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Show NORTH WKST X0TKS. Nevada w l.l ho near the head of the Mat thle year In mllea of ronatructlon of railroad Augna'. Koch, reetauraut proprietor, waa rnii down and killed by a HoutU ern I'aelric train wlthlu the illy llmlta of Portland. It waa imanlmoualy detldcd at a meeting of the Butte Ituti hera' union to ralne the iHiycott on all of the pro aucta of the eantem packera. Jamea Mile of lloqulani, Wanh , ahot and kbled the woman with win m be lived, and then fatally wounded (lie Band, a logger, and ended the. shooting by killing hlinaelf. Itobert Wllllama. a bar boy In in Copper King saloon, waa ahot and aer louaiy wounded at llutto by Jerry Thompson, a negro, aa the reault of a mi over 16 rente. Froddla Dardlne, aged f years, waa hot and killed In a cabin near Nook-aark. Nook-aark. Wash. An old man who alone Inhabited the cabin may be hold responsible re-sponsible for tho lad'a death. Haly Kauhelrn. a well known mining engineer, la dead at hla home In New York Clly He waa Identified with tha opening and development of many Im. portent ropxr properties In the Montana Mon-tana field. Five masked men held up and robbed the salivin of Ueorge Cooper In Putte and secured II4 In rash. Dar-tender Dar-tender B. J. Cuinnilnns waa bit over the head with a gun and suffered a severe se-vere aralp wound. The fifrlflal figures of the spring as I mon pack of Columbia river for 1904 wore made public laat week. The statement of the pack la based on four rlnren one pound cans lo Ihn case. The total number of rases la 302,7110. Tho remains of the murdered man found bark of Klrkland. Wash., have been Identified aa thoae of Alfred K riummer, atepaon of Col. T. M. Fisher, the local Chlneno Inspector. No motlvs la aaslgned. The young man waa 12 years old. The general land office haa directed the withdrawal from all forma of disposal dis-posal of SH40 seres of public landa In the North Yakima dlatrlct In Washington Wash-ington for Irrigation purposes. Ths withdrawal la In connection with ths rialltim reservoir site. James H. Nesbet, once a brilliant politician, wanderd away In a fit of dementia de-mentia and waa loat In the Idaho mountains, says a llutto eporlnl. After a long search hla friends found ths body. A faithful dog stood guard over the corpse for several daya. A contract for the grading of the I MW vmttofeta from Arttmhaed, aer- enty mllea west of Denver, to Hot Sprlncs, twenty five miles beyond, has been let, and the work will bog In October Oc-tober 1. Tho contract calls for an ei-peudllura ei-peudllura of nearly bait a million dob tars. According to the flgitrea of Plate La bor Commissioner O. P. Koff, tire population pop-ulation (if Oreiion Is at present 470,024. agnlnat 413.5:t In 1900, an Increaan of 66.4N8. In umklug hla computation tho rominlanloiKir found that the num. bur of children of school ago who arc not attending school Is lucruaalng at an alarming rule. A dispatch from Nlchnrt, Mont., ays that, nililnken for a deer, Charles Wltf a was Instantly killed hy Matt Hands. The two men wore members of a camping party, and Wlttala, thinking to bag au animal lu tha early morning, waa leaving camp whn Bands, aruuaed by Ills friend's move, nient, and thinking hi in to be a deer In the uncertain light, biased away with a rlile. sending a bullet clear' through Wilt ii las head. It. F. Uennett, a sawyer, shot him-sold him-sold In the head al Tacoma last week and died a (rw hours Inter. Discouraged Discour-aged with Inability to secure work, and with a wlf and two dniiKhters to support. It Is thought the man's mind gave wsy to dcsiHiutkmry and led bliu to the fatal deed. From all Indications, tho forest fires west of Anaconda, Mont., will continue con-tinue to burn for a long time to come. The fires aro sweeping over the thickly thick-ly wooded aertlons of the mountains northwoat of Anneonda aud at this season sea-son of the year there Is small chance of a heavy ralnatorm. A roruner'a Jury Investigating tha murder of (lua llrcuer, the Portland. Ore., aaloonkeeper who waa killed on Thuraduy night o( lout week, has returned re-turned a verdict that llrcuer came to his death from pistol shots fired by unknown persons. Five Italians who were playing enrds In llreuer's place at tho time of tho murder and who told stories directing suspicion on a carpenter car-penter named U'Wls, havo born arrested, ar-rested, evidence having linen discovered discov-ered pointing to an unknown member of the party aa the assassin. Four men, Kd. Sllckney, Charles Harmon, N. P. Andi'i-aun and A. F. Urown. were surprised In tholr guar tors In Tacoma. Wash., In tho art of making counturMt twenty-live cent and five-cent pieces, but made smooth on (ino side ' pluy slot machines. They were ruuglil lu the act of mailing the coins, and tine of tho men ahoweij fight with a gun, but was quickly disarmed. dis-armed. The nieu were takeu before Pulled Stales Commissioner llildgcs and bound lor Irlul lu the sura of 11,000 each. |