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Show swHBBifHiiisssjBj ' iH NORTHWEST NOTES I Tho rtawhldo (Nevada) post office " , 111 be advanced to presidential class (prll 1, nnd tho salary Increased lo $2,100 a year. Hamilton Pollardaged 76, president t tho Stato Savings and Trust com-pany, com-pany, formerly ono of tho .best-knowfn nttlctnon In southern Colorado, died it I'uoblo, March 17. The odpral. grand Jury at. Carson City, Nevada, has returned an indict-mont indict-mont agalpst tho Southern Pacific rail-road rail-road for granting secret rebates to tho California Sugar and White ,Plnqt agency. While attempting to ovlct a China-man China-man from a small shack ln Denver for tntluro to pay rent, W. E. Thomp-son, Thomp-son, a real estato broker, waa shot and probably fatally, wounded by tho Chinaman. Although Andrew J. Davis, a million-nlro million-nlro mlno owner of Butte, Mont., has boon dead moro than twenty years, tho litigation Over his estato, which has boon In tho courts ot Montana and Massachusetts, Is not yet finished: Reports ot tho washing out of the 'Hauser Lako dam, now being rebuilt 4 on tho Missouri rIVcr, eighteen miles from Holena, wero grossly cxaggorat-od. cxaggorat-od. No permanent work of any kind wns Injured In tho slightest degree. , Lindsay's hotel and two adjoining buildings at Millers, twelve miles west of Tonopah, Nov., wero completely do-strayed do-strayed by (lro March 17th. Tho flames I) role o out In tho second fctory ot tho hotel while a dnneo was ln progress in tho dining room. Smiling cheerfully nnd declaring ho had nothing to say, Nick Potrlclc, convicted 6f murdorlng JIarry Miller,-marshal Miller,-marshal at Kenton, Wash., April 10, 1908, haa been scnteced to bo hanged at tho stato penitentiary at Walla Walla on May 21. During a quarrel over tho location of a fence near ICnowlton, Mont., Wil-llam Wil-llam Dradshnw shot Rudolph Caspor In the neck and Horbort Newman ln tho leg. Caspor's wound Is said to bo a serious one. All .tho parties ln-volved ln-volved are ranchmen. jH Hovering between llfo and death at a hospltnl ln Grand Junction, Colo,, Mary Trajll, a beautiful Mexican girl, 18 years old, victim of a brutal as-sault, as-sault, may not survive her injuries. Confined in the city jail are two Mex-leans Mex-leans charged with tho assault. Tho news comes from Threo Forks, -H Mont., that gold was found a tow days ago by a man digging a well. Ho had dug about thirty foot when he found H gold pieces as large aa pinheads. Ho took a' bucket of tho sand; which proved to havo $50 in gold In It. Great Falls, Mont., has the dlstlnc-tion dlstlnc-tion of having the largest concrete smokestack In the world, even though, the -work waa done by a German firm. Tho stack Is 506 feet in. height npd weighs 34,000,000 pounds, or 17.000 tons. It rests on a concrete founda- tlou 25 feet deep and 100 foot In dlam- It U announced that before Clar-once Clar-once II Mnckay ot tho Postal Cable company and son ot Nevada bo-nanza bo-nanza king, sails for Europe from New York, April 1, he will make deft-nlto deft-nlto arrangements to donate to the University ot Novada $250,000 for a new library and administration building. A, E. Holt, ot Oa'kland has brought suit against Sholtz & Cq ot Denver for $5,000 for damages for false lm-prlsonment. lm-prlsonment. Holt was arrested with Georgo Sox3mlth, who was charged with having stolen perfumery from. tho Denver firm. Scxsmlth was taken back to Denver for trial, but Holt was released Alderman W. A. Poftonberger, ot Cripple Creek, Colo., who has admitted accepting- a bribe of $350 from a pub-He pub-He utility corporation for hia voto against granting a franchise to a rival concern, and who has charged sev-several sev-several othor aldormen with- brlbory, has been removed from office and will be prosecuted. sH From returns received by the stato b.oard of equalization, tho total valua-tion valua-tion of the stato ot Montana- Is fixed at $252,294,010. Somo ot tho chief constituents thereof aro: Realty, H $124,328,449; city lots, $49,588,870; lm-provements lm-provements thereon, $23,785,008; mln-lng mln-lng claims and improvements, $1,732,-818; $1,732,-818; railroads, $30,000,000. Tho Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul 'lino has boon finished bctwoon Tncoma and Missoula, Montana. Hut twenty-flvo twenty-flvo mllos ot track remain to be laid In Montana and then tho lino will bo iH completo from Chicago to tho coas. Thero Is ovory reason to believe that tho laat spike will bo drivon boforo April 2, tho dato set for completion. Tho mystery ot tho disappearance at forty head of cattlo owned by Dan Hudson of Rivorton, Wyo., six weeks jH ago, haa been cleared by the discovery that Indians on tho Wind river cser-vatlon cser-vatlon aro fishing steer carcases from tho Dig Horn river and holding high carnival on beef. Tho steers un jH doubtedly brpko through the lco whllo "M crossing tho river. jH Fred Bossier, well-known saloon man of Hillings, Mont., Is dead from a knife thurst through his lung. Hor man Erztngor Is ln jail and will bo charged with murder In tho first do-greo. do-greo. He Is alleged to have stabbed Bossier early on the morning ot jH March 1. D. A. Malono has boon arrested at Livingston, Mont., charged with at-tempting at-tempting to affect tho escape from jail of D. A. Hoblnson, a formor freight conductor on tho Northern Pa-cltlc, Pa-cltlc, charged with tlvo othors ot thofts from box cars ot goods valued at $300,000. . , Paul Stanley, comedian and com-posor com-posor ot tho song "Ta, Ra, Ila, Boom fl Do Aye,", died In Denver last week ut tho ago ot Gl, attor a lingering til- fl ness. Stanley lost heavily n tho San fl Francisco earthquake, and was In starlghtonod circumstance at tho i time of death. fl |
