Show z i NORTinVEST I 1 I I NOTES r W 01ins a switchman In tho Oregon llnllioul and Navigation com nnn yards nt Portland was killed In a collision hll wren two passenger trains caused bv a dense fog i I M l S Larger president of the Stato Savings bank ot Bntlo which cliiseil Its doors a short time ago says that V Augustus Helnzo will retire from the bank and the bank will he reorganized reor-ganized and will reopen In Limo near future Official denial Is made of the statement state-ment telegraphed from Helena that moro tint two labor organizations had withdrawn from the Montana Federation Fed-eration of Labor as a result of tho alleged boycott campaign against the Hell Telephone company Thu announcement was made In Laramle Wyo Inst week that when 1 the portion of the Oregon Short Lino between Greon flyer and Ogden la turned over to tho Union Pacific November No-vember 1C a now division will bo created cre-ated from Rawlins Wjo to Ogden Mrs Mary Phillips wife of tho manager man-ager of the Phillips hotel of Laramlo attempted suicide by drinking cirliollo acid but her daughter knocked tho bottle from her hand preventing tho swallowing of a largo dose of tho acid Mrs Phillips lost a baby a few woolen ago and It Is believed her mind Is affected af-fected Tho State Bank Trust company of Goldfleld Is meeting with opposition opposi-tion In Its effort to prevail upon depositors de-positors to sign an agreement to accept ac-cept their money in installments ot 10 per cent In three months 20 per cent In six months 20 per cent In nine months and tho balance at the end ota ot-a year Fire which for a time threatened tho destruction of tho Capital brew cry at Helena ono of tho largest establishments es-tablishments of Its kind in tho northwest north-west and other substantial buildings destroyed the coal warehouse and Ico hou of the brewery Tho loss which is small is fully covered by Insurance l Tho Southern Pacific Ilallroad company com-pany Is preparing plans for the erection n erec-tion of a great electric power plant at Clark a station sixteen miles east of Sparks Nov Tho plant will have a capacity sufficient to supply all the needs of tho railroad terminals at Sparks and fiona and to furnish commercial com-mercial current V L Kline the Goldfield businessman business-man who was shot and fatally wounded wound-ed while in the act of stealing amalgam amal-gam at tho Nevada Goldfield reduction reduc-tion works died at the county hospital hos-pital without recovering consciousness conscious-ness Olpple Klines accomplice IB said to have mode a complete confession confes-sion to tho sheriff Just 187 warrants wore sworn out on November 7th for tho arrest of practically every saloon man In Spokane Spo-kane on a chargeof keeping open on Sunday In violation of the local Sunday Sun-day closing ordinance Only nineteen saloons escaped The movement wan started by tho Law Enforcement league of Spokane Ono hundred mon were thrown out of employment last Weolt by tho sudden sud-den closing down of the Jay Gould mine ono of the richest properties In LewIs and Clark county Montana The action was taken on account or tho decrease In demand for ore The property Is owned by Chicago and Milwaukee capitalists Kilghtoncd at tho money situation C J Atkinson a laboring man converted r con-verted his savings 100 Into gold and deposited them In a buckskin Back l In tho second story ot his house In Tacoma Ta-coma Fire destroyed his homo and ho barely managed to got his family out Ho found two 5 gold pieces mi burned and ono J20 gold piece was melted Into a lump Tho causo of a mysterious explosion explo-sion during the fire in the pavilion in Columbia gardens at Butte was disclosed dis-closed when the exploded case ot a sixInch Cordite shell was found In the debris Tho shell had been part of a war exhibit it was fired at tho Spanlbh fort at Manila by Admiral Deweys fleet May 1 189S recovered later by a soldier In the First Montana Mon-tana Infantry and brought to Butte What are said to be the first suits of the character filed in tho northwest were Instituted In the Federal court at Helena last week by United States Attorney Ilnscji against tho Northern Pacific and Great Northern Hallway companies Respectively eighteen and twelve violations of tho safety appliance act are alleged and damages in the sum of 100 In each Instance are might Tho chief grievance Is found in alleged detective coupling 4 apparatus Henry Ferguson deputy state fish and game warden of Bozeman has received a letter containing a check for 200 from the Boone + Croclett club of Now York tho organization perfected per-fected by President Roosevelt former President Cleveland and others for the protection of elk The club offered of-fered the reward for tho states ot t Montana Idaho and Wyoming to tho t person who would secure convictions whero the penalty Imposed amounted to 100 fine or sixty days In jail Time body of a young man 22 years old was found by tho watchman lu the hold of the Chilsen burl Adola says a Tacoma dispatch The body was In a horribly mutilated condition t and had tho appearance of havlnff been opt with a sheath knife and a hand ax Engineer Thomas Hancock and Fireman Fire-man Claude R McDonald wore as phyxloted by gases from thpr engine in the Busk tunnel nine miles west of Leadvlllo Colo It is 1 supposed the men loft their ensluti to repair a broken coupling and nor overcome by the gases r I |