho copper output was 11751907 greater and the lead output 31C35 greater Rev Oscar Woods of Laramie Wyo In an article in a local paper bitterly bit-terly denounced tho socalled endless prayer chain letters several of which havo been received In Laramie One I young Woman of a very religious turn of mind was so wrought up about the matter as to be in a serious mental condition A wreck occurred near Rawlins Wyo in which B Johnson a brakeman brake-man was killed and an engineer brakeman and two firemen were hurt A westbound freight drawn by two en glnes and an eastbound freight col bided head on as the result of cong fIIcting train orders all three engines being derailed The California delegation In congress con-gress has received what they consider a satisfactory assurance that the president pres-ident did not desire to bo understood as saying In the Japanese section of his message that ho would use the military forces of the United States in forcing the Japanese Into the California Cal-ifornia schools In which the white children are taught There have been many deaths In Goldfield the past month or two more perhaps than people generally know about but they have not been In such numbers as have been reported The death rate during the worst of tho prevailing storm havo averaged not moro than four per day as against twenty as reported A squad of citizens of Billings Mont forcibly seized a carload of coal and distributed It In one ton lots In a body the squad then proceeded to tho offices of tho coal company and compelled the agent to receipt for the payment of tho fuel Montana produced In the calendar year of 1906 copper sliver gold and lead to the value of 70G77583 These values came from 5000000 tons of ore and the aggregate production was greater by 10080730 than the value of the output of 1904 which was np proximately 10000000 greater than ror tho year before Ida and Minnie Hill sisters were found asphyxiated In their rooms in Portland by Hilda Hill another sister when she returned homo from work The dead girls left a note bidding III da farewell but it does not stat tho reason for their act Irene La Barge aged 17 years com milled suicide at her homo In Seattle after a quarrel with her sweetheart John Tweed a postofflco messengo She was Jealous ot tho attentions of the young man to another girl and Irani poison In his presence It is announced that tho Spokane Inland railway has awarded to Grant Smith Co tho grading cOntract for a 15rallo extension from Palouse Wash to Moscow Idaho It Is thought lime line may ho extended to Lewiston and tlnrkston next year |