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Show NORTHWEST NOTES Frank Barry and Percy Honey-church, Honey-church, two young boys, were electrocuted electro-cuted at Butto whllo playing with s power wire. Al. Hang, foreman of the blasting gang of tho MIzpah at Tonopnh, No vada, sustained a broken leg when he slipped nnd fell ten feet down a stopo Jim Anderson, a Goldfleld, Nevada hotel porter, may loso his right log through accidental discharge of an automatic revolver which ho wat cleaning. Despondent from 111 health, J. B. Hall, a prominent resident of Mountain Moun-tain City, Elko county, Nevada, killed himself, cutting his throat from car to ear with a razor. Tho cases of five strike breakers convicted in JubUco court of carrying concealed weapons at Tonopah, No vada, has boon opened on appeal in tho district court there. During n drunken quarrel ncar Ely Nevada, John Sucnllch, an Austrian was brutalfy beaten up by a gang ol his fellow countrymen who are afllllat ed with n different religious fnctlon. It Is reported that the Las Vegas & Tonopah railroad will bo extended to Tonopah by tho Clark Interests. A petition pe-tition is being circulated by citizens of Tonopah urging and advising the extension. Tho body of Harry Swamcr drowned with his toam whllo attempting at-tempting to ford tho Humboldt during March Hood south of Lovelock, No vada, has been recovered and fully identified. Half a dozen Belmont miners arc in the hospital at Tonopah, Nevnda, suffering from arsenical poisoning, duo to contact with strong solutions which nro being found in tho ores between be-tween tho 1,000 and 1,100 lovel3. W. R. Fitts, Justice of the peace ol Lovelock, Nevada, committed suicide In Reno by taking an eighth of nn ounce of strychnine. Despondency Is supposed to lmvo been the cuuso. He was a mnn of middle ngc. Two hundred and thirty-three thousand thou-sand pounds of wool was sheared this year by Adams and McGlll ut the Hor-ton Hor-ton ranch, about a mile from tho smelter, smel-ter, sayu the Ely, Nevada, Mining Expositor. Ex-positor. Tho annual shearing of about 30,000 head of sheep was finished April 25. That preliminary negotiations looking look-ing to consolidation of Ely Calumet and Ely Resurrection hnvo been entered en-tered upon is admitted by large interests in-terests in both of thoso companies, and tho belief appears to provall that It will not bo a difficult matter to effect ef-fect a merger. Levy Tracy, a nogro, 2S years old, hns confessed that ho killed G rover Ponds of Cheyenne whllo en route to that city with a grading outfit. Tracy said he and Ponds had quarreled over tho lattor's driving of ono of tho wagons wag-ons and that Ponds fired twlco at him beforo ho shot In return. Mnstor Mechanic Glynn of tho Nevada Ne-vada Con. at Ely, Nevada, had a narrow nar-row escapo from death when a churn drill rig toppled over and struck hlra a glancing blow, crushing his collar bono. Had ho taken another stop before be-fore being struck, ho would undoubtedly undoubt-edly have been crushed to death. With locations of nine-two oil clnlms filed In ono day there would appear to be little doubt that activity In tho old field of Emory county Is to bo not much longer delayed. That, according ac-cording to tho Emory County Progress, Prog-ress, Is tho record of ono day's filings In tho office of tho county recorder of Emery. Edward Barrlll of Fairbanks, Mont., tho guide who accompanied Dr. Frederick A. Cook on his Mount Mc-Klnley Mc-Klnley trip and who made an affidavit affida-vit during tho polar controversy that tho doctor had novor reached tho top of tho Alaska peak, declares that In his opinion tho Fairbanks party, headed head-ed by Thomas Lloyd, never scaled tho summit either. Heart falluro caused tho death of Theopolls B. Sackott, a prominent business man of Bozeman, Mont. Mr. Sackctt had been out fishing all day and was distributing his catch among his friends, when on his way homo he fainted and fell, and expired shortly after being tnkon to his residence. resi-dence. Unless a compromise of somo kind is reached botween tho Ecctrlclans' union of Butto and their employes beforo May 1, a strike will result, as tho men huvo demanded a ralso of 60 cents per day and a change In hours by which their tlmo will bo counted from shop to shop, instead of from Job to Job. An explosion of gasoline in tho tallorship of Alonlns Bros., at Rock Springs, Wyo., caused tho destruction pf tho building occupied by thoni, and ,also an adjoining building, causing a .'loss of $3,000, James Hopkins, found wandorlng and lnsano In Carson1 Valloy a fow days ago, has recovered his mind In Carson, Novada. Ho lost his way whilo walking from his homo at Placorvlllo, Cal., and wandered for days without food. |