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Show NORTHWEST NOTES By tho explosion of a boiler In tho small shluglo mill of Harmon & Emmons Em-mons nt Everett, Wash., threo men, nil residents of Everett, wcro killed and threo Injured, two probably fatnlly. fa-tnlly. A. G. Valentine, ono of tho best known nssayers on tho Pacific coast nnd formerly chief nssayer of tho Western Oro Purchasing worka at Bono, Nevada, has succumbed to an nttnek of pneumonia. A Seattle dispatch says tho fishing schooner Lydla, formerly a government govern-ment vessel, was cut In two by tho steamship Chlppowa of tho Pugot Sound Navigation company, off Point No Point, and two men drowned. Philip Weber, a Rawhide, Novnda, saloon man, was taken from a train and placed in tho Ogden,. Utah, Jail, Buffering from a fit of Insanity. Weber We-ber has twlco tried to commit sulcido slnco being placed in Jail, by hanging hang-ing himself. Announcement Is mado that Ernest Knnebcl,' asshitant attorney general ot tho United States for Colorado, has sent his resignation to President lteosovelt, nnd after It 1b ncccptcd will beconio associated with u prominent promi-nent Denver linn. H has been rumored recently that tho Guggenheim Interests nro planning plan-ning to back tho extension of tho Movudn Northern from Ely to Gold-Held. Gold-Held. Tho road now runs from Cobro to Ely, nnd tho plan on foot Is to extend ex-tend It southwest. Edwin Norrls on April 1 becamo tho fourth governor ot tho stato of Montana, tho resignation of Joseph O'Toolo becoming effectlvo on that date. Tho oath was administered by Chief Justice. Brnntly In tho presence of 11 very fow visitors. Arthur Thompson, n colored prizefighter, prize-fighter, whllo asleep In his room In Cheyenne, wns attacked by Gcorgo Harper, also colored, with an ax and ... 1 1 . I . . In nllanml liorrimy uutcnereu. uuriiui -i.-ti. tc havo been under tho Influcuco of cocnlno when lro nttneked his friend. Bon Johnson and Chnrlcs Haden wero blown up on tho Spoknno, Portland Port-land & Seattle railroad, near Sprnguc, Wnsh.. by a blast, Ono wns killed outright and tho other died In tho Sprnguo hospital. Tho accident occurred oc-curred by tho men pouring powder Into a holo too soon after a blast had gono ofT. Gcorgo S. Dubois, a well known mining mnn, who discovered tho Lost Bullion mlno near Silver City. N. M., nnd wns ono of tho persons indicted by tho federal grand Jury In connection connec-tion with tho promotion of that con-corn, con-corn, wns hot nnd killed on April 1 nt Balladat. Colo., by Henry Bird, n hotol keeper. In a prematura explosion of dynn-mlto dynn-mlto In a construction camp near Spokano, Charles Norman and Theo-doro Theo-doro Hofstnd, powder men, woro blown clear over tho walls of the cut, rlBing forty feet nbovo them, nnd thrown 200 foot In opposlto direction beyond tho edgo ot tho cut. Both mon wcro killed. Articles of Incorporation of tho Rocky Mountain HlgUway association, associa-tion, hnvlng for Its object tho promotion promo-tion of tho building ot Improved highways high-ways nnd roads along tiro b-uo of tho Rocky Mountnins in Colorado, Montana. Mon-tana. Wyoming, Idaho, Utah, Now Moxlco and Arizona, woro filed In Denver last week. Tho Utah Construction company hns boon Instructed by tho Harrlman officials to restimo grading a lino from Huntington to Homcstcnd, Baker county, Oregon. This work wns halted last fall at tho beginning of tho llnnnclnl Hurry. Tho road to Homestead Is tho first link In a Harrlman Har-rlman cut-oft Into Lowlston, Idnho. Joseph Shannon, William Cuttn nnd and A. E. Edwnrds wcro last week released from tho county Jail nt Holona, Mont., whero thoy havo been Incarcerated for tho past ninety days for contempt of nn injunction lb-Biiod by Judgo Hunt of the United States court upon application of tho Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone company. com-pany. Mrs. Holon Plcrco Gray, a nowBpa-per nowBpa-per woman, who was arrested last summer on tho Crow Indian resorvn-tlon resorvn-tlon In Montana, and kept In Jail for threo months on a charge of collecting collect-ing money from tho Indians, charges Indian Agent Reynolds, Commissioner Commission-er Loupp and Secretary Garfield with gross misconduct ot tho nffntr3 of tho IndlanB. Dr. J. P. Whltnoy, a practicing dentist, Is undor arrest in Portland, charged with tho death of his. sweot-hoart, sweot-hoart, Miss Mabel -Wlrtz, who died of mercurial poisoning. Tho body wat about to bo cremated when a deputy coronor stopped tho ceremony bocauso bo-causo a certificate of denth had not been fllod. When tho certificate nattily na-ttily was obtained tho cnuso of death was mado plain. James McParland, head of tho Pin-kcrton Pin-kcrton agency, has had two of his best men In Tellurldo slnco Stove Adnnra was taken thero from Idaho. Tholr work Is chlolly to guard Gen-oral Gen-oral Wells, and tltoy nro nsslBted by Bob Mcldrum, tho noted gun man of Tellurldo . |