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Show . NEWS OF THE NORTHWEST. Mat Chamberlain, the roundhouse hostler, who was so badly scalded last week while cleaning a locomotive boiler at Ellensburgh, died Saturday after suffering suf-fering great agony. Saturday night between f and 8 o'clock some party entered the Northern North-ern Pacilic office at the depot at Boulder, Boul-der, getting in through a window, and took from tho safe about $40 in cash and a note for $300. Samual Swalt of Satsop valley, Wash., went hunting. He slipped off a log and his ritlo was discharged. The ball took off his left thumb, and ranging rang-ing up penetrated the abdomen, coming com-ing out of the back near the kidneys. The wound was fatal. . It is stated that tho Missoula county commissioners have signified their intention in-tention of appropriating $10,000 or more if proportionate to the amount be donated by groperty owners, for the erection of a steel bridge on lliggins avenue across the Missoula river. Citizens of Port Townseud are trying to raise $1200 to have a minaturo model in papier macho of tho city, embracing the harbor, with the vessels and all the surroundings. It is twelve feet square, and the purpose is to send it first to tho Spokane Falls fair and then to the World's fair at Chicago. About fifteen head of cattle died suddenly sud-denly recently up near the mining camps on the Natchez, says the Yakima Herald. As about half of them belonged to David Longmirc he made an investigation investi-gation and found that they had been eating dynamite that the 'miners had left out of doors away from their cabins as a measure of personal safety. The glacier discovered by Professor Culver in Missoula county recently was evidently a re-discovery of a discovery of Professor Raphael Pumpelly in 18So". It is incomprehensible, however, how a find of such magnitude should have been allowed to remain uninvestigated for such a length of time. It is certainly certain-ly of importance to the scientific world. Missoula Gazette. A committee of forty called on the Chi lese of Aberdeen, Wash., and requested re-quested them to vacate their quarters. Tho mongolians wore given until Mon- clay, heptemher 22nd, to leave town. If they have not vacated their quarters by 12 o'clock noon on that day there may bo trouble. All those Chinamen leaving the city peacefully will be reimbursed re-imbursed for their improvements. For lack of machinery for cutting and threshing grain, says tho Pullman correspondent cor-respondent of the Spokane Falls Ke-vicw, Ke-vicw, thousands of acres of grain arc standing dead ripe and becoming more or less shattered by the winds driving tho heads together. . Threshers -are so inadequate in number to tho immense crop that it is prophesied that much threshing will not be done before snow flies. Bill Root has just sold a large rnoun-taiu rnoun-taiu lion to a New York firm which netted him the snug sum of $40, says the Laramie Boomerang. The animal was 18 months old and weighed loO pounds. The express chaiges on the animal to New York were $r0.60. He was caught 115 miles from a railroad station and was brought in by wagon Up to the age of eighteen months the mountain lion is not an intractablo beast. r The shipments of canned salmon eastward east-ward over tho Canadian Pacific have been very heavy during the past ten or twelve days, says the New Westminister lruth. In all there nave been shipped a?0Uhf.y (!;lI'loads. n which were ,w?utni'000.C;lsl!S- vahlHtl a' about $;o,-000. $;o,-000. lhus it will be seen that tho amount of salmon handled is very l iree and year by year, ns long asth'r8u,; holds out, it increases, being a source of revenue to the railway company as we.l as the canners and community at |