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Show 'northwest notes Something over half a million pounds of wool was sold last week by tho wool growers of P.ock Springs, '.Vyo,, to eastern buyers. Tho highest price pnld was 23 cents. J. P. Mooney, a Northern Pacific railway engineer residing In Missoula, .was badly hurt while switching at Stuart, Mont. His skull was crushed, hut It Is believed ho will live. Ellwood C. Hughes, for twenty years a lawyer of Seattle, has been tendered by President Tnft an appointment ap-pointment to the newly created fed-oral fed-oral Judgeship In Washington state. Tlio I.lnwood Land company 'nds- ordered or-dered a Whlto steamer automobile to be used In carrying land seokcrs betweori Rock Springs, Wyo., nnd their lnnds In Lin wood and Lucorno valleys. John Klrschweng of Butte, a noted Inventor of smelting apparatus, killed his wlfo and two children nnd committed com-mitted suicide, April 20, on his brother's broth-er's rnnch near Ada, Mont. Klrschweng Klrsch-weng was nn escaped lunatic. Fire of incendiary origin destroyed two largo hay warehouses nt Dozo-man, Dozo-man, Mont., April 28, entailing a heavy loss. Indisputable ovldenco of incendiarism incen-diarism was found, nnd a rownrd of $500 has been offered for tho culprits. Tho Chicago police say that George B. Kcrth and N. Lawrence, under arrest ar-rest In Seattle, charged with swindling, swind-ling, are members of a gang that has robbed castorn business men of ono million dollars by a fake directory game. Rnnchors and prospectors In tho vicinity vi-cinity of Helena aro almost unanimous unani-mous In tho opinion that Montnna Is Ukoly to experience a flood this spring slmllnr to that which occurred last year, when millions of dollars' worth of damage was done. Aftor clubbing n Chinaman Into unconsciousness un-consciousness and locking him in tho cellar, four men robbod tlio Casino, a big gambling resort of Bono, Nevada, of between $4,000 and $5,000. A night-watchman, night-watchman, who Intruded, was captured cap-tured and locked In a closet. Mrs. Joo Burnes and Mrs. S. Camp-broil, Camp-broil, wives of loggers, fought a bloody duel with butcher knives at Lester, Wash., us a result of wnlch tho former has a fatal gash below the heart. Tho women qunrreled over the borrowing of kitchen utensils. Thomas Hcneasey, hotel detective In tho employ of tho Albany hotel, In Donver, and formerly houso detective at the Auditorium hotel, Chicago, was shot and Instantly killed April 29, by a man named Selkirk. Tho shooting was tho result of an old grudge. Tho Lnramlo rolling mills, or tho Union Pacific railroad, which havo been Idle for a year, will rcsumo operations oper-ations nt once. Tho mills produco tho continuous rail JolntB, tlo plates, bolts, nuts and spikes used by the Union Pacific in new- construction work. Allvo and conscious nnd scarcely Injured, In-jured, John Watklns has been rescued, res-cued, after being buried twenty-six hours beneath twenty-eight foot of snow In tho valley of tho Cascade river, near Itockport, Wash. An ava-lancho' ava-lancho' had overwhelmed an engineer's engi-neer's camp, all of tho other men os-'enping. os-'enping. D. C. Corbln, tho millionaire railway rail-way builder of Spokauo, la tho central tlguro In the lnrgcst mining deal mado In Spokano In several years. Ho has taken an option on tho Wagner group or claims on Hall crook, n tributary of tho Duncan river, In British Columbia. Co-lumbia. Tho prlco Is stated to bo $3,-000,000. $3,-000,000. A cotorlo of residents of Holenn, who roprosent their wealth to bo In excess of $1,000,000, have filed a petition peti-tion in tho district court to restrain tho municipality from issuing or disposing dis-posing of an issuo of bonds of $C00,-000, $C00,-000, voted at a special election for tho purposo of constructing and Instnlljng a municipal wnter plant, Twonly-six of tho loading lumbor manufacturers of Oregon, Washington and Idaho, who control, to a largo extent, tho rail shipments of tho product pro-duct from thnt section to tlio cast, met last wook and attomptcd to reduce re-duce tho production of lumber 40 per cont. Tho ordor to the. mills will go out probably within two days. Tho state of Montana was last week tho purchasor of tho $500,000 bond is-suo is-suo authorized by tho last legislature for tho erection of now wings to tho capltol. This action was taken by the state board of land commission-era. commission-era. and tho funds from which it Is to bo taken will bo thoso ot tho various vari-ous stato educational Institutions. Govornor Shnfroth of Colorado has signed tho oampnlgn expense hill and. tho unique mcasuro becomes law In ninety days. Tho hill provides that tho state shall contrlbuto for campaign cam-paign expenses every two, years a sum equal to twonty-flvo cents for each voto cast nt tho preceding general gen-eral olectlon, tho sum to bo divided among tho political parties according to tho voto cast for tholr respective candidates for governor. H. E. Ott, councilor In tho department depart-ment of agrlculturo and commorco for tho Japanese government, has been appointed commissioner general to tho Alnska-Yukon-Pnclflo exposition, and will como to Seattle Immediately to tako chargo of tho Japanese ox. hlblts. Tho state puro food commission ot Wyoming has indorsed tho rocont government gov-ernment ruling rotative to artificially aged or whltcnod flour, and dealers will bo gtven until Boptombor 1 to dls-poso dls-poso of their prosont stocks. Nearlx all tho flour sold in tho Btato Is Imported. Im-ported. Tho flrat work of grading on tho now Shield River rnllway began April 28, when 300 mon nnd many teams bo-gan bo-gan -operations Just oaBt of Living-aton, Living-aton, Mont. Another largo crow of mon will begin work at Myorsburg, n point about forty miles north from IJvlngston. |