Show NORTHWEST NOTES Fire at Thompsoa Falls Mont destroyed de-stroyed a whole business block entailing en-tailing a loss of 25000 A now llostofflco named Taft hat I been established In Ulnta county Wyo It will be served from Kemmcrer 28 miles south Mario Isenhart Is postmistress post-mistress State officials are asking gamo wardens of Washington to scatter grain for quail and other birds Unless Un-less this Is done most of tho game birds will bo killed by the snow and coldTho Tho report of tho state board of equalization of Montana shows that tho value of the realty Is 121328449 of which 495SS87G Is in farm lands whllo city lots are assessed at 25 014010 A special fronl Isewlston Montana says that In a battle bctweecn Deputy Sheriff AI Morgan and John Pflagcr In file Snowy mountain district the latter was killed Morgan has been on Pflagers trail for several days The seventeenth general assembly of Colorado met at noon on January C Both branches are Democratic and the election of Charles J Hughes Jr of Denver to the United States senato to succeed Henry M Teller Is assured red Representatives of nil train service railroad organizations In Montana held a meeting In Helena last week and selected a Joint executive board for the puiposo of securing desired legislation legis-lation at the hands of tho eleventh legislative leg-islative assembly All hope that Butto would bo open for boxing and gambling entertained by the liberal element which elected Sheriff ORourke wasdissipated when that officer who took his seat last week announced that he meansto enforce en-force the statutes Five Frenchmen who left Stony Plain for MacLeod river three days previous were frozen to death three miles west of the NlniMiillo house on tho Grand TrunkPacific railway survey sur-vey according to a dispatch from Ed montpn Canada The suit brought at Reno Nevada by Warren Miller formerly vicepresi dent of tho corporation to dissolve the Xnt C Goodwin Brokerage company and asking 100000 damages alleging fraud and mismanagement of funds has been dismissed Patrick J Graham a native of Ireland Ire-land and a pioneer of Minnesota and Montana died at Butte last week of senile debility The exact date ot Sir Grahams birth Is not known hut members of his family claim ho was over 100 years of age Frozen feet are seldom heard of In Los Angeles but Joseph Robinson a 17yearold negro was taken from the brakerods of an Incoming Southern Pacific train suffering from that cause lIe had come hour El Paso and the cold of the desert had rozen his feet William Thompson 80 years old was found dead In his room In Seattle Seat-tle with a bullet hole In his heart n revolver clutched In his hand and n Bible open at the twentythird Psalm as If ho had been reading the passage The Lord Is my shepherd I shall not want He innkcth me to lie down In green pastures The charges brought by James May the Nevada gambling king against Harry Macmillan tho Nevada mining man that Macmlllnn had passed worthless checks to the amount of 8000 havo fallen to the round Macmlllan was charged with having given the checks In payment for gambling debts Toe Sullivan who led a plot to tunnel tun-nel from the cells In tho Montana slate penitentiary nine years ago and when discovered mado a hard fight was released from prison through an error last week and Immediately disappeared dis-appeared although the officers are searching for him and hope to effect Mn canture Tho report of tho secretary of the state board of stock commissioners of Montana shows that there were < shipped from Montana during tho year J90S a total of 241320 head ot cattle Of this number 219891 were shipped to the eastern markets 12277 to the coast market 10152 to Canada and 1t Is estimated there wore used by local consumption 5000 head I Leo Little who died at Goldfield last week was ono of the first to enter Dawson when tho gold fever was nt Its height and built tho first cabin in Nome After a residence of several years In Alaska ho went to Goldfield where he had been for tho past three or four years Edward Barrett a machinist was 1It rally ground to fragments and E P Fitzgerald severely bruised In the Steptoo valley smelter nt McGIll Nov when a power clutch propelling the machinery slipped and It started In motion The men were engaged In making repairs In accordance with tribal law which makes Infidelity punishable by death Charles Keysor an Indian shot and killed his squaw at Heno Nevada She had been out all night drinking and consorting with oilier Indians Ho was captured by a sheriffs posse after n two hours chase Wrecked by unknown persons who throw tho switch open locked It and put out the lantern so the engineer could not see tho peril n Great Northern North-ern train went Into tho bay near nell ngham Wash Tho fireman was killed l and the engineer and mall clerk seriously Injured flIP report of the state hoard of equalization shows that In Montana there are 2019 thoroughbred horses 118S77 range horses 80077 common brines nnd C7 mules and colts The total value of tho horses Is placed at 7010874 There are 74 buffalos which are valued at tIOO each |