Show NORTHWEST NOTES n brakeman was Harold Chase sort Killed and four other trainmen ously Injured in n freight collision caused by heavy fog In the Northern Pacific yards west of Missoula Mont of Elliott Keats a Cyearold boy Callentu Novnda was bunted to death last week by an explosion of gasoline Tho little fellow dropped n burning stick Into a livegallon can of gasoline gaso-line Oliver La Bounty a well known business man of Buckley Wash dropped drop-ped dead on Friday of heart failure resulting from asthma Ho was 30 years of age and leaves n widow and ono child According to Hood River Oregon reports 12G cars of fancy apples wero shipped to eastern markets this year Tho prices realized by tho growers varied from 100 to 225 a box according ac-cording to the grade Tho statement Issued by tho Tacoma Ta-coma banks In response to the call of I tho comptroller of the currency show cash on hand to be twice tho i amount required by law Tho general gen-eral conditions aro excellent The mlno operators of Nevada aro making a preconcerted effort to get somo relief from present conditions In tho smelting tine and will send n committee from all over the state to Washington to agitate tho matter At a meeting of the executive committee com-mittee of tho Western Federation of Miners hold In Denver last week It was agreed to levy an assessment upon members of tho organization for tho benefit of the Goldfield strikers A reduction of about 25 por cent of the clerical and operative forces 01 the Northern Pacific went Into effect last week Several hundred men were laid oft at MIssoula Mont at tho roundhouse the car shops and train crows The body of a baby boy dressed Jn rich apparel was found last week near Green River Wyo TJio child had been frozen to death and physicians physic-ians declare there Is no doubt that the babe was alive when placed whore It was found A call for a statement by the bank examiner of all state banks of Wyoming Wyo-ming shows that all have an available avail-able cash balance In excess of tho required re-quired 30 per cent and cash payments have been resumed In practically all parts of the state Judge E W Harney of Butte Is dead after a short Illness Judge liar nay occupied tho district bench of Silver Sil-ver Bow county during tho stormy I period of the HeinzeAmalgamated HUgatlon I He was tho presiding Judge In many of the cases which In this remarkable fight attained national na-tional note Judge William H Hunt In the federal fed-eral court at Helena Mont signed i an injunction restraining the Great I Northern railway from collecting tho excess over tho old rate on a new rate which went into effect November 1 until tho Interstate commerce commission com-mission has decided as to tho merits of tho new rate At a meeting held at Cheyenne of lie stockholders of the Big Horn railroad a branch of the Burlington the extension of tho road from Fran ale to Fromberg Mont was authorized author-ized Tho building of this link means a more direct connection between be-tween the Northern Pacific and tho newlyopened coal mines In tho Big H b asln ern u Tho peoplo of St Regis Wash have a novel but effective way of getting rid of undesirable characters Tho other day a cleanup of the town was made and there being nothing better in which to put the prisoners I all were deposited In a railroad car A freight train came along the car I was attached to tho train and tho undesirables un-desirables thus gotten rid of Tho IndustrIal association of Nevada Ne-vada which Is the organization of tho mine owners of tho state has announced an-nounced that because the Western Federation has violated Its agreement by calling a strike In Goldfield without with-out a referendum vote the mine own ors of the district will not recognize any agreements mado with the local union prior to the lime when the men Were called out The Colorado Democratic state advisory ad-visory committee consisting of fifteen leading Democrats of the state ap pointed to advise with and assist the regular state organization last wool adopted a resolution calling upon con gross to legislate In favor of the re nowal of tho coinage of silver for the niirposft of relieving the present llnan clnl stringency Tho state of Oregon will not lose a i cent either through the failure of the Title Guarantee Trust company 01 tho temporary embarrassment of tit Merchants National hank tho surety companies and will refund i held responsible refund the money to tho state Two masked men hold up the Mon ana saloon In Goldfield and took 90 front the cash register nnd 18 from patrons In the place > Tho proprietor trlo BIllick firod at tho mon ns they placee were leaving tho place They wen Joined outside by two federates who hall stool guard William McCobb who looks after the block signals west of Greon River Wyo was killed by a freight train two miles west of that town Ho was going west on his velocipede when ho lifted his ng train velocipede and stopped for In an front approach of a train on tho other track The body of a man was found In one of the drain tanks at tho round house at Green River Wyo Tie Iralnage had clogged up and In try Ing to locate the cause tho drain box which Is about four feet squaro and some seven or eight feet deep opened und the body found was |