Show u KOBTHWEST NOTES After being closed for coinage pun poses for more than twelve years tho United States mint at Carson City Nevada may bo reopened within tho Jioxt few months Negotiations between the labor unions of Butte and the Rocky Mountain Moun-tain Bell Telephone company are ally parently off tho situation indicating a struggle to a finish The break In the transmission wires of the Nevada Power company which throw Goldfleld Into darkness and which was charged to tho Striking miners It now develops was caused by a snowslldc General Fun ton has ordered a gen oral courtmnrtlul to convene at Goldfield Gold-field This order would Indicate say army men that the troops now on duty at that place would bo held there for some time to como Judge Bourquln of tho stato district court nt Butte Instructed the Jury to acquit A B Clements cashier of tho failed Aetna bank on a felony charge growing out of the alleged receipt of deposits when he knew tho bank was J Insolvent A dispatch from Denver says that James K Barber and Summer G Moon tho millionaire lumbermen ot Eau Claire AVls Indicted with Senator Sen-ator Borah for alleged conspiracy inland In-land frauds may bo taken to Idaho for trial Colonel William Crooks assistant to tho general manager of tho Harriman Harri-man lines In the Pacific northwest died In Portland on tho 17th of complications com-plications growing out of a cold contracted con-tracted about six weeks ago lIe was 76 years old The supreme court of Montana has granted a writ of habeas corpus In the caso of G S E Wlsner an Anaconda Ana-conda bank employee who had been convicted on tho charge of receiving deposits when he know his principal to be insolvent The Smelter City bank of Durango Colo a state Institution capital 30 000 has closed Its I doors Lack of confidence con-fidence due it Is said to tho indictments indict-ments of prominent citizens on the charges of land frauds under tho federal fed-eral laws led to tho suspension O C Dallas chief clerk and J D McLeod at tho head of the survey department de-partment In tho office of United States survoyor general in Helena have been arrested Tho Indictment alleges forgery for-gery and conspiracy to defraud tho government of the United States The state board of pardons of Montana Mon-tana has approved the action of Governor Gov-ernor Tooelo In granting a pardon to Elizabeth Morrison a Butte woman who upon conviction on a manslaughter man-slaughter charge for the killing of Richard Finnegan had been sentenced sen-tenced to tho penitentiary for threo years The Hamilton Powder companys works blew up Sunday morning at Departure De-parture Bay B C Tho loss Is 40000 No one was killed or injured In Vancouver Van-couver thirtyfive miles away houses were shaken so badly that it was believed be-lieved an earthquake had occurred and many persons rushed to the street in alarm I Pella DI RIa was arrested at Seattle Se-attle together with two discharged employees of the Seattle Electric company charged with a conspiracy to take tho life of Tony Restove foreman fore-man of construction work for the So attlo Electric company who Ills charged the men for Incompetency from the construction gang In an address Issued by tho exeo utlvo committee of the Western Federation Fed-eration of Miners labor union men are urged to rally to the defense ol officers and members of tho federation charged with tho murder of former Governor Steunenberg of Idaho and other crimes and of the Goldfield miners who are on strike Michael C Carroll a pioneer guide died at his homo In Laramie Wyo last week Ho selected the site for Fort Sanders threo miles south of Laramie In 1866 when tho Union Pa ciflo railroad was being built and acted as mediator with the Indians going unarmed to meet Chief Friday who was on the warpath and preventing prevent-ing a slaughter of whites In an opinion rendered last week Attorney General Albert J Galen I ruled that Christmas songs cannot bo barred from the public schools of Montana on tho ground that such use constitutes denominational or sectarian sec-tarian teachings Tho decision was made at tho request of the state superintendent su-perintendent of public Instruction James R Klrwan who had been acting secretarytreasurer of the Western West-ern Federation of Minors tendered his resignation last week on account ol 111 health and Ernest Mills a membet of tho executive board from British Columbia assumed tho duties of thai olllco Martin OBrien a prominent lawyer of Rawhide Nevada while under the Influence of liquor Eliot and killed Bessie Gardiner a woman of tho half world and wounded a bystander OBrien had become Infatuated with tho woman and the killing was the result of jealousy Neither the Colorado State bank ol Durango and its branch bank at Pa gosa Springs nor the Smelter City State bank also at Durango both of which closed their doorsj a short time ago will be able to reorganize and reopen according to H M Bentty state bank commissioner A Denver dispatch says reduced express ex-press rates for Utah and California may be secured by George J Kindel after ho has attended the session o the Interstate commerce commission in Washington February 6 when arguments ar-guments will be made in the Denver vxprces rate case flied by him |