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Show I NORTHWEST NOTES H Tire first annual meeting of the H Montana State Association of Minora H was hold In Helena last week, nlxty H five delegates being In attendance H Publicity Ih credited with having H accrcascd nceldcnts on the ilnrrlmnn H system or roads between 20 and CO H per cent within the past, three yenrs. H The Farmers and Traders National H l.nnk of La nrande, Ore., has closed H its doors. The hank wan capitalized H lit SG0.000 and two weeks ago Its do- H posits amounted to $190,000. H Tiro biggest stato encampment In H the history of the Knights of Pythias H of Montana opened at Ureal Falls on H the nth. A fancy drill, In which H I'OO uniformed knights participated, H was the feature of the opening day H parade. H On the verge of mental collspse, A, H S. Hurroughs eoufessed to county H peace olllcers at Sheridan, Wyo., that H lie wltucHseil the nHSUssluntlnn of ex- H Sheriff Harvey K. Drown by a bomb H thrower lit linker City, Ore., a, year upo. H Frank S. Monnctt, former attorney H general of Ohio, addressed an audi- H ence that filled the Ilroadway theater H at Ilutte, on Democratic Issues. Mr. H Monnctt's address wns mainly on the H trust (ucstlnn and the subject of tho H guaranty of bank deposits. H What Is believed by government of. H tlclnls at Seattle to bo a now gang of H men engaged In Biuuggllug Chinamen Into the United States from British H Columbia Is now operating on Bitch H mi extensive soalo that Immigration H ' cfllcluls are worried greatly. H A llutto Miner dispatch from Lew- H Iston, Mont., states that a deal was H clotted there whereby the Cook-Roy- H Holds' company, representing Wlscon- H hin capitalists, has purchased tho HI- llott and Heck and tho W. O. Straw H ranches, aggregating 10,000 acres of land, for $200,000. H Illshop John I'. Carroll of tho dlo- H' ceso of Helena, Mont., has announced H the purchase of forty-live acres of H land on Capitol hill, which will bo H used as tho slta of a Catholic unlver- H tit y which will rank among tho best H In tho country. Work wllj begin on H the buildings nt once. H A lone highwayman, armed with H two revolvers, walked Into tho Clear H l.ako Logging company's camp nt H Clear Lake, Wash., lined up tho 9 thirty employes In n row and ordered H two of tho loggers to search tho H others. Tho robber walked out of H the camp with I1G0 and several clronp H watches. H Ralph Penrcc, tho negro porter H who struck down Oscsir Travis, n H commercial traveler, during n quar- H tel on a Northern Taclflo train, has H leen captured, Pearco struck Travis H. with an Iron bar and jumped from the train near Garfield, Wash. Travis is in a dangerous condition nt a l-ow-lston hospital. H Six persons were Instantly killed H ind twenty-one others injured by tho H explosion of a missed charge of dyna- H mile at tho Inglesldo llmcstono quar- H ry. sixteen miles northwest of Fort Collins, Colo. The dead, two .la-H .la-H paneso and four Mexicans, nre X. Ta-H Ta-H bata. I Aokl, Gregorl Mangorn, I'e-H I'e-H (!ro Hernandez, Jesus Lopez and H I'edro Abalos. H Thomas Morrow, aged CO, a proml- H nent photographer of Sparks, Nevada, H met a violent death when ho attempt- H d to Jump from a fast moving train H ns It was passing through that place, H He had been nt FlorlBton, Cnl., mak- H ing views for n pulp concern, and H boarded n through train tliere, hoping H the train would slow down sutllclcnt- H ly for him to nllght safely. H A Hillings, Mont., Jury found Flor- H nce Rlordan guilty of manslaughter H in connection with tho death of her H husband, Timothy Riordan, and (lxed H her punishment nt one year In tho penitentiary- Mrs. Rlordan, on tho H witness stand, declared that she shot H nnd killed her husband with his own H gun. which she wrested from him H lifter he hnd btnick her nnd had Hj threatened her with denth. H The Jury In tho case of Edwnrd Hj Hugh Martin, tried at Portland for H tho murder of Nathan Wolff, a pawn- H broker, on tho night of May 1 last, brought In a verdict of guilty, fixing the degree at manslaughter. Martin Is a graduate of West Point and a veteran of tho Spanish-American war. H Engineer Cnmpbell of the Harrlman H lines in Ogdcn proposes to cnll In B chemical experts to solve the mys-H mys-H terlous decay of tho ties along the Hj Ogdcn-Lucln cut-off, which has caused H n great deal of troublo In keeping tho Hj track in repair since the construction Hj of the trans-lako Hue, H 'An enrthquako shock, starting nt H 10:20 o'clock at night and lasting H twenty minutes, was recorded on tho H seismograph at tho University ot H Utah on tho 13th. Tho records show H an extremely violent shock, so no H vere that tho ncedlo was thrown com Hj pletely off tho drum. H George 0 rover, who escaped front the Insano nsylunt nt lllackfoot, H Idaho, some time ago, was captured H in Salt Lako City last week by At Hi tendant Miller of tho asylum, who M has been hero looking for the man. M' Glover called at .tho jiostoiilco for li I s Hk mall, which action led to his caotur- |