Show NORTHWEST NOTES Buildings covering bolt a block oa the tnnlu street of Lovelock Neb were destroyed by fire cntnttliu a loss of 75000 Toiuiile King aged IB of Spokane Is dead as a result of being struck behind tho ear by a sharp rock hurled by Vestal Ramsbottom aged 11 Walter S Cheesmnn resident of tho Denver Union Water company and one of the foremost capitalists and citizens of Denver died unexpectedly unexpect-edly on the 31st The general superintendent of tho Tonopah and Goldflold railway warns against a probable famine of fuel next winter and advises that they lay In large supplies now The mines at nock Springs Wyo are closed and both sides have apparently ap-parently settled down for a long siege Many of the foreigners are returning re-turning to tho old country Weld Hendee a wealthy stockman of Berthoud Colo Is dead from blood poisoning caused by being bitten In tho right leg last week by a blooded blood-ed stallion which suddcntly became Infuriated and attacked him Goldfield is wrought up over the tacit understanding that tho Earner alda county commissioners have decided de-cided to grant a blanket franchise tor tho running of street car lines over I tho main streets ot tho city Beginning the first of tho weeK Goldfiold will be tho only unincorporated unincorpor-ated city in tho United States with a postofllco first class Free delivery Is ono of tho first class perquisites that will be much appreciated I Motonnnn Novlns was shot and Instantly In-stantly killed at Portland by a highwayman I high-wayman Tho murder occurred at the East Aukony car hams of the Portland Hallway Light Power company Tho highwayman escaped Preston and Smith convicted of thi murder of John Silva in the late labor war at Goldfield were taken to tho state penitentiary on the 29th the first to serve a term of twentylive years and the second a term of ten years The deputies in the ofllce of the sheriff of Esmcralda county Nevada have presented that official with a solid gold star three inches In diameter dia-meter the center set with a big diamond dia-mond Two points of tho star aro rubles two are diamonds and two aro sapphires tho national colors in costly cost-ly gems Miss Asha Clark one of the first women to cross the plains to Califor nia lii 1849 is dead at Bellingham Wash aged 90 years She lived alone in a tumbledown shack for many years In North Belllnghnm She owned property In every Pacific coast city and was leputed to be worth several sev-eral millions Believing that her husband was about to be killed by his infuriated partners with whom he was engaged In a desperate battle with knives beer glasses and other missiles Mrs Matty Hlngwood of Hawllns Wyo shot and killed one of the men A Davis and fatally wounded Webb Stone the second Two miners who were employed in the Nil Dcspcranduui mine at Dlack Horse Nevada now lie in the Miners Union hospital In Ely dangerously injured in-jured as the result of a desperato battle bat-tle in the shaft of that mine The men fought with picks and ono will probably die while the other Is dla figured for life The Bliss Btiioke case In which Fred J Bliss a citizen of Idaho who owns a ranch In tho Deer Lodge valley seeks to close the Washoo smelters at Anaconda by Injunction and to recover re-cover damages from the Washoo company com-pany for alleged harm dono his property prop-erty by sulphur fumes como to a close last week but a decision is not expected for several months Governor Chamberlain of Oregon president of the National Irrigation Congress has addressed letters of personal Invitation to tho members of President Hoosevelts cabinet and to tho governors of sixteen trans Mis sissippi states asking their attendance attend-ance at the fifteenth annual meeting of the congress which convenes at Sacramento Cala September 2 Ouster proceedings have been filed in the district court at Cheyenne b > AttorneyGcneial Mullen against tho Western Union Telegraph company because of Its failure to tile its articles arti-cles of incorporation in this state The company bases Its refusal on the ground that it is carrying on interstate inter-state business and its establishment in this state preceded the enactment of the law From New York to Goldfield Nov In an automobllo is tho trip that Henry Weber the Goldflold millionaire million-aire who a few years ago was a Milwaukee Mil-waukee newspaper reporter has laid out for his summer diversion ana Just to see if ho can make it William S Gorklns was shot and killed at Toledo Wash in a fight with Thomas H OConnor who had been deputized tp arrest him Gel klns had escaped from Special Deputy Packenham at Moloch who was bringing Gerklns to Jail at Chohalis tor killing a cow |