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Show NORTHWEST NOTES The prlco of bread was advanced by Ely, Nevada, bakers last week, the staff of lifo now. selling at 15 cents a loaf, or two loaves for a quarter quar-ter of a dollar. Plnns have been filed , at Pueblo, Colo., for an Immense Irrigation project pro-ject which will cost almost two million dollars and which will reclaim 200,-000 200,-000 ncres of nrld land In southeastern Colorado. The Union Pacific is Installing In the Cheyenne yards a 100-ton car scale, the largest west of Omaha, Tho scale Is fifty feet in length nnd rests In n concrete matrix seven feet In thickness. Pntrlck Donovan, doorkeeper of tho house of representatives at tho last session of tho state legislature and a prominent figure In local affairs,- died at Missoula, Mont., April 2a. Ho came to Montnnn in 18G1. . Three persona were Injured uy Jumping from a second-story window In the farm rcBldcnca ot Gcorgo 8tahl, two miles southwest Of Mis-Boula, Mis-Boula, Mont-, to avoid 'a fire that totally to-tally destroyed tho building. Tho biggest fur seal hord of years 1b passing Sitka, Alaska, according to a special dispatch. The nntlves are killing hundreds of them. Japanese poachers oro following tho herd. No revenue cutters are In the district. Hitter racial 'feeling exists nt Vnshon college, Tncoma, over a row between n Btudcnt named Adams and a Japanese engineer. It Is said tho Japanese stabbed tho student and tho latter drew n gun on tho Astatic. Harvey W. Scott of tho Portland Oregonlan hna declined the ambassadorship ambassa-dorship to Mexico, preferring to remain re-main with tho Oregonlan. Henry Ij. Wilson, now minister to Belgium, It is said, will be promoted to the Mexican Mex-ican post. The highest prlco paid fbr sheep nt Kemmerer, Wyo., this year ila involved in-volved In the deal whereby (ho Quealcy & Peterson company takes over 6,000 head from Hoyor Bros., for a consideration of 139,000, tor $0.50 per head. Ilobert W. Drown was found dying in n Goldfleld lodging house from tin ovordose of "dope," death ensuing a short tinio later. It Is not known whether' Brown Intended suicide or merely took an ovordoso of tho drug by accident. Tho Incinerated body of John hind-fore hind-fore has beon found Jn his cabin near Twin Bridges, Mont. Robbery nnd murder are Buspecte'd, and the officials of-ficials are Investigating. Llndfnrs was well known In mining circles of that section. Donald Boy'd, convicted of kidnaping kidnap-ing Patrick McCoy, a wealthy Scdtllo lumbermnn, "In tho woods near Bow, Mont., Inst October, has been sentenced sen-tenced to servo an lndetermlnnte sen-tence sen-tence of from'flvo to twenty-oiio years In Htate-'s prison. Illckert Asslnna was shot and fatally fa-tally "wounded by Olo Nysorom, In a lonely shack at Bass Creek, near' Stevcnsville, Mont, Both men are Finns nnd have been 'living together. Nyserom wns taken to Hamilton nnd lodged in the county Jail. George Eccles, 'district nttornoy 'of Virgltila City, Nevada, In tho bonanza dnyB of the lodo, nnd legatee of n fortune of $160,000 from eastern relatives, rel-atives, was found dead last week In a squalid cabin In Virginia City. Ho died In penury and alone. The smallpox epidemic which wns rnglng among thelncllans on tho Coal-villo Coal-villo reservation In Washington practically prac-tically la over. It la oxpectcd tho quarantlno which kopt all whlto men from entorlng tho reservo without permits per-mits will bo raised by May 1. Within a few weeks, when tho ballasting- pf the tracks shall havo been completed, tho Chicago, MllwaUkco & Puget Sound railroad Will Inaugurate a train servlco between Butte anil Missoula, and this la .expected to rapidly rap-idly resolvo Itself Into through service ser-vice from Chicago to tho Puget sound country. Judge M. J. 'Gordan, formeV counsdl for tho Great Northern railway, was nrrested at Spokano last wock on Indictments In-dictments by tho county grand Jury Ho is charged with cmbezzlomeut of funds from tho railway company while- acting as its -attorney. Hlu bond for jinnearnnco was fixed at $20,000. Tho Montnna Stock Growers' nsso-dlctmonts nsso-dlctmonts by tho county grand Jury, elation, In session at Miles City, Mont., adoptod resolutions endorsing tho livestock Inspection laws'; tho work' of the agricultural department, and for enactment of needed rullwny legls-' latlon. Senators Gamble and Crawford of South Dakota have Invited Prealdont Taft to attond tho Missouri Itivor Navigation congress at Yanktoni July 7, 8 and 9. Tho president said ho could not attend on tho 'dates mentioned. men-tioned. A chango of date may ho made. Ed Eaton, an old-time cowboy nnd former Basin saloon man has boon arrested In the Blnck mountains under un-der suspicion of having been connected connect-ed with tho recent raid In Big Horn county, Wyoming, In which n party of fifteen masked men killed threo sheepmen. President J. B, Schrock of tho Pacific Pa-cific J'lvo Stock Insurance association of Spokane has boon Indicted by tho Spokano grnnd Jury for tho misappropriation misap-propriation of funds. Ho waw arrest-ed arrest-ed and held for trial under $25,000 bonds. Sovetv true bills In all ha,vo been found. The recent skyrocketing. In wheat and flour la bollovpd to huvd uopn responsible for tho aulcldo of ah unJ known German, apparently abont, 50 years of ago, who dcllbriratoly throw hlmaolf undornonth tho wheols of au Inbound stroot car on Fifteenth Btroot, In Doriver. ' |