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Show BBB NORTHWEST NOTES M Albert Winters, aged 55, living near Armlngton, Cnscado county, Montana, wns struck bj lightning whllo on horseback. Roth rider and horse were Tho Portland Telcgrnm says E. II. H Harrlman will spend 110,000,000 la D railroad building lu tho Btatcs of H Oregon, Washington nnd Idaho within tho On account of proposed Irrigation work tho sccrctnry of tho intorlor has withdrawn from entry G.120 acres of tho Cheyciino laud district and 2,560) H ncrcs In tho I-andcr district, Wyoming. jH Tho Lewis and Clark officials nn- nouncn thnt with tho attendanco H Wednesday of Inst week of 27,120 th jH million mnrk has boon passed, tho to H tal attendanco from June 1 to date, Itv H eluding passes, being l,01.1,fj31. H Seward, Alaska, hns finally been tl connected with the outer world by tel- J ogrnphlc communication. With tho H completion of tho Sownrd-Vnldcs cable H tho government now hns about 2,300 H miles of cablo In Alaskan waters. H In n wreck on tho Groat Northern H nt Mid Canon, fifteen miles from (J real H Fulls, nn oro trnln of eight enrs went H to tho ditch, tying up traffic along tho H road for nbout seven hours. The H wreck wns duo to n broken llnngo. No- H body wns Injured. H William II. Goss, n Salt Lalio mining M man, nnd S. F. Hunt of Chnllls, hnv H Just rotumod from tho new nnd sen- jH satlonnl gold discoveries on Parker jH mountain, some twenty miles west ot H Chnllls, Idaho. They roport n dls- H covcry of what appears to ho tollurlum H ore, that runs Into tho thounnnds li H A disastrous flro swept through tin H business section of Wlunomurcn, No H vnda, Saturday, burning sixteen lmsl H ncss liousos nnd Inflicting damngs H variously estimated from 180,000 to H 1100,000. It started in Armory hall M and raged for sovcrnl hours. Tho H heaviest loser Is tho ICaglo Jewelry A , H Drug company, Its loss amounting to H 121.000. H An nrrlvnl from Roosevelt, Idaho, B gives n story of tho I.cfonto tragedy H which shows thero wero three mon en- H gnged In tho shooting, that It occurred B nt night nnd that only ono shot out ol BBl somo 18 or 20 took effect. Tho visitor JBl heard tho tostlmnny nt tho preliminary JBl hearing which resulted In tho dls- HBl charge of William West, tho man who HH did the killing. William W. BtovonBon was shot ..JB dead by Chllllon Howcn in a room ot m ""TBBB1 a.Snn Francisco lodging Jioscwhcro -, ,,,- BAVJ tho murdered manhnd found Dowou' BBb In company with Stevenson's wlfo. HHJ Howcn wns arrested nt tho point of n HB revolver nnd ho and Mrs. StovcnBon BJ nro In prison charged with murder. BVJ All tlioso concerned nro resldonts ol M tho stnto of Novnda. BB Two accldcntnl drownings occurred BBl In tho Wllllnmetto river Just bolnw 'BJ Portland, Sunday. Tha first was that BH of a young man named Eric Rlgolow, BBl recently from Chicago, who, In com- BBl pany with n companion, wns bathing. BB Tho second drowning was that of BBl Floyd Havlrd, aged 17, who In com- pany with several boys, wns paddling BH about tho river on n board. BB Ralph E. Spurrlor, n telegrapher BH and formerly a membor of tho Mill BB nnd Smoltormcn's union of Ilutto, re- BB fused to Join tho striking operators on BH tho Northern Pacific road and sovcrnl BH hundred smeltermeu hold n meeting BB nnd marched In a body to tho depot, BB surrounded tho striieturo nnd com- BBl polled Spurrier to quit woik under BBl pain of being "escorted from town," BhJ nn oxprosslon which Is significant 'n BBl Ilutto circles. BBl Town Marshal Charles Illackman of BBl Choynoy, Wash., on Sundny mornlnir BH shot nnd killed a man supposed to be. BH Georgo Sherman. Sherman was lolt- BH erlng about tho Northern Pacific do- BBl pot, wns ordered under nrrost and BBl started to run. BBl One of tho regions whoro tho Dart- HB lett pear Is most oxtonslvoly grown BH Is tho Ynklmn volley In Washington, HB and reports from thoro are that tho HB valloy Is blosHud this season with HJ bountiful crops. Tho trees nro lltor- HJ ally laden with luscious fruit. HJ During ft terrific rain nnd tuundor- H itorm at Knllspell, Mont., lightning HJ truck Austin Hlalr, a farm hand, kill- HJ lug him Instantly. Two cows nnd H threo hurses wero killed by tho same HJ stroke. A bam was set on lire and HJ completely destroyed. HJ Ex-Judgo Doll Stuart, a promlnont jBj attorney ot Portland, inombor ot tho BB MuSoiib, Knights of PythlaB and other BB orders, ex-dlstrlct Judge of Iowa, and BB ox-mayor ot Osceola, la, dlod at St. BJ Vincent's hospital In Portland as tho BB result or an operation, BB I.ostor Richardson, 19 years old, sou BB of respectable parents, who Is under H arrest for burglary, has confessed that H In tho last two months ho has looted HJ twenty rooms In various hotels la HJ Soattlo, securing monoy and Jewelry HJ which ho lavished on his friends. Hi With tho world npparontly ugalnBt HJ him and with no prospects of hotter- BJ lug his condition, J. A Forsyth swul- flj lowed tho contents of a buttlo of car Hi bollc acid at Reno, Nevada, and, after 'BB Buffering great agony, dlod. Forsytho HJ wob a carpenter, and was out ot work) jHJ |