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NORTHWEST After being closed for coinage poses for more than twelve years, United States mint at Carson Nevada, may be reopened within next few months. Negotiations between the unions of Butte and the Rocky tain Bell Telephone company are parently off, the situation indicating struggle to a finish. The break in the transmission wire of the Nevada Power company, whic threw Goldfield into darkness, which was charged to the strikin miners, it now develops was by a snowslide. General Funston has ordered a eral courtmartial to convene at field. This order would indicate, army men, that the troops now on at that place would be held there some time to come. Judge Bourquin of the state distric court at Butte instructed the jury acquit A. B. Clements, cashier of failed Aetna bank, on a felony charg growing out of the alleged receipt deposits when he knew the bank insolvent. A dispatch from Denver says tha James R. Barber and Summer Moon. the millionaire lumbermen Eau Claire, Wis., indicted with ator Borah for alleged conspiracy land frauds, may be taken to for trial. Colonel William Crooks, assistan to the general manager of the man lines in the Pacific northwes died in Portland on the 17th of plications growing out of a cold tracted about six weeks ago. He 76 years old. The supreme court of Montana granted a writ of habeas corpus the case of G. S. E. Wisner, an conda bank employee, who had convicted on the charge of receivin deposits when he knew his principa to be insolvent. The Smelter City bank of Durange Colo., a state institution, capital 000, has closed its doors. Lack of fidence, due, it is said, to the indic ments of prominent citizens on charges of land frauds under the eral laws, led to the suspension. O. C. Dallas, chief clerk, and J. McLeod, at the head of the survey partment in the office of United State surveyor general in Helena, have arrested. The indictment alleges fo gery and conspiracy to defraud government of the United States. The state board of pardons of tana has approved the action of ernor Tooele in granting a pardon Elizabeth Morrison, a Butte woman who, upon conviction on a slaughter charge for the killing Richard Finnegan, had been tenced to the penitentiary for thre years. The Hamilton Powder company works blew up Sunday morning at parture Bay, B. C. The loss is $40,00 No one was killed or injured. In couver, thirty-five miles away, house were shaken SO badly that it was lieved an earthquake had occurred many persons rushed to the street
