| Show NORTHWEST NOTES nevada will be near the head of the list this year in miles of con of railroad august koch restaurant proprietor was run down and kl led by a south era pacific train within the city limit of portland it was unanimously decided at a meeting of the butte butchers to raise the boycott on all of the pro ducts of the eastern packers james miles of hoeu am wash shot and ki led the woman with whom he lived and then fatally wounded ole saad a logger and ended the shooting by killing himself robert williams a bar boy in the copper king saloon was shot and ser lous wounded at butte by jerry thompson a negro as the result of a row over 15 cents freddie dardine aged 9 years was shot and killed in a cabin near nook sack wash an old man who alone inhabited the cabin may be held responsible for the lad s death saly nauheim a well known mining engineer as dead at his home in new york city he was identified with the opening and development of many am copper properties in the mon tana field I 1 five masked men held up and robbed the saloon of george cooper in butte and secured in cash bar tender S J cummungs was hit over the head with a gun and suffered a severe scalp bound the official figures of the spring salmon pack of columbia river foj 1904 were made public last week the staten rent of the pack is based on four dozen one pound cans to the case the total number of cases is the remains of the murdered man found back of kirkland vash have been identified as those of alfred E plummer stepson of col fisher the local chinese inspector no motive Is assigned the young man was 22 years old the general land office has directed the withdrawal from all forms of dis dosal of acres of public lands in the north yakima district in wash ington for irrigation purposes the withdrawal Is in connection with the clallam reservoir site james S nesbet once a brilliant politician landerd away in a fit of de mentia and was lost in the idaho mountains says a butte special after a long search his friends found the body A faithful dog stood guard over the corpse tor several days A contract for the grading of the moffat railroad from arrowhead sev enty miles west of denver to hot springs twenty five miles beyond has beon let and the work will begin oc tober 1 the contract calls for an ex ture of nearly half a million dol lars r to the figures of state la bor commissioner 0 P koff the population of oregon Is at present against in 1900 an increase of 58 in making computation the commissioner found that the num her of children of school age who u not attending school Is increasing at an alarming rate A dispatch from mont says that mistaken for a deer charles witta was instantly killed by matt sands the two men were members of a camping party and thinking to bag an animal in the early morning was leaving camp when sands aroused by his friend s movement and thinking him to be a deer in the uncertain light blazed away with a rifle sending a bullet clear through s head R F bennett a sawyer shot him in the head at tacoma last week and died a few hours later aged with inability to secure work and with a wife and two daughters to support it Is thought the man s mind gave way to despondency and led him to the fatal deed from all indications the forest fires west of anaconda mont will con dinue to burn for a long time to come the farea are sweeping over the thick ly wooded sections of the mountains northwest of anaconda and at this sea son of the year there Is small chance of a heavy rainstorm A coroner s jury investigating the murder of gus breuer the portland ore saloonkeeper who was killed on thursday night of last week has re turned a verdict that breuer came to his death from pistol shots fired by unknown persons five italians who were playing cards in breuer s place at the time of the murder and who told stories directing suspicion on a car penter named lewis have been arrested evidence having been dincov ered pointing to an unknown member it the party as the assassin four men ed stickney charles harmon N P anderson and A F brown were surprised in their auar in tacoma wash in the act of making counterfeit flye cent and alve cent pieces but made smooth on one side to play slot machines they were caught in the act of making the coins and one of the men showed fight with a gun but was quickly dis armed the men were taken before united states commissioner bridges and bound for trial in the sum of 1000 each edwin creffield Creff eld leader of the holy hollers a fanatical religious sect whose eccentric manner of worship caused a sensation at corvallis wash thi eummer has been convicted by a jury at portland of the crime of adul tery and sentenced to a term of two years in the penitentiary just before the case went to the lury cret beld made a rambling statement to the effect that all his actions had been guided by the lord and while he might be guilty in the eyes of the people he was not in the ye of god 1 A |
