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NORTHWEST NOTES After being closed for coinage purposes for more than twelve years, the United States mint at Carson City, Nevada, may be reopened within the next few months. Negotistions between the labor unions of Butte and the Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone company are apparently off, the situation indicating a to struggle # faish. The break in the transmission wires of the Nevada Power company, which threw Goldfield into darkness, and which was charged to the striking permo SEA Mou = miliers, by a snowslide. General Funston has ordered a general courtmartial to convene at Goldfield. This order would indicate, say army men. that the troops now on duty at that place would be held there for come of emm euros Judge Bourquin of the state district court at Butte instructed the jury to acquit A. B. Clements, cashier of the failed Aetna bank, on a felony charge growing out of the alleged receipt of deposits when he knew the bank was insolvent. A dispatch from Denver says that James R. Barber and Summer G. Moon. the millionaire lumbermen of Eau Claire, Wis., indicted with Senator Borah for alleged conspiracy in 01 taken eq ABUI for trial. Colonel William Crooks, assistant to the general manager of the Harriman lines in the Pacific northwest, died in Portland on the 17th of complications growing out of a cold contracted about six weeks ago. He was "PIO Years 92 The supreme court of Montana has granted a writ of habeas corpus in the case of G. S. E. Wisner, an Anaconda bank employee, who had been convicted on the charge of receiving deposits when he knew his principal to be insolvent. The Smelter City bank of Durango, Colo., a state institution, capital $30,000, has closed its doors. Lack of confidence, due, it is said, to the indictments of prominent citizens on the charges of land frauds under the federal laws, led to the suspension. 'a T pus clerk chile Datisa, O o McLeod, at the head of the survey department in the office of United States surveyor general in Helena, have been arrested. The indictment alleges forgery and conspiracy to defraud the government of the United States. The state board of pardons of Montana has approved the action of Gov. or perdon E up Toolele Jou.19 Elizabeth Morrison, a Butte woman, -UBUI 8 uo contriction uodn 'OUM slaughter charge for the killing of Richard Finnegan, had been sentenced to the penitentiary for three years. The Hamilton Powder company's works blew up Sunday morning at Departure Bay, B. C. The loss is $40,000. No one was killed or injured. In Van. couver, thirty-five miles away, houses were shaken so badly that it was believed an earthquake had occurred and many persons rushed to the street in alarm. Pelia DI Ria was arrested at Seattle, together with two discharged employees of the Seattle Electric E THE charged 'Xueduoo to take the life of Tony Restove, fore man of construction work for the Sesip oqa 'Aueduros eme charged the men for incompetency from the construction gang. In an address issued by the exec I utive committee of the Western Fed eration of Miners, labor union men e are urged to rally to the defense of e officers and members of the federation q charged with the murder of former Governor Steunenberg of Idaho, and other crimes, and of the Goldfield miners who are on strike. d Michael C. Carroll, a pioneer guide, I died at his home in Laramie, Wyo., last week. He selected the site for Fort Sanders, three miles south of Laramie, in 1866, when the Union Pa. cific railroad was being built. and acted as mediator with the Indians, going unarmed to meet Chief Friday, . pus a em uo SUM oqn 3 ing a slaughter of whites. In an opinion rendered last week, # Attorney General Albert J. Galen . ruled that Christmas songs cannot be 1 barred from the public schools of Montana on the ground that "such use constitutes denominational or sectarian teachings." The decision was made at the request of the state su 2 perintendent of public instruction. James R. Kirwan, who had been # acting secretary-treasurer of the Western Federation of Miners, tendered his P resignation last week, on account of III health. and Ernest Mills, a member of the executive board from British Columbia, assumed the duties of that office. Martin O'Brien, a prominent lawyer of Rawhide, Nevada, while under the # influence of liquor, shot and killed 20 Bessie Gardiner, a woman of the half 8 pepunom pus mord O'Brien had become infatuated with em SEM supply am pus "ившом em jo Then
