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Show NORTHWEST NOTES In 115 miles of track 117 bridges hnvo been built across tho Musselshell Mussel-shell river In Montana by tho Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul railroad. An unknown man riding the brake-beams brake-beams was ground to pieces at Livingston, Liv-ingston, Mont, Fragments of his body were scattered over flvo miles of track. Twenty-eight new locomotives, worth about $500,000, aro said to bo tied up at Donvcr as tho result of tho Btrlko of the shopmen on tho Denver & Rio Qrando railroad. Application for a receiver for tho First bank of Rawhtdo has been made. Tho appointment will bo mado on Aug. G and In all probability A. A. Codd will bo named as tho man. Whllo hunting deer In the woods near Lovcll, n small town near Tokoa, Wash,, on U10 Ccoour d'Alcno reservation, reser-vation, John Gates, an Indian, was killed by tho accidental discharge of his woapon. Invitations havo been sent to William Wil-liam II. Taft and Wllllnm J. Bryan, tho rival presidential candidates, to attend tho Interstate fair and exposition exposi-tion in Denver In September nnd do-llver do-llver addresses. Capital Is now developing the water power of tho Cherry Creek section of Nevada, for an Irrigation project In Coal valley, nnd an area thirty by fifteen fif-teen miles In extent eventually will bo under cultivation. Mack Thayer, son of William Thayer Thay-er of Fenton, Wyo accidentally shot himself with a .22 calibre revolver. Tho bullet entered botween tho ribs nnd lodged under tho left shoulder nnd Thayor will recover. Albert Penny, a Union Pacific shopman shop-man nt Laramie, Wyo., has fallen heir to a sharo of an estate valued at $20,-000,000. $20,-000,000. The property Is located In Now York nnd Penny's sharo will amount to about $800,000. Mrs. May Belle Cottrell, charged with having raised a check given her by Colonol D. P. Jenkins, ncstor ot tho Washington bar, Spokano millionaire million-aire and philanthropist, has been released re-leased from custody on $2,000 bonds. Tho last splko connecting Butto with Chicago on- tho Chicago, Milwaukee Milwau-kee & St Paul coast extension was driven at G o'clock on the ovonlng of July 27, by D. A. Mnclntosh, ono of tho contractors. Tho splko was ono of brass. The big prlzo fight nrenn ot tho Butto Athletic club, on tho flats below Butte, was destroyed by flro of unknown un-known origin on July 31, entailing a loss of $3,500. In this arena all of tho big prlzo fights of Butto havo been held. An unknown man who wns stealing a rldo on tho Overland limited was ground to pieces beneath tho whcols nnd his body strewn In bits for over a mllo, threo miles east of Wlnnctnucca, Nevada. An Inquest did not develop his Identity. Sheriff Campbell of Clssoula, Mont, whllo visiting a friend nt Taft, near Missoula, happened upon two holdup men In tho act of robbing Henry Smith. Tho sheriff gavo chaso and caught both robbors, nfter an exciting ex-citing and long chase. Tho Montnna Bankers' association held its annual convention In Billings Inst week. Tho feature of tho opening open-ing session was tho addresses by United States Scnntor Thomas II. Carter and John O. Maronlt, president presi-dent of the association. Threo lives wero lost by tho capsizing capsiz-ing of tho yawl Elizabeth, In tho Everett, Ev-erett, Wash., harbor, about two miles from shore. Tho drowned men are Gcorgo Morton, nged 21, his slstct-, Mnmlo Morton of Everett and Miss Florence Scott of Victoria. Stephen G. Grubb, n Civil war veteran, vet-eran, whoso action at a critical moment mo-ment probably Baved Gonoral William T. Shorman's entire store of ammunition ammu-nition Just boforo his famous inarch from Atlanta to the sea, died at Tn-coma Tn-coma on July 30, ago 73 years. John Murphy and Joseph N. McNeal wero Instantly killed at Nlmrod station, sta-tion, Mont, on tho Northern Pacific railroad, and Gus Wnsson was seriously seri-ously injurod. .Tho men woro riding tho pilot ot n work train's cngino when the front trucks climbed tho rails. A Jury at Fort Bonton, Mont, acquitted ac-quitted Fred I-nrlmoro of tho murder of W, P. Tumor at tho lattor's ranch near Beatrice last April. Judgo Tat-tan Tat-tan scorod tho Jurors severely when tho verdict wns read, nnd intimated that had a verdict of guilty ot murder mur-der in tho first degrco been returned return-ed lt would havo mot with his approval. ap-proval. Jesso Flfor, a street car grlpman, killed his eight-year-old daughter Hazel, Mrs. Dennis Nlhoul, a confine mont patient, fatally wounded his wlfo, Mrs. L. Flfor, seriously wounded Mrs. Ethol Warren, his Blstor-ln-law, at Seattlo, and then took his own life. Flfer was crazed because his wife had left him. Rex Boach, tho novelist and play, wrlght, who has Just returned from 'a bear hunting trip in Alaska, Is confined con-fined In a Seattle hospital, undor the care of an eye specialist, with a serious seri-ous attack of Iritis, which, It is feared, may result in tho permanent loss of Bight |