Show NORTHWEST NOTES george turner of spokane has nominated tor governor of washing ton by the democrats delbert R baxter of helena aged 18 and patrick mcdonough ot steams aged 16 were drowned while bathing in a reserve r near wolf reel mont william annl man city marshal of fort benton coan bitted suicide by shooting h myself in the forehead financial difficulties are thought to have been the cause arrangements are being made for the colstr action of a thirty five mile road from laram e on the union pa in wyom ng to the coal fields of the monarch coal company charles ritchie well known all over wyoming as a mining man died at h s residence in laramie last week of lockjaw brought on by the extrac tion of a decayed tooth about a month ago mrs nellie lankenau of montesano wash is dead as a result of fearful burns received aiom an explosion ot a pre on of beeswax and turpen tine which she was heating on a kitch en stove A dorest lire on thompson cheek near olympia wash has burned over five sections of land destroying able timbers a county wagon bridge and a farm house the fire is now un der control while an inquest was being held over the body of patrick mahoney who was killed by jerry slattery in a saloon row in butte a crowd at tempted to lynch slattery but were prevented by ane police two masked men held up ter at lida nevada corn him to open the safe after which they brutally beat him be sides the post office funds the rob bers took of s money william gerhardt aged 76 the fa p aneer stage driver who re the nickname curley bill from mark twain during the palmy days of virg n a city nev died in san francisco last week of heart tall four masked men entered a saloon at helena mont at midnight 1 nock ed the bartender down with the butt of a revolver broke open the safe and cash legister and got away with the money and jewelry valued at about the report of assayer tatem at helena shows that receipts of the united states assay office in montana tor the month of july 1904 were 24 from montana as corn pared with 32 for july last year thal body of mrs shannon was found in an irrigation ditch in reno nevada the woman who was em aloyed at governor sparks s ranch near reno is supposed to have fallen into the ditch and drowned while re turning home at night mr and mrs james mckanney of rawlins last week celebrated their golden wedding anniversary mr me kinney has been all his life a railroad man and was until his retirement from the service february 1 1903 the oldest engineer in the service of the union pacific he is 74 years old J J neville has been arrested in the mountains near thermopolis Thermo polis wyo charged with having been am in the dynamite outrage on june 6 at independence colo where he was formerly in the saloon busl ness his house was within feet of the station where the explosion oc burred george F hammond who made a confession at spokane in which he ad bitted that he was one of the men who held up a northern pacific train at bearmouth Bear mouth in june was arraigned at helena mont on a charge of as sault with intent to kill he pleaded not guilty A reply to governor james H pea body s explanation of his course in connection with labor troubles in colo rado has been made by officers of the western federation of miners the governors charge that the press has been unfair in its comment on the sit bation in colorado is ed two persons who had been found guilty of looting at Ar chales haftl were shot at the scene of their crime in other towns there Is some aaita tion but the energetic measures tak en by the government have put a stop to the anti foreign movement quiet prevails at port au prince in consequence of ane aggressive policy displayed by president castro of venezuela against france M del casse the french minister of foreign affairs has taken steps to prevent the unification of the venezuelan debt which has been arranged with the banque de paris et pays bas |