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Show NORTHWEST NOTES Something over half a million pounds of wool was sold last week by the wool growers of Rock Springs, VVyo.. to eastern buyers. The highest price paid was 23 cents. J. P. Mooney. a Northern Pacific railway engineer residing In Missoula, was badly hurt while switching at Stuart, Mont. His skull was crushed, but it is believed he will live. Ellwood C. Hughes, for twenty years a lawyer of Seattle, has been tendered by President Taft an appointment ap-pointment to the newly created federal fed-eral judgeship in Washington state. The Linwood Laud company has ordered or-dered a White steamer automobile to be used in carrying land seekers between Rock Springs, Wyo., and their lauds in Linwood and Lucerne valleys. John Kirschweng of Butte, a noted inventor of smelting apparatus, killed his wife and two children and committed com-mitted suicide, April 29, on his broth-' er's ranch near Ada, Mont. Kirschweng Kirsch-weng was an escaped lunatic. v Fire of incendiary origin destroyed two large hay warehouses at Boze-man, Boze-man, Mont, April 2S, entailing a heavy loss. Indisputable evidence of incen-. diarism was found, and a reward of $500 has been offered for the culprits. The Chicago police say that George B. Kerth and N. Lawrence, under arrest ar-rest in Seattle, charged with swindling, swind-ling, are members of a gang that has robbed eastern business men of one million dollars by a fake directory game. Ranchers and prospectors in the vicinity vi-cinity of Helena are almost unanimous unani-mous in the opinion that Montana is likely to experience a flood this spring similar to that which occurred last year, when millions of dollars' worth of damage was done. After clubbing a Chinaman into unconsciousness un-consciousness and locking him in the cellar, four men robbed the Casino, a big gambling resort of Reno, Nevada, of between $4,000 and $5,000. A night-watchman, night-watchman, who intruded, was captured cap-tured and locked in a closet. Mrs. Joe Burnes and Mrs. S. Camp-brell, Camp-brell, wives of' loggers, fought a bloody duel with butcher knives at Lester, Wash., as a result of wnlch the' former has a fatal gash below the heart. The women quarreled over the borrowing of kitchen utensils. Thomas Henessey, hotel detective in the employ of the Albany hotel, in Denver, and formerly house detective at the Auditorium hotel, Chicago, was shot and instantly killed April 29, by a man named Seikirk. The shooting was the result of an old grudge. The Laramie rolling mills or the Union Pacific railroad, which have been idle for a year, will resume operations oper-ations .at once. The mills produce the continuous rail joints, tie plates, bolts, nuts and spikes used by the Union Pacific in new construction work. Alive. and conscious and scarcely injured, in-jured, John Watkins has been rescued, res-cued, after being buried twenty-six hours beneath twenty-eight feet of snow in the valley of the Cascade river, near Rockport, Wash. An avalanche ava-lanche had overwhelmed an engineer's engi-neer's camp, all of the other men escaping. es-caping. D. C. Corbin, , the millionaire railway rail-way builder of Spokane, is the central figure in the largest mining deal made in Spokane in several years. He has taken an option on the Wagner group of claims on Hall creek, a tributary of the Duncan river, in British Columbia. Co-lumbia. The price is stated to be $3,-000,000. $3,-000,000. A coterie of residents of Helena, who represent their wealth to be in excess of $1,000,000, have filed a petition peti-tion in the district court to restrain the municipality from issuing or disposing dis-posing of an issue of bonds of $600,-000, $600,-000, voted at a special election for the purpose of constructing and installing a municipal water plant. Twenty-six ok the leading lumber manufacturers of Oregon, Washington and Idaho, who control, to a large extent, the rail shipments of the product pro-duct from that section to the east, met last week and attempted to reduce re-duce the production of lumber 40 per cent. The order to the mills will go out probably within two days. The state of Montana was last week the purchaser of the $500,000 bond issue is-sue authorized by the last legislature for the erection of new wings to, the capitol. This action was taken by the state board of land commissioners, commission-ers, and the funds from which it is to be taken will be those of the various vari-ous state educational institutions. Governor Shafroth of Colorado has signed the oampaign expense bill and the unique measure becomes law in ninety days. The bill provides that the state shall contribute for campaign cam-paign expenses every two years a sum equal to twenty-five cents for each vote cast at the preceding general gen-eral election, the sum to be divided among the political parties according to t'he vote cast for their respective candidates for governor. H. E. Ott, councilor in the department depart-ment of agriculture and commerce for the Japanese government, has been appointed commissioner general to the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition, and will come to Seattle immediately to take charge of the Japanese exhibits. ex-hibits. The state pure food commission of Wyoming has indorsed the recent government gov-ernment ruling relative to artificially aged or whitened flour, and dealers will be given until September 1 to dispose dis-pose of their present stocks. Nearly all the flour sold in the state is imported. im-ported. The first work of grading on the new Shield River railway began April 28, when 300 men and many teams be-ga'p be-ga'p operations just east of Livingston, Living-ston, Mont Another large crew of men will begin work at Myersburg, a point about forty miles north from I -UHngston. |