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Show NORTHWEST NOTES The new Washoe smelters at Ana- conda, now nearing the stage of completion, com-pletion, represent the enormous outlay of no less than 87,500,000. No indictments against the mob which lynched James E. Brady at Helena, Hel-ena, recently, were returned, the grand jury claiming that evidence to convict could not be secured. The orange and lemon shipments to the east from southern California last season aggregated 22,500 cars. It is expected that the shipments this season sea-son w ill not fall short of 26,000 cars. Frank Aken, a highwayman who has confessed to holding up Butte and Hel-ena Hel-ena saloons recently, was captured in Helena last week by the police after a running fight. Aken was shot in tb neck, but will recover. In a deserted tunnel in the Bluff mountains in eastern Oregon, Frank Vigord, a miner, last week found the body of a girl crowded into an old trunk. A deep gash in the head showed the manner of death. United States secret service officer! have arrested George Abraras at San Francisco. Abrams has been indicted b'y the United States grand jury for passing worthless bills on .the defunct state bank of New Brunswick, N. J. Alfonso Marley,. a young herder, was shot and mortally wounded while ,at work on the range near Prather' ranch, seven miles west of Big Timber Montana, last week. Marley says five shots were fired at him by unseen parties, par-ties, shattering the bones of both legs. No clue. William C. Calhoun, publisher of the Rocky Mountain Sentinel and the Illustrated Il-lustrated News, at Denver, is under arrest on an indictment charging that he used the mails for the purpose of defrauding. It is alleged that fraudulent fraudu-lent mining schemes were promoted in his papers. Ben Kimber, a well-known rancher who lives about nirie miles below Townsend, Montana, has surrendered to Sheriff Pool, saying that, in self-I self-I defense, he had shot and killed a neighboring rancher by the name of Jacob F. Tiro ren. with whom he had had trouble oer fence. v Mrs. Julia Wagstaff and her ten-months-old babe were found dead in their home at Sundance, Wyo., last week, The woman huA coji.uitcd suicide by taking blue vitriol, and the child, it is supposed, continued to nurse from the lifeless body until it perished from poisoning or from cold. The highway robber who has been operating on an extensive scale on the outskirts of Tacoma for tbe past week, and gave a fictitious name to the police when arrested Sunday, has confessed that his true name is Perry Reynolds, and that his .home is in Pendleton. -Ore. He is onlv 19 ve.nrs nM A syndicate, is being organized in Nsw York for the purpose of purchas-ingall purchas-ingall the producing Montanasapphiro mines. The syndicate already owns a large area in what is known as the Yogo district in Fergus county, from which about 40,000 karats of high-grade, high-grade, true corn flower blue stones were produced last year. Twice convicted of murder in the first degree and twice sentenced to hang, Joseph Shafer, who killed Alf ' Hawkins in Butte, in 1897, was given a new trial by the Montana state supreme su-preme court last week. A number of witnesses against Shafer have died or left the state, and some trouble may be experienced in securing another conviction. con-viction. Game Warden James Bush of Colora. do is angry at Agent Myton of White Rocks Indian agency. . Bush wascalled to Denver on account of exhibiting too much zeal toward hunting parties of white men in western Colorado. In order to even up he charges the Indians from the White Rock agency, Utah, with killing game. He wants the agent bounced by the Administration. Building Inspector Lane of Butte has investigated thoroughly a large crack in the ground for a distance of threo hundred feet in the eastern nart of the, city, which appeared last week, and says that the rend in the earth's surface sur-face is six inches in width and that no-bottom no-bottom can be found to the opening. The crack runs north and south, bearing bear-ing to the east about eight degrees. This is the third crack of considerable size which has within the past year frightened the residents of East ButUi. Ml have caused the removal of several- i houses. Several Minneapolis men are interested inter-ested in the development of the oil fields of Oregon. Steps have been taken to incorporate the Minnesota, and Oregon Oil company, with a capital capi-tal stock of 81,500.000. |