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Show NORTHWEST IIS At "MIIcb 'City, Mont,, n cloudburst drowned an unknown woman nnd seventy sev-enty horses. The sovon-year-old son cSf Ilert Syn-der Syn-der was drowned while lit play along the bank of a stream monr Forsyth,! Mont. Horsethloves havo 'Tcccntly been operatlug In the vicinity of Lnrnmle, Wyo., n number Of vntuablo animals, huving beuu stolen. Fire destroyed tho sawmill of T. F. & C. A. Montzor, near Temlno, Wash. The loss will reach $75,000. The mill wns not Insured. Louis Hnrtson, ilf Oleneyre, Colo., fell from a wagon loaded with wood at that plnco as he was climbing tho mountain side, killing him Instantly. M. J. Monuett, who mndo n fortune on Mohnwk Leasing nt Goldflcld, has purchased the controlling Interest in the American Nntlonnl bank of Ixis Angeles. Word from Great Falls, Mont., tells Df the drowning near Augusta of Mrs. J. C. Furman, her two llttlo sons and Lnura Williams, 4en years old, In SI-mas SI-mas Creek. Investigations of health officers have proved that the meat shipped Into Goldflcld Is all right, but tho milk Is doped with preservatives. Criminal actions may follow. Civil service' examinations will bo hold August 4 In nil free delivery post-offices. post-offices. In Utah, Idnho, Wyoming, and Nevada, for railway mall clerks. Tho ago limit Is 18 to "J5 years. Tho Supremo court of Montana last week hold that tho so-called estray law was unconstitutional, In that It embraced em-braced two separate nnd distinct topics, top-ics, estray and the public domain. A special from Vancouver, H. C, say's: Tho tug Constance, Captain Ncllsen, and crew of six men, all of New Westminster, hnB been lost at lilvers Inlet, 1100 miles up the coast. East-bound freight train No. 82 on Jho Cripple Creek Short Line, Jumped the track near Cameron, Colo., nnd Engineer Steelo wns killed and Wells Fargo Messenger Haldwln fatally hurt. Tho telephone girls of Ilutto In tho employ of thu Doll company, havo gone on strike In sympathy with tho local linemen, who in turn tiro out in sympathy with tho Idnho and Utah linemen. James Sherman, tho Lcwlston, Montana, Mon-tana, youth who wns convicted of tho ctlme of murder of Pawnbroker Stu-dlnskl Stu-dlnskl upon his own confession and sentenced to tho stato penitentiary for life, has been grunted a new trial. Ellery Uruco and Horry Slgsmund, laborers, were run over by a train near Terry, Mont., their bodies being badly mangled. It Is claimed the two men became Intoxicated and hnd laid down on the track and gono to sleep. Henry O. Wado Ib dead as tho result of a pistol wound received nt tho hnuds of James Miliar. In Helena. .Miliar had been rooming with Wnde, the men quarreled and Wndo attempted attempt-ed to eject Mlnnr from the house with the nbovo result. Judgo Tlind Huston, nged Gl years, died at Tacoma lust week, following an Illness of four years with cancer. Ho was a native of Indiana, served In tho Civil war, and camo to Puget Sound In 1887, being elected to tho superior su-perior cdurt In 1900. Tho messenger boys employed by tho American District Telegraph and World companies, at Anaconda, Mont., went on a strlko Inst week for an In-c'reaso In-c'reaso from $20 to $22. no and a. reduction re-duction In the number of working hours from ton to eight. A. H. Allen, of Hnggs', Wyo,, has turned over to W. H. Heed, paleontologist paleontolo-gist of tho University of Wyoming, Ills discovery of n huge fossil on tho desert between Haggs and Wamsutter. Tho fossil Is n, rare one of the trlcep-temps trlcep-temps family, with threo horns.' Tho Ilutto Minors' union has recalled re-called Delegate Hoohcr. who attacked tho American flag In the convention of tho Western Federation of Miners at Denver. Delegate Tawnoy being Instructed to east Iloohcr's vote during the remainder of tho convention; Tweuty-Eoven letter curriers of Ilutto walked out on Juno 27th, nB n demonstration for higher pay, but all but nine returned nt noon, nnd tho nf-terneon nf-terneon distribution wns made. It Is understood that nothing wns promised prom-ised tho strikers upon their return. "Slim" MaeDonnld, once a partner of "Death Valley Scotty." says the fabled mlno Is no myth; that It Is nt Windy Gap, sixty miles southeast of Khyollto, is tis big as nil outdoors, and u verltnblo quarry of rock that runs from $10,000 to $75,000 per ton. M. Orltn,- a Japancso section laborer labor-er at Hldge, west of Laramie, while standing between two moving freight trains on u 'section of doublo track, fell underneath the wheels of ono ol tho trains, having his right leg broken below tho kneo and his Jaw broken. Dow Smith, a lluumiui, who resides nt Oreon Lnke, Wash., shot iin'd Instantly In-stantly killed his divorced wife, Mrs. Anna Smith, nuil fatally wounded Ms mothor-ln-lnw, Mrs. Sarah GUI- Mrs, Smith wns grnnted n divorce about two months ago. Smith hns been Hip-tured. Hip-tured. H '"Jnno8 Hliie.H,. o ,ane'hinnndlv'lfiK tiWho tnelsrilirub'id()i!)igir Mountan, west-of Uu'iyu'le, Imd'ino foot nnfpu-tnted' nnfpu-tnted' .'at- tho -ankle 'last .week. 1 fines wns tripped' by n- dog riii 'tho,. ranch, falling in' such ..'a way' us to 'iiroui.ee tho Injury that later resulted la umpu tat ton. Tho nude remains of mi unknown niiiii were found In a bunch of tell wqeds near Missoula, Mont., tho body being that of tho victim of a murder mur-der which has thrown tho olllcorb on tljelr wJtH in an effort to solve. The body wna covered with cuts rid Jx-Uses, |