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Show BBBB NORTHWEST NOTES James H, Davis, an nctor, dropped dead on the stago in Butte whllo speaking his lines. Death wns duo to heart disease. Wiflnrd Martin, a Southern Pacific brakeman, whllo attempting to board tho cnbooso of his train at Klko, Nevada, Ne-vada, was thrown to tho ground, and his collar bono broken. Tho Bntto Plumbers' union struck last week for $8 per dny ot eight hours. Tho men now recelvo $7. Buildings aggregated at $1,000,000' un-dor un-dor construction aro tied up. Mrs. Catherine McKctchnle, who waB born in Scotland elghty-nlno years ago, and who enmo to America when Bho wns but 8 years old, spending spend-ing tho most of that time In tho west, died at her homo In Lnramlo on tho 26th. Fire caused by tho upsetting of a lamp In tho hands of W. J. Smith, caused Smith's death, tho fatal burning burn-ing ot Richard Nicholson, slight Injuries In-juries to several other persons and a monetary loss ot $30,000 in the little town of Troutdalo, Ore. Bids were scheduled to bo opened on the 23rd by tho supervising archltdct for putting In partitions In the attic of tho Cheyonne public building, for which an appropriation of $15,000 Is available No bids wero received and tho work will bo readvortlscd. Two heavy storms coming from opposite op-posite directions met each otlier near Cascado, Mont., resulting in a terrific wind and hall storm during which hnil stones- fell measuring as much as ono and one-half Inches In diameter. Crops were ruined In the storm zone. Harry Whlto, the son of W. J. White, a wealthy manufacturer of Cleveland, O., wns arrested la Ana-condn, Ana-condn, Mont., Inst weok, charged with assault upon Gorgo J. Dean, nn employe em-ploye at tho Gold Coin mine, near Anaconda. Tho trouble, it is said, originated over tho management ot tho mine. Reno, Nevada, Is to enter upon an era of Improvements. A proposition is beforo tho city council to Isbuu bonds to tho amount of $500,000, the proceeds to bo used In constructing an adequato sewer system for tho city. Thoi lnck of sanitary system has been long felt nnd nubile spirit Is backing tho enterprise. Senator Gcorgo S. Nixon has begun tho construction of tho tlnest dwelling houso in Novada at Reno. When completed com-pleted it will cost about $100,000. It will be 145 feet long and will faco tho bank of the Truckco river at a width ot sixty feet. Tho bulldlug will be or stone, brick and cement and will be old Southern In style. ' Tho state dairy and -pure food board of Idaho will soon tnko steps to prosecute prose-cute .manufacturers of Ice cream, syrup and .candy, who uso coloring for their products In Violation of tho Btnto law. It is reported that a number num-ber of persons in this and othec sections sec-tions have grossly violated the statute and aro to ho, rigidly dealt with. Threo young women of Helena, Mont., tho Misses Bertha and Fred-rlka Fred-rlka Volker and Miss Knnton Kop-ner, Kop-ner, have just been npprisod, after hearlngB lasting throe yoars, In Gorman Gor-man courts, thoy had been declared tho legal heiresses to tho estate of their grandfather, named Volker, and which amounts to forty million dollars. dol-lars. T. F. Tuttlo. ono or the leading Blockmen of Montana and also one of tho owners of tho Boulder bank, died on tho 20th in Great Falls, after u long Illness. He was G4 years of age and -a pioneer of Colorado, California and Montana, coming to this stnto from the coast in 1804, when he followed fol-lowed mining for a time at Alder gulch. R. U. Vanmltro and Dan Murnamo, minors employed at tho Combination mine at Goldfleld, have been arrested j charged with the .theft of high grado ore from the mine. The house lu which they lived wns searched, and twenty pounds of oro valued at $10 a pound was seized. This Ib the third case ot high grading within three week8. K. S. Hnrtn, a pioneer ot Cnllfornlu, Colorado and Montana, Is dead at his Carbon county, Montana, ranch, aged 77. He was n natlvo of Cooper conn-tl, conn-tl, Mo., and went to California in 1851, Colorado in 1858, and came to Montana in 18G2, nttrnctcd by the gold discoveries. Ho acquired his wealth at fanning and cattle raising, however. Tho condition of Uerrows, the Salt Lake man who cut his throat ut Ely, Nevada, recently while out ot his mind, Is not very encouraging. He has repeatedly stated that ho was sorry sor-ry he did not accomplish tho task ot killing himself, nnd has to bu watched all the time.. The survey of the aerial geology of the Lnramlo and Sheridan quadrangles, quadran-gles, Wyoming, will bo carried to completion this season by Kllot Black-welder Black-welder of the United Slates geological geologi-cal survoy, who will glvo particular attention to tho areas underlain by crystelllno rocks. As (he result of a severe rainstorm at Laramie, a doeu storos suffered damage from flooded cellars. i Thu water canio down the street In' such torrents that tho gutters wero nut largo enough to accommodate It, and tho streets wore flooded several Inchs deep In places. An attachment has been levied upon the bank deposits aud bank stock held by F. Augustus Heiuze lu tho various hanks of Hutto. Tho levy Is roude In a suit brought a few mouths ago by T. M. Hodgentf ugnlnst the Blnghum Consolidated Copper Mining company of I'tuli. |