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Show NORTHWEST NOTES The two tunnels of tho Nevada Northern near Ely, Nev., are about to be timbered, and work to thnt end aas already been commenced. Another carload of Utah wood was received on tho 7th by tho Goldflold brokerage firm ot W. F. Bond & Co., nnd by them distributed freo among those moat In need. Wnges of coal minors in Southern Colorado districts were advanced 10 per cent on tho 1st. Over 6,000 men aro benefited. Tho Increase amounts to $000,000 a year. It Is probable that a through sleeper scrvlco botweon Ryhollto nnd Los Angeles will be Inaugurated about February 1 by the Salt Lako routo and tho Las Vegas & Tonopah road. Tho Sunset Tolephono company of San Francisco has announced Its Intention In-tention to Install a slx-wlre long-din-tanco Bervlce between San Francisco nnd Goldflcld, Tonopah and Manhattan. Manhat-tan. Hon. Thomas M. Uowcn, formerly United States senator from Colorado, died at Pueblo, Colo., on the 30th, nged 71. He was prominent In stato politics for ninny yenrs as a republican. repub-lican. The dead body of Peter Bloom, an eccentric citizen of Carbon, Wyo., wns found In his cabin by neighbors, he having been dead soveral days before the fact waB discovered by neighbors. A frcc-for-all-llght among soveral loggers of tho Hood's canal steamship Perdlta, which occurred off Hage Point, fifty miles from Seattle, resulted result-ed In the death of Jack Phillips, a logger, log-ger, 48 years ot age. Contrary to the usual practice, no innugural ball was held at the usual time In Wyoming this year, but during dur-ing tho session of tho leglslnturo a grand ball will bo given for the legislators legis-lators and their wives. Tho high school building at North Yakima, Wash., Including Its fine library of 2,000 lolumcs, was destroyed de-stroyed by fire, which is presumed to havo originated from the furnace. Loss, $25,000; Insurance, $16,000. James Crusoe, engineer, and John Storrs, conductor, wore Instantly killed at Mulr, Mont., In a collision between a Northern Pacific freight and a light engine. Both men wero In tho cabooso of tho freight, which was run Into by tho light engine on the steop mountain grado at that point. The conl mines nt Bear Creek, Mont., have closed, owing to a failure of tho owners und coal minors to agrco upon a scale. Tho men demand de-mand $1 per ton, mine run, and tho owners offered 75 cents. Tho shutdown shut-down will affect more than 100 men. Tho output of the camp was about 500 tons dally. Judgo Shortall, In tho San Francisco Francis-co police court, Imposed n line of $10 on Mrs. Olivette Parrlo of San Jose, who sought the llfo of George Wing-field, Wing-field, the Novada millionaire, at the St. Francis hotel, claiming to be his common law wife. Tho lino was paid. Mrs. Barrio was charged with disturbing disturb-ing tho peace. An old man tins been arrested at Clancy, Mont., on suspicion of having shot Arptn and Dollver, two Helena telegraphers, tel-egraphers, a year ago nnd of dynamiting dyna-miting the Harris quarry at Montana City, and Chestnut's store nt Clancy, and recently of having shot another Helena man. Ho will be oxnmlned as to his sanity. Tho Sliver Bow county (Montnnn) bar association at u meeting unanimously unani-mously decided on a general increaso In legal fees nil along the lino, from $25 to $75 being added to tho prices for services formerly nBkod. The attorneys at-torneys stato that tho Increased cost of living lias mado the ralso of their scale Imperative. Threo prominent mining engineers In tho employ of tho Wlngflold-Ntxon Consolidated Mines merger, wore arrested ar-rested at. Goldflcld on tho chargo ot forcibly entering a miner's cabin and, nftor searching tho promises, robbing him or $20.25. Tho Hiipposltlnn among miners Is thnt thoy wero searching for stolen high grado ore. Ben Sellg, acting for Joe Gnns, and M. M. Rlloy, on bohnlf of tho Casino Atiiiouc ciui), oi Touopnu, is (iv,, nave signed articles for a finish fight between be-tween Gnns and Jimmy Brltt. Tho purse Is to be $25,000, GO per cent to tho winner and 40 per cent to tho loser, Tho weight Is to bo 133 pounds two hours before the fight. While climbing tho ladder In an In-cllno In-cllno of tho shaft ot the Montezuma mine at Rlmlnl, Mont., Georgo Gun-vlllo, Gun-vlllo, a well-known miner, lost his footing and was precipitated Into 18 feet of wntor In tho sump nnd was drowned. Bert Holman, the 13-year-old adopted son of Mrs. Sarah Ayors has confessed to tho murdor of his foster mother, near Warren, Oregon. The boy stated stat-ed ho killed her becaum she punished pun-ished him for not faithfully performing some duties assigned to him. Freddie Weeks of Butto, Mont., on Now Year's night knocked out Willie iMcNaraara ot Chicago at the Grand opera-house, Cripple Creek, In the third round, W'eehB was In superb condition and wns the Chlcagoan's superior in every branch of the game. |