Show NORTHWEST NOTES Il helena elena has an epidemic of there being cues ces among the school children dark dungeons and bread and water ilet diet are to be prohibited at the industrial school for girls at denver during 1897 about 1000 brands were pla placed cedon on the record malingin kingin Ma making la all about brands recorded in the montana stace bbate becot reco recorders iders der a office fifteen anaconda miners will soon solon start for klondike each man contributes his h la share of a years supplies and 1000 in cash and the profits are to be divided the county assessors assessor held a state co convention rv entson at helena mont last lant week for the purpose of adopting a uniform schedule of values live stock valus tiona were increased recently when ralf half and dick peterson of ruby montana wl went nt to look after their traps they found they had bad captured a mountain lion that nine line ctet from tip to tip jolin john IV kelley an old timer tn in butte died last week at the sisters hospital lie he wits was in the neighborhood of 80 years old and was among the earliest comers to the camp the montana Alon tana land and improvement kompany company s irrigation canal li is being I 1 improved in by tile the substitution of a culvert for the flume across valley ateek near park city the expense of the improvement will be about SO 80 mrs itaho Se blattman who has ba 13 lived in cheyenne for three years year has departed for dawson city mrs air c is the first woman fro from to go to the klondike she bhe ila has no defalto plans but is confident she he can win a fortune in the and of snow 1 the I lie wyoming oil is abing lating for a well drilling outfit and a to put down a tf test st well on its property near douglas the wyoming oil company has reached a depth of fucet with its ita well ell but to i having considerable difficulty by reason of the caving in of the shale through which tilt the well ell is being driven twelve sticks of powder exploded inthe in the house of alfonso massucco at llenin mont completely wrecking the whole house massucco sustained injuries which bich in all probably will prove fatal ills right leg was completely shattered being broken in a number of places while his entire body is covered with cuts and bruises A suit to test the law under which the montana Alon tana state arid land cominis commissioners proposes prOPOS LS s to build the billings canal lias has begun in the supreme court by attorney general nolan the ilia action is a friendly one instituted to determine the authority of the arid land commission which desires to know its position before entering upon the construction of the canal A man whose name ilaine is thought to b ba a john oleson was brought to the hospital suffering from terrible injuries received while hile thawing powder out at the flume tunnel coith of anaconda mont it II is supposed that a stick of giant powder exploded while he was N as holding it in his hand as ilia his right hand and arm was terribly shattered so BO that the bones bonea are all broken and laid bare the ilie gallatin Gallat tn valley montana to is to have s a new industry lyman walton one of the prosperous farmers of the valley i is ia loang boing to change his grain ranch into a skunk ranch ani and raise the animals for tile the purpose of anakin making money out of their pelts and also the oil from their bodies As the skins are worth from 75 cents to 91 1 and the increase of each female is from six to twelve every year and as the cost of feeding them is small the new enter prove may be a success I 1 rank swanson anson of rock springs has returned aiom davson DAW son city lie ile ila has n interest in a number of klondike claims besides having brought out a nil all sized roll tile the result of a year a clean up ile he will return to klondike during tho the present winter thomas rhomas hartney hartley of rock spi springs ings sends a letter from dawson dadison oily city to the miner in which he states that there is adorner a corner on nearly every article la in dawson beer sells bells at 81 11 30 a gallon whisky at 40 a gallon candles 1 leach each there ls is plenty of meat in the town but it is held at a high dhigh figure mutton being 12 and beet beef 81 51 so 50 per pound all of tile the rock sip springs rings men who went ent into the gold fields this winter are doing well one of them william I 1 orn oril dran having already cleaned up the frit locomotive ever eer used in minnesota is now sIt switching ching in tile the Kal kalispell yards of tile the great northern large numbers of elk are being blaugh tt red on tile the north fork of the sun river in montana in viol violation atlen of tit the game law lav during the progress of the I 1 raney hauey murder trial at butte mont ney li aldwin Dali lwin special prosecutor winked at the reporters and judge clancey lined fined him 10 for contempt of court which the attorney paid under protest ex I 1 NI mardsen faid sen of la rone none Wyot wyoming ning stites that lie he has lost 33 32 head of horses by the disease that has been horses tile the past couple of oscars 3 ears lie he has now on ly a fw few heal hea I 1 of lurting or cing anti animals nals lift BW ll il lo 10 in will ill foot up to looker on cr Sl |