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Show NORTHWEST NOTES The explosion of a lamp In one of the rooms of the Moore hotel, at Moore, Mont., started a fire which destroyed de-stroyed the hotel and another building, causing a loss of $10,000. Mrs. Lizzie H. Welsh, of Riverside, Cal.. a wealthy woman who owns large tracts of land in Pueblo county, has given land valued at $10,000 to the Mc-Clellan Mc-Clellan orphanage of Pueblo, Colo. Four persons were seriously and two slightly injured at Klamath Falls, Ore., by the overturning of a hotel bus. Dr. Relun, of Redding. Cal., was the most seriously injured. The driver was hurrying to the station and made too short a turn. After a desperate struggle with his wife over the possession of his revolver, re-volver, Grover Cleveland Hill, former county clerk of Humboldt county, shot himself through the head in his room in a hotel in Reno, Nevada, dying instantly. in-stantly. Horse buyers from Iowa have been making a thorough canvass during the past two months of Lewis and Clark and Cascade counties, Montana, and have secured between 1,200 and 1,500 head, which will go to the Miles City-and City-and St. Louis markets. Harry Oroyle, a well known Northern North-ern Pacific engineer, was fatally injured in-jured in a peculiar manner in the yards at Livingston, Mont. Croyle was making some trifling repairs on an injection pipe and when his face was close the pipe exploded. As the result of an explosion of giant powder and a tank of gasoline, the roundhouse of the Burlington Railroad Rail-road company at Toluca, Mont., was destroyed June 18, and L. H. Kintz and Alfred Wierschem, trainmen, were badly burned and injured. A drunken negro porter on a wool buyers' special car, which was sidetracked side-tracked at Shaniko, Ore., during the wool sales, shot and seriously wounded Bernard H. Trumbull, commercia agent of the Illinois Central railroad and John S. McLaughlin, traveling freight and passenger agent of the same road. In the federal court at Helena last week, Judge Hunt declared the Montana Mon-tana Kimberly Mining company, iD which many Chicagoans are interested, interest-ed, to be a bankrupt, and referred the case to a refree at Livingston. The company has been involved in more or less litigation between the stockholders. As the result of a gas explosion at the East Helena, Mont., smelter, five men came near losing their lives, but it is believed all will recover. The roaster had not been in commission recently re-cently and the flue was cold, the result re-sult being that instead of the gases going out through the flue they came out of the front. 1 Th courts of Montana will have to de-citfe who js entitled to the reward offered two years ago by the Northern Pacific for the arrest of James Calvin TOWers, George Hastings and Harry J. fj-ruber, who held up and robbed the Northern Pacific coastbound passenger Uain and; killed Engineer Clow at Walsh's spur on the morning of May 7, 1907. Mrs. Lee Self is reported to have suicided at Sandusky, Mont, the woman shooting herself through the heart w1h a .45-caliber Colt's six-shooter. six-shooter. WlCh the exception of Harvey, Har-vey, Mrs. Self was the last of the Gurry family, notorious because of the daring deeds of outlawry of Kid Gurry of Great Northern train holdup hold-up fame. President James McCrea, of the Pennsylvania railroad, has been appointed ap-pointed agent of the Alaska-Yukon-Pa-, cific exposition in . the negotiations with the city council of Philadelphia for the loan of the famous Liberty bell as an exhibit. There has been oppo-sition oppo-sition in Philadelphia to letting the bell leave the city. The executive committee of the Montana Mon-tana Development league met at Helena last week for the purpose of taking steps along so-called "publicity" lines. Governor Norris presided, and delivered an address urging the raising rais-ing of funds for the work of the league. Frank Stevens, a railroad brakeman. was the victim of a terrible accident, at Las Vegas, Nevada, one of his arms being jerked from his body, and his shoulder being so badly torn that part df a lung was exposed. In spite of his frightful injuries, it is believed he will recover. Wyoming will produce forty million pounds of wool, for which the growers will receive $8,000,000 gross, according to conservative estimates from authoritative author-itative sources. The clips average close to eight pounds per fleece and some of it has sold as high as 25 cents per pound. Police Officer William C. Taylor was .seriously wounded and John L. Will iams, a drink-crazed cement worker was almost instantly killed in a pistol duel between the two men in Butte, which was the culmination of an attempt at-tempt on the part of the officer to ar rest Williams. At Washoe, Carbon county, Montana, Mon-tana, the large warehouse and the wash-house buildings owned by the Washoe Copper company at Butte, a subsidiary of the Amalgamated Copper Cop-per company, were burned to the ground on June 17. The loss is estimated esti-mated at $10,000. |