Show NORTHWEST NOTES 4 I Batiks In Portland are not affected by tho financial disturbances In Now I York YoriDr Dr F R Cross of Oregon n prominent promi-nent dentist nnd for many years n resident of tho Isthmus committed suicide nt Panama on October 24 Haryy W Logan n railway I engineer engi-neer was shot and fatally wounded by n masked highwayman In Portland No cluo to the murderer has been discovered dis-covered Two persons are known to have been killed and one seriously Injured as tho result of thq explosion of tho oil burners on tho river steamer J N Tool at Portland It Is announced that Tracy C I Decker an attorney of Buffalo will bo appointed special assistant attorney general to review the Southern Pacific Pa-cific land fraud cases in land l-and Oregon Ono million dollars In gold was ro celvcd by the John I Cook bank at Goldfield on Friday and Saturday last Ito I-to bo used In paying off depositors who wished to withdraw their money from the banks care Attorney General Bonaparte has announced an-nounced tho appointment of Elmer E Todd to bo United States attorney for the western district for tho state ot Washington Mr Todd succeeds Potter Pot-ter C Sullivan resigned In the arrest of C E McDonald and JEd J-Ed Smith on a Great Northern dining oar between Hlllyard and Spokane the olllcors believe have they captured j two bandits who hold up tho Groat I Northern passenger train near Rondo Mont Sept 12 Mrs Bath S Waterman who married mar-ried a well known Chelsea Mass man In Goldfield Nov about six weoka ago has arrived In Boston seeking her husband whom sho accuses of having deserted her In Denver taking 700 of her money with him It is mountain 1I0n reported that lions I and boars are too thick for comfort In the mountains surrounding Star i Valley Wyoming They aro killing livestock right and left nnd are causing caus-ing a great deal of worry to tho farmers r farm-ers and stockralscrs throughout tho valley i Financial conditions In Montana j were never hotter Record prices obtain ob-tain for wool and sheep while cattlo have commanded a material advance ii over last year Up to two months ago copper sold at unusually high prices so that on tho whole the present year has been tho most prosperous in tho history of tho state If a ruling made by tho court ID I the trial of Theodoro Cantolonl charged with the murder of Mollto Quinn at Butto Is sustained by tho 2 supreme court of the stale tho death penalty Is practically abolished In Montana Tho court ruled that a Juror who was opposed to tho death penalty might Bit on tho Jury J C Schwlck Is on trial at Goldfield Gold-field Nevada charged with having killed John IL Davey at Columbia Tuno 20 Davoy interfered in an altercation al-tercation between Schwlck and a man named Busher Schwlck la said to I have pulled a gun and shot Davoy I killing him Instantly The defense i claims that the killing was accidental Two robbers attempted to hold up a stage near Lowlston Mont but tho driver put up such a fight with ono of tho robbers that tho second man r was obliged to leave tho horses heads ito Ito I-to assist his comrade in crime Whllo the fight was In progress tho team ran away thus permitting the malls and other matter to escape the hands ot tho robbers The driver was robbed and brutally beaten A dispatch from Lowlstown Mont gays that T A Dram employed on the west extension of tho Chicago Milwaukee St Paul has been found foully murdered near Wlllpw Creek tunnel His throat was slashed It In five places and there were half a dozen ugly stabs in his chest whllq his head was badly bruised as If with e a blunt Instrument Railroad Day which was fixed for a October 28 to celebrate tho complex tlon of tho Las Vegas Tonopah road j Into Goldflcld has been deferred owIng I ow-Ing to tho unsettled conditions In thq camp at present A later date will bq agreed upon as soon as conditions are l more settled > f During a drunken frolic of railroad graders In one of the Billings 61 Northern construction camps Wlllard Smith a colored cook was shot through tho head and killed tho murderer mur-derer shooting tho negro from behind This is tilt third murder at the camp within a month John Boelho a driver for the Allen wood yard at Goldfield fell off a wagon loaded with lumber near Dla mondfleld and was run over and killed Boolho was hauling aload of lumber to the Daisy mine The accident acci-dent occurred near the power com panys substation President Fred A Miller of the Lar nrole Holms Peak Pacific Railway company Is In the east malting an rangemcnts for tho financing of the road from Centennial to which point h It Is operated from Laramie to Cow drey Walden and tho Reich coal Holds In North Park Colo Mrs Ethel Larson shot and mortally mor-tally wounded JItohaol Kennedy at Clnldfleld Nevada At the time of tho shooting Mrs Larson says Kennedy was pursuing her husband with a butcher knife Tho trouble batwepn Kennedy and Larsen was the result off a neighborhood quarrel c > ri < The International League pf Press Clubs In session at Birmingham Ala last week elected pfllcbrs and adjourned ad-journed to meet noxt year In Seattle Daniel L Hart WllUefibnrre Pa was elected president Lewis O Early Reading Pa secretary and Robert Uclntyro Now York treasurer |