Show NORTHWEST NOTES John Kelly Is dead following a fall of twcutyflvo foot Into an excavation for a now building at Butte The president has Issued a proclamation procla-mation naming Thursday November 29 as a day of thanksgiving Alexander P McKlllop was found dead In bed In a room at a lodging hotino In Butte It Is thought tho man committed suicide Tho strlko of grain handlers at Portland has been Bottled the strikers agreeing to return to work providing tho police wero withdrawn from the docks An Innocent bystander Jim OFar rel was struck by n bullet In a pistol duel at Goldfield Nevada between Bill Tanner and Frank Timlin two gamblers gam-blers neither of whom was touched H A Hnrndon of Rock River Wyoming lost 350 sheep In the recent storm tho sheep becoming frightened and bunching that number being smothered in tho bottom of tho heap Tho secretary of the Interior Is advertising ad-vertising for proposals for furnishing high pressure gates for tho storage of water for tho Shoshone and North Platto Irrigation projects in Wyoming Charles Smith a negro Is In a Butte hospital with a bullet In his sldo as tho result of a shooting scrapo Tho shot waa fired by George Stewart another negro Both men claim tho affair was an accident Nolllo Doylo of Portland was killed by Honry Hose formerly a soldier In tho United States regular army Hoso cut tho womans throat with a razor and then surrendered himself to tho custody of tho police Box manufacturers of Oregon and Washington held a meeting Tacoma to confer on trado conditions and organize or-ganize an association Representatives Representa-tives wore present from Portland Tacoma Ta-coma Moqulam and several other places A ICyearold Indian boy was killed whllo at work at a sawmill near Lander Lan-der Wyoming Tho fatal accident was caused by tho breaking of a largo saw a pleco of which struck tho youth splitting his head open Ho died In a few minutes The secretary of Jho Interior has executed a contract with tho Billings Construction company of Billings Mont for construction of the Corbett dam and nuxllllary structures under tho Shoshono Irrigation t project In Wyoming Tho Corbett dam Is about eight miles northeast of Cody Wyoming Wyom-ing Henry Quirk and C J eating of Denver arc believed to have mot with Homo 111 fortune whllo prospecting on tho Ulntah reservation In Utah last summer Tho men loft Denver last spring and their friends heard from them until about four months ago since when all track of them has been lost A Northern Pacific passenger train running between Helena and Butto crashed Into tho cabooso of a freight at Logan Mont Conductor Worollln of tho freight train was crushed and burned to death In the flames which consumed tho wreckage of tho caboose Engineer Ross of tho passenger was Injured G C Rose and Mrs Winnie Wheeler leaders of tho Brotherhood of Light which conducts a home for poor children on a farm near Arbolos Colo were arralnged lost week on the charge of manslaughter In connection with tho deaths of six babies on tho place They waived examination and wore remanded to Jail Patrick Green was found dead In a woodshed at tho rear of tho family residence res-idence In Butte One hand clutched a bloody razor while tho head rested In a pool of blood that had gushed from tho wound Ho was a SpanishAmeri can war veteran A surveying party discovered tho body of Jens P Knudsen hanging by the neck to a tree one mllo from Clinton Clin-ton Mont Identification was mado by letters found In tho dead mans pockets pock-ets Ho was formerly with tho Second cavalry at Fort Bowlo Ariz A lone robber committed three burglaries at Auburn Wash and was robbing Ingles Bros livery barn of flco when discovered by Watchman Arthur Russell In a pistol duel which followed Russells right arm was shattered shat-tered Tho robber escaped Tom Maloney a woll known minor shot Jack Maher also a minor for asking payment of a debt In front of tho Club saloon at Goldfleld Nevada Maher kicked Maloney In tho nose and then fired twice His wounds will prove fatal Malon was unarmed Tho controversy as to who was tho youngest soldier of tho civil war has probably been settled In favor of Perry Per-ry Byan of Seattle Ho enlisted as a drummer boy In company D Twenty fourth Iowa volunteers on August 22 1SC2 at tho ago of 9 years and 10 months Eugeno T Wilson bank examiner In charge of tho Aetna Banking Trust company at Butte which closed Its doors last week Issued a statement to tho comptroller In which tho liabilities liabili-ties of tho concern arc given as 485 82832 and the nominal assets aa 40152000 |