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Show NORTHWEST NOTES Itcports that carloads of fruit are being permitted to spoil at Billings, Mont, will bo Investigated. Whllo preparing for n hunting trip, John S. Wright, of McGIll, Nov., accidentally acci-dentally shot himself, death occurring a few hours inter. The cutting and threshing of winter wheat is going on In all sections of Moutnna. The yield Is light, but many fields of dry hind nvcrngo well. In some parts of Wyoming tho condition con-dition oi tho range Is serious and some sheep and cattle already nrc boitig shipped out for feed and pasture. Glaring Inequalities In assessment returns from vurlous jcountles In Montana Mon-tana have caused the stuto board of equalization to silmmou u number of assessors to meet with tho board. Written on half of a pocket handkerchief hand-kerchief from which tho hum dry mark had been torn, n blackmail letter re-oelved re-oelved by Felix Do Noros of Murray, Utah, Is In tho custody of tbo sheriff. Tho state board of health of Moutnna Mou-tnna plans to uso free bacteria to bat-tlo bat-tlo Influenza this winter. A recurrence recur-rence of tho malady, though, it Is hoped, In n milder form Is expected. II. I'. Alexander, of Three Forks, Mont., committed sulcldo by hanging while his wlfo and other relatives had genu to Bozcman on business. Ill health war tho catiso of his rush net. Vlth n reduction of 214 mills, the to tux levy will bo 4 HMO mills on nil property taxable In Montana, fol lowing ndoptlon of tho levy by the statu board of equalization ut a hieet-Ing hieet-Ing last week. Cuttle In Montana generally have withstood tbo drought well und Improvement Im-provement In rungo conditions has been sufficient to cnttso arrangements for shipping stock out of tho stato to be cancelled In some localities, Mrs. Anna ltlchcy of Fossil, Wyo., widely known cuttle woman, 30 yenrs of age, was shot In tho left arm by u masked man seven miles west of Kent merer. The bones of tho arm were shattered and amputation may be necessary. nec-essary. High winds ulllcd with dry weather are continuing to play havoc In the forests of northern Idaho and Montana, Mon-tana, und the officials at the district offices hold little hope for the future until the country lu visited with general gen-eral rains. Sixteen municipal water systems In Montana havo failed to win "approval" on the part of tho slate board of health ufter tests conducted by W. M. Oohjelgh, director and chemist of the denvment of wntcr und sewage at imf Imzemnn laboratory, Ttents In Deliver will bo Increased from 10 to 15 per cent September 1, according to notices served on tenants. Tlio liicrciiNu affects apartments us well as houses. Owners assign In-reused In-reused cost of coal and higher wages to Janitors ns tho reason. The Independent mill nt Victor, Colo., ono of tho largest In this section sec-tion of tho wost, was robbed one night last week. Tho bandits overpowered two watchmen and escaped with a quantity of gold concentrates. The vatchmen are In a hospital at Victor. Tho Utah Construction company, which has two largo railroad camps a few miles northwest of Banks, Ore, Is receiving large supplies of machinery machin-ery nnd graders, and Is hastening work on tho now railroad from Wllksboro, through Banks, up to tho big timber at Veronln. Escuplng death In a bomb explosion nt Cnmp Pike, where ho was chief gas officer, only to bo killed In a fall down a mine shaft at Tonopuh, Nov., was tho tragic flualo to tho llfo of Lieut. Harry Townsend Hohson, cousin of Itlchmond Pearson Hobson, hero of the'Merrlmnc. Cnscado county officials raided an ibnndoned building nine miles from Great Falls, Mont., and found a largo still used In ni'inufncturlng whiskey from rnlslns. Tho still wus capable of 1 urnlng out whisky ut tho into of a glass overy three minutes and 10 mrrols of rnlslns wero found. Alfred Itldsto of tho Alton, Mont., section," has brought a suit nculus't C. K. Fenner, prominent farmer of that district, to recover $25,000 for tho al-loged al-loged alienation of ids wife's uffec-tlons. uffec-tlons. Itesolutlolis declaring thnt In their opinion tho crops of Montnnn this year, whllo hot up to tho uvcrnge, nro 'reasonably ncceptnblo and that the wheat crop of the Treasure stuto In 1010 Will tolul 15.OW.000 bushels ns compared to 25,000,000 fast year, wero adopted by tho Montana bankers ut their recent mco'.lng. I It has been nwny a year since city 1 laxes or lease royalties havo been pnld In gold tlust In Montana. Recently, however, tho custom lias been revived in Helena. nd Raleigh Wilkinson has been paying In Sold dust, over tho MHmtefr of ft fcmk, tho city's 10 pet-cent pet-cent royalty 'on tlio gold )ie has mtned In the heart of Helena. Appearing as a long-lost daughter of tho dead man Miss Huzol Craig of Los Angeles has filed n probuto petition peti-tion lu the Third district court of Salt Lnko nsklng thut sho bo appointed as the administrator tf tho estate of her . uthcr, C. D. Tobev. During the pnst week tho great drought!! In Wes'em Wyoming bus hcorTTTroUen oy-sOVetirt"'gtiott nrhisr-rriio nrhisr-rriio farmers In the siirroumriiig vicinity vicin-ity npprecluto tho downpour und tho stockmen and sheep growers welcomo tho molsturo ns salvation tor their i lerds. |