Show i I c. c NORTHWEST NOTES Washington's unique state building at the worlds world's fair at St. St Louis may maybe ay be besold besold sold for a song It cost and an offer of has been made for It ft Fire at Gulbertson Mont destroyed the Stock Growers hotel botel the postoffice and drug store ent entailing damage to the the the- amount of insurance 7 7 The effort to carry through a n. huge mining enterprise Is believed to be the tho chief causes of the closing cosing of tho the BIgBend Big BigBend BigBend Bend National bank at Davenport Wash Georgo George FIshburn despondent from long suffering as a cripple committed suicide at the McHugh ranch near Lewiston Mont by shooting himself In the head bead At the unusual age of years Mrs Julia the oldest resident of Tacoma and probably the oldest white person on the coast died in a Tacoma hospital last week One of the most moat complete exhibits of the mines mine of the western Dart lart of the United States States ever grouped together will be shown In working order at the the 1905 centennial at Portland Mrs T. T J. J Stanley of Butte drank the entire contents of a two ounce two bot bottle tle tIe of car carbolic acid about 9 o'clock Sunday morning g it is supposed with suicidal Intent dying six hours later in terr terrible ble agony A dispatch from Colorado Springs Springs' says the coroners coroner's Jury has decided that Alexander Biddle who was found dead on Cheyenne mountain came to o ohis his death from exposure and starvation starvation starvation tion while mentally dera deranged ged It is stated In Cheyenne on good authority y that if Secretary tary Hitchcock ock of the ile ln Interior department ep tD r resigns s he be Will Will ill be succeeded succeeded by William Richards Rich Rich- Richards ards c commissioner of the general land office and former governor of Wyom Wyom- ing Elizabeth Morrison is on trial at Butte for the murder of Richard Finnegan Finnegan Finnegan Fin- Fin a Chicago contractor last June Finnegan was wa's brutally murdered murdered murdered mur dered being shot three times the supposition supposition sup sup- position being tb that t he be was shot while he was asleep With the exception o of the Government Government Govern Govern- ment eDt buildings which pave hardly more than begun and the F Forestry restry building which will be under roof this week the principal hull buildings dings of the Lewis and Clark fair fall are to all intents all Intents ts and purposes co completed In a lonely cabin in th the mountains at atthe atthe atthe the head c cf Sun river has been found the dead body of Jake Ralston the tho well known guide and hunter of Teton county Montana A note was wa found pinned to his breast in which Ralston stated he had been shot by one James Fisher Balliett who who pleaded pleaded guilty to charges preferred by the government government government govern govern- ment of using the United States malls mails with Intent to promote a gigantic minIng mining mining min min- ing swindle was sentenced at Des Dea DesMoines DesMoines Moines Iowa last week to three months In the county jail arid and to pay paya a fine of Balliett was Balliett-was was well well- known throughout the northwest Nell a miner employed Inthe in inthe inthe the St. St Lawrence mine at Butte was WitS caught in a fall faU of ground and so seriously crushed that he hey died shortly after being taken to the hospital Two Austrian miners fell while ascending a ladder and one was probably bly fatally hurt while the other was seriously In In- The National Grange jo in s session at Portland decided to hold the next annual annual an an- nual session cession in the State of New Jer Jer- sey The selection of or the city will b ba be made by the executive committee The Tho m-ange m went on record favoring Industrial Industrial industrial indus Indus- trial education in the country schools especially in the matter of agricultural training |