Show tl NORTHWEST NOTES Miss Evelyn Tanner was thrown from a horse near Cokovllle Wyo and almost Instantly killed The citizens of Butte will send a 1 carload of provisions to Uio fire sufferers suf-ferers nt Fornlo B C or If the sufferers suf-ferers wish money Mrs R F Soulo wlfo of a proml nent Anaconda business man was burned to death In her homo by the explosion of an alcbhol stovo x rime town of Clayton Wash has been practically wiped out as tire result re-sult of forest fires Clayton had a population of about 500 people A forest firm of alarming propor tion did considerable damage In tho Coeur dAlcno national forest in Idaho Just across Uio Montana state linoTh The postmasters of Montana mot ut Helena on August n in tho first annual an-nual meeting of the Montana Postmasters Post-masters association Tho organization organiza-tion was organized one year ago Tho stato board of equalization of Montana has received returns from all counties as to property valuations which show tho following Real estate es-tate 121117938 personal 81789 m railroads 43810000 Fourteen railways of Colorado have asked the federal court for an Injunction Injunc-tion restraining tho members of tho Colorado raJroad commlssltfi from enforcing the law as to rates and railway rail-way regulation against them Mrs Stovo Adams wife of tho man who was tried tor tho murder of Arthur Ar-thur Collins at Grand Junction and who was acquitted of tho charge Is in Denver and has loft her husband according ac-cording to a dispatch from Denver It Is reported by railroad officials that work on tho now freight tor mtnal at Imlay Novada has been resumed re-sumed and that before tho work Is finished which will ba some time thin year 150000 will have been spent In the improvement The fire that has boon burning In tom St Lawrence mlno at Butte for nearly a quarter of n century claimed its first victim last week Peter Cal Ingban aged 25 who went into tho mlno in a now gas helmet was overcome over-come and asphyxiated Ontario Oregon Is in tho throes ot an oil boom Every oil export that has Inspected this field has mado a favorable report on tho formation and that whore so much natural gas Is found tho Indications aro firstclass for an oil field In tho vicinity John Kossuf who had boon drinking drink-Ing ran amuck at Knlispoll Mont and shot throo men Alderman Schu man received a flesh wound while Edward Ed-ward Dupont was wounded In tho temple Henry Miller a lumberman was struck but the courso of tho bullet bul-let was changed by papers in his nnnlrnf B F Bushnoll of Washington chief clerk in tho postal service Malcolm GIllls postmaster at Butte Dr Roff postmaster at Missoula and Judgo Choadlo of tho district bench at Low lntown Mont were nil slightly Injured In-jured in an automobile accident near Helena Malheur county Oregon of which Vale Is the county seat Is ono of tho vary largo counties of tho state beIng be-Ing sixty miles wide and 180 miles long with a population numbering about 8500 people The taxable property prop-erty aggregates something ovdr 4 000000 James Ivcroon aged 30 of Sparks Novada a prominent member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers Engi-neers was accidentally shot in Blue canyon near Truckeo Cal by his companion Harry Criss while hunt Jrg for deer Crlss mistook Iverson for a dear George F Demars was shot and Instantly in-stantly killed by Jackson Held aged 11 on Government Island In tho Lewis Clark fair grounds Demars with his father and brother were fishing on tho Island and were ordered off by taveral children among whom was J young Reid Convicted on a charge of violating the antipass law S C Watts wax J fined 800 and Gertie Williams 100 m tho federal court at Helena Mont Watts who is a Great Northern brakeman r brake-man secured a pass for his wife und gave it to tho Williams woman Both I were indicted M Stoltz a freight conductor handling hand-ling his last train as such was killed r near Grand Junction Colo by being tun over by a train Orders relieving Stoltz of his position as freight conductor con-ductor and promoting him to a passenger pas-senger run were awaiting him at Grand Junction Ono hundrdd sheep wOo struck and killed by lightning whilo taking shelter shel-ter from a storm at Bridgeport Cal at tho head of tho Carson river When the storm camo up the sheep rushed under a tamarack tree while tho herder her-der und his dogs sought the protection t protec-tion of another i Tho Bank of Austin Novada ono of tho oldest banks of that place failed last week According to the cashier ni J A Miller Jr however It Is a temporary tem-porary ssupension as ho says tho bank has 281000 In outstanding loans and 20000 cash and owes about the same amount Japanese section men captured a fibber in tho act of rillliiK their ttinlts In their bunk car at Bozeman Mont and an examination or tho mans effects disclosed G5 In battered < 1 I money mho exact amount secured by a crnchman at Park City Mont several sev-eral days previous 0 An unknown man was struck by an engine on tho Southern Paclila about one mllo from Golconda Novada The body was Immediately picked up and found to bj cold leading tho tjrow to believe tho man was already dead when hit by tho engine and that ho had been murdered i i 1 i I |