Show NORTHWEST NOTES The Rawhide Nevada postofflm vlll be advanced to presidential class April 1 and the salary Increased tn 2100 a year Hamilton Pollard aged 75 president of the State Savings and Trust company com-pany formerly one of the hestknoWn ttlcmen In southern Colorado died I nt Pueblo March 17 Tho fed ral grand jury at Carson City Novella has returned an Indictment Indict-ment agalrfet the Southern Pacific railroad rail-road for gintlng secret rebates to the California Sugar and White Pine agency While attempting to evict a China man from a small shack In Denver for failure to par rent W K Thompson Thomp-son a real estate broker was shot and probably fatally wounded by the Chinaman Although Andrew J Davis a millionaire million-aire mine owner af > Butte Mont has been dead moro than twenty years tho litigation over his estate whldn has heen In the courts of Montanoand Massachusetts Is not yet finished Reports of tho washing out of tht > Hauser Lake dam now being rebuilt on tho Missouri river eighteen miles from Helena were grossly exaggerated exaggerat-ed No permanent work of any kind was Injured In tho slightest degree Lindsays hotel and two adjoining buildings at Millers twelve miles west of Tonopih Nev were completely destroyed de-stroyed by flro March 17th The flames broke out In tho second story of the hotel while a dance was In progress In tho dining room Smiling cheerfully and declaring ho had nothing to say Nick Petrlck convicted of murdering Harry Miller marshal at Kenton Wash April 10 1908 has been sentcced to bo hanged at tho state penitentiary at Walla Walla on May 21 During a quarrel over the location of a fence near Knowlton Mout William Wil-liam Bradshaw shot Rudolph Casper In the neck and Herbert Newman In the leg Caspers wound Is said to boa bo-a serious one All the parties involved in-volved are ranchmen Hovering between life and death at a hospital in Grand Junction Colo Mary Trajll a beautiful Mexican girl 18 years old victim of a brutal assault as-sault may not survive her Injuries Confined In tho city jail are two Mexicans Mex-icans charged with the assault Tho news comes from Three Forks Mont that gold was found a few days ago by a man digging a well He hail dug about thirty feet when he found gold pieces as large as pinheads Ho took a bucket of the sand which proved to have 50 In gold In It Great Falls Mont has the distinction distinc-tion of having the largest concrete I smokestack In the world oven though the work was done by a German firm Tho stack Is BOG feet In height and weighs 34000000 pounds or 17000 tons It rests on a concrete foundation founda-tion 25 feet deep and 100 feet In diameter diam-eter oterH It Is announced that before Clarence Clar-ence H Mackay of the Postal Cable company and son of Nevadas bonanza bo-nanza king sails for Eurppo from New York April 1 he will make definite defi-nite arrangements to donate to the University of Nevada 250000 for anew a-new HbTary and administration building A E Holt of Oakland has brought suit against SholU Co of Denver for 5000 for damages for false Imprisonment Im-prisonment Holt was arrested with George Sexsmlth who was charged with having stolen perfumery from the Denver firm Scxsmlth was taken back to Denver for trial but Holt was released Alderman W A Poffenherger of Cripple Creek Colo who has admitted accepting a bribe of 350 from a public pub-lic utility corporation for his voto against granting a franchise td a rival concern and who has charged soy several other aldermen with briber has been removed from office and will bo prosecuted From returns received by the state hoard of equalization tho total valuation valua-tion of tho state of Montana Is fixed at 252it401G Some of the chief constituents thereof are Realty 121328449 city lots 49588870 improvements im-provements thereon 28785008 mn Ing claims and Improvements 1732 818 railroads 30000000 The Chicago Milwaukee St Paul line has been finished between Tacoma and Missoula Montana But twenty five miles of track remain to bo laid In Montana and then the line will be complete from Chicago to the coas There Is every reason to believe that the last spike will be driven before April 2 tho date set for completion The mystery of the disappearance ot forty head of cattle owned by Dan Hudson of RIverton Wyo six weeks ago has been cleared by tho discovery that Indians on the Wind river loser vatlon are fishing steer carcases from tho Big Horn river and holding high carnival on beet The steers undoubted un-doubted I broke through the Ice while crossing the river Fred Bossier wellknown saloon man of Billings Mont Is dead from a knife thurst through his ring I Hor man Krzlngor Is In jail and will b1 charged with murder In the first degree de-gree Ho Is alleged to have stabbed Bossier early on the morning ot March 1 D A Malone has been arrested at Livingston Mont charged with attempting at-tempting to affect tho escape from jail of D A Robinson a former freight conductor on the Northern Pacific I Pa-cific charged with tlvo others of thefts from box cars of goods valued at 300000 Paul Stanley comedian and composer com-poser of the song Tn Ra Ha Boom Do Aye died In Denvor last week at tho ago of Gl after a lingering III I ness Stanley lost heavily In the San Francisco earthquake and was In itarlghtencd circumstances rt the limo of death |