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Show NORTHWEST NOTES' Half a million dollars in gold bullion bul-lion was received at Seattle from Nome on the steumship Victoria. i Fire of mysterious origin destroyed i the Cohasset Beach hotel, one of i the best known ocean resorts. Albert T. Jackman. the Goldfield nmrderer, was granted a parole by the state board of pardons at Carson. The safe in the postoffioe at Boyd, Ore., was blown open with dynamite and looted of $200 cash and postage stamps. The fourth annual convention of the Investment Bankers' Association of America was held in Denver last week. W. B. Graff, a prisoner in the county coun-ty jail at Bellingham, Wash., held on a burglary charge, set fire to the county courthouse. Parties unknown broke into the George Russell company's powder magazine a short distance from Elko and stole 350 pounds of dynamite. While attempting to cross the Southern Pacific right of way about a mile from Reno ahead of a passenger passen-ger train, an Indian woman was struck and killed. Mrs. Mattie Jacobsen of Gardner-ville, Gardner-ville, Nev., met with a painful acci- dent by the collision of a runaway saddle horse with the carriage in which she was riding. Miss Margaret Ely Shackel, a society so-ciety girl of Pewaukee, Wis., a famous fa-mous society resort of that state, is the bride of Irving Hagen, an employee em-ployee of the Butte Auto company of Butte. Charles P. Carlson of Seattle, a timber tim-ber cruiser employed on a survey in the Snoqualmie national forest, was killed Friday by a fall from a high precipice near Silverton, Snohomish county, Washington. As a representative of the 100,000 blind persons in the United States, L. N. Muck, managing editor of a 'periodical 'per-iodical for the blind, The Christian Record, published at College View, Neb., is in Butte for a week. Louis Barber of Goldfield, who was recently convicted of horse stealing and who was sentenced to serve not less than one year nor more than fourteen has commenced serving his sentence in the state penitentiary at Carson. While approaching Deeth a Southern Pacific train had a narrow escape from going in the ditch. The front trucks of one of the coaohes Jumped the track and rode the ties for about a quarter of a mile before the train was stopped. Charles E. Lynch was instantly killed and Elmo Haggerty severely bruised when their car turned turtle near Cokeville, Wyo. The two were driving at a fairly fast clip when the steering gear broke, resulting in an 1 overturned car. Henry Coffey, one of the pioneer stage drivers of Nevada, and for many years a resident of Reno, died at the county hospital last week from injuries received by being thrown from his rig in a runaway while on his way from Fallon to Reno. The Nevada board of health and the state hygienic laboratory has issued is-sued a statement calling attention to the necessity for the muzzling of all dogs owing to the prevalence of rabies, rab-ies, caused, mainly, by the existence of the disease among coyotes. According to the Virginia Chronicle a stranger in that place believed to be John Kilroy was found in a room at the Tahoe house with a deep gash in his throat, evidently made with suicidal intent. The man was removed re-moved to the county hospital and will live. Fred Skinner,, serving a fifty-year sentence in the Nevada prison for second degree murder, has been denied de-nied a parole by the state board of pardons and paroles. Skinner was onvicted of the murder of Mona Bell, a woman of the underworld, at Rhyo-lite. Rhyo-lite. The trial judge at Butte in a civil case secured a jury panel of thirty-five thirty-five names by not accepting as valid the excuse of miners that they were getting $4 a day at the mines and wculd only receive $3 a day as jurors. ' "Such an excuse will not be accepted," accept-ed," said the judge. "A man ought to have sufficient interest in his citizenship citi-zenship to serve his country as a juryman." As the result of being thrown from a burro, which he was attempting to ride while visiting at the home of C. ! Stock and family in Wabuska, Nev., F. Windisch, Jr., sustained two frac-I frac-I tured bones in the right rorearni. Gus Price, convicted last week of assault with intent to kill, was sentenced sent-enced by Judge Thomas F. Moran at Reno to serve an indeterminate sen-" sen-" fence of not more than 14 years or . less than one year in the state prison. 1 The rabid coyote situation in the 3 north part of Nevada has reached an alarming stage. Many have been seen in various sections and radical means must be employed to meet the condition. While being conveyed to Reno to 1 receive medical attention Leroy John Berndt, the 17-year-old son of Frank Berndt, a rancher living north of 1 Austin, Nev., died at Battle Mountain. 5 The boy was rounding up some cattle for his father when his hortie fell 3 upon him. 3 The second annual "corn contest" ' will be held In Ontario, Ore., Novera-5 Novera-5 her 11 and 12. More than one htin-3 htin-3 dred entries have been made so far and the Commercial club of Ontario ' has offered $350 in cash prize to the contestants. |