Show NORTHWEST NOTES Tho Merchants and Miners bank ot Rawhide Nevada after standing a run for four days closed Its doors It Is reported that business will be re sUllied and depositors paid In full I The power plant of the Portland Railway Light and Power company at Cazadero was almost entirely destroyed de-stroyed by fire Sunday Tho plant Is valued at threequarters of a million dollars Lewis Ferris was acquitted of the charge of murder in connection with the dynamiting of the Overland Bur lington train near Butte May 1 last after the Jury had deliberated on the case scarcely an hour Tho first murder at Tip Top tho new mining camp twelve miles from Mills City Nevada occurred last week when O E Cockrill shot M E Jacobs both mining men in a dispute over a mining claim Bank Examiner Hofcr of Nevada reports re-ports the First Bank of Rawhide and the Wonder Trust company arc both Insolvent The bank examiner states that the bank of Itawhldo U solvent and will soon open again An unknown man was killed at Nyssa Ore while endeavoring to steal a ride on a freight train Whllo endeavoring to get on tho rapidly mov ing train ho slipped and the wheels passed over both legs death resulting a few hours later By tho explosion of a carload of M dynamite near Sargent Colo a freight train on tho Denver Rio Grande railroad rail-road was blown to pieces two tramps were killed and several trainmen were Injured one fatally A hole four feet deep was blown In the ground Christopher A Wills aged about GO was found dead fully dressed lying across his bed In tho Melrose apartments apart-ments at Reno Nevada It Is thought he died from natural causes Willis was from Buffalo N Y where ho has a wife and little daughter living Fortyflvo miles from Ploche in B I northerly direction a new mining district I I dis-trict has been organized Atlanta Is the name of the new district nnd every foot of available ground has been taken up Ploche is tho nearest supply point for the new district The decision of the Interstate commerce com-merce commission upholding in tho main the case of tho lumbermen of tho Pacific northwest ends tho con tenUon which for the past eight months has tied up tho lumber industry Indus-try of this section of the country Joe Schafer negro twice sentenced at Butte to be hanged for the killing of a man named Hawkins but saved from tho noose each time by the supreme su-preme court which reversed tho findIng find-Ing of the lower court has been arrested ar-rested In Salt Lake City charged with beating a woman over the head with a chaIr An explosion partially wrecked tho front part of p house opcupled Jjy members of tho Mormon faith at Eugene Eu-gene Ore None were injured but Mrs E E Howell one of the inmates In-mates suffered so severe a nervous shock that she was rendered unconscious uncon-scious A note of warning was found posted In the building Two thousand five hundred miners in the Northern Colorado coal fields quit work last week Intending to ro main out until the operators grant an Increase in wages or make satisfactory satisfac-tory concessions If after further negotiations ne-gotiations between tho United MineWorkers Mine-Workers officials and the operators no settlement Is reached a formal strike will be called State Senator Charles McDonnell of Sweet Grass county Montana Is 1 conducting a series of experiments In conjunction with Luther Burbank lIe has already succeeded In raising a large crop of pineapples and Is now experimenting with different grafting processes Ho proposes to graft the banana tree and the loco weed and claims he can produce an edible fruit Ho also proposes to make a creeping vino of the sugar beet plant Luther Heckman aged 21 was killed and a number of persons shocked and bruised though not Berl ously Injured by an explosion of 3000 pounds of nitroglycerine at the E I Dupont Denemours Powder company works at Louvlers twenty miles south of Denver Through the coolness of Assistant Secretary James E Dougherty of the state humane society Governor Henry A Butchel of Colorado escaped probable prob-able Injury at the hands of Mrs Annie Jochlm an insane woman The woman wo-man was looking for tho governor with a revolver A new million dollar distillery Is to be constructed at Winnipeg to meet tho demands of the growing market of the Canadian Northwest The buildings build-ings will cover thirtyfive acres 200 men will be employed and 500000 to 600000 bushels of grain will be consumed con-sumed annually C B Bratton local agent of the Metropolitan Insurance company was arrested at Victoria B C last week charged with Incendiarism Ho was caught coming from the board of trade building basement from which flames wero bursting Bratton was formerly a resident of Salt Lake City H L Frank former mayor of Butte Mont and a prominent politician of that state was removed from the Palmer House Chicago to police headquarters one day last week and later sent to the home of his brother Inlaw In Cincinnati It is believe that Mr Frank is demented Japan Imported In 1904 timber of the quality produced In Oregon and Washington to tho value of 138700 In 1905 162532 and In 6TThe amount increased to 1250000 Tho trade In Oregon pIne Is mostly confined con-fined to long timbers and materials for hip construction and flooring |