Show t NOR HV l srl NOTES Something over half a million pounds of wool was sold last week by be wool growers of Pock Springs Vyo to eastern buyers The highest price iuld was 23 cents J P Mooncy a Northern Pacific railway engineer residing In Missoula wan badly hurt while switching at Stuart Mont lilt skull was crushed but it Is believed he will live Kllwood C Hughes for twenty years a lawyer of Seattle has been tendered by President Taft an appointment ap-pointment to tho newly created fed Oral judgeshIp In Washington state The LInwood Land company has ordered or-dered a White steamer automobile to be used In carrying land seekers I between Rock Springs Wyo and their lands In Linwood and Lucerne I valleys John Klrschwong of Butte a noted I Inventor of smelting apparatus killed I his wife and two children and committed com-mitted suicide April 29 on his brothers broth-ers ranch near Ada Mont KIrsch wens was nn escaped lunatic Fire of Incendiary origin destroyed two large hay warehouses nt Baseman Base-man Mont April 28 entailing a heavy loss Indisputable evidence of Incen diarism was found and u reward of 500 has been offered for the culprits The Chicago police say that George B ICe tlt 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 dlrectbry game Ranchers and prospectors In the vicinity l vi-cinity of Helena are almost unanimous unani-mous In tho opinion that Montana Is likely to experience a flood this spring similar to that which occurred last year when millions of dollars worth uf damage was done After clubbing a Chinaman Into unconsciousness un-consciousness and locking him in the cellar four men robbed tho Casino a big gambling resort of Reno Nevada of between 1000 and 5000 A night watchman who Intruded was captured cap-tured and locked In a closet Mrs Joe flumes and Mrs S Camp broil wives of loggers fought a bloody duel with butcher knives at Lester Wasli as a result of wnlch the former has a fatal gash below the heart The women quarreled ovur the borrowing of kitchen utensils Thomas Hencssey hotel detective In the employ of the Albany hotel In Denver and formerly house detective at tho Auditorium hotel Chicago was shot and Instantly killed April 29 by a man named Selkirk The shooting was tho result of an old grudge rho LaramIe rolling mills ot the Union Pacific railroad which havo been Idle for a year will resume operations oper-ations at once Tho mills produce the continuous rail joints tie plates bolts nuts and spikes used by the Union Pacific In now construction work Alive and I conscious and scarcely Injured In-jured John Watkins has been rescued res-cued after being burled twentysix hours beneath twentyeight feet of snow In tho valley of tho Cascade river near Rockport Wash An avalanche ava-lanche had overwhelmed an engineers engi-neers camp all of tho other men escaping es-caping D C Corbin the millionaire railway rail-way builder of Spokane Is tho central figure In tho largest mining deal made In Spokane In soveral years He has taken an option on the Wagner group of claims on Hall creek a tributary of tho Duncan river In British Columbia Co-lumbia Tho price is stated to be 3 000000 A coterie of residents of Helena who represent their wealth to bo In excess of l00000p have filed a petition peti-tion In tho district court to restrain tho municipality from Issuing or disposing dis-posing of an issue of bonds of COO 000 voted at a special election for the purpose of constructing and Installing a municipal water plant Twentysix of tho leading lumber manufacturers of Oregon Washington and Idaho who control to a large extent Uio rail shipments of tho product pro-duct from that section to the cast met last week and attempted to reduce re-duce the production of lumber 10 percent per-cent Tho order to the mills will go out probably within two days The state of Montana was last week tho purchaser of the 500000 bond Issue Is-sue authorized by the last legislature for the erection of new wings to the capitol This action was taken by tho state board of land commissioners commission-ers and the funds from which It is to ho taken will be those of tho various vari-ous state educational institutions Governor Shafroth of Colorado has signed the campaign expense bill and tho unique measure becomes law In ninety days Tho bill provides that the state shall contribute for campaign cam-paign expenses every two years a sum equal to twentyfive cents for each vote cast at the preceding general gen-eral election tho sum to bo divided among the political parties accordIng to the vote cast for their respective candidates for governor II 13 Ott councilor In the department depart-ment of agriculture and commerce for tho Japanese government has been appointed commissioner general 1 to tho AlaskaYnkonPaclfic exposition and will como to Seattle Immediately to take charge of the Japanese exhibits ex-hibits Trio stato 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 tho flour sold In tho state Is Imported Im-ported Tho first work of grading on the new Shield River railway began April 28 when 300 men and many teams began be-gan operations just east of Livingston Living-ston Mont Another large crew of men will begin work at Myorsburg n point about forty miles north tram jjvlneston |