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Show " y NORTHWEST N0TE3. In a wreck on the Tonopaa rallroaj, Knglneer Want waa severely Injured. Two trains collided while going at full speed. S Wyoming produced 4.709. 3!)J tons of i ' eoal during the year valued at ' 5.916,951, an Increase of about ( per ' cent over the previous year. ( Four thousand three hundred and (, nineteen cards have been Issued to f miners of the Cripple Creek district j. by the Mine Owners' association, and S00 applications are atlll on flip. i' Miss Varlna D. Hayes, daughter ot t J. A. Hayes, and granddaughter of Jcf- I ferson Dsrls. president of the south- I ern confederacy, has been married at f Culnrado Springs to Dr. (lorald B. r Wedd, a physician. I. Walter Cow. a blind boy nf Wlnne- mucca, Nev., was drowned In the r Humboldt river while bathing. The coldent was witnessed by about l twenty persons, who stood on tha f banks powerless to aid him Experienced cracksmen broke Into the postofflce at Knappa, Oregon, dynamiting dy-namiting the safe, but secured no booty. They hammered off the combination, com-bination, placed charge of dynamite la the ssfe and blew It open. William Phlppa, an employe on the Thomas Rmlth ranch near Boulder, Mont., waa atruck by lightning and Instantly killed. Mr. Phlpps waa drlv I Ing Into town from tha ranch when the storm came up. The bolt also killed both hla horses. Indications are that tha Oregon bop crop will amount to about 80.000 balea or In the neighborhood of 16,000 bales leas than last year. The season haa been unfavorable, tha long dry spell whlrh occurred last month very nearly near-ly causing a failure. 0. K. Paul, a merchant of I.lme, Mont., was killed Sunday aftornoon by the accidental discharge of shotgun. He waa out bunting, and while taking tha gun out of bis buggy It went off. The discharge lodged In his abdomen and he died shortly afterward. Joseph Kelly, a prominent grocer ot Carson City, Nevada, ahot and killed his brother Hugh. Tha men had bet a : on bad terms for several years, Hugh j Kolly attacked his brother with a shotgun and Joseph tired twice, kill- tng hla Inslnntly. The coroner's jury r returned a verdict of Justifiable bom I Iclde. , f While John Beasanson waa coming j down a steep hill on a bicycle near ( Oresham, east of Portland, tha chain ( on tha Vhnel broke. The rider was j nnable lo control the machine, -wnlrai - - t rapidly gained tremendous speed, and was thrown violently against a stump, sustaining Injuries from which bsalod. - - . A (old strike has been mads In tha bills a few miles northwest of Raws-Una, Raws-Una, and assays taken from ore jtlttu' In three foot of the au'-e showed gold values nf 0 a ton, flvdunrys nf sliver and i per cent copper.' Tha miners believe they have struck true vein and the ore continues to look very good. A doieu fires are raging In different portions of timbered rrr'.ons In the; Flathead country, In Mo '-lo, and tho damage done already Is great Foro Supervisor Haines haa all tha men he la allowed to employ, and has been furnished with alxty additional men by the Oreat Northern railroad to fight the firs at Belton. Wild ailmaii are still plentiful Id Montana, according to a payment Just made by the state on bounty claims, tha board of examlnera having approved ap-proved claims aggregating III) am. The paymont of the bounties exhausts all tha cash In the state bounty fund, and to meet more claims of about $115,000 It will be necessary for the legislature to make another appropriation. Lara K. Nelson, aged 35 years, and George Latnpkln, aged 3D yonrs, were) drowned In the center ot the Missouri river opposite the mouth of the Bun rlvor, noar Croat Falls, Mont. A sail-bout sail-bout In whlrh they were riding capsized cap-sized and tbey were unable to swim. Mrs. Munros Fulkerson, aged 47, of Victor, Mont, waa killed In a runaway accident. A son who was with her was slightly hurt Mrs. Fulkerson was the oldeBt plonier woman of western Montana, If not of the state. She was born In the Ulttor Itoot valley In 1867. The atrlke of tha packing house employees em-ployees Is felt throughout northern, J Utah and eouthorn Idaho, as well as J other northwestern atatoa. For over j, two weeks not a shipment of cattla t or sheep baa been made from Utah, . . Idaho, Montana, Novada or Wyoming, ' M. B. Greenwood, president of tha Daly Bank and Trust company of Ana F conda, Mont., has issued a cull to the l varloua bankers of Muntana to meet In Helena In October and organize a f State Bankers' association. Governor ; J. K. Toole will make the address ol ( welcome. Itobort Sherman, a lineman em- -ployed In Baker City, Ore., was fatal- j ly Injured by a full from a telephone i pole. When he was about thirty fuel from the ground he was evidently I ovorenmo by tho heat and fell head- long to the street. He died about one I hour later. I A Phlllipsburg, Mnnt., correspond- ent soys the body of Frank Barnes, a t ' hoy who has been mlsstng since tha I ! middle of last May, h is been found Id f I Hock creek wedged In among a cluw i ter of bushes. The body was In a t ' standing posture and In a bud state) of decomposition. |