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Show NORTHWEST NOTES L. H. Cameron, a miner, was, killed near Melrose, Mont, by an Oregon Short Line train. Tho public building bill gives Raw-llns, Raw-llns, Wyo., 180,000 for a building, nnd Sheridan gets $15,000 and Landoi $7,500 for. sites. William M. Graves, vice president ol tho Diamond Match company, a rest dent of New York, dropped dead In his hotel In Portland. John Howard met death In tha Speculator mine nt Butte, fulling down an ore chute, his body being dlscov ered by a shoveler. The nnniinl conference of tho Colorado Colo-rado Association of German Evangel Icnl Churches of Colorado, Wyoming) Utah and Idaho was held In Laramie Inst week. When the doors of tho land ofllco at Billings, Mont., closed on the 28th, 17,000 homescckcrs had registered for lands In eastern Montana. Tho draw lng began Monday. Flour that two months ago wm worth 1.25 n, sack sells at Kendrlck for 50 cents, so strenuous hns becouu tho war between tho Spokane mills nnd tho Volluicr mill, the lnttor lo catcd at Kendrlck. Private William Colemnn, troop C. Fourteenth cavalry, nddlctcil to som nnmbullsm, walked out of a second atory barrack window whllo asleep, Bays a Wnlla Wnlla dispatch, and wns found on the ground with his neck broken. C. M. Lovy, third vlco president ol tho Northern Pacific, announces that tho Northern Pacific will nt once build n Htenm or electric railroad, probably electric, on tho old Union Pacific grndo from Tncoma to Port laud. Tho Northern Pacific will nlsc build an electric lino from Tncoma tc Seattlo. Announcement Is mado by tho company com-pany operating tho properties con trolled by tho Butto Coalition company, com-pany, that tho Montana Ore Purohao lng company's smelter will bo cloBed down during tho month nnd the orei from tho mines now treated thero will bo sent to tho Washoe works at Ana condn. Dr. Mat Hulm Chunn, ono of the Imperial high commissioners of Chins Bent to this country to make an lnvcs ligation und oludy of tho laws, com merco nnd cducatlonnl system of tilt United States, has arrived In Seattle and will mako n special study of tht hipping Industry nnd tho public school cystem ot tho country. Tho sheriff of Crook county delivered deliv-ered to tho warden ot tho ponltcntlno at Rawlins, Wyo., Inst week, Noah T Richardson, convlctod nt Sun Dance of tho murder of Alllo Means, n follow cow puncher, under a law passed by tho last Rfato legislature providing that hereafter execution of tho deatb sentence shall occur in tho atnU prison. Mrs. Jnmes Tanner, wlfo of tho commander-in-chief of the Grnnrt Army of the Republic, was killed Id an automobtlo accident near Helena The machine turnud out of tho road to allow a wagon to pass, and went over an embankment, other membora of tho party falling on Mrs. Tanner who was killed, the others escaping serious Injury. B. B. Strong, who Is working n mine noar Annconda, Mont., Inst weclt brought Into thnt city a knlfo of stone carvod with heads ot animals, un oarthod slxty-flvo feot from the mouth of n tunnel driven Into a hill 200 feet from tho peak. Mr. Strong also found near tho knlfo a hugo stono In the shape of nn altar, and believed to huva been tho sncrlilclnl stono of a prehistoric prehis-toric peoplo. Marvin Losoy, formerly a well known politician of Polk county, Minnesota, Min-nesota, sulcldod In Seattlo by Inhnltng gas. Letters found In his room showed that his wlfo and child had Just loft him because of his alloged execssoa. Rmmett Mnnn, n minor, who wns brought down to Thormopolls, Wyo., from Copper Mountain n fow days ago suffering with spotted fevor, Is doad Tho dtsonso resulted from tho bites ol wood ticks, which aro unusually nu morous this year. A negro who had boon cooking for the graders working on tho Burlington noar BaBln, Wyo., narrowly escaped lynching nt tho handR of tho men when ho got Into nn altercation with his flunkey nnd stnrtod to carvo him with n butcher knlfo. A high wind blow over n trntn of eleven cars nt Wolr, a small station east of Choyenno. The cars wero used as quarters for Japanese laborer labor-er nnd wero on n siding nt the time of tho accident. Twenty laborore wero Injurod, sovon seriously. Articles of Incorporation wero filed Inst week of tho Grny'n Harbor and Columbia River Railway company, capitalized at $1,000,000, to build n railway from Kalnma westerly through Cowlitz, Wuhklokum and Pa-Vlflo Pa-Vlflo counties to tho Pacific ocean. William Kills Coroy, president ottne Unltod States Steel corporation, hns Died an answer to tho petition of Mrs. Corey for a dlvorco. Ho denies sho Is ,a legal resident of Novnda and further fur-ther denies ho over abandoned her. H asks that her suit lio dismissed. |