Show NORTHWEST NOTES The twenty eighth convention of the Montana State Christian association was held In Billings last week Montana was the last state in the Union to hold its Ita Democratic state convention to elect delegates to Den Den- ver Twice within ten days the Carnegie Carnegie Carne Carne- gie library at Reno Nevada has been robbed about 15 15 being taken from the money drawer C. C D. D Frazier of ot Portland was chosen chos chos- en second vice-president vice of ot the Trav Tray elers' elers Protective assod association Rt at t the Milwaukee meeting The year old daughter of Mrs Samuel Stevenson was burned to death eath at Carson City Nev lOev her dress catching fire tire from a firecracker Joseph Wallace was killed by a atrain atrain atrain train two miles west of Laurel Mont Trainmen say the man was sleeping on the track his head pillowed on a rail I Egbert Smith aged 41 n years one of I Ithe the best known mining engineers in I America died at his home in Colorado Springs last week Death came as a result of an illness contracted in Mexico Mex Mex- ico ice last winter The body of year old Harry SIfford Sifford SIf SIf- ford who mysteriously disappeared from Reno Nevada has been found at ater over fifteen miles from troD i where he was supposed to have gone bathing in an irrigating ditch I Boycott of Oregon hops and barley worth annually is threatened threat threatened threatened ened by the brewers because of the stand for tor prohibition taken by most of the counties of that state accordIng according accord accord- Ing to a prominent California brewer The Isthmian Canal commission has discontinued the tho purchasing agency at Tacoma Wash and has haa transferred the work which consist consist- consisted ed principally in the inspection oi of lumber to an army engineer at Seat Seat- tle tie A defective rail caused the wreck ing of ot a passenger train near Garry Garry- town Mont and Engineer J J. J J J. J Mul Mui Mullen len was instantly killed Fireman George W. W Dul was seriously in injured injured but it is believed he will win re re- cover The directors of the Montana Independent Independent Inde lade pendent Telephone company at a meeting held in Butte elected officers for tor the year One change was made W. W H. H Hall of Butte Dutte being elected as ag vice-president vice to succeed P. P B B. Moss of ot Billings After Arter scarcely three hours of deliberation deliberation dellb- dellb a Jury at Butte acquitted John Sutherland of the charge of first de degree degree gree murder in the killing of ot J J. J L L. Kerr err November 7 last This was wa Sutherlands Sutherland's second trial Sutherland struck Kerr with a brick Mayor Taylor a mine superintend superintendent ent and E. E W. W Priest an ex constable I died at Goldfield last week three hours of each other as a result of a desperate street duel with pis pistols pistols pistols in which the two men almost rid died one another r. r Taylor charger charged Priest with trying to break up his bh home I Henry Weber a prominent mining minni operator and society leader one of ot the pioneers of Goldfield has been sen sea sentenced sentenced tented to serve seven years in the state penitentiary Weber was convicted convicted con con- of embezzling belonging I to the Doctor Mining company ol of Wonder of which he was president and manager I Fifty c years ears ago on June 27 the lit litIle littie tie Ile band of Georgians known as the Green Russell party pitched camp on Cherry creek where Denver stands stand I after ter a wearisome Journey across th the plains and later they built the first cabin on the site of the tho city The I event was commemorated last wee I by a celebration of the pioneers I The year two-year-old son of Mr an ant ani Mrs Tony was run over by a runaway team in Butte Dutte and killed The hoofs of the horses horse crushed in the skull of the child The runaway was started by small boy boys exploding firecrackers near the horses borses Miss Leonora Pearce convicted at atI I Denver of ot having obtained a valuable ring from Mrs Harriet Crows an anI aged blind bUnd widow by palming herself I off of as a spiritualist capable of restoring lag ing sight was sentenced to serve three to four years in the Colorado penitentiary Two destructive fires in Colorado started by careless campers have destroyed destroyed destroyed de de- de- de timber valued at The fires tIres occurred in the western part of Jefferson county and the extreme northern central part of Park county the latter being known as as' Mount F Flans Evans ans district The Andy Hempel Brokerage company company com COnt pany the pioneer mining brokerage firm in Reno was sold last week to J J. J W. W Longley E. E B. B Cushman and B. B F all of ot Tonopah Nev where they are prominent in business circles The company will bo be reorganized and capitalized cap capital ital at nt James E. E Steele en route from Jerome Je Je- Jerome Jerome rome Ariz to Boston Doston Mass became violently insane on a Santa Fe train at nt Trinidad Colo and was removed tc the county jail His Ills brain is supposed to have become affected by the altitude of Raton mountain over ovel which the train passed John Michael Daly a page in the first territorial legislature of Mon Montana Montana Montans tana tans is dead Mr Daly was 50 years year of age and was born In Chicago JI He lived in Helena the most of ot his life lICe and during the past twenty years ears hat had been heavily Interested in mining properties near Helena J J. J W. W Scott employed as by bythe bythe bythe the Salt Lake Lako Railway Rall company at Dry Lake station twenty nine miles milet I east of Las Vegas Nevada shot and killed Joseph Webb at Dry Lake L. because because be be- I cause Webb refused to move oft off tho the premises of the tho company when ordered or of dered to do so by Scott |