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Show NORTHWEST NOTES Tho scnato has passed a. bill providing provid-ing for tho appointment of an additional addi-tional assistant treasurer of the United Unit-ed States, to bo located at Seattle. Tho Japanese of San Francisco contributed con-tributed to tho fleet entertainment fund the sum of J2.J4C, tho nmotmt bolng rnlBcd by popular subscription. Genornl Mnnagcr Gruebor of tho Great Northern railroad, after an Investigation In-vestigation of tho company's property so seriously damaged by tho bursting of tho Hauser lako dam, estimates tho loss to the company Is J79.000, It Is announced that no attempt will bo made at present to reopen No. 1 mlno at Hanna, Wyo., whoro a largo number of miners recently lost their lives as the lvsult of an explosion Thoro nro st'.il fifty-six bodies In tho mine. Former Senator W. A. Clark Is In n hospital in I)S Angeles, whero he underwent nn operntlon for a gr.bwth on tho loft side of his neck. Tho oporatlon was successful and tho mul-tlmllllonnlro mul-tlmllllonnlro mlno owner will bo opt In n few dayH. Tho taxpayers of Helena, Mont., InBt week went on record by n voto of four to ono In Indorsing the municipal muni-cipal waterworks system nnd tho extension ex-tension of tho present sewerage system. sys-tem. Tho proposition was for tho Issuance Is-suance of $070,000 In bonds. Evory department of tho Southern I'aclflc shops at Sparks, Nevada, resumed re-sumed operations nt full blnflt last Monday morning. Tho departments hnvo been running with grently reduced re-duced forces for several months past. At lenst GOO men nro affected. George 13 hie. flreninn of tho Burlington Burling-ton overland limited, dynamited by bandits near Butte, Is dead. This makes tho third fatality of tho wreck Tho officers are very reticent concerning concern-ing any clcwa which might lead to tho Identity of the perpetrators of tho blowing up of tho train. Henry P. Morrison, brnkeman on tho Heppnor brnnch of tho Oregon Itnllway & Navigation company, shot and killed his BWecthenrt, Nora Wright;, near Morgan, Oregon, and wounded nonnle Ahnrt, hor companion, compan-ion, on Sunday. Morrison then shot himself and ho Is not expected to llvo. Cleveland Murdock, n well known young man of Ilcno, Nevada, son of a wealthy ptook rnlnr. walked Into a saloon In Reno nnd. after Joking with somo friends, draw n revolver and fired a bullot Into Ms brain. There Is no known reason for tho deed, except ex-cept that ho was of a melancholy disposition. dis-position. Tho homo of J. O. Wlckland, foro-man foro-man of tho quarries or tho Wnshoo Smelting company at Anaconda, Mont., was blown up by giant powder ono night last weok, Mr. Wlckland bolng Injured, but tho rest or tho family fam-ily escaped unhurt. Discharged Aus-trlans Aus-trlans and Italians nro suspected of tho crime. Edward McAfco, n negro, escaped from tho asylum at Pueblo; Colo., and nttacked Mrs. Edward Jones with n hatchet, inflicting Injuries which will probably causo her death. McAfee stood off his pursuers with nn ax and waB only captured when a llro company com-pany was called out and turned tho hoso on him. Mrs. P. J. W. Adams, wlfo of Pres. Ident Adams of tho Seventh-day Ad-ventlsts Ad-ventlsts of western Cnnada, Is believed be-lieved to havo been murdcrod for hor money In tho Garden of tho Gods, Colorado. Bho has not been heard from since Kobruary G, when sho loft Boulder, Colo., for California, stopping stop-ping off at Colorado Springs. John Van TIno, convicted of holding hold-ing up Deputy County Clork Morton at Reno, Nevada, has been sentenced to ten years Imprisonment In tho Btato ponltontlnry. Van Tlno hnd Just fin lBhod a nlnc-ycar term in tho California Califor-nia prison for tiro samo kind of or-fenao, or-fenao, upon his rolaso going to Reno nnd linnicdlntoly getting In trouble. A. O. Lewis, of Los Angolcs, whllo enrouto to Chicago, foil undernenth a train nt Reno and had a narrow cs-capo cs-capo from doath. As lt was ho escaped es-caped with n broken ankle, fearful bruises, ana It Is feared BUBtalnod Internal In-ternal Injuries that may yet result In his death. Ai Burlington train was dynamited near Butto on tho night of May 1, tho explosion causing tho engines to leave the rails. Evory person on tho train has beon accounted for oxcept Engineer Engi-neer Bussy of tho second engine, who Is supposed to bo burled undor his locomotive. As tho result of a fight botwoon two Indians, a Chilean and a Mexican nt Reno, Nevada, In which knives woro tho weapons, tho Chilean Is nt death's, door, tho Mexican was badly cut up, and both of tho Indians wero Injured. Tho light was over two Indian In-dian women. Whllo tho condition or Governor John Sparks Is serious, tho physicians physici-ans aro hoporul of ultimate recovery Tho governor Is suffering from mul-tlplo mul-tlplo porlphal nourltls, a dlsoaso no necessarily fatal but oxtromoly painful, pain-ful, and ono that will require noine time for tho patient's recovery. AJs tho result of a decision of the court, O. b: Bcattlo, a city alderman of Helenn, Mont., who was named as co-heir with a pet dog to tho estato of Mrs. Mary A. Pryso, who died last February, Is now the solo Itolr, tho dog having died, and thereby Inhorlts a vnluablo rosldenco In Helena. Tho second trial of P. E. Klsor lot murder growing out of tho destruction destruc-tion of tho Colorado & Southern Bta-tlon Bta-tlon nt Bouldor, Colo., by lire and dy-namlto dy-namlto during n switchmen's strike In which sovernl peoplo woro killed, resulted re-sulted In tho Jury returning a vordlot of murdor In tho second degree. |