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Show NORTHWIEST NOTES The Socialists have again swept the Butte Miners' union, the largest local in the Western Federation of '.Miners, and President P. W. Flynn has been re-elected by an overwhelming, vote. A miner named Sage, dismissed from the Boston-Pioche mine at Pioche, Nevada, shot and seriously wounded the foreman who discharged him. Cleve Carter, the victim, is 28 years old. Ben Bollin, a fifteen-year-old boy, confined in the detention quarters of the county jail at Canon City, Colo., escaped by cutting a hole in the wall while Under Sheriff John Chetelet slept in an adjoining room. Four men were killed in the Dia-nond Dia-nond mine at Butte, through a premature pre-mature blast. Two of them were married mar-ried men and leave families. No explanation ex-planation has as yet been made as to ihe cause of the explosion. Engineers of the Great Northern Railway company have virtually completed com-pleted a preliminary survey of a new railroad for the Hill interests in Franklin, Adams and Douglas counties coun-ties in eastern Washington. After a long debate, the Nevada senate tabled the bill making an appropriation ap-propriation for a state exhibit at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition. This action practically means that Nevada will have no exhibit at Seattle. After writing a note in which he said he was "too proud to beg and ioo honest to steal" and that the person per-son finding the note "need not look for any friends," A. B. Kahney hanged himself in his room in Denver. Secretary John ,T- Burns of the Dry Farming congress announced last week that the permanent headquarters cf the congress would be located in Denver. The records and offices of Ihe congress will be moved from Cheyenne to Denver soon. Reports received from Fort Washakie, Wa-shakie, Wyo., are to the effect that a producing well of black asphaltum oil has been opened on the Indian reservation. reser-vation. Although considerable prospecting pros-pecting has been done in this vicinity, this is the first oil found in commercial commer-cial quantities. Great excitement prevails. pre-vails. Awakened by ihe police, who demanded de-manded admission to her home to search for a fugitive, Mrs. Harry Bridge, of Sheridan, Wyo., undertook to awaken her husband and was horrified hor-rified to discover that he was dead. Bridge succumbed to heart failure while asleep, and had been dead several sev-eral hours. Governor Hay1 of Washington has expressed verbal approval of the local option bill which was generally approved ap-proved by the legislature, and will sign the measure. The bill is a compromise com-promise measure. Every incorporated city under the act is a separate unit and country districts in every county form a district unit. Judge Farrington of the United States circuit court at Carson City, Nevada, handed down a decision last week in the case of the Southern Pacific Pa-cific Railroad company vs. the Nevada Railroad commission. The decision sustains the commissioners in" every point and dissolves the old injunctions injunc-tions against them. The Pacific coast extension of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad crosses Musselshell river, Montana, ".15 times in 117 miles. It has broken every American record by building-twenty building-twenty miles of bridges on that portion por-tion of the system, which begins at 1 Ihe Missouri river. South Dakota, and ends at the city of Seattle. The effort of two powder stalesmen to demonstrate to the mine officials at Sunrise, Wyo., that their powdeii was safer than the variety used in the big mine there, almost resulted fatally to half a dozen men, including .the salesmen sales-men and the officials. The salesmen placed a blast of two kegs of powder, which exploded sooner than was ex. pected. A few nights ago Otto Jones, a prominent Powder river sheepman, rode up to the ranch of Joseph Lacey at Kinnear, Wyo., on the edge of the Wind River Indian reservation, boldly kidnaped Lacey's 16-year-old stepdaughter, step-daughter, Miss Martha Day, and galloped gal-loped with her to the railroad, where they took a train to Chadron. Neb., and were married. Mrs. James R. Davis, the bride of one of the richest and best known mine operators in Nevada, died at Losj Angeles, An-geles, March 2. She was one of the most beautiful and popular society pirls of Goldfield. the daughter of a prominent physician. Dr. E. S. Galloway. Gallo-way. Mr. and Mrs. Davis had only recently returned from an extended wedding trip in Europe. Construction work on the Dodson dam in Valley county. Montana, which is being constructed for the purpose of irrigating large tracts of land lying along the Milk river, has been stopped by an injunction secured se-cured by the Great Northern Railway company upon the ground that the back water is threatening to undermine under-mine the railroad tracks. A. B. Reynolds, one of the earliest pioneers of Guernsey. Wyo.. and believed be-lieved to have been the oldest resident of Laramie county, is dead from erysipelas, ery-sipelas, at the age of 89 years. He came west In 1849. crossing the plains In an ox-cart, and searching for gold 1n California. Charles Horen. a well known business busi-ness man of Laurel. Mont., was shot down and probably fatally injured by a supposedly insane Italian. The men dad met and exchanged the compliments compli-ments of the day when, without warning, warn-ing, the Italian wheeled &ad fired upon Horen. |