Show iii NORTHWEST NOTES I 1 A monthly horse sale Is held PA miles city mont and so f tar ar thie thit season over 6 horses have been sold and shipped to eastern markets president alee alec fairgrieves of the montana federation of labor ad dressed 5 union men at butte on labor day there was the usual baj 1 rade john han hancock cock the murderer of dr Engle brit and a man na named med edmond sen on the nevada desert was hanged at the state penitentiary at carson nevada friday of last week fire has again broken out in the forests east of mill city mont A logging camp in the cascade moun talus burned last week the men barely escaped iron from the camp with their live lives fire destroyed the warner hotel roberts robertsa 8 general store and warehouse and the post postoffice office at cascade about fifty miles from helena the lose loss la Is estimated at with 1 1000 insurance 3 1 F barnes who shot and killed patrick hanley at butte and to lynch whom a mob attempted to storm the silver bow county jail but were daiv en off by officers has been taken to the state prison for safe keeping james reed a horse thief wae was shot and killed by officers near malta M moat heed had been surprised and relieved of his weapons weapon s when be he at tempted to escape by running and was shot doan dov n by one of the officers the federal government has begun to take testimony in fourteen casee cases of alleged violation of the continuous residence feature of the homestead law by commuters in akagi skagit t county washington the evidence Is to taken before the superior court ot of mount vernon ernon and forwarded to the depart ment emil rude was found dead in ta coma having apparently fallen from a EL window on oil the second floor of the grand central hotel hia his feet were pulled through the armholes arm boles of a vest which the police t think hink he had mis taken tor for trousers and in trying g to put them on stumbled and fell through the window two violent deaths of little ones have occurred in burns ore the past week eight year old ruth prompted probably by curiosity ate the contents of a bottle ottle of strychnine and died in great agony T three ahree year old D id delia della thornburg in some manner i eci dentally set fire to her clothes and was so badly burned that she died moritz president of the centennial mill company seattle es mates that california will use bushels of washington wheat this year he also states that orders tor for it approximately 15 bushels have been received from the united king dom the present harvest in wash ington Is estimated at 35 bush els A special from livingston mont says ays dr coventry a traveling eye specialist alist of deadwood S D while hunting bob cats near clyde park is 18 miles from livingston accidentally shot and killed his wife she had tol fol lowed him unknown to him and was approaching in the brush when he mistook her tor for a wild animal and fired F R chase was arrested in san francisco as he landed from the steamer spokane from portland a charge of embezzling having been lodged against him it Is asserted by the portland police that he Is poa pos hessed of important information regarding the shooting of kaspar kasper van dran a saloonkeeper and also the killing of mrs airs van dran A fire in the mountains near mill city oregon burned three farm houses and spread into the timber in the tile mountains A large amount of wood and several culverts on the cor vallis eastern railroad were burned more afore americans have visited the yellowstone tone national park this sum mer than eer eier before according to M 11 albin manager of he the monalda yellowstone stage line fully 20 p persons e rs 0 n s h have av e vi visited s cited the park since t the h e s season e a so n 0 opened pen e d A human skeleton the bones of an animal presumably a bear and re mains of an old fashioned rifle found in the woods four miles north of aber deen wash by a woodsman tell the tale of an encounter which ended in death to man and beast fully 25 people witnessed the sham naval battle at the lewis and dark clark exposition last week the spec bacle was a reproduction of the duel between the merrimac Merrl mac and monitor during the civil war there were four imitation battleships in the fight the newly completed labor temple was dedicated in seattle im med mediately lately following the labor day pa rade the largest affair of its kind ever seen in seattle after the dedicatory exercises the big building was thrown open to the public for the first time in steptoe valley nevada in the vicinity of a small village known as flower lake construction work on the western pacific has commenced at this point three miles of grade has been thrown up crossing the route of the proposed nevada northern road on the ath the most terrific rain storm known in northwest washing ton since the establishment of a branch of the government weather bureau at bellingham wasti eight years ago occurred one and one halt inches of rain falling in t 0 and a half halt hours fire which had incendiary origin I 1 in n judds restaurant at havre mont 21 about bou t midnight was finally stopped after a number of buildings in ita its path had been de destroyed the firemen labored under the disadvantage of hav ing little water the total losa 1052 la Is es timatea at about |