Show NORTHWEST NOTES the people of lewiston Lewi oton montana have voted down the proposition to compel all saloons to close at mid night the secretary of the interior has restored to public entry 36 acres t land which had been withdrawn in connection with the little missouri irrigation project in montana in the federal court at helena adge hunt fined enoch herbster a prominent dawson county montana ranchman upon a plea of guilty to an indictment charging illegal fencing an aged prospector named flana gan bound tor the hills witha grub stake on his back was struck by a southern pacific train and instantly 1 billed in the tunnel near palisade nevada one of the features of the election held in montana was the carrying in bozeman of the sunday and midnight closing of the saloons bozeman Is the first city in montana to ate the sabbath lid at the meeting at helena mont of the democratic state committee the candidacy of william J bryan for the presidency was endorsed without a t vo ce from the seyen members of the body the state encampment of the rand army 0 the republic held at butte closed on the wito the e ecklon of W kinney of bozeman as commander and the selection ol 01 clings as the 1909 convention city Z L dalby indian inspector of the crow reservation in montana was be fore the senate committee on indian affairs last week and denied state ments made by mrs helen pierce grey concerning alleged mal adminis of its affairs the oregon washington hallway company has formally accepted the franchises granted by the seattle city council the grants include terminals breight yards passenger depots tun nel work and several miles of lines within the city limits of seattle high school students took posses slon of the school building at ana conda mont one night last week and had a dance how they gained admission is unknown at present but thorough investigation la to be made and the guilty parties punished A delegation of sioux ind ans from the cheyenne and standing rock res who tavor opening at least halt of each of these reservations to settlement called upon the president last week with comm leupp of the bureau of indian affairs the president chatted with them a short time oliver dallas defendant wit i J D mcleod in the government con case on trial in the federal court at helena mont confessed branlly that all of the signatures to various documents which purported to be the signatures of different dep uty mineral surveys were written by him joseph henry taylor the frontier author Is dead at washburn N D from heart failure taylor reached the platte river in 1864 and worked borth along the missouri river he was among the first white men to take up his abode in dakota he was author and publisher of a number of books with the exception of butte where the socialist vote held its own as compared with the off year municipal election of the previous ear the bo clarist vote generally throughout montana shows a decided falling off at the recent election in the socialists were defeated by a de aishe vote henry and arthur webber aromi rent nevada mining operators have been arrested at goldfield nevada charged with embezzling be longing to the treasury of the doctor mining company the defendants released on 10 ball each the gebbers webbers declare the prosecution Is the result of spite work frank J edwards Ke publican was elected mayor of helena atter 0 warm campaign in which the moral isue was urged by his opponents A democrat was elected city treas and a republican was chosen police judge the republicans elected five of seven aldermen the florence gold mining company of goldfield has applied for an in j motion to restrain t e little flor ance lease from continuing work on ground leased by the latter company the lease runs only two weeks more nd the parent company claims the mine is being gutted brady martin a apol ane condrac for was terribly injured at lind wash trying to extract dyna mite from a missed shot the ex fractured his skull broke one leg and shot fragments of rock into bis body he is in the hospital with little hope of recovery the canadian pacific lall road has deeded to build a second railway line through the rocky mounta ns to the nc coast land on hardy bay in tl e northern part of vanco iver his been secured as a ib 1 broad aul wul connect with tire 1 ne running aiom winnipeg to edmonton R E hanson a ve 1 1 mon tana hotel iran v as to ind dead in Ms apartments in the hotel helena t helena mont heart d sease be ng the cause he was manager of the hotel helein i it d ad been formerly s malarly emp oyid in butte living and othel monta id ties fire in the mail and express car of n seattle portland train ol 01 th northern pacific railroad r three les of lacoma resulted lesul ted in cons demable b water to two bruci loads of california and oregon mail for seattle the registered mail was no damaged the heirs at law of the late charles A schuyler ol 01 alameda cal have commenced an action in the second d strict court aga ast the southern pacific railroad Raili oad company to recover damages for the death of schuyler who was kl led in the gartney nev wreck jan 14 1907 senator warren last week sent a check for to the relief commit tee looking after those who lost rela tives in the hanna wyo mine dis asking to be notified it further help should be needed he also called the attention of officers of the national red cros to the d |