Show 7r f J r 1I8R iJ S I I INLAND NORTHWEST Mrs A P Dorance the wife of a prominent Helena coal merchant was shot and Killed by a burglar at Hot Springs hotel Miss Ina Patterson a schoolteacher school-teacher is dead at Harlem Mont from an overdose of poison which she was using as a flesh reducer She was 22 years of age Laverno Sovereign ft 15yearold boy was Instantly killed by lightning about ten miles from Great Falls Mont while ho and his brother aged 11 were driving Into town The Butte Ministerial association has passed resolutions calling upon tho sheriff and the county attorney tb Flop the proposed prize fight July 28 between Jack Tippets und Tony Ca ponlA man has been arrested at Dillon Mont who Is believed to be Billy Westbrook wanted In Billings for horse stealing and for whom the officers I of-ficers have tieen searching for sometime some-time Crazed with liquor Fred S Drowning Drown-ing shot his wife and attempted sul cldo at their home in Spokane Tho woman is dead The man Is In the hospital and is believed to bo fatally Injured S P J Patton of Merrill Mont has r just completed negotiations with Colonel Col-onel Thomas Cruse for the purchase of 12000 head of spring lambs This Is tho largest sheep deal made in tho state this year A new trial has been denied George and Fred Elklns prominent hotel l keepers of Reno convicted ot receiving re-ceiving stolen goods nnd fines of 1000 and 500 respectively wero Imposed < on them After August 15 the Montana railroad rail-road will be operated from Chicago instead of Helena it is officially I announced an-nounced by Auditor Welsh The Montana Mon-tana railroad extends from Lombard to Levistown a distance of 157 miles 1 ho third annual carnival in commemoration com-memoration of the pilgrimage of Lewis and Clark from Montana Into Idaho more than a centuryago by way of what Is now Helena was celebrated In Helena last week to wheat growing as a general crop nearly every farmer has a small field which will average from 30 to 40 bushels bush-els an acre The Seattle Chamber of Commerce and tho AlaskaYukonPaclflc oxposfr tied have petitioned tho mayor and city council to refuse a license to a large eastern circus whose flaming posters are already on the billboards The petitioners sot forth that the circus I cir-cus should not be permitted to compete com-pete with the worlds fair It is announced that Prince and Princess Kunlnoralya and Prince and Princess Nauhlmoto all of Japanese royal blood who are traveling In Europe will visit the AlaskaYukon Pacific exposition on their way home Tho crown prince will attend tho fair later Two hundred Masons representing all parts of the state participated on July 20 in tho dedication of the Masonic Ma-sonic temple jest completed in LewIston Lew-Iston Mont at a cost of 50000 GrandMaster Grand-Master C B Nolan of Helena conducted conduct-ed the grand lodge service of dedication dedica-tion ti Upward of 500 head of sheep which JJf were being driven to summer pasturage pastur-age on tho Helena national forest wero poisoned by loco southwest of Helena and died Haiti on the previous pre-vious day Is supposed to have given the poison weed an abnormal growth over night Mrs Howard W Cherry wife of the editor of the Lovelock Nevada Review j Re-view committed Suicide by drinking I carbolic acid It Is Bald that she was despondent over the fact that a married mar-ried sister living there opposed her recent marriage and forbid her access to her home On August the now Western Pacific Pa-cific railroad will bo opened for commercial com-mercial purposes to Elko Nov n dls tance of about 250 miles west of Salt Lake City For several months past it has been open as far as ShaRer Nov and trains have been running three to live times u week At a mooting of the Pacific coast Logging congress at Seattle U T Andrews An-drews ot tim federal forestry service said that tho government holds 20 percent per-cent ot tho jtandng timbu of tie country and that fiJ per cent of tho government timber ID overripe and r ad for he ux |