Show NORTHWEST NOTES W S Johnson ot Tonopah Nevada Is working to s cure tho clans Hermai fight for that city It Is understood Hint 10000 has already been raised The citizens of Tacoma Wash nlsed one hundred and fifty thousand dollars in a thirtyday canvass for tho new y M C A building tho first coast city to do soT so-T P Howe tho veteran coast the Urlcal manager has associated with aim Fred 1 Kit el and Hans Peterson or the erection of a fourteen story theater building In Seattle Two passenger trains on tho Union Pacific railroad collided headon at Ridge west of Medicine How Wyo nd the engines were demolished but no passengers were injured Buffalo Dill and his party have arrived safely at the T K ranch 18 miles from Cody Wyo All of tho party arc in good health and report fair success in the hunt for big game Three enlisted men of the battleship Wisconsin are dead at Seattle and two are seriously Injured as tho result re-sult of a drunken debauch in which bay rum was the liquor that was consumed con-sumed In a battle near Kcnnewlck Wash between a posse and Robert Barker an 18yearold desperado four men were killed Barker finally surrendered surren-dered and was taken to Prosser to pro vent a lynching Henry Phillips aged G4 an old time resident of Butte committed suicide by cutting his throat from car to ear Phillips had become despondent as tho result of inability to secure relief from Brlghts disease In a violent fit ot coughing shortly before his death at St Vincents hospital hos-pital Portland H U Mills of Hubbard an Oregon pioneer of 1876 and a nephew of General Rdbert E Lee commander com-mander of tho Confederate army raised from his lungs a buckshot that he carried In his body over since the civil war Joe Gans lightweight champion of the world met Kid Hermann of Chicago Chi-cago in Cincinnati on the 3rd and signed articles to fight twenty rounds or to a finish as the club may desire on New Years day before tho Tono pah Nevada Athletic club The purse Is to be 20000 winner to get 60 and loser 40 per cent John Welch of Reno Nevada who has been prospecting In the Walker Lake mining district was shot and seriously wounded by James Hale his companion while driving from Hawthorne Haw-thorne to Thorne The bullet entered Welchs back and it Is feared that ho will dlel Hale claims the shooting was accidental A statement Issued by tho reclamation reclama-tion service shows that the national reclamation fund on June 30 1306 amounted to 32958192 of which 4 882084 was contributed last year North Dakota leads having contributed 508860 Utah 70211 Wyoming 234744 New Mexico 20215 Montana Mon-tana 500746 and Idaho 301234 Jefferson F Howell Is tho latest 01 several prospectors who from time tc time havo believed they have found the site of the old Breyfoglo goldmine gold-mine in southeastern California or southwestern Nevada To substantiate I als claim Howell has float that is almost al-most pure gold and identical In appearance ap-pearance with samples displayed by Breyfoglo Man Hop one of Seattles largest Chinese merchants declares that the Chinese associations in Seattle and Portland are gathering evidence prior lo tho sending of a formal demand tc tho Chinese legation at Washing for the removal from office of Moy Back hln Chinese consul at Portland who has the district composed of Oregon Washington Idaho and Montana Cores of horses that made the raco from Hawthorne and down tho mountain moun-tain sides to the Walker Lake reservation reser-vation In Nevada were shot and killed tho following morning to end their suffering It was found that the animals l ani-mals had been entirely unfitted for fu ture work having either been crippled in the run over the rocky country or having had their lungs permanently weakened Mrs F W Esgate living near Coeur aAlene Idaho placed a gun outside tho house in readiness to kill a coyote that was lurking near and went into tho house When the coyote again appeared ap-peared she called her husband who was digging potatoes In tho field Meanwhile sho went Into the cellar When the husband reached for the gun it slid into the collar was dls charged and tho charge of shot passed Into the nock of Mrs Esgate Inflict ing fatal injuries Rev Torrance Clark 02 years ot ago assistant pnstor of tho Church ol he Sacred Heart and a well known Catholic prlofct of Seattle was over omo by Illuminating gns In his room In the presbytery of the church Ho was unconscious when found Frank Warner was sentenced to 15 years In prison for robbery committed in Spokane Warner confessed that Iii held up O C Hay about 200 feet from tho police station forcing him during robbery to gazo rt tho river In an un concerned way in order to fool tho po lice who were pas lng |