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Show NORTHWEST NOTES. The grand stand at the baseball grounds of the Spokane Athletic club was entirely destroyed jby firo. Lobs, 81,500. The state bar association of Washington Wash-ington closed a three days' session in Seattle by electing officers for the ensuing en-suing year. F. Macka, a Japanese miner, aged 23 years, unmarried, was killed in Union Pacific mine No. 7 at Rock Springs, Wyo. The streams of Wyoming are failing rapidly, aud over portions of the east- "'p ern and northeastern part of the state water for irrigation is deficient. The California Cured Fruit association associa-tion has issued a bulletin in which it states that the "June drop " of prunes is unprecedented in recent years. ' At Spokane, Wash., fire starting in a condemned bridge above the Union depot grounds burned aud scorched ten cars below and caused a loss of 81,000. County Commissioner Janes P. Campbell Camp-bell was killed near Latah, Wash. He was driving to Spokane in a buggy and was struck at a crossing by the O. R. Sc N. passenger train. Near Eldorado, Colo., a disastrous forest fire has been raging for the past few days and is gradually creeping toward to-ward the city. It is now only a few miles away and burning fiercely. Portland exporters who have made shipments to the Philippine islands have decided to institute proceedings Sfe' against the United States government for the recovery of duties paid at Manila. Ma-nila. The Chinese residents recently quarantined quar-antined in districts of San Francisco are preparing to demand a compensation compensa-tion for losses alleged to have been sustained sus-tained owing to the action of health officials. At a meeting of the Republican State central committee held in Seattle, it was decided to hold the nominating convention in Tacoma on August 15th. No other city in the state was an applicant ap-plicant for the honor. The body of William A. Goedel, a former employe of the Northern Pacific railroad, was found dead in his room in Tacoma, with a bullet wound in his left temple and a revolver by his side. Secreted in the room was S900 in gold. Suicide is believed to have been caused by ill-health. The weather throughout Wyoming lor the week ending July 9th was anything any-thing but satisfactory. The temperature tempera-ture averaged cooler than during the previous week, but the dry weather continued, the only showers of any consequence reported being in eastern Laramie and western Uinta county. The ranges are drying up rapidly, and range grass is now cured in nearly all portions of the state. George A. Morse, an aged and absolutely abso-lutely helpless patient in the Agnews insnne asylum, was slowly boiled to death in a bath at San Jose, Cal., in the men's ward of that institution. He was placed in a bath tub and after the hot water was turned on the attendant at-tendant left the room for a towel, forgot for-got his patient and did not return until un-til the imbecile was fatally burned. A fire that was started west of Boulder Creek, Colo., on July 4th by a balloon is still raging. Thousands of acres of timber have been destroyed and there seems no probability that it will be got under control. Twenty-five Twenty-five or thirty saw millers who were camping at Breudleton have had to leave. Several families were also encamped en-camped along Bear creek and these, too, had to abandon their camps. Edgar Marshall, alias Allison, alais Livingston, who was arrested iu Salt Lake last April and is now on trial at Butte, for the murder of Mrs. Georgia Creech, whom he shot and killed on the 3rd of April, while attempting to tt kill her husband, is now claimed to be Kid Roberts, one of the train robbers who held up and robbed the Union Pacific Pa-cific traiu at Blue Cut, Wyo., about two years ago. The initial report of the United States assay office at Seattle for the fiscal year ended June 30th, has been issued, and the receipts show a marvelous mar-velous gain over those of the previous year. During this time 5S0S deposits, with an aggregate value of 13,030,-32G.63, 13,030,-32G.63, have been made. This enormous enor-mous sum In weight represents 849.-C11.10 849.-C11.10 ounces of virgin placer gold. Im the previous year the deposits numbered num-bered 4129, and were valued at SO, 450, 932.01. The large mill of the Buckeye Lumber Lum-ber company, seventeen miles north of Spokane, Wash., was burned last week. Loss. 830,000; insurance, S3, 000. It was the largest mill in that section aud employed fifty men. It will be rebuilt. Mrs. Louise Creede, widow of Nicholas Nich-olas Creede, the mining millionaire of Colorado, has petitioned the courts iu Los Angeles for an order on the administrator ad-ministrator for a family allowance of 8250 per mouth. This is au attempt to rcopeu the old case. The first crop of alfalfa is now being be-ing secured over the central and western west-ern counties of Wyoming; haying from native meadows hns begun, aud tho hay crop is reported fair to exeellout. For the Btate as a whole, probably an average bay crop will be secured. |