Show NORTHWEST NOTES Fiftyone melons on ono square rods rod-s that record of B S Prather a iromlnunt dry farmer of Fort Pierre S D A W Hobbs a well known ianchor Ivlng about twenty mllos from llnvrc Mont was killed by a kick of a horse Martin Nelson 13 years old died at Bolllngham Wash July 13 of tetanus contracted through a wound from a oy pistol i on the Fourth of July Tho plans for the addition to the capitol building at Helena Mont luvo been practically agreed Upon The work Is to cost half a million dol nrs nrsKoss Ross Titus an attache of a circus was fatally beaten on the circus grounds In Butte dying later The police suspect a man who has dluap uarcd Immense quantities of asphaltnm have been found on the Shoshone Indian In-dian reservation and a stampede h Oil Lander Wyo to stake out claims and secure land from the Indians In-dians Is taking place The delegates to tho International conference Kpworth 1 League of tho United States and Canada spent July 12th at the AlaskaYukonPacinc exposition ex-position where the day had been nonmed In their honor President Taft has notified tho ofll clals of the TransmlsstsBlppl Com merclal congress that provided tile tariff bill Is disposed Of by August 1 hit will attend tho meeting of thu congress con-gress In Denver August 1C Margaret Selllck aged 19 wlfo of a driller at Copper Flat Nevada was burned to death at her home Shu waa attempting to start a fire with kerosene her dress Ignited and site fainted at sight of the games An unknown man walked Into a construction camp near Uavcnna Mont and begged the camp cook tc cut his throat and upon his refusal the crazed man seized a butcher lull To and cut his throat from ear tc I ear Because of tho prevalence of scarlet scar-let fever and diphtheria In the city the health board of Great Falls Mont has ordered that no public meetings Including churches theaters dances etc shall be held for tho next thirty days Twentyseven Special trains have already been engaged by commercial organizations In various parts of the country to bring their delegations tc the seventeenth session of tuo Na tlonal Irrigation congress In Spokane August 9 to 14 Bids for tho contract to construct the MlssoulaKooskla division of the I Northern Pacific railroad known aE the Lolo Pass cutoff wero opened by tho Northern Pacific at Missoula Mont last week The neW line will cost nenriy 5000000 Durum Dread Day Is tho latest Idea of tho wheat growers of the Dr > Farming regions of tho United States Already the farmers of the Dakota and Minnesota have petitioned their respective governors to proclaim thlf new agricultural day The Commercial club of Reno Nev I has Issued a very attractive booklet on time I town and Its ruaouraos mid at I tiactions The book shows the SUrrounding SUr-rounding of rho place with line farmlands farm-lands adjacent and anlphasliiOK Its location lo-cation on the Truckee river There Is reason to believe that the climate of Montana is undergoing a change and It is likely that followIng follow-Ing the experience of other states It will be found the moro tho land is broken up and cultivated the more pronounced this change will be I The body of Richard Samples a Ml spah rancher has been found In a pasture twenty miles from Miles City Mont Ho had been drinking heavily and evidently committed suicide as a bullet hole was found over his loft eye and his face was powdermarked In a desperate fight near the Northern North-ern Pacific depot at Missoula Mont Special Omcer Chick White was stabbed In tho throat by a negro named Archlo Wolmore White at ipted to arrest the negro who was acting In a suspicious manner and the negro turned upon him with a knife Concerning tho report circulating in tho wesl that the Coiq < < Ryan Interests I WH become Identified I < < with tho Ely Goldfield project C D Zabrlskle head of tho syndicate preparing to build tho road said last week that so tar as he Is awriro these Interests tae no connection with tho undertaking under-taking Because Donnels Steinmetz of Reno whose hid was 2000 higher than theirs was awarded tho contract to furnish the governor of Nevadas mansion the John Bruner company haa filed suit at Carson City Nevada iijolnlng the state officials from pay ing any money to the successful contractors con-tractors The explosion of 100 pounds of powder pow-der In barracks of battery A at Fort Russell Wyoming Injured seven soldiers sol-diers three fatally and destroyed time building The Injured men were preparing i pre-paring blank ammunition at the time of the explosion the cause of which I Is unknown Jerry and John Kearful brothers and neighboring ranchmen at Clear Creek In the Havre country In Montana Mon-tana had trouble on account of tho formers wife claiming that time latter had Insulted her Both drew knives and Jerry was so badly cut In tho fracas that ho may die Louis Ileaupre an old resident of Montana died at Helena last week at lie I age of ill years Mr Beaupre at the time of tho Custer massacre was engaged In the business of freighting up the Yellowstone valley and was among the first to arrive on the scene after the battle |