Show NORTHWEST NOTES at atthe the democratic county convention in bulte butte a collection was taken up for the texas flood an sufferers ff ebers which netted J S petty a tool sharpener shot and hilled killed his wife and then billed killed himself at harrison gulch california jealously was the cause thomas keily kelly and james murray were killed in the stewart mine at lutte butte on the by an explosion of powder in the magazine on one of the lower levels A wreck on the nevada california oregon extension near keno reno nev derailed fourteen cars of beet beef cattle reducing the cars to kindling wood and killing twenty bead of fat steers over men employed in the leary coal mines in king ring county wash went on a strike because of the company a refusal to accede to a demand for 10 cents per car increase in wages and an additional 25 cents per day hire for the common laborers the price of this season sea ion s walnut crop in i california will be 10 cents per pound for soft shell and OX cents for standards these figures having been established at a meeting of the executive committee of the southern california walnut growers association for the last ten days numerous heavy rain rains have visited the section about wilcox ariz and the drought ie is corn com plemely broken the water holes all over the country are filled and the grass Is about four inches tall the tile season promises well for cattlemen albert M cook a young man from steel city nev was killed at tie sid ing wyo monday by falling from his wagon one of the wheels striking him a heavy blow on the chest lie ile lost his balance wh while ile trying to freo free his reins from a pile of rock and dirt otto greenhood a well known news paper reporter of portland or coin milled suicide recently in the toil told et room of the hotel portland and by shooting himself with a revolver des pon dency due to ill health the cause he fie was well known in carson city nev ner the police of seattle were notified of the finding of the body of T I 1 ahanley bh bb anley formerly of seattle along the railroad tracks at wenatchee We natchee wash the body was badly becom posed death having occurred two weeks ago the body plainly ed that the man had been murdered the union pacific has his opened two new telegraph stations on the division between ogden and evanston anels one is at croydon and the other at emery the general heavy business together with the policy of improving this end of the system is responsible for the opening of these and other offices at rock creek mont frank forest a ranch hand aged 20 shot and killed willis howard a well to do rancher aged 30 fatally wounded miss laura linn aged 16 and then committed suicide by shooting himself through the heart forrest was in love with miss linn and was apparently in favor until howard became an as aspirant for the girl a band hand the annual report of J IL calde head commissioner of labor and in austry of montana will show that nearly 2 japanese are employed aa as laborers by the railroads in montana a 1 he great northern employs 1265 tb the 6 northern pacific and find the oregon short line the commissioner says that the little brown men are displacing white labor on the railroads in this state ile will ut ge the legis lature to prevent it if possible the im lin por tation of more japanese into mon tana tans four men held up an outfit of grad ers era at tie siding wyo securing but 15 and a watch ahe graders were loading two cars with their outfit pre to going to green river and were sleeping in the cars at the time the robber robbers were armed with win chesters cheaters and revolvers la in the dark ness many of the men met threw their money and watches ebes among the horsen and mules in the car and the robbers consequently secured little booty one of the men has been captured I 1 daniel lucey was hanged in the jail jai 1 yard at butte on the for aba mur der of patrick L reagan ort 01 septem ber 2 1898 the two men had started for the coeur d abenes together and reagan a body was found la in the can yon the next day lucey was caught at ictor colo brought back and con on circumstantial evidence evide oce the execution was successful the neck being broken it wa was the first legal banging hinging in butte in twelve years year lucey protested bis his innocence to the tb lait last |