Show NORTHWEST A Biet eror weighing pounds which tell in the vicinity of averett wash has been sent to the american museum of natural history new ork A dead body has been found on the plains east of bander and it Is be lieveld to be that of geo M scott who disappeared recently while en route from lander to casper fire in the olson block at butte resulted in approximately dam age to wholesale stock of the pass more paper company the warehouse being flooded with water jackson s hole in wyoming Is ex penen cing the hardest winter in ten years many of the old ranchers are going to tall short of hay if the win ter holds out much longer byron barrett of butte mont war struck by an interurban train at mil ton near tacoma and died in a hos pital a few hours later without regain ing consciousness he was well known among turkmen W foval W livingston R tracey and james dunn escaped from the seattle jail by prying down iron bars in their cells and climbing to the root through the sky light dunn is an ex convict and a dangerous crook county treasurer lakin 0 tacoma received 1000 conscience money last week turned in by a man who asked to see arm in his private office and then passed over the roll of bills tor an other party whose name was not given A special from cody wyo says that R snyder wife and infant son got caught in a blizzard on the plains and would have perished but tor thomas hogg who happened along and hauled them to the sears ranch near meeteetse Mee A man named kuhn has been arrest ed for the murder of J H plunkett a ranchman near troy mont kuhn is an old friend ot plunkett s wife and has been on the ranch tor six months neighbors came upon the scene as the duel was in progress over eighty million dollars is now invested in the new mining camps of southern nevada the venture cor por atlon with its capitali Is represented men like schwab newhouse mccorn ck rice farrell posey keith and kearns are becoming more heavily interested every day ten carloads of peanuts were am ported from spain to colorado last fall cheaper than they could be brought from virginia to denver the rate was a hundred pounds from spain which Is a haul of about b miles whereas the rate by rail from virginia was at that time nearly a hundred pounds it Is believed that peter brotherton has been lost in the storm between meeteetse Mee wyo and the D ackle ranch and that his body will be found when the deep snow melts brotherton left to go ranch in which he had an interest he spent one night at a ranch on the way but left the next morning on horseback and has not since been seen twenty thousand persons of all ages took part at spokane saturday in the greatest city cleaning movement ever known in a western community it is estimated that trees were set out during the afternoon one syndi cate planted 1000 trees the move ment was planned and directed by the city beautiful committee of the club frank kunkel died at st johns hospital cheyenne from a bullet wound received at hartville it is re ported that he struck a bartender with a whiskey bottle and the latter shot him kunkel s assailant Is un der arrest at hartville dan sullivan a well known athlete of anaconda will represent montana at the olympian games at athens a und to send him there having been raised by the local greek residents sullivan has distinguished himself in ranous lines of athletics one man was killed and three in lured one of whom may die in a cave in in the bell mine at butte robert mccauley was so badly crushed that he died soon after being taken to the hospital john R lynch his partner Is in a precarious condition charles er ackson employed in the speculator mine at butte fell down the ore chute a distance of six stories and his companions went down to p ck up bis remains when they were agree ably surprised to find that beyond a few bruises he had escaped uninjured A rich gold discovery is reported fifteen miles northeast of beatty nevada assays at a depth of a foot are said to give a return of strikes are also reported at other points hundreds of prospectors are on the ground and a townsite has already been located an explosion in the powder room of shaft house no 1 of the portland gold mining company at cripple creek col orado one of the largest mines in the state caused a fire which destroyed the shaft house engine room black smith shop and ware houses the loss will exceed henry nelll of helena mont state land agent believes the body found in honolulu harbor of a discharged sail or from the battleship oregon is that of his son samuel neill who enlist ed in the navy at butte about three years ago and recently completed service on that vessel president roosevelt has signed the i joint resolution passed by the senate and house postponing the opening of the shoshone indian reservation until august 15 next the resolution provides that the reservation may be opened at an earlier date if dee fed i advisable by the president I 1 |