Show SHORT STORIES Time Western Hardware company of Great Falls which started In business Inst March has made nn assignment Creditors Credit-ors will receive about O per cent of their clrsms William Clarke Sons banker of New York have assigned for the btnclit of creditors to the Van Nordcn Trust company I com-pany The linn had a mercantile rating of from S750CO to SllTiOOO Yuan Simi Knl the Governor of ChlLI province has received a telegram from the throne promoting him to the entire command of the imperial army and navy the highest rank In China The ships of the Emit Danish company which has a number of vessels under the l Russian llnff and Is connected with the French Eat Asiatic coipany are carryIng carry-Ing large cargoes of ammunition and other war supplies to Russian ports In Aria Mr JSowen has retunifd from The Hague where he appeared before Tho Hague tribunal t I as the I representative of the United States and Venezuela claims The arguments Imo now all boon pre hcnted and thu court will meet In February Feb-ruary and render Its decision Secretary of tho Navy Moody ycijlorday paid his first vialc to the League I Inland navy yard tit Philadelphia lie tarn on time United States dispatch boat Dolphin Vita shore batteries at the navy yard ilroil u salute of seventeen irunu I to which the Dolphin replied with thirteen guns The banks at Colfax Ira Baxter and MIniro la owned liv George D 1 Woods who committed suicide at Colfax have closed their doors temporarily the I crlats being precipitated by time fIling of a me ohnnlcH Hen on fixtures In one of the banks A demand by 1 the Poll county officials of-ficials for the return of 150000 county funds deposited In the Bank of Colfax has not been acceded to ncfcrrinr to time London report that Germany may object to the proposition of Russia anti Anatrlii for an Im < rna llonil m administration of Macedonia on the llncu of the present Government of Crete the I Foreign office at lierlln 81 Id today thai I on tin contrary Germany had done ni Ii In her pow r to steiirx the acceptance and Lnforcenicnt of the Mnorleg pro giamme which remains Limo basis of Run I soAustrlun action |