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Show NORTHWEST NOTE9 Crown Prince Haeunyima of Japan is to visit the Seattle exposition in August, according to advices received from Japan. In the police court in Butte, Judge McGowan charged openly that a fund of $1,500 had been raised to bribe the court and officers to allow a wide-open town in the restricted district. Permission has been granted by the United States to the Fifth regiment regi-ment of Canadian artillery, armed and equipped, to enter this country to attend the Seattle exposition. The rapid spread of an epidemic of hog cholera in the Bitter Root valley, Montana, is causing considerable concern con-cern among the ranchmen, fully 2,000 hogs having died from the disease. A party of prominent woman suffragists, suf-fragists, including Rev. Anna Shaw and Miss Lucy Anthony, attended the Seattle exposition last week, being feted and entertained by the local suffragists. suf-fragists. Don Carlos Ellis, chief of the Section Sec-tion of Education, in the United States forest service, will deliver a series of lectures on the forest work of the government at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition. Tit first Moapa, Nevada, cantaloupe canta-loupe of the season was auctioned last week, bringing 111. It is estimated esti-mated that 300 carloads of mellons will be shipped from the Moapa valley this season. Charles Hender, a car Inspector at Monetello, Nevada, fell beneath a moving car one day last week, narrowly escaping death, one foot being so badly crushed that amputation ampu-tation was necessary. The twelve-year-old son of A. B. Middlekopf, of Miles City, Mont., lost two fingers and the thumb of his left hand last week as the result of the explosion of a dynamite cap with which he was playing. The first passenger train to leave Butte over the Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound railroad, westbound, left that city on June 28, bound for Alber-ton, Alber-ton, 35 miles west of Missoula, where an auction sale of town lots was held. The Southern Pacific is to begin at once the work of changing, the main line of the road between Wells and Deeth, 150 miles west of Ogden. The new work entails the laying of twenty miles of new standard steel on the cut-off. A general movement for the establishment estab-lishment of an eight-hour day for machinists ma-chinists throughout the United Statea will be started at a convention of the International Machinists' union to be held in Denver next September, it is announced. Judge Donlan, upon the bench in the criminal court at Butte, dealt another an-other crushing blow at the gamblers of Butte last week, when he set a precedent pre-cedent by refusing bail to a convicted gambler pending appeal to the supreme su-preme court. C. C. Petty, who shot and killed hia wife at the Methodist church at Sparks, Nevada, on the night of March 9, has been found guilty of murder in the first degree, the jury fixing punishment pun-ishment at death. Petty comes trom Asbury, N. J. Frank Duncan, who was employed at. the shearing plant of the Benton Sheep company at Fort Benton, Mont., was killed by lightning last week. He was out on the prairie and it was not known that he had met with misfortune misfor-tune until his body was found. The sixteen-months' old daughter of John Dauterman of Alder, Mont., was drowned in an irrigating ditch' last week, -having fallen into the ditch near the house. Seven years ago the Dautermans lost a child in the same manner, and at the same place. Mrs. D. E. Magardard is dead, and four others were injured as the result re-sult of an automobile accident near Spokane, when the machine going at the rate of thirty miles an hour crashed into a train which was also running at a high rate of speed. Wilton -Ooley, janitor of the Mining Exchange building at Colorado Springs had his left arm terribly lacerated lac-erated by the accidental explosion ol an eight-inch Hotchkiss shell, a relic ol I the epaiiish-Ameriean war. Tne explosion ex-plosion was caused by hitting the shell while he was cleaning the room where it was kept. A cloudburst in the mountains south of Helena occurred on June 29, the result of which was a flood, which wrought much damage in the city and adjacent country. Small streams and dry gulches in the vicinity became raging torrents, swelling as they ran, until a number of streets had all the appearance of rivers. Two huge rattlesnakes have terrorized ter-rorized frequenters of City Park, in Cheyenne, and parents have forbidden their children from entering the playground. play-ground. Keeper Talbott killed one of the reptiles recently, but its mate is still at largo. Several men are watching the park in the hope of seeing see-ing the remaining rattler. A steel gang at work on a railway contract near Armstead, Mont., went on a strike one day last week because the contractor would not discharge his Chinese cook. Late In the evening even-ing the shanty of the Chinese w;ia dynamited and the man seriously hurt. Joseph Claich was killed as the result re-sult of a peculiar accident near Mc-Gill, Mc-Gill, Nevada. In some unaccountable manner he fell from the wagon seat and was caught by the throat on the brake and slowly strangled to death, his body being discovered by his father. The Denver S; Rio Grande railroad has announced that it will grant a ten-day stop-over In Denver, Colorado Springs and Pueblo on all tickets over which it has control, after August 2, and has Informed the interstate commerce com-merce comm'ssion that the road Is acting independently. |