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Show NORTHWEST NOTES Senator Nixon has Introduced a bill authorizing a public building nt Gold-Hold, Gold-Hold, Nov., nt n cost of S100.000. W. W. McKny, a citizen of Tcnlo, lliurston county, WnBh., killed his wife and three children nnd then shot himself. Warden Conloy, of tho Montana iitnto penitentiary at Deer Lodge, who was seriously stabbed whllo frustrating frustrat-ing n Jail break, is improving, nnd will live. Mayor F. P. S. Lindsay of Helena last week nnnounced that ho would not bo a candidate for re-election, al-tlrough al-tlrough serving only his first term. Ho Is n Uopubllcan. Secrctnry Taft has signed nn order for tho abandonment of tho mllltnry post known ns Fort Kcogh, Mont. Tho post Is not needed for tho nccommo-dntlon nccommo-dntlon of tho troops In that section. Another tract of land has been withdrawn with-drawn from nil forms of disposition under tho public land laws In connection connec-tion with tho Truckee-Carson project. There are several sections Included. Chancellor James H. Day of tho Syracuse university ennnot bo convicted convict-ed under the discipline of tho church for his nttnek upon tho president of tho United States, say Seattlo Methodist Metho-dist ministers. William E. Dodge, Jr., city editor of tho Dally Mlssoullan, died nt Missoula, Mis-soula, Mont., after nu illness of thrco oays, from ptomaine poisoning. Mr, Dodgo enmo to Missoula six mouthy ago from Minneapolis. W. J. IJryan has accepted an invitation invi-tation to bo tho guest of tho IJryan club of Denver at a banquet on April 0 next. Tho banquet will bo given In tho lnrgo dining room of El Jcbcl Temple, nnd It Is expected over 1,000 dlnors will nttend. It Is nnnounced that Emma Goldman will spend thrco months on tho Pacific Pa-cific coast, beginning next month. Sho will deliver lrctuiies and enter Into debntes In Portlnnd, Seattle, San Francisco, Goldllcld and Salt Lako and other cities. After n trlnl lasting sovcrnl dajs, n Jury in tho United Statcc court nt Helena, Mont., returned a verdict of guilty In tho caso of E. Cardwoll, a prominent Ycllowstono county stock-man, stock-man, on n chargo of illegally fencing of tho public domain. Near tho town of Iluford, Wyo., a carload of dynamite exploded from simo unknown causo, wrecking several sev-eral framo houses nearby and destroying destroy-ing a number of freight cars. Tho car .was standing on tho Union Paclflc tracks near tho town. Nows of tho purchaso of tho Elko and WInnomucca, Novada, telophono systems by tho Utnh, Novada and Idaho Tolcphono company, is mudo Known, nnu wiutin 1110 next mourn tho scrvlco will bo connected up with tho Salt Lako system. Fire, supposed to hnvo been caused by crossed electric wires, destroyed tho coko washer, tipple, engine house and chomlcal laboratory of tho Colorado Colo-rado Fuol & Iron company's mlno al Soprls, flvo miles west of Trlnldnd Colo,, entailing n loss estimated al $100,000, and throwing 300 men out ol employment. W. S. Bunckcr nnd Herman Hankcn engaged in a pistol thiol In a hotel nt Shoildnn, Wyo., both men bolng dead when cntrnnco was forced to theli room. Tho men had Just arrived In town from Iowa, nnd announced that they Intended securing work nt n tie camp. It is not known what tho quarrel quar-rel was about. Tho stato auditor has mado public n report showing tho business of Ufa lnwrranco companies in Montana Inst year. It shows that C,0t0 now pollclos woro written, involving ?G,949,CC4, making tho total in forco ?43,120,271. Losses of $413,881 were paid last year by tho various companies. A heavy gain over last year Is shown. Mortimor Mooro, a mulatto, shot and Instantly killed Mrs. Lou A. McCoy, at North Yakima, Wash., and then coin-mltted coin-mltted suicide by drinking carbolic acid. Mrs. McCoy had tho appearance of a whlto womnn, but It Is said sho had sonio negro blood. Some years ng'o, it is asserted, sho lived with Mboro In Arkansas, but loft him. It Is announced that Senator Heed Smoot of Utah and a numbor of capitalists cap-italists hovo purchased 35,000 acros of land nt Threo Forks, Gallatin county. coun-ty. Montnnn, whoro rich beds of natural nat-ural cement doposlts havo been discovered, dis-covered, and that englncors nro now engaged In drawing plans for a cc mont plnnt which will cost $1,000,000. Pry dont P. J. Duffy of tho Uutto Minors' union stntcs that circulars posted In othor mining camps and in leadlnj? cltlcB of the northwest, to tho effect that 10,000 men nro wanted In nutto, nro misleading. Tho supply ol labor now far oxcecds tho demand, Moreover, unskilled lobor la not employed em-ployed In tho mines of Dutto at any tlmo. Chnrlos D. Curry, n Grent Northorn car Inspector, nnd his wlfo, woro victims vic-tims of an nttcmptcd assassination, whon an unknown man entored their bedroom at tholr homo In Spokane, and shot both In tiro head, neither fatally. No motlvo is known for the attack, David Moody, foreman nt tho Rnrus mlno at Dutto, 1b confined to his homo Buffering from tho effects of a serious assault rccolvod at tho hands of a mob which Is said to havo attempted to throw his down tho shaft of tho mlno because ho would not givo tho men omploymont, Ono of tho most disastrous fires in tho history of eastern Montnna wiped out threo-fourths of tho town of nig Timber, about. 150 miles oast of Dutto, on tho Northern Pnclfla railroad. rail-road. Thrco hundred families are rendered homeless, and the loss is ostlmatod nt more than $4(0,000. 1 |