Show NORTHWEST NOTES Tho price of bread was advanced by Ely Nevada bilkers last week tho staff of life now selling at 15 cents n loaf or two loaves for a quarter quar-ter of a dollar Plans havo been filed at Pueblo Colo for an Immense Irrigation project pro-ject which will cost almost two million dollars and which will reclaim 200 000 acres of arid land In southeastern Colorado The Union Pacific is Installing In tho Cheyenne yards a 100ton car scale tho largest west of Omaha Tho scale is fifty feet In length and rests In a concrete matrix seven feet In thickness Patrick Donovan doorkeeper of tho house of representatives at tho last session of the state legislature and a prominent figure In local affairs died at Missoula Mont April 23 He camo to Montana in 1SC1 Three persons wero Injured by jumping from a second slory window In tho farm resldonco of George Stahl two mlleS southwest of Missoula Mis-soula Mont I to avoid a fire that totally to-tally destroyed tho building Tho biggest fur seal herd of years Is passing Sltka Alaska according to a special dispatch The natives are killing hundreds of them Japanese poachers aro following tho herd No revenue cutters aro In the district Bitter racial feeling exists nt Vashon collogo Tacoma over a row between a student named Adams and a Japanese engineer It Is said tho Japanese stabbed tho student and the latter drew a gun on tho Asiatic Harvey W Scott of the Portland Oregonian has declined tho ambassadorship ambassa-dorship to Mexico preferring to remain i re-main with tho Oregonian Henry L Wilson now minister to Belgium it is said will bo promoted to the Mexican Mex-ican post The highest price paid for sheep at Kemmcror Wyo this year Is involved In-volved in the deal whereby tho Quealoy S Peterson company takes over 5000 head from foyer Bros for a consideration of 39000 or 050 per head Ilobort W Brown was found dying In a Goldfield lodging house from an ovordoso of dope death ensuing a short time later It is not known whether Brown Intended suicide or merely took an overdose of the drug by accident The incinerated body of John Llnd fors has been found In his cabin near Twin Bridges Mont Robbery and murder are suspected and the officials of-ficials are Investigating Dindfors was well known In mining circles of that section Donald Boyd convicted of kidnap ing Patrick McCoy a wealthy Seattle lumberman In the woods near Bow Mont last October has been sentenced sen-tenced to servo an Indeterminate sentence i sen-tence of from five to twontyono years I In states prison Rickert Asstnna was shot and fatally fa-tally wounded by Ole Nysorom In a lonely shack at Bass Creek near Stovensville Mont Both men are Finns and have been living together Nyserom was taken to Hamilton and lodged in the county jail George Eccles district attornoy of Virginia City Nevada In tho bonanza days of the lode and legatee of a fortune of 160000 from eastern relatives rel-atives was found dead last week In a squalid cabin in Virginia City He died In penury and alone Tho smallpox epidemic which was raging among the Indians on the Coal villo reservation in Washington practically prac-tically is over It Is expected tho quarantine which kept all white men from entering tho reserve without permits per-mits will be raised by May 1 Within a few weeks when the ballasting bal-lasting of the tracks shall have been completed the Chicago Milwaukee Pugot Sound railroad will inaugurate a train service between Butte and Missoula and this is expected to rapidly rap-idly resolve itself Into through service ser-vice from Chicago to tho Puget sound country Judge M J Gordon former counsel for the Great Northern railway was arrested at Spokane last week on indictments in-dictments by the county grand jury Ho Is charged with embezzlement ol funds from the railway company while actin as Its attorney Ills bond for appearance was fixed at 20000 I Tho Montana Stock Growers asso dlctments by tho county grand Jury elation in session at Miles City Mont adopted resolutions endorsing the livestock inspection laws tho work of tho agricultural department and for enactment of needed railway legislation legis-lation Senators Gambia and Crawford of South Dakota havo invited President Taft to attend tho Missouri River Navigation congress at Yankton July 7 8 and 9 The president said ho could not attend on the dates mentioned men-tioned A chango of date may bo made Ed Eaton an old tlmo cowboy and former Basin saloon man has been arrested In the Black mountains under un-der suspicion of having been connected connect-ed with the recent raid In Big Horn county Wyoming In which a party of fifteen masked men killed three sheepmon President J B Schrock of the Pacific Pa-cific Live Stock Insurance association of Spokane has been Indicted by the Spokane grand Jury for the mlsap proprlatlon of funds Ho was arrested arrest-ed and held for trial under 25000 bonds Seven truo bills in all have been found The recent skyrocketing in wheat and flour Is believed to havu been responsible for the suicide of an unknown un-known German apparently about 60 years of ago who deliberately threw himself underneath the whruls of un inbound street car on Fifteenth street in Denver IIIh |