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Show NOHTIIWHST NOTKS. Four ne -n were serb.uply Injured by the premature explosion of n blnnt at the tioiiiiii11 mine, near Whitney, Ore. I A three days convention of that poi-tbm poi-tbm of the Order of TuiHna)- Teleg j rapher.-i west of the Mississippi was held In Denver lnt week The nKltchnien'a strike on (he n.. A. A P. ron.l at Butte hns been railed oft ami all the old men but the will return to their old position. It Is feared that a strike of enrpon-te:-K and stone masons at Iwlston. Mont,. Is bound to occur, nnd Hint ti 11 1 lil I rt operations will he brought to a stniidsini At Cripple Creels, the mine owners are grndiinll)- t (..rcIhr tho union men. nnd as. rl mat within a month all the propctiica will be operating with a full force. J. Johnson of nnullns, while hanging hang-ing a revolver on the wall, dropped tbo weaiMin. wbli h was discharged, the bullet st ilk I in him In tb leg. Inllletlng a painful wound. The rortniropin mines nenr linker City. Ore., fnnneily owned by John E. Hnrles of New York, have been sold to a New Jersey corporation, capital-Hod capital-Hod at $r,.o,in .mm. Mrs. Bliinche Bussell of Sisiknno suicided by taking enough aconlto to kill a do-en persons, dying In grent agony. Ill health and domestic troubles trou-bles was the cause. Mnjor Scott J. Anthony, one of the earliest pioneers of Colorado, la dend at Denver, lie drat enmu to Colorado with nn o team In 1Hi;o, loenllng at California Gulch, now l.endvllle. A forty stamp milt la to bo erected at once at the property of the Montana Mon-tana field Mining company at Jnr-dine. Jnr-dine. Mont. Thla will give the company com-pany eighty stamps In operation. Tho saloon owned by John Eng-ttrom Eng-ttrom at Itawllna, Vyo was robbed Inst week of f.'i:ir. The guilty onea bnve not been apprehended, hut two loafers about thn place are suspected. Tho thugs who hove been attempting attempt-ing lo extort money from tho Northern North-ern Pacific company are believed to he the men who stole a ton of glnnt powder from a warehouso near Butte recently. Chief of Police Travis of Helena lias received notice thai unless the two men recently arrested In connection with the Northern Pacific dynamiting outrages are roleanud. tho city Jail will ho blown up. aiioepmen In the vicinity of While Sulphur Springs, Mont., are bolng caused much annoyance by dynamiters, dynamit-ers, a number of flocks having been destroyed, and recently a number of attempts having bt-en made. Charles Crossln. aged K 1 years, a stone mason by trade and a man well known In Montana for the past twenty twen-ty years, committed eulrlde In Butte by takliitc morphine sulphate. No cause Is known for the deed. Matt l.otiKa, a rancher living near lied Lodge. Mont., waa fatally Injured by being crushed under a wagon loaded load-ed with oats, l.onga waa driving and fell over the front end of tho wagon, tho wheels pusslng over hla body. Victor Jnnejan, the aged slayer of William Perreiiton, waa sentenced at Missoula. Mont., Inat week, to serve a term of a year and a half In tho penitentiary peni-tentiary at hard lalnir. Clemency was duo to the prisoner's advunced age. Dr. I.. M. Wlllard of Uximls. Wash., was found dead In bed. he having suicided sui-cided by taking chloroform, because of fears (hat he was going blind. Dr. Wlllurd was the stepfather of Hooper Young, the noted New York, criminal. Tho Northern Pacific railway of-Drills of-Drills are said to have received another an-other anonymous letter milking a tbrent agulhHt the eompnny'a property. prop-erty. This time tho dynamiters pro-poso pro-poso to blow up the depot at Livingston, Livings-ton, Mont. An aasnult case. In which Mrs. Iloy Coxe, a highly respected and prominent promi-nent woman of (Jilt Edge, Mont., was the victim, has been brought to light. A miner named Mi Natnura. who has disappeared, has been Identified as the assailant. A lynching la promised The Wyoming supremo court, In a lengthy decision at Cheyenno on the Jirth, denied tho motion of Tom Horn, the stock detective, convicted of the murder of little Willie Nlckell In the Iron mountain country, and resentenced resen-tenced him to be hanged on Nov. 20. Jim Connors, tho wounded robber who attempted to hold up an O. R. ft N. train a short time ago. has been Identified as one Roberta, who waa arrested ar-rested with "Hutch" Caasldy and Kid Curry near Bllllnga. Mont., In 18!7, for robbery. Later the trio broke Jail. Last week citizens of l'uoblo, headed head-ed by a brass band, attended the breaking of ground for a new electric line which la to run from Pueblo to lleuliih Hprlucs and ultimately to be extended across the mountains. The new road Is lo be about Ihlny miles long. F. J. Nash nnd wife bavo conn-HHed, In C'lfjenne, to forgery and check raising. N.ish nnd bis wife receive I a check firm 11 Mi-lean b-nb-r mar KawlliiH nml mini ! tie iiini.ii.il In. 111 Jl to t Inn and utieuiiit" I to puis I. ii-i-heck lii ItattlhiH. lied alio at Ctiey- |