Show I 1 NORTHWEST NOTES the merchants and miners bank ot rawhide nevada after standing a run for four days closed its doors it Is reported that business will be resumed and depositors paid in full the power plant of the portland railway light and power company jut cazadero Caza dero was almost entirely de strayed by fire sunday the plant Is valued at three quarters of a million dollars leals ferris was acquitted of the charge of murder in connection with the dynamiting of the overland bur langton train near butte may 1 last after the jury had deliberated on the case scarcely an hour the first murder at tip top the new mining camp twelve miles from mills city nevada occurred last week when 0 E cockrill shot M E jacobs both mining men in a dispute over a mining claim bank examiner hofer of nevada re ports the first bank of rawhide and the wonder trust company are both insolvent the bank examiner states that the bank of rawhide Is solvent and will soon open again an unknown man was killed at nyssa ore while endeavoring to steal a ride on a freight train while endeavoring to get on the rapidly amov ing train he slipped and the wheels passed over both legs death resulting a few hours later by the explosion of a carload of dynamite near sargent colo a freight train on the denver rio grande rail road was blown to pieces two tramp were killed and several trainmen were injured one fatally A hole four feet deep was balovn in the ground christopher A wills aged about 60 was found dead fully dressed lying across his bed in the melrose apart ments at reno nevada it is thought he died from natural causes wallis was from buffalo N Y where he has a wife and little daughter living forty five miles from pioche in a northerly direction a new mining dis tact has been organ zed atlanta Is the name of the new d strict and every foot of available ground has been taken up pioche is the nearest supply point tor the new district the decision of the interstate corn merce commission cupl in the main the case of the lumbermen of the pacific northwest end the con tendon which for the past eight months has tied up the lumber indus try of this section of the country joe negro twice sentenced at butte to be hanged tor the killing of a man named hawkens but savea from the noose each time by the su preme court which reversed the find ing of the lower court has been a rested in salt lake city charged with beating a woman over the head with a chair an explosion partially wrecked the front part of a house occupied by members of the mormon faith at eu gene ore none were injured but mrs E E howell one of the in mates suffered so severe a nervous shock that she was rendered ancon A note of warning was found posted in the building two thousand five hundred miners la the northern colorado coal fields quit work last week intending to ro main out until the operators grant an increase in wages or make satis fac tory concessions it after further negotiations between the united mine workers officials and the operators no settlement is reached a formal strike will be called state senator charles mcdonnell of sweet grass county montana is conducting a series of experiments in conjunction with luther burbank he has already succeeded ded in raising a large crop of pineapples and is now experimenting with different grafting processes he proposes to graft the banana tree and the loco weed and claims he can produce an edible fruit he also proposes to make a creeping vine of the sugar beet plant luther heckman aged 21 was killed and a number of persons shocked and bruised though not seri bously injured by an explosion of 3 pounds of nitroglycerine at the E I 1 dupont De nemours powder company s works at Louy lers twenty miles south of denver through the coolness of assistant secretary james E dougherty of the abate humane society governor henry A batchel of colorado escaped able injury at the hands of mrs annie jochim an insane woman the wo was looking for the governor with i revolver A new million dollar distillery is to be constructed at winnipeg to meet the demands of the growing market of the canadian northwest the build ings will cover thirty five acres men will be employed and to bushels of grain will be a edmed annually bratton local agent of the metropolitan insurance company was arrested at victoria last week charged with he was caught coming from the board of trade building basement from which flames were bursting bratton was formerly a resident of salt lake city H L frank former mayor of butte mont and a prominent politician of that state was removed from the palmer house chicago to police headquarters one day last week and later sent to the home of his brother in law in cincinnati it is believed that mr frank Is demented japan imported in 1904 timber of the quality produced in oregon anil washington to the value of in 1905 and in 1906 the amount increased to the trade in Oregon pine is mostly con fined to long timbers and materials for ship construction and flooring six people were painfully though not dangerously injured on sunday in a head on collision between two heavily loaded electric cars on the mount scott division of the portland railway light and power compin the accident occurred at archer a sta alon three miles east of portland william gaddis of helena mont d ed in washington D last week born there seventy seven years ago he was on a visit to his native city when taken ill mr gaddis went to abton tana thirty five years ago and en in the cattle bus ness he owna a large ranch at fort logan mont |