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Show NORTHWEST NOTES Jamos Doner, aged 101, believed to ho'tho oldest resident of Montana, In dead of asthma, at Virginia City. In a wreck on tho Nortliorn Pacific near Olondlvo, tont., flvo people, .woro killed and half a dozen Injured. Knglncor J. V.' McMullcn was In-ntantly In-ntantly killed at Arlco, ,Mont bya n Northern Paclflo engine. .Ills body wns horribly mangled. "' Dr. -J; M. Wilson who, with Mrs. Wilson, wns injured In a runaway1 to cldent at Douglas, Wyo will not;bo crippled as at first reportod. ' Tho Colorado federation of Labor, Jn convention at Donvor, by a viva volco Vote, ltidorped tho Democratic purty In tho national campaign, Omaha, Nob., whs -selected as the city In which tho 1909 convention or Angles will, bo hpld, at tho sosslon of . tiro grand norlo liold In Boattlo. 'Oebrga Evans and son, George, ago 17, and daughter, Uea8lo, ago 14, wore drownod In Bnako c.Ivor. twblvo miles below Huntington, Orb., while bathing. bath-ing. .Tho loss, as th'o result of forest fires in (he Hitler Hoot mountains In Mon-'tana' Mon-'tana' will bo great, several millions of feot of flno Umbor having been destroyed. de-stroyed. Ad a result of a washout on tlio Tonopah & Tldowator rallrdad near Shoshono, Cal., n passenger train plunged Into a chasm and thrco mon were klllod. Qove'mdr Norrls has appointed flf-toen flf-toen delegates to represent .Montana at tho sixteenth national Irrigation congress, to bo hold at Albuquerque, September 30. Teddy Stanton, not Uireo years old, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Stan-ton Stan-ton of Plains, Mont, was accidentally accidental-ly shot through tho head by a play-ma play-ma to, Ralph Stevens, aged 9, and died later. Tho State Bank of Wheatland nnd tho First National bank of Wheatland, Wyoming, havo mcrgod under tho namo of tho former, which will hore-after hore-after conduct tho banking buslnoss ot that section. Btnto Senator P. U Flanlgan Is to bo Indorsed at tho Golddcld convention conven-tion August 22 for Republican senator against Senator Nowlands. Considerable Consider-able of a boom for Sonator Flanlgan has boon raised. ' Pueblo has been choson as the meeting meet-ing placo for tho annual convention of tho Western Federation of Minors for the district embracing Colorado, .Utah, Wyoming and Now Mexico, and tho dato sot for Beptombcr 1. Benjamin Thompson ot Pleasant Ridge, Wyo., was thrown from his horso and received Injuries that may cause his death. Thompson has bcon .unconscious slnco, the accident, nnd fears tiro entertained for his recovery. B. II. Stagg, 17 years ot age, was 'killed at tho Monttcollo rooming houso in Holona. Ho wns running tho tho olovator nt tho placo nnd was 'caught between tho lloor of tiro olovator olo-vator and tho door-Jamb nnd crushed to death. Reports woro recolvod nt tho dispatcher's dis-patcher's oillco at Sparks, Nov., from Mlna, Nov., that tho residents of that llttlo desert town woro greatly por-turbed por-turbed over.-what thoy thought to bo a volcanic eruption closo by, on August Au-gust 14. , In a quarrol following a poker gamo nt Seven Troughs, Novndn, T. J. Long-aero, Long-aero, hotter known as "Snowball," shot and klllod D. C. McLaughlin,- a plnor, formerly of Virginia City. Longacro has been hold on a chargo of murder. ' Judgo John Y. Battorton, county commissioner, died at Deer Lodgo, Mont., on August 13, aged 82. Judgo Battorton camo from Missouri In 1877. Prior to moving west ho had been probato and county Judgo In his natlvo stato. Eight million, eight hundred and nlno thousand slxtcbn dollars nnd fifty fif-ty conts is tlio amount of monoy niado by tho Southern Paclflo com-, pnny In tho stato ot California, during Uio year ending on tho first Monday In March last. Chlof Justlco "Talbot, about whoso candidacy for rc-elcctlon to tho supremo su-premo court bench ot Novada thero has been a great doal of speculation, has decided that ho will seek tho nomination nom-ination from th'o Democratic' convention conven-tion nt Tonopah. " Flvo men aro dead and another will probably dlo as tho result of an explosion explo-sion that occurred nt tho Albright quarries, about forty miles south! ot Or pat Palls, Mont, who'ro tho llmo rock for the B, & M. smelter at Urcat Falls is quarried. Mrs. David Mlllor, wiro of a minor in tho Frog Pond basin, northeast ot Missoula, Mont., last wtiok shot a monster bear that was attempting to break Into her cablu. Tho bear was ono of tho largest over, klllod In that part of tho1 country. ' Rlpotown, a mining camp located nlno miles from Ely, Nevada', with 11 population of about 300, was almost complotoly destroyed by flro last week. Tho flro started In a saloon by tho oxploslon of a lamp and spread with great rapidity. Winston Brothers, contrncjors, driving driv-ing tho big St Paul Pass tur.ijl dt .Tnft, Mont, on tho route of tho Paclflo Pa-clflo coast extension of tho St. Paul railroad, broko all records fur tunnel boring In America when In Juno thoy pushed tho boro C83V4 feot deeper Into tho mountain. Frank B. Stotts, wntor commissioner commis-sioner for northern district, of Wyoming, Wyom-ing, died at Sheridan last week from hemorrhago of tho brain caused by heat and ovor-oxortlon nt a ball gamo between lawyors and doctors, In which Professor Stotts participated, playing with tho lawyers. |