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Show NORTHWEST NOTES. A new laining camp is being started start-ed about twenty miles away from Ton-epah, Ton-epah, Nev. The governor of Washington has vetoed ve-toed the bill providing for a bounty on beet sugar. It is believed that Tonopah, Nevada, will have railroad communication within the present year. By the premature explosion of a blast in the Gagnon mine at Butte, Forbes Grant, aged 28, was almost instantly in-stantly killed. Thomas McNamara, for many years a well known resident of Missoula, Mont., is dead in his B5th year. He amassed much wealth through mining. A new industry is to be opened up in Oregon soon, which could be introduced intro-duced and made successful in other western states, it being a jack rabbit cannery. :-: No more monthly fines will be collected col-lected from the gamblers in Tacoma. This means the closing down of open gambling for the first time in the history his-tory of Tacoma. Mayor George of Billings, Mont., has invited President Roosevelt to stop oft on his way west and fake part in an elk hunt. The elk is to be furnished from a band in captivity near Billings. In order to encourage mining at Neihart, in Cascade county, the Great Northern has announced a reduction from $4 to $2.50 per ton to the Helena smelters. Neihart ores run largely to lead. Isaac Stratton, son of the late W. S. Stratton, says that if he is successful suc-cessful in breaking his father's will he will build a polytechnic school at Colorado Springs to cost from $500,000 to $1,000,000. President Dan McDonald of the American Labor Union has received the official notification of his appointment appoint-ment by the governor as one of the honorary commissioners from Montana Mon-tana to the St. Louis fair. George Pollock, a laborer, while intoxicated, in-toxicated, shot and killed Richard Martin, Mar-tin, a bartender, at Bannock, Mont, because Martin had refused to give-any give-any more drink. Pollock, after being refused, went outside and borrowed a revolver. Returning, he fired five shots at Martin. As a result of a failure of the men and management of the Elbow Creek Coal Mining company, operating af Red Lodge, Mont., to reach an agreement agree-ment on the questions of tonnage and manner of weighing coal, the employes have gone on a strike. About 150 men are involved. Vernon Bennett, aged 5 years, was playing near his home in Anaconda, Mont., when a big mastiff playfully jumped on him, knocking him down. The boy walked home, and a few minutes min-utes later died. It was found that a blood vessel in the brain had been ruptured by the concussion of the fall. Two masked men entered John Dunstan's saloon in Butte, and while one held the customers at bay with a gun, the other forced the proprietor to open the safe, from which -several hundred dollars were taken. Dunstan objected, but yielded after being struck over the head with 'a revolver. The date of the Stock Growers' convention con-vention to be held at Miles City, Mont., will be changed to correspond with the president's visit to Montana. It was over this section of Montana that President Pres-ident Roosevelt once rode the range as a cowboy. Scores of cowboys and cattlemen here are personally acquainted acquaint-ed with the executive. By the explosion of a charge of dynamite dyna-mite in the new tunnel of the Southern Pacific company, fifteen miles east of Elko, Nevada, a laborer named Wallace Wal-lace was instantly killed. Foreman Johnson and four others were seriously Injured. Mrs. Arthur G. Miller of Butte caught John Gerser trying to enter the rear of the house.- She shot at him, but missed, and then marched him at the point of a gun to the center of the town, where he was turned over to a policeman. Seismic shocks that occurred at Helena Hel-ena recently did no little damage to Montana's new state house. Three great pillars in the rotunda of the cap-itol cap-itol were cracked by Che earthquake, which did no damage to other buildings, build-ings, so tar as known. Andrew Passenberger, aged 10, is under un-der arrest at Helena, Mont, for opening open-ing and rifling mail boxes in the post-office. post-office. He is known to have taken the mail from six boxes and destroyed It. In one letter was a check for $1734, which he tore into pieces. |
