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Show BfitiMIHiMllillllii NORTHWEST NOTES Judge Conger, of Dillon, Mont, who was struck by nn automobile, July 5", and thought to be fatally Injured, Is Improving and will recover. Tho 'Filipinos or Seattle have, through a committee, protested against tho exhibition of unclad Igor-roles Igor-roles at tho AlasUa-Yuloon-Pnciflc exposition, ex-position, Tho McCornlck Lumber company's plant, located about thirty miles from Chehalls, Wash., wa3 destroyed by llro last wfctjit. tho loss being osti mated at $200,000. Kd Dowell, a braUcmnn on tho Chicago, Chi-cago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound rail' rond, fell off his train at Klnsle, Mont., rolled under the cars and his body wa3 cut In two. Boforo adjournment, a movement was act on toot oy the delegates to thu National Good Roads convention, In session at Seattle, for tho formation of a National Good RoadB association. Two Denver & Rio Graudo freight trains met in a head-on collision at Una, Colo., thirty mllca east of Grand Junction. The crews escaped Injury. Roth engines nnd ten cars wore destroyed. de-stroyed. Tho coldest July night Nevada has experienced wns recorded at Reno on tho Cth. Small bodies of water had a layer of lco, and tho wheat In tho northern part of tho stato is reported to have frozen. Three children lost their lives when the homo of Uert Ollvor, of Summer-vlllo, Summer-vlllo, Ore., was destroyed by fire and the father and mother wcro severely burned. The firo wns started by tho overturning of a lamp. A lone bandit held uy Assistant Cashier Olson, of the Bank of Commerce Com-merce at Everett, Wash., shortly before be-fore tho bank closed on July G, wound ed Cashier Lyon and escaped wltn a few hundred dollars. William McClnmmnh pleaded guilty at Helena, Mont., last week of Introducing Intro-ducing whisky In tho Fort Peok Indian reservation, November 20, 1908, and wns sentenced to servo sixty days 'In jail and pay n fine of $100. A murder shrouded In mystery was committed at Reno, Nevada, July 8, when Miss Maria Fava, a coolc, was shot In tho back and killed by a man whom tho police believe to be Fortunate' For-tunate' Tarentlno, who Is missing. Gov. Burke, of North Dakota, has been elected president of tho Missouri River Navigation Congress. Jorry Sullivan, of Fort Benton, Mont., was elected one of tho vice-presidents. Omaha was votod the next congress. Henry Saulstraw, a farmer living nenr Colbort, Wash., 1s doad with a bullet wound through his head, and Edward Scholl, a neighboring rancher, is in Jail, charged with murder, as the result of a quarrel betweon tho two men. Tho national convention of the American Woman Suffrage association, associa-tion, in session In Scattlo, elected Rev. Anna Shaw as president Tho question of tho next convention city was loft to tho general ofilcora for decision. Tho attendance at tho Alnska-Yu-kon-Paclfic oxposltlon on July 4 broko tho record for Sunday crowds, 37,550 people passing through the turnstiles. This brought tho total dttendanco slnco tho fair opened June 1 up to 791,140. A Virginia City, Mont., Bpeclal announces an-nounces that over an area two miles In width and Indefinite In length, a hailstorm on July G played havoc with tho crops, tho ground in places being covered several Inches with hailstones of unusual size. Mrs. James McMasters, aged 53, -a well-known woman throughout Montana, Mon-tana, who has been living at Superior recontly, committed sulcldo in tho hotel ho-tel at Superior by drinking poison. Dospondoncy Is supposed to hava affected af-fected her mind. A corpso was discovered floating In tho Kootenai river about five miles abovo Llbby, Mont. It la that of a man about 5 feet G Inches tall, dark, smooth shaven, Index finger and thumb of right hnnl gone. It had ovldently been In tho water for some days. W. P, Hammond, the "dredger king," and a party of California capitalists, capi-talists, have exercised an option held on tho complete Interests of the Reno Power, Light & Water company, operating oper-ating a Trans-Nevnda system. Hammond Ham-mond took tho reins of control on July 1. Mrs. Louis Bronzo, wife of a tim-borman tim-borman at Wllkeson, Wash., was mur-dored mur-dored by a robber, who secured $000. Tho man enticed hor from tho houso by telling hor that her brother was dead, crushed her skull with a stono, secured tho monoy from tho houso and escaped. Colonel William F. Tucker, TJ. S. A., retired, who was recently divorced In Chicago, was married In Denver on July G, to Mrs. Myrtle Piatt, who bo-came bo-came Colonel Tucker's nurso In tho Philippines when tho colonel's health broke down and ho was sent homo to thoN United States. |
