Show NORTHWEST NOTES boss binning a hornets nest started afire a fire at billingham wash that en dangerud dang ered many residences and was only subdued after a terrible fight by almost the entire population ol 01 tha the town A A smith a prominent shingle manufacturer of everett wash was killed on the by the overturning of his automobile T vo companions duncan mckinnon and john nelson were injured the foury four year earold old daughter of W E pitch fitch who lives near vale ore was shot and instantly killed by her sev en year old brot brother lier who w v as playing with a revolver which was accidental ly disc discharged hargea tn Hs vis hand coal bearing formations underlie tin derlie a larger of wyoming than of any other of the rod y mountain states it is the second largest prodoc ing state in the rocky mountain re gion colorado Coloia do ranking first J H hawley one of the pro secil tors in the murder charges against haywood moier and pettibone ac compan led by mrs hawley has gone to honolulu in search of relaxation and rest before returning to boise in october to resume the prosecution reports are received of a serious forest fire near archford wash at the base of mount tacoma while the blaze has been confined thus tar far to logged off land there is a probability that it may reach the vast stretch of heavy timber in that vicinity alarm Is felt tor for the ranchers in the danger zone for the purpose it is believed of thwarting the chicago milwaukee st paul from securing a right of way westward from helena over the rod y mountains the northern pacific has let a contract to shepard sims co for the building of a cutoff cut off between helena and elliston by way of me donald pass reports are again current that pre ll Il surveys are being made for an extension of the nevada califor nia ilia from its southern terminus at keeler cal south of mojave about miles such an extension would give the southern pacific a much shorter route to los angeles and southern california G clarence hastings a butte min er implicated by george towner in the holdup hold up of the north coast urn lim cited near welch s spur on may 7 last and the murder of engineer clow has been captured near sappington a sta tion on the nothern pacific a few miles east of butte hastings would not tall about the crime in their ascent of mount tacoma washington a scientific p party arty f aiom i om chicago discovered in the ice of urania glacier millions of small worms the worms are about an inch in length and the size of a hair and presented a wriggling squirm ing mass in the solid ice fee in places the ice was almost black with them A jack the was arrested in denver after he had slashed the dresses of nearly thirty women and girls on the streets he was caught in the act and when searched a keen knife and a number of bits of slashed dresses were found on his person he gave his name as peter magoffin and his occupation pation as laborer he could not explain his actions five thousand anaconda mill and smelt ermen joined in a monster dem ont ration in celebration of the acquit tal of william D haywood at boise three bands headed the procession which traversed every street in the city throughout the line were ban ners liers with pictures of haywood bearing the words not guilty we are un desirable citizens but the flag and country are safe scores of little girls carried transparencies reading will they hang our no A special from virginia city mont tells of the drowning of wl R bald win a well welI known rancher of the upper madison valley before the ees of his wife bald vin while attempting to ford a swollen stream became stranded in midriver mi mid river driver cutting the horses loose from the wagon be he at opted tempted to swim to the bank with the animals but lost the reins and was drowned while his wife sat help less on oil the high wagon seat with the water touching her feet thousands of Colora doans coming from all parts of the state joined the people of denver on august 1st in celebration of the thirty first anni lessary of the admission of colorado to the union the surviving pioneers held the position of honor in the pa rade because he imagined the algigi ty ordered him to do so a crazed sheep herder derailed passenger train no 3 on the great great northern at toledo sta uon tion seven miles east of havre mont causing the death of the fireman and slightly injuring a number of 0 gers chaales D hogge pleaded guilty to forging a check on a bank at flor ence colo and was sentenced to the penitential tor for fourteen years hogge told the court that he had practiced forgery for fifteen years and had se cured more than during that time the number of men employed in the coal mines of montana increased from 2 2181 in 1900 to 2 2394 in 1906 the average number of worling worl ing days being the same in both years the average production per man in 1906 was as 64 4 short tons against 7 in 1906 1905 charles butler was killed and jo seph roberts seriously injured by a dynamite explosion while worl w orl ing on a railway grade near helena rob erts his pick against tae pilm pi am er which had been birdied in the mire and which was vas conried with dirt the blast discharged in their tares faces sami itt it t 1 |