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Show NORTHWEST NOTES Fire nt Thompson Falls, Mont., destroyed de-stroyed n wholo business block, entailing en-tailing a loss of $25,000. A new postofflco named Taft hn been established In Ulntn county, Wyo. It will bo served from Kemmcrer, 23 miles south. Mario Iscnhart lu postmistress. post-mistress. Stato officials nre asking game wardens of Washington to scntter grain for qunll nnd other blrd3. Un-Irs3 Un-Irs3 this is done most- of the game birds will he killed by tho snow and cold. The report of the stnto board of equalization of Montana shows, that tho value of tho realty 13 $121,328,449, (jf which $40,588,870 Is In farm lands, while city lots arc assessed at $25,-014.010. $25,-014.010. A special from I.ewtston, Montana, says that In a battle betweeen Deputy Sheriff Al Morgan and John Pflngcr, In tho Snowy mountain district, thd latter was killed. Morgan has been on Pflnger's trail for several days. Tho seventeenth general assembly of Colorado met nt noon on January fi. Hoth branches nre Democratic, and tho election of Charles J. Hughes, Jr., of Denver, to tho United States sennto to succeed Henry M. Teller, Is assur-ted. assur-ted. , Representatives of nil train servlco railroad organizations In Montana, held n meeting lu Helena last week and selected a Joint execuUvo board for the pui pose of securing desired legislation legis-lation at the hands of tho eleventh legislative leg-islative assembly. All hope that Butte would bo "open" for boxing and gambling, entertained by the liberal element, which 'elected Sheriff O'Hourke, wns dissipated when that officer, who took his seat last week, announced thnt he means to en forco the statutes. Flvo Frenchmen who loft Stony Plain for MacLeod river three days previous were frozen to death three miles west of the Nlne-mllo house on tho Grund Trunk-Pacific railway survey, sur-vey, according to a dispatch from Ed moiition, Cannda. The suit brought nt Heno, Nevada, by Warren Miller, formerly vice-president of the corporation, to dlssolvo the Nat C. Goodwin Brokerage company, and nsklng $100,000 damnges, alleging fraud and mismanagement of funds, has been dismissed. Patrick J. Graham, n native of Ireland Ire-land nnd n pioneer of Minnesota and Montnnn, died at Butte last week of senile debility. Tho exact date oC Mr. Graham's birth Is not known, lint members of his family claim ho to over 100 years of age. Frozen feet nre seldom heard of In Los Angeles, but Joseph Robinson, n 17-yenr-old negro, waB taken from tho brake-rods of nn Incoming Southern Pacific tialn suffering from that cituso Ho had como fiom El Paso and the cold of tho desort had frozen his feet. William Thompson, 80 years old was found dead In his room In Seattle Seat-tle with a bullet nolo lu his henrt, n revolver clutched In IiIb hand, nnd a Blblo open nt tho twenty-third Psnlm, as If he had been reading tho passage, 'Tho Lord Is my shopherd, I shall not want. He makcth nlo to Ho down In green pnsturcs," Tho charges brought by James May, tho Nevada gambling king, against Harry Mncmlllan, tho Novnda mining man, that Mncmlllan hnd passed worthless checks to the amount of $8,000, havo fallen to tho ground. Mncmlllan was charged with having given tho checks In payment for gambllns debts. Joo Sullivan, who led a plot to tunnel tun-nel from tho cells In tho Montana stato penitentiary nine years ago, and when discovered mndo a hard fight, was released from prison through an error Inst week, and Immediately dls-appeared, dls-appeared, although tho officers nro searching for him, nnd hope to offect bin cauturo. Tho report of tho secretnry of the stato board of stock commissioners of Montana shows that thcro woro shipped from Montana during tho year 1008 a total of 241,!i20 head of cattlo. Of this number 219,891 woro shipped to tho eastern mnrkots, 12.277 to the , coast market, 10,152 to Canada, and it Is estimated thcro woro used by local consumption 5,000 head. Leo Little, who died at Goldfleld Inst week was ono of tho llrst to enter D.tWBon, when tho gold fovor was at Its height, and built the first cabin In I Nome. Aftor a rcsldenco of sovornl I years In Alnska ho went to Goldfleld whore ho had been for tho past three or four years. Edward Barrett, a machinist, wns lltbrally ground to fragments, and E P. Fitzgerald severely bruised In the Stoptoo vnlloy smelter nt McGllI, Nov. when a power clutch propelling tho machinery slipped, and It started In motion. Tho nion wui-m cnrraired In making repairs. In nccordanco with tribal law, which makes Infidelity punishable by death. Charles Koyser, an Indlun. shot nnd killed his squaw at Reno, Novnda. Sho had been out all night drinking and consorting with other IndlnnH. He was captured by a Bhorlfl's posso aftor n two hours' chase. Wrecked by unknown persons, who throw tho switch open, locked It and put out tho Inntorn so tho engineer could not bco tho peril, a Grent Northern North-ern train wont Into tho bay near Boll-Ingham, Boll-Ingham, Wash. Tho fireman was killed nnd tho engineer and mall clerk seriously Injured. Tho roport of tho state board of equalization shows that In Montana thoro aro 2,019 thoroughbred horses, 118,877 rnngo hor&os, 80,977 common horses, nnd 07 mules nnd colts. Tho total vnluo of tho horses Is placed nt $7,910,874. Thoro aro 74 buEalos which nro rained at $100 each, |