Show NORTHWEST NOTES the secretary of the interior has ordered the with ira al from entry of acres of land in montana for an addition to the west little bell mountains forest preserve in that state william axtell a bas n mont sa j loon keeper was shot and killed by three unknown men who tried to hold up his saloon which was empty ot customers at the time the murder ers escaped securing noth ng the management of the northern pacific shops at livington mont have inaugurated a change in the whereby a days work for the will consitt ot n ne hours instead of ten as heretofore the ing rest oer tie remains of frank antes who was shot by his wife at butte d ieng a scuffle result ed in the woman being exonerated antes made an ante mortem statement to the effect that his wife ac ci dentally shot him while he was i teasing her and that she was entirely blameless the people of meagher county montana have addressed a petition the secretary of the interior pro testing against the further creation of forest reserves in that county on the grounds that the ringe facilities of the county are restricted to such a I 1 degree that the stok industry is threatened william the mail clerk who pleaded guilty in the federal court to robbing the mails and AI bert philips who tole horses from the fort washakie indian reserva alon have been delivered to the war den of the penitentiary at kawlins wyo each to serve one year and fourteen months nearly 3 pounds ot wool have been sold at the different pens in the vicinity of rawlins wyo so far at prices ranging from 11 cents to 14 cents per pound the prices are about the same as last year al though the highest price of last sea on has not been reached by more than halt a cent at missoula mont charles gun ther was found guilty of assault upon jerry wiggins with intent to corn nut murder the penalty ranges from to ten years canther and wigging are the men who engaged in a pistol duel about two months ago in which both were believed to be mortally wo gunther is not yet out of danger in a recent on the montana supreme court held that the municipal statute requiring telephone and tele graph companies to place their wires underground Is onal the decision Is in the case of red lodge wherein that municipality endeavored to compel the rocky mountain bea telephone company io place its wires underground it Is reported that the ohio col rado smelting and refining company the largest independent smelt ng corn pany in the country will soon begin the erection ot a thoroughly modern smelter in pueblo colo the new plant will be locate 1 on the mesa between the steel works and the amel ter and it will be one of the largest institutions of the country john peters on trial at missoula mont for shooting alien S brown during a quarrel over come land was sentenced to six months imprison ment in the state penitentiary the shooting occurred on april 29 and the capture trial conviction and sen tence of peters is the shortest on rec ord in montana peters waving his statutory rights at every stage erneest damon a student in the reno nev high school ta maikel tor life as a result of being initiated into a school fraternity in the cere monies a branding iron bearing the emblem of the fraternity was dipped into nitrate of silver and applied to his forehead and right arm infliction in marks which the lad will probably carry with him to the grave word from lolo 1010 hot springs which has just reached missoula mont tells of a big strike of copper ore made by prospectors in the employ of former governor mcconnell McCon nelI of idaho old miners ri western dpn tana have long predicted that in he near future copper deposits would be found in the clearwater country which would astonish the mining world V an anaconda mont dispatch says the body of who has been missing since last november has been found in the weeds of george town lal e where with williams he was supposed to have been drowned their boat being cap sized while the twp men were duck hunt ng wright was one of the best known sportsmen in montana and a prominent mason oil has been struck in the new town of fallen churchill county nevada the strike was made on the and promises to create excitement equal to that in cal fornia the strike was made on the property of R L doug las at a depth of forty feet captain sheldon porter one of the pioneers of montana and reputed to be the original GAR man of the northwest died at his ranch near horr mont on the alth aged 77 years the deceased came to the state about twenty five years ago the new electric railroad from reno nev to sparks is being con rapidly A contract has been let tor a cons gement of steel rails which Is expected to bp available within the next few days when the work of will be hastened frank D haskall who was ar rested at walcott wyo for stealing 50 from mrs joseph friedman at fort steele has been turned loose to lack of the woman who Is proprietor of a boarding house now thinks it Is another man who d d the 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