Show NORTITWfEST I NOTES Crown Pnnco Hacunylma of Japan Is to visit tune Seattle exposition In August according to advices received from Japan In tho police court in Butte Judgo McGowan charged openly that a fund of 1500 had been raised to bribe the court and officers to allow a wide open town In tho restricted district Penrfsslon has been granted by tho United States to the Fifth rcg ment of Canadian artillery armed and equipped to enter this country to attend the Seattle exposition The rapid spread of an epidemic of bog cholera In the Bitter Root alley Montana Is causing considerable con corn among the ranchmen fully 2000 hogs having died from tho disease A party of prominent woman suffragists suf-fragists including Rev Anna Shaw and Miss Lucy Anthony attended tho Seattle exposition last week being feted and entertained by tho local suffragists suf-fragists Don Carlos Ellis chief of the Section Sec-tion of Education In tho United States forest service will deliver a series of lectures on the forest work of the government at tho AlaskaYukonPa clflc exposition Tho first Moapa Nevada cantaloupe canta-loupe of time season was auctioned last wcok bringing 11 It Is est mated that 300 carloads of mellons will be shipped from the Moapa valley this season Charles llendor a car Inspector at Monctello Nevada fell beneath a moving car one day last week narrowly escaping death one foot being so badly crushed that amputation ampu-tation was necessary The twelveyearold son of A B Mlddlekopf of Miles City Mont lost two fingers and tho thumb of his left hand last week as tho result of tho explosion of a dynamite cap with which he was playing The first passenger train to leave Quite over the Chicago Milwaukee Puget Sound railroad westbound left that city on Juno 28 bound for Alber ton 35 miles west of Missoula where an auction sale of town lots was held Tho Southern Pacific is to begin at once tho work of changing the mainline main-line of the road between Wells and Ueeth 150 miles west of Ogden The new work entails the laying of twenty miles of new standard steel on the cutoff A general movement for the establishment estab-lishment of an eighthour day for machinists ma-chinists throughout the United States will be started at a convention of tho Internatonal Machinists union to beheld be-held in Denver next September It is announced Judge Donlan upon the bench in the criminal court at Butte dealt another an-other crushing blow at the gamblers of Butte last week when he set n precedent pre-cedent by refusing ball to a convicted gambler pending appeal to the bU preme court C C Petty who shot and killed his wife at the Methodist church at Sparks Nevada on the night of March 9 has been found guilty of murder in the first degree the jury fixing punishment pun-ishment at death Petty comes iron Asbury N J Frank Duncan who was employed at tho shearing plant of the Benton Sheep company at Fort Benton Mont was killed by lightning last week Ho was out on the prairie and It was not I known that ho had met with misfortune misfor-tune until his body was found The sixteen old daughter of John Dauterman of Alder Mont was drowned In an Irrigating ditch last week having fallen Into the ditch near tho house Seven years ago tho Duutermans lost a child In the same manner and at tho samo place Mrs D E Magardard is dead and four others were injured as tho result re-sult of an automobile accident near Spokane when tho machine going at the rato of thirty miles an hour crashed Into a train which was also running at a high rato of speed Wilton Ooley janitor of the Mining Exchange budding at Colorado Springs had his left arm terribly lacerated lac-erated by the accidental explosion of an eightInch Hotchkiss shell a relic of the llllIISh American war itu explosion ex-plosion was caused by hitting the shell while he was cleaning tho room whero It was kept A cloudburst in tho mountains south of Helena occurred on Juno 29 the result of which was a Hood which wrought much damage in tho city and adjacent country Small streams and dry gulches in the vicinity ueeime raging torrents swelling as they ran until a number of streets had all tho appearance of rivers Two hugo rattlesnakes have terrorized ter-rorized frequenters of City Park in Cheyenne and parents have forbidden their children from entering tho playground play-ground Keeper Talbott killed one of tho reptiles recently but Its mate Is still at large Several men are watching tho park In tho hope of seeing see-ing tho remaining rattler A steel gang at work on a railway contract near Armstead Mont went on a strike one day last week because the contractor would not discharge his Chinese cook Lato in tho evening even-ing tho shanty of the Chinese was dynamited and tho man seriously hurt Joseph Clalch was killed as tho result re-sult of a peculiar accident near Mc Gill Nevada In sonic unaccountable manner ho fell from the wagon seat and was caught by tho throat on tho brake and slowly strangled to death his body being discovered by his father rule Denver Rio Grando railroad has announced that It will grunt a tenday stopover In Denver Colorado Springs and Pueblo on all tickets over which It has control after August 2 and has informed tho Interstate com elf i c mm slon that the road is u t s 11 I ilnnily |