| Show NORTHWEST NOTES A monthly horse sale la held at miles city mont and so far season over horses have been bold and shipped to eastern markets president alee ot th montana federation of labor ad 5 union anen at butte oa labor day there was the usual parade john hancock tha murderer of dr Engle brit and a man named admond sen on the nevada desert was hangea at the state penitentiary at aaraon nevada friday ot last week fire has again broken out in the forests east ot mill city mont A logging camp in the cascade moun bains burned last week the men arely escaped from the camp with their lives ft fire destroyed the warner hotel roberts s general store and ware house aad the postoffice post office at cascade about fifty miles from helena the loss Is estimated at with 1000 insurance J F darnes who shot and killed patrick hanley at gutte 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 was shot and killed by officers near malta mont reed had been surprised and relieved of hs weapons when he at tempted to escape by running and was shot down by one of the officers the federal government has begun to taka testimony in fourteen case of alleged violation of the continuous residence feature of the homestead law by commuters in skagit county washington the evidence la taken before the superior court of mount vernon and forwarded to the depart anent emil rude was found dead in coma having apparently fallen from a window on the second floor of the grand central hotel ills feet were pulled through the arm holee ot a vest which the police think he had mis taken for trousers and in trying to put then on stumbled and fell through the window 1 two violent deaths 0 little onee have occurred in burns ore the past week eight year old ruth prompted probably by curiosity ate the contents of a bottle ot strychnine and died in great agony three year old delia thornburg in some manner accidentally set tire to her clothes and that she died was so badly burned moritz president of tho centennial mill company seattle es that california will use 6 bushels of washington wheat this year he also states that order tor approximately iff bushels aade 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 dr coventry a traveling eye specialist of deadwood S D while hunting bob cats near clyde park 18 miles from livingston accidentally shot and killed his wife she had tol lowed him unknown to him and was approaching in the brush when he mistook her tor a wild animal and fired F H chase was arrested in san as he landed from the steamer spokane froin portland a charge of embezzling having been lodged against him it Is asserted by the portland police that he Is pos hessed of important information regarding the shooting of kaspar van dran a saloonkeeper and also the killing of mrs van dran A alre in the mountains near MM city oregon burned three tarn houses and spread nto the timber in the mountains A large amount ot wood and several culverts on the cor eastern railroad were burned more americans have visited the yellowstone national park this sum mer than ever before according to M II 11 albin manager of the monalda yellowstone stage line fully persons have visited the park since the season opened A human skeleton the bones of an animal presumably a bear and remains of an old fashioned rifle found in the woods four miles north of aber aaen wash by a woodsman tell the tale of an encounter which ended la death to man and beadet fully people witnessed the sham naval battle at the lewis and dark exposition last week the spec ot the duel bacle was a reproduction between the merrimac Merrl mac and monitor during the civil war there were tour imitation battleships in the fight the newly completed labor temple was dedicated in seattle am mediately following the labor day pa rade the largest affair of its kind ever been in seattle after the dedicatory exercises the big building was thrown open to the public tor 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 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 tailing in two and a halt hours fire which hid incendiary origin in judd s restaurant at havre mont about midnight was finally stopped after a number of buildings in its path bad teen destroyed the firemen lab ored under the disadvantage of hav ing little water the total loss Is ea urinated at about 30 |
