Show NORTHWEST NOTES two wyoming postmasters were appointed on the soldiers home johnson county samuel P thompson upton weston county ella perry adam catlan one of the best known men in the west and for whom the town of catlan jn washington was named dropped dead on the street in portland on the fire of unknown origin destroyed the barns and sheds and the ranch hay crops of john olson near centen nial wyo fire started shortly after noon while the family was at dinner while running at high sneed a santa fe freight train dashed into a washout near bengal cal on ane desert and in the wreck which fol lowed fireman J H potter was in stany killed in his cab seat robert williams a stonemason was severely injured at goldfield by being caught between the arm of a der rick and a two ton stone while work lug an the daisy build ng williams was nearly mashed to a jelly but phy say he may recover one man was killed and three seri bously injured and two slightly injured in an accidental explosion of a blast nean ninemile Nin emile mont the accident oc burred near macdougall Mac Dougals construction dcamp on the right of way of the abi beago milwaukee st paul jaroad oscar L ford a well 1 alaska miner arrived in goldfield last week and will endeavor to build up another fortune there he recently lost 45 at roulette in san francisco which represented the savings made by him in the frozen north he is not disheartened however and expects to recoup his losses in nevada H M wise of missouri has been arrested and held to the united states grand jury for allowing a forest fire to start from his camp near fraser colo doing considerable damage wise went to denver when he found the trouble he had caused and tele phoned back to the camping place for his valise charles sweeney of spokane and mr pope of toronto are stated to have sold to the guggenheims tor about 3 the of the big buffalo mine in hump district tn central idaho each retaining about 1 in stock the guggenheims it is asserted will build a railroad from salmon river to the town of cal bendar winslow a grain merchant merc nant was accidentally shot and killed while at work in his office at georgetown wash he was engaged with threet other men straightening out some legal matter connected with a debt owing his farm when a loaded ver which was 1 ng on a chair was upset the bullet passing through the spinal column the attempts of a joint committee from the miners men and en ginders to settle the machinists strike at butte have apparently ed fruit less the company the ers 4 75 instead of the 5 demanded the union was willing to accept this while copper was below 18 cents but wanted a 5 agreement when it went above that figure one of the most famous suits in the history of montana came to an end at butte last week when the unit ed states fidelity company paid to the firm of maurice hogevoll 5 the action has been tried eight times n the district court and five times in the supreme courts the suit was be gun in 1905 both of the original con estante are dead word has been received that the ong desired rearrangement of the episcopal missionary dioceses in the west has been acted on favorably by the general convention of the episco pal churchmen of america now being beld in richmond vai and that in all probability hereafter the state of nevada will constitute a separate episcopal mission and will have a bishop of its own with the see city reno three negroes tom stewart a well known jockey ed donovan and fred brown were drowned in houser lake near helena mont while ducR hunt in there were no witnesses to the accident and the first known of the drowning was when the upset boat floated ashore the bodies have not yet been recovered united S ates district judge J H hawley retired of nevada died on the of kidney disease at the st francis hospital san francisco at the age of 77 years he was appoint ed united states district judge when at the age of 60 years the youngest daughter of H F grant manager of the seattle electric company received burns that two hours later resulted in her death the pirl was 7 years old it is that her clothes caught fire from a match although there were no eye witnesses mrs lizzie reals wife of charles A reals one of th oldest engineers on the union pacific and formerly sheriff and county treasurer died at laramie on the she was born in new york and married mr reals on her eighteenth birthday she was 61 years of age the laramie hahn s peak pa railroad last week became a united states mail route accepting a contract with the postoffice post office depart ment to handle mail between laramie and centennial heretofore star route the road runs thirty miles west of La rainie frank page arrested at boltax wash on suspicion of complicity in the murder of ex sheriff harvey brown at baker city ore has been released while his appearance tal lied with that of one of the men page satisfied the authorities that he was an amateur detective the sixth annual reunion of the con federate veterans northwest division was held in bozeman mont last week here are about eleven encampments of confederate veterans in montana one at spokane and three or tour oth ers on the pacific coast and the total membership is close to led to the pinnacle of earthly bliss by the wiles of a white woman with whom he became enamored then dashed to the depths of despair when her professed love for him simultaneously with th last of his money P S ann a native of korea hot himself in denver last week |