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Show NORTHWEST NOTES. The National association of railway blacksmiths have decided to hold their next convention in Denver. At Butte, Mont., there are 7,200 men employed at the mines, of whom 8,000 work underground and 1,200 on the surface. The census bureau announces that the population of Butte, Mont., is 30,470, as against 10,723 in 1890, an increase in-crease of 19,747, or 184.16. The stockholders of the Washington Water Power company, Spokane, have voted to increase their capital stock from 81,500,000 to $2,000,000. Mone Hechtman, a Jewish boy, who was kidnapped from his home in Portland, Port-land, Ore., eleven years ago, has been found working in a circus in San Francisco. Fran-cisco. ' The United States transport Lawton has sailed from Seatle for Nome with a cargo of quartermaster's supplies. Returning she will bring destitute Seven suits for damages against th Tacoma Railway and Power company were filed recently. The claims arise out of the Fourth of July accident, and range from 82000 to 820,000 each. On of the hardest-fought trials in the history of Spokane ended when the jury found Charles Defrance guilty and R. E. Elliott innocent of the specifio charge of stealing six cars of wheat. The midale-of-the-road populists have issued a call for a state convention conven-tion to be held at Spokane, Wash,, October 2nd, for the purpose of nominating nomi-nating a state ticket and presidential electors. Three Russians named Marc Gur-cbowitch, Gur-cbowitch, Joel Feldmann and Robert Schoub have reached San Francisco in search of a phantom fortune of $35,-000,000 $35,-000,000 alleged to have been left them eight years ago. Hop-growers of Puyalup, Wash., are seeking a new market for hops. A trial shipment was made from Puyalun to Australia this week. It is said to be the first consignment ever sent from that section to Australia. Frank Kiser, a former county commissioner, com-missioner, was struck by a Northern Pacific train near Spokane, hurled from a trestle and instantly killed. Partial deafness prevented him from discovering the approach of the train. Twenty-two carloads, consisting of 500 head of range horses, were shipped from Ueppner, Ore., last week, to Sioux City, la. The bunch embraces animals all the way from colts to l, 500-pound 500-pound draft horses, all in splendid condition. The Social Democrats of Montana held a state convention at Butte and named a ticket with presidential electors elec-tors pledged to Eugene V. Debs for president. M. E. Elliott was nominated nomi-nated for congress and J. F. Fox of Butte for governor. Two freight trains met in a head-on collision on the Rio Grande sixty-five miles west of Pueblo Engineer John j C. Waddles was fatally hurt Several others were injured. Operator J. A-Murray A-Murray at Echo failed to deliver or- j ders. He has since disappeared. The town of Belgrade, Mont, was nearly wiped out by fire on the 19th, and one man. West Riley, was burned to death. The fire originated in the hotel owned by Riley. The property loss is $15,000. Nearly all the business houses were destroyed, there being no fire department or apparatus. P. Charles Murphy, a New York undertaker, un-dertaker, appeared at police headquarters headquar-ters in Denver the other day, attired in overalls and jumpers, his hands calloused cal-loused from hard work, and asked to have his wife notified of his condition. He remembered nothing since the 4th of July, which he spent in New York; until he suddenly realized while strol- j ling along the streets of Denver that j I he was in a strange city. He attri-; attri-; butes his mental lapse to excessive nse of patent bitters prescribed by a phy-I phy-I sician as a tonic. ! The annual report of the output of petroleum In the United States shows ! Wyoming produced 5,560 barrels in i 1899, valued at $38,920, or an average I of 87 per barrel, as against 5,475 bar-' bar-' rels, valued at $58,325. or an average of I 87 per barrel in 1898. The report : states" that the oil produced in Wyo-I Wyo-I ming is largely lubricating and cylin-! cylin-! der oil and the high price obtained for i it is due to the good quality and the I scarcity of that particular article in ' the west There is every prospect that the supply will hold out for some years to come. |
