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NORTHWEST NOTES. Ed Tucholkes was killed by falling in a well at Courtney, four miles north of Oregon City, Ore., while walking in his sleep. Butte was treated to the first snow storm of the season on the 18th. There was an inch at Woodville. It snowed heavily in the mountains. The Masonic Veteran association of the Pacific coast has decided to hold its twenty-seventh annual session it Portland during the Lewis and Clark exposition. About 1.000 men have been thrown out of employment at Butte as the result of the closing down of the Origianal and Parrot mines. The mines will be idle for about three weeks. The coroner's jury that inquired into the Union Pacific wreck at Azusa siding, near Granger, Wyoming, in its verdict, holds the operator and freight crew responsible for the collision. Mrs. James Tetor. 74 years of age, and a well-known citzen, was drowned in Lake Union, says a Seattle dispatch. Her friends have been unable to decide whether death was by accident or suicide. One man is dead and three others are seriously injured as the result of a fire which destroyed the tar plant of the Denver Gas & Electric company. The property loss is estimated at $25,000. Two masked bandits entered Charles Edwards' saloon and gambling house in Thermopolis, Wyo., lined all the dealers and players against the wall and secured all the money and valuables in the place. Ten men, with their faces blackened, killed 200 head of sheep belonging to an Oregon man, while the band was ranging just over the Nevada line. The sheepherders declare the men were cattlemen disguised. The organization of the Flathead Valley Railway company has been effected. The Flathead valley will have system of electric lines radiating from Kalispell and connecting with a number of northern Montana towns. Warren Hulbert was accidentally shot and killed by Earl Hartman of Thompson Falls, Mont., a companion, while the two were hunting rabbits. Young Hartman, it is said, turned the gun upon his playmate in a spirit of fun. The Pueblo Title & Trust company announces that it is ready to make its last payment in full of all liabilities, 75 per cent of which have already been paid. The failure occurred 18 months ago, the total liabilties amounting to $350,000. Election bets are rapidly being paid off at the Butte pool rooms. One day last week $40,000 was handed over to the winners at the Butte hotel pool rooms, on national, state and county wagers. At the Montana club over $10,000 was paid over, one man drawing down $6,000 on wagers on local candidates. A temporary' restraining order to prevent the issuing of tax sale deeds on non-producing mining properties in the Cripple Creek district has been is. sued. The constitutionality of the Tel1er county assessment of 1900, from which the tax sales resulted, is in litigation. The properties of 215 Cripple Creek mining companies are involved. A bold attempt to rob the bank at Blaine, Wash., was frustrated by the president and cashier of the bank, who discovered two men in hiding in a closet in the bank building. One of the men, a well known character around town, was captured. A man by the name of Dalton, who had been working in a sawmill east of Kalispell, was killed in a peculiar manner. He was running the "end trimmer saw," and while sawing a board It stuck and flew back, striking him in the stomach, killing him. Two bodies were taken from a wrecked freight train near Salida, Colo., which proved to be two men who belonged to prominent families in the east. They had become short of funds and endeavored to steal a ride and were killed in the wreck. William Perkins, better known as "Moceasin Bill." is dead on a ranch near Montrose, Colo. He was about 80 years of age. He came to Colorado in 1860 as a government scout to watch the movements of the Indians. He was a famous bear hunter. Governor Toole of Montana has granted a pardon to Thomas Walsh, who was convicted of murder in the second degree for the killing of a man in Valley county some years ago.
