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Show NORTHWEST NOTES Two Wyoming postmasters wore appointed on tho 15th. Soldier's Home, Johnson county, Samuel P. Thompson; Upton, Weston county, 1311a Perry. Adam Catlln, one of tho best known men in tho west, and for whom tho town of Catlln In Washington wns iinmcd, tlropped dead on tho street In Portland on tho 14th. Fire of unknown origin destroyed the barns nnd sheds and the ranch hay crops of John Olson, near Centen-nlnl, Centen-nlnl, Wyo. Fire started shortly after noon, while tho family was at dinner. While running at high Bpccd, . .1 Santn Fe freight train dashed into 0 washout near Hcngnl, Cal on the desert, ami lu tho wreck which followed fol-lowed Fireman J. H. Potter was In-stnn'ly In-stnn'ly killed In his cab sent. llnbnrt Williams, a stonemason, was severely Injured at Goldllcld by being cnugbt between tho arm of a derrick der-rick nntl a two-ton stone while working work-ing on tin; Daisy building. Williams was nearly niasbcd to a Jelly, but physicians phy-sicians say ho may recover. One man was killed nnd three serl-oukly serl-oukly Injured anil two slightly Injured In an accidental explosion of a blast near Nlnemile. Mont. Tho accident occurred oc-curred near MacDougal'B construction camp, on the rUht of way of tho Chicago.' Chi-cago.' Mil v. anker & St. Paul railroad. Oscar L. Find, n well known Alaska miner, nrrhod In Goldllcld last week, and will endeavor to build up another fortune there. He recently lost $45,-000 $45,-000 nt roulette In San Frnnclsco, which represented the savings mado by Mm lu thn frozen north. Ho is not dlsheprtened, however, and expects to recoup lib) losses In Nevndn. H. M. Wise of Missouri has been nrrested nnd held to the United States grand Jury for nllowlng n forest flro to start from his camp near Fraser, Colo., doing considerable damage Wise went to Denver when he found the troublo ho had caused and telephoned tele-phoned back to tho camping place for ills valise. Charles Sweeney of Spokane nnd Mr. Pope of Toronto are stntod to have sold to the Guggenheinis for about $11,000,000 the control or tho nig Uuffalo mine In Huhnlo Hump district. In ceutral Idaho, each retaining about" $t,000,000 lu stock. The Guggcnhelms, it is asserted, will build n railroad from Salmon river to the town or Cnl-lenilnr. Cnl-lenilnr. It. O. Wlnslow, n grnln merchant, was accldentnlly Bhot nnd killed whllo at work In his olllco at Georgetown? Wash. Ho was engaged, with threo other men. in straightening out somo legal matter connected with n debt owing hla firm, when a loaded revolver revol-ver which wns lying on 11 chair was upset, the bullet passing through tho spinal column. The attempts of a Joint committee from tho miners, smelter men and engineers en-gineers to scttlo the machinists' strike nt Dutto have npparcnlly proved fruitless. fruit-less. Tho company offered tho strikers strik-ers $4.75, Instead of the $5 demanded Tho union was willing to nccept this, whllo copper wns below 18 cents, but wanted n $5 agreement when It went above that figure. One of tho most famous suits In the history of Montana came to nn end nt Hutto last week when the United Unit-ed States Fidelity company paid to tho firm of Maurice & Hogcvoll $5,277. Tho action hns been tried eight times In the dlBtrlct court, nntl II vo times In tho supremo courts. Tho suit was begun be-gun In 1905. Both of tho original contestants con-testants are dead. Word has boon received thnt tho long-doslrcd rearrangement of tho Episcopal missionary dioceses in tho west has been ncted on favorably by tho general convention 'of tho Kplsco-pal Kplsco-pal churchmen of Amerlcn now being held In ltlchmond, Va., und thnt In all probability hereafter the state of Nevada will constitute a Beparato episcopal mission nnd will have a bishop of Its own, with the See city, Ileno. Threo negroes. Tom Stewart, a well known Jockey. Kd Donovnn and Fred Brown, wore drowned In Houser lake, near Helena, Mont., while duck hunting. hunt-ing. There wore no witnesses to the nccldent, nnd the first known of tho drowning was whon tho upsot boat floated ashore. Tho bodies have not yet been recovered. United States Dlstrlot Judge J. H Hawloy (retired) of Novada died on the 17th of kldnoy dlBcaso at the St. Francis hospital, San Francisco, at tho age of 77 yenrs. He was appointed appoint-ed United Stntes district Judge when at tho ago of 00 years. The youngost daughter of H. F. Grant, manager of tho Seattlo Klectrlc company, received burns that two hours later resultod in her death. The girl was 7 years old. It Is supopsed that her clothes caught fire from a match, although thcro woro no eyo-witnesses. eyo-witnesses. Mrs. L,lzJ!lo nenlB, wiro of Chariot A. Heals, one of tho oldest engineers on tho Union Pacific, and formorly sheriff nnd county treasurer, died at Larnmlo on tho ISth. Sho was born In Now York nnd married Mr. neals on her eighteenth birthday. She wae CI years of oge. Tho Laramie, Hnhn's Peak & Pacific Pa-cific railroad last week became a United Stntos mall route, accepting a contract with tho postotllco depart mont to handle mall between Laramla nnd Centonnlal, horctoforo a Star route. Tho road runs thirty miles west of l.aramle. Frank Pago, nrrested -at Colfax, Wash, on suspicion of complicity Id tho munlor of ox-Sheriff Harvby It Brown nt Bakor City, Oro., has bcon released. While his nppearanco tal Hod with that of ono of tho mon, Page satisfied tho authorities that he wai an amateur detective |
