OCR Text |
Show NORTHWEST NOTES Wlnncmuccn, Nov., Is soon to htivo lntorstnto tolephono connections, and will bo nbio to talk to Salt Lake or to Ban Francisco. Tho president, on January 7, sent tho rnmatc tho nomination of Christian Schuobol to bo United States nttornoy for tho district of Oregon. Flro at CulbertBon, Mont., destroyed an ontlro block of buslncsB houses beforo It wns gotten undor control, entailing a loss of $125,000. Tho fourth nnunl convention of tho Wyoming Woolgrowcra' association, the latgoit over held In tho state, was buhl at Laramie, Wyo., last week. John Darling, charged with for-gory, for-gory, broke- out of tho Hock Springs, Wyo., Jail Inst week, with Bovoral other prisoners charged with minor OffCIIBCS. T. O. Newman, a business man or Hutte, Mont., Bitot and killed himself on a Southern l'aclllc train at Battlo Mountain, Nevada. Ho was tempor. nrlly Insano. F. A. Ilelnzo has appealed to President Pres-ident Itoosovolt for tho mmlsslon of a 120,000 flno Imposed upon him for contempt of court In violating an Injunction In-junction restraining him from extracting extract-ing ore from a certain Uutto mine. Exports of wheat, barley and llour from Portland nnd Puget Sound ports hnvo been nddlng JlEO.OOO a day to tho woalth of Oregon nnd Washington Blnco October 1, and this uverago ol exports will bo maintained until tho end of this month. Tho smelter trust has announced n now rato for Goldfleld ores. For nil ores up to $100 a ton, full caBh settlement settle-ment will bo mndo nt once. For ores over $100 a ton tho company will pay $100 a ton at onco and balanco within forty-llvo days. Governor Joseph 1C. Toolo ot Montana Mon-tana has appointed thirty ropresont-atlvo ropresont-atlvo citizens as delegates to tho Missouri Mis-souri Rlvor Navigation congress, to bo hold in Sioux City, January 22-25 next. Tho delegation Is headed by William Scallon of Uutto. A contrnct for $1,000,000 worth of construction on tho now Denver & Northwestern railroad has been lot to an Omaha Arm. By tho end ot tho year tho company hopes to have tho section from Denver to Fort Collins, 125 miles, almost completed. In order to encourage structural stcol work In tho Nevada mills and mines, tho Salt Lake nnd tho Las Vegas &. Tonopah railroads havo reduced re-duced tho tariff on structural steel between be-tween Los Angolcs and Nevada points from $1.S3 a hundred to $1.17. Tho stuto board of railroad commissioners commis-sioners nf Montnna directed tho attorney at-torney genornl to fllo thrco actions In tho district court ngainBt tho Northern North-ern Pacific company, alleging violations viola-tions ot tho slxtcon-hour employment law for employes In tho train Borvlce. Mrs. Isabel Heskct was murdered at Rhyollto, Nevada, by Fred Skinner, with whom tho unfortunnto woman had olopod from hor homo In Arrowhead, Arrow-head, Colo. Sklnnor shot tho woman four times In tho bnck, and attempted sulcldo, but failed nnd Is now In Jail. Tho forest supervisors of district No. 4, which Includes tho forests ol southern Idaho, Utah, part of Wyoming Wyo-ming nnd Nuvada, will moot in Salt Lake January 1C, 17 and IS, for tho purposo of talking over natlonnl forest for-est policies and work ot supervisors. By tho breaking of a natural dam formed by a landslide, tho waters ot Uast creok wrecked the bunk houso at Ladd, tho mining camp ot tho East Creek Coal company, sixty miles south of Tncoma. E. Becker, master mcchnnlc of tho company! wns burled in tho ruins. Tho other men escaped death. At a mooting of tho employees ot the Enst Helena plant of tho American Ameri-can Smelting & Kollnlng company, tho question ot going on strlko was defeated de-feated by only flvo votes. It Is believed be-lieved that this will dcllnltoly scttlo tho mattor, and thnt no furhor trouble will bo had nt tho smelter over tho reduction In wages. A spocial from Uolenn, Mont., states that an attempt to escapo on tho part of two alleged Great Northorn train robbers who held up tho Oriental Limited at Hondo, MJont., and secured $40,000, wns frustrated by tho vigilance vigi-lance of Unltod StntoB Marshal Morrl-field, Morrl-field, who, in tho shirt of Chnrles Mc-Donnld, Mc-Donnld, found ft hack-saw. A. C, Coggln of Seattle, stato manager man-ager of tho Loyal Americans, J. W. Vessoy nnd John Peters, woalthy, sheep mon ot Prossor, Wash., loft for Durnngo, Mexico, lato Inst March to purchnso land. Thoy took along about $30,000. No traco of them has been found slnco last April, though It Is known thoy reached Durnngo. It Is suspectod they were lost In the mountains or woro killed by Indlnns. Whllo n. Vigil, n woll known ranch-man, ranch-man, and his wlfo nnd grandchild, aged six, woro crossing tho railroad track near Mnyno station, Colorado, tho wagon was struck by a pnssengor train. Vigil and tho child wore. Instantly In-stantly killed and Mrs. Vigil fatally hurt, Frank Cochrane end T. It. Bell, both fnrmor residents of Seattle, cngnged In n pistol duel In San Francisco, 11s a result of which both men nro dead. It Is said that tho causo of tho shooting shoot-ing was tht chargo made by Cochvano that Boll had won his wlfo's affections. affec-tions. Tho enso of former Congressman J. N. Williamson of Oregon, chnrgod with unlawfully cutting timber on tho public lands In Crook county, Oregon, In conspiracy with 100 othors, has been decided by tho Btipremu court of tho United States In favor ot Williamson. |