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Show NORTHWEST NOTES The Merchants and Miners' tank 1 Rawhide. Nevada, after sUndlng .d run for four daya, closed Its doors. Ill Is reported that business will bo resumed re-sumed and depositors paid In full. The power plant of the Portland Hallway Light and Power company at I'nxadero was almost entirely destroyed de-stroyed by fire Sundny. The plant Is valued at three quarters of a million dollar. lrwla Ferris was acquitted nf the charge of murder In connection with the dynamiting of the Overland llur-llngton llur-llngton trnln near llutle. May 1 Inst, after the Jury had deliberated cn the case scarcely an hour. The (Irst murder at Tip Top. the new mining camp, twelve miles from Mills City. Nevada, occurred last week when O. K. ('orkrlll shot M. K. Jacobs, both mining men, In a dispute over a mining claim. Hank Kintulner llofer of Nevada reports re-ports the First Hank of ltahlcle and tho Wtinder Trust company am both Insolvent. The bank exninlner states that tbe bank of Itawhlda Is solvent and wilt soon open again. An unknown man was killed at Nyisa, Ore., while endeavoring to steal a ride on a freight train. While endeavoring to get on the rapidly moving mov-ing train he sllpHd and the wheels passed aver both legs, death resulting a few hours Inter. Ily the explosion of a carlosd of dynamite near Sargent, Colo., a freight train on the Denver A Rio Orsnde railroad rail-road was blown to pieces, two tramp were killed and several trainmen wero Injured, one fatally. A hole four feet deep was blon In the ground. Christopher A. Wills, aged about CO. was found dead, fully dressed, lying across bis tied In the Melrose apartments apart-ments at lleno. Nevada. It Is thought he died from natural causes. Willis was from Buffalo, N. Y , where he has a wife and little daughter living. Forty rive miles from I'lorbe. In a northerly direction, a new mining district dis-trict has been organised. Atlanta la Die name or the new district and every foot of available ground has been taken up. Piorhc la the nearest supply point for tho new district. Tho decision of the Interstate commerce com-merce commission upholding. In the main, the esse nf tbe lumbermen of the Psclllc northwest, elide the contention con-tention whlrh for tha past eight months hna tied up the lumber Industry Indus-try of this section of the country. Joe Schafer. negro, twice sentenced at Hutte to be hanged for the killing of a man named Hawkins, but savuo from the noose each time by the supreme su-preme court, which reversed the finding find-ing of the lower court, baa been as-rested as-rested In Salt Lake City, charged with beating s woman over tha bead with a chair. An explosion partially wrecked tha front part of house occupied by members of the Mormon faith at sfti-gene, sfti-gene, Ore. None war Injured, but Mrs. E. R. Howell, one of tbe Inmates, In-mates, suffered so severe a aervoua shock that she waa rendered unconscious. uncon-scious. A note of warning waa found posted In the building. Two thousand five hundred miners In the Northern Colorado con fields quit work last week, Intending to remain re-main out until the operators grant an Increase lu wages or make satisfactory satisfac-tory concessions. If after further negotiations ne-gotiations between the United Mine Workers' officials and tha operators no settlement Is reached, a formal strike will be called. State Senator Charles McDonnell of Sweet Urns county, Montana, Is conducting a series of experiments In conjunction with Luther Hurbank. He has already succeeded In raising a large crop of pineapples and I now experimenting with different grafting processes. He protioses to graft the banana tree and the loco weed, and claims ha can produce an edible fruit. He also proposes to make a creeping vine of the sugar beet plant. Luther Heckman, aged 21, was killed and a number of persons shocked and bruised, though not seriously seri-ously Injured by an explosion of 3,000 pounds of nitroglycerine at the K. I. Dupont Dencmours Powder company's works at Louvlors, twenty miles south of Denver. Through the coolness of Assistant Secretary James E. Doughorty, of the stste humane society, Oovernor Henry A. Butchel of Colorado escspsd probable prob-able Injury at the hands of Mrs. Annie Jochlm, an Insane woman. The woman wo-man was looking for the governor with a revolver. A new million dollar distillery la to be constructed at Winnipeg to meet the demands of the growing market of the Canadian Northwest. Tbe buildings build-ings will cover thirty five acres, 2U0 men will he employed, and 600,000 to 000,000 bushels of grain will be consumed con-sumed annually. C. B. Rratton, local agent of the Metropolitan Insurance company, was arrested at Victoria, R. C last week, chargod with Incendiarism. He was caught coming from the board of trade building basement from which flumes were bursting. Ilrattnn was formerly a resident of Salt Lake City, H. U Frank, former mayor of Butte, Mont, and a prominent politician of that state, was removed from tho Palmer Huuse,., Chicago, to pollcu headquartera one day last week, and later sent to the home of his brother-in-law In Cincinnati. It Is believed that Mr. Frank Is demented. Japan Imported In 1004 timber of the quality produced In Oregon nnd Washington to the valuo of i:i8,700; In 1905, 1102.532, and In 1U06 the amount Increased to 150,000. Tha trade In Oregon pine Is mostly confined con-fined to long timbers snd materials for ship construction and flooring. |
