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Show NORTHWEST NOTES. The building laborers' strike at Spokane Spo-kane has been settled. Pat Riley, a well known resident of Lewlston, Mont., Is missing and foul play Is suspected. He was known to have a sum of money on his person. Frank Keefe, who shot and killed Policeman Baxter and Thomas King on. the evening of April 20, at Laramie, Lara-mie, will be placed on trial for his life during the week. An engine and four tars on the Air Line at the new works of the Anaconda Ana-conda Copper company at Anaconda, Mont., jumped the tracks and two men of the crew, John O'Mara and John Logan, crushed to death. J. S. Locke, one of the best known contractors and stockmen In Oregon, was killed at his ranch, ten miles from Huntington, by a horse jumping on him. He was the government census enumerator of livestock in 1900. Napoleon Lau-zon, a French-Canadian miner employed at the Eastin mine, near Virginia City, Mont., committed com-mitted suicide last week. He placed a revolver in his mouth and blew his head off. The deed was committed In a gulch near ihe miners' boarding house. Mrs. S. G. Tolle, a patient in one of the violent wards in the Oregon insane asylum, set Are to hr clothing cloth-ing with matches and before assistance assist-ance arrived she was burned to death, It was with great effort that the attendants at-tendants prevented the building from burning. The electric power plant of thq Baker City Electric Light & Gas com. pany, at South Baker, Ore., was destroyed de-stroyed by fire Saturday afternoon, The wind was blowing almost a galq at the time, and for a while the town of South Baker was In imminent danger dan-ger of destruction. Chairman Fairley of the Colorado Republican state central committee, has sent the following telegram to tha New York World: "I see no impropriety impro-priety In any state indorsing Roosevelt Roose-velt at this time. Colorado will indorse in-dorse him on every occasion and be solid for him In 1904." The coroner's jury in the case ol John Poos, who was Bhot and killed by Thomas Tresize at Gunnison, Colo., In a quarrel over household goods, returned re-turned a verdict char-slng Tresize with premeaitaLea muraer. Mrs. Hope Poos, wife of the ' murdered man, was charged with being an accessory to the murder. George Cunningham, station tender, and John Martin, tool boy, fell 0,100 feet to death In the Mountain View mine at Butte. They were coming to the surface on the sinking cage, bringing bring-ing a machine drill lashed to tho cage. The lashings slipped, the drill caught on a timber and the men were thrown off. Dr. B. P. James, at one time a prominent prom-inent physician of Butte and the northwest, north-west, was found dead on the hillsiuo near a cabin at Leadvllle. Colo., Sun. day. While temporarily insane he left his boarding house and wandered about the hills all night in his underclothing, under-clothing, finally seeking shelter at tho rear of a miner's cabin, where he was found dead. Larry Comisky, an old-time miner of Leadville, was found starved and frozen to death In a cabin eighteen miles from Leadvllle. Comisky dls-appeared dls-appeared from the mine where he was working eight days previous, and to parties whom he saw at that time he stated that he was suffering from powder smoke, whloh probably drove hln Insane. |
