Show NORTHWEST NOTES three earthquake shod s w ere felt in diffrient parts of montana on may 18 at dishes were rattled and clocks a ere made to ehrike by the disturbance no serious damage was done forest fires in the vicinity of clyde colo have destroyed over 1 acres of timber and at last reports were moving toward the watershed of colo rado springs on the south slope of I 1 pike s peak G A finkelberg who as judge of the united states district court at st louis in 1907 on account of failing health died in denver on may 18 he was born near cologne prussia in 1837 pierre bouyet lew bouyet and two french women are under arrest in helena charged with importing for eign girls into this country for am moral purposes the crusade is along the line of the efforts of secretary straus to stop this traffic lewis ferris accused of the crime of dynamiting the eastbound burling ton express at butte era the night of may 1 when three people were killed pleaded not guilty of the charge when arraigned in the criminal court at butte and his trial has been set or june 1 judge langdon of cirson nevada has appointed frank wildes deputy state treasurer as receiver of the state bank trust company which suspended lasi october it Is believed the bank will eventually be able to pay the depositors at least 50 cent on the dollar ole nordahl a shell rancher was arraigned at lewistown Lewis town mont last week tor the murder of the en tire family a mother and three children who were found dead two months ago on a lonely ranch nordahl pleaded not guilty there is no motive for the crime snow wh ch in many places reach ed a depth of three feet fell at sher idan mont last week fruit will be fumed and the suffering of livestock great it is the worst spring storm in twenty five years extends over i corthern wyoming and parts of mon tana alao into western nebraska W R davis private secretary to the late governor sparks died at his home in carson nev on may 23 of stomach trouble W R davis better known as riley davis served as sec detary to governor sparks since the latter first took office he formerly was a resident of dayton nev W W a foreman in the employ of the utah construction compan which has a contract on the western pacific may lose his eye sight as the result of the explosion of a box of dynamite caps one of his eyes was torn from its socket and it Is feared he will lose the sight of tte other announcement is made that the dext annual convention of the amer lean bankers association will be held n denver during the week beginning september 27 the date was decided upon by frederick farnsworth of new aorl secretary of ahe assoria tion after a conference with officers of the denver convention league three masked men robbed old kirk inn halfway between reno and to ana nevada and with revolvers forced the night bartender and a wo man who was in the saloon with the night bartender info a closet they blew open the safe and completely wrecked it with nitroglycerin nitro glycerin and se cured and left the place on horses the announcement of the discovery of a theft of dynamite from a car of the explosive on the dawson siding near butte has caused much alarm among railroad people as the result of the recent dynamiting of the bur ington train near where this powder was stolen the tracks are being closely guarded and every precaution taken the coroners inquiry into the deaths of seaman J J and mas ter at arms F lulinsky of the new jersey who were killed by a street car at bellingham wash returned a verdict exonerating the motorman and the traction company it was hown that tha seamen were riding on the front fender of the car and it was admitted that this was against the rules A dispatch from missoula mont states that the body of henry meyer better known as dutch harry throughout montana has been found on a sandbar in the missoula rive meyer is believed to have wandered into the river and drowned while be mildered wil dered harry was a well known early day character during the exciting time of the vigilante reign acting as a freighter tor bill bentoi at the ame he was taken from his camp at drummond by vigilantes and strung up to a nearby tree harry was out looking for his horses ind when he returned to camp found bunton suspended from a limb stanley peek shot and instantly killed andy laterro a fellow em aloye in the southern pacific bag gage room at reno nevada and then telephoned the queers to come and get him peek gave as the reason for his act the alleged undue intimacy int inacy of laterro with his wife A woman known as evelyn arthur shot and badly wounded a man S johnson in the tenderloin district of nead the woman claimed johnson had taken her money and refused to ret irn it while he declares he never sav the woman before the shooting at the annual tournament of the sportsmen s association of th northwest held in walla walla wash last week G L becker of ogden utah one of the best shotgun experts in the west won the high average gold madal while the ogden team won the three man trophy A carload of united states mall was burned near the eastern end of the wyoming division of the union pacific on may 21 fire broke out in the car and before the train could be stopped the flames had gained such headway that the car and its contents were entirely destroyed there has recently been formed in helena mont a new livestock asso elation which purposes taking the place of the several organizations now in existence in that state many prominent cattlemen who feel that the old organizations have deter lor abed have the organization |