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Show MONTANA NOTES. The Helena police have found a den where young girls are taught to smoke opium. The hay crop in the vicinity of Dillon is estimated at about two-thirds the usual us-ual yield. Forty-four finely bred horses con-sigued con-sigued to eastern parties were shipped from Chinook latoly. , Tho Ktoek fair at Miles City has been changed back from August to the middle mid-dle of September, tho original date fixed. A new paper will be issued at Fort Bontou, August 8. Charles S. Harris is the proprictor.aud the paper will bo republican re-publican In politics. Johu Maddux, a coal heaver, was drowned whilo bathing in tho Big Hole river at Melroso Suuday. Ho was 23 years of age and leaves a wife. An Immense prairie fire is reported to be traveling eastward from the east butte of tho Sweet Grass hills, and It will destroy thousands of acres of good hay. Tho River Pross says that before snow Hies thero will be more railroad building in Ohoteau county than in all the rest of the state for the same period of time. A patrol from Miles City is fighting a prairie tire near the head of Little Pumpkin creek. A small prairie tire is also raging east of the city, bnt is under un-der control. The Collins artesian well at Great Falls is down over one hundred feet and water has b6en struck, but not of sullieient forco to Bow. Tho woll will bo drilled deeper. Word came to Deer Lodge Thursday that tho sawmill of John King, on Griff creek, below Gold creek, togethor with about 10,000 feet of lumber, was entirely consumed by lire a few days ago. Heavy forest (ires on the wost range 1 of the Hitter Hoot mountains are tilling the valley with smoke. The weather is very hot and no rain for over a week, consequently the woods are in good condition to burn. Tho Bay State Cattle compaur is driving several thousand head of their breeding cattle from the Judith back to the Big Horn basin, Wyo. The drive will t.oke about fifty days to reach the destination. At a meeting of the district judges held in Helena last week a rule was adopted limiting the number of witnesses wit-nesses that can bo subpoenaed in a criminal crim-inal case to sis each for the prosecution and defense unless the court shall grant permission to summons more. Patrick Rourke, the section foreman at Grey Cliffo, near Billings, was struck by the eastbound passenger last week as he was attempting to get his band car off the track. Both his feet were run over, necessitating their amputation amputa-tion by the company's surgeon. The railroad company are excavating a reservoir in the vicinity of Glaseow, which will be filled with water from the river, to furnish a supplv during the dry season. Tho reservoir will bo 38 feet deep, 130 feet in diameter, and will hold 8.000,000 gallons of water. Miles City Journal: Two king birds were taken from tbe globe of the electric elec-tric street light on the corner of Main and Sixth streets yesterday morning. They had got in there to feast on the insects that had been accidentally "electrocuted," "elec-trocuted," and after eating their till were unable to make their exit without assistance. f i |