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Show NORTHWEST NOTES'- . I Miss Evelyn Tanner was thrown: from a homo near Cokovllle, Wyo.. and almost Instantly killed. Tiro citizens of Butto will send irc jB carload of provisions to tho flro suf- ferers' nt Fernlc, B. C, or, if trie suf- -M forors wish, monoy., Mrs. B. F. Soule, wlfo of a prpmf- , nent Anaconda business man, was burned to death In her home by tho explosion ot an alcohol stove. Tho town of Clayton, Wash., 'hat; been practically wiped out as tho-.ro- H suit of forest fires. Clayton had. a. population ot about 600 people. 'H A forest flro of alarming propor- -j iH Hons did considerable damage in. tho Cocur d'Alcno national forest, lui Idaho, just across the Montana state; Tho postmaBtors 'of Montana met 4 lit Helona on August 3 In tho 'first an- ,H mial meeting of tho Montana- Pbst- masters' association. Tho organiza-. ',H tlon was organized one year ago. 4aal Tho state bonrd ot equalization. oC Montana has received returns from il all counties ns to property valuntlona. which show tho following: Itcal es-tato, es-tato, 1121,117,938; porsonal, $.81,789,-, $87; railroads, $43.81G,000. 'H Fourteen railways, of Colorado havo-nsked havo-nsked tho federal court for' on in June-tlon June-tlon restraining the- members of tho-Colorado tho-Colorado tra?iroad' cominlsstcfj from. enforcing tho law as to rates nnd rail- tiH way regulation against them. Mrs. Stovo Adams, wlfo or tho man who was tried for tho murder of Ar-thur Ar-thur Collins at Grand Junction, dnd' who was acquitted of tho charge, Is In Denver, and has left her husband, aq-cording aq-cording to a dispatch from Denver, It Is reported by railroad officials that work on tho now freight tor-mlnnl tor-mlnnl at Imlay, Nevada, has been re--sumed and that before the work Is finished, which will bo somo time this , H year, $160,000 will havo been spent ln , tho Improvement Tho flro that has been burning in-tho in-tho St. Lawrcnco mlno nt Butte for nearly a quarter of a century, claimed Its first victim last weok. Peter Cal-lnghan, Cal-lnghan, aged 25, who went into tho mlno in a now gas helmet, was over-como over-como and asphyxiated. Ontario, Oregon, is in tho throes or an oil boom. Every oil expert that has inspected this Hold haB mado n favorablo report on the formation, and thnt where bo much natural gas Is found tho Indications nro flrst-clann, 'H for an oil field in tho vicinity. John Kossuf, who had been drink-ing, drink-ing, ran amuck at Kallspell, Mont., and shot threo men. AldOrman Sch'u-man Sch'u-man received a flesh wound, while Ed-ward Ed-ward Dupont was wounded in ' tho-temple. tho-temple. Henry Miller, a lumberman,. was struck, but tho courso or tho bul-let bul-let was changed by pnpors In hlsr pocket. E. F. Bushnoll of Washington, chief clerk In tho postal scrvlco, Malcolm-Qlllts, Malcolm-Qlllts, postmaster at Butto; Dr. Koff, postmaster at Missoula, and Judgo. Choadlo of tho district bench at Lew-istown, Lew-istown, Mont., wero all slightly In-jurcd In-jurcd in an automobile accident near Helena. Malheur county, Oregon, of which-Valo which-Valo is tho county scat, is ono of tho- .H very largo counties of tho state, be-lug be-lug Blxty miles wide nnd 180 miles long, with a population numbering about 8, GOO people Tho taxable prop-erty prop-erty aggregates something - over li;- James Iverson, aged 30, of Sparks, Nevada, a prominent mombor of tho Brothorhood of Locomotive' Engl- IH ncors, was accidentally shot In Bluo canyon, near Truckco, Cal., by his. companion, Harry Crlss, whllo hunt- -H ir.g for deer. Crlss mistook, iverson- for a dear. Georgo F. Demurs was shot and ln-t ttantly killed by Jackson Held, aged U, on Government Islnnd in tho Lewis ' ic Clnrk fair grounds. Domnrs, with his father and brother, were fishing fH on tho Island, and wero ordered oft by 'H revoral children, among whom wnH young Iteld. Convicted; on a chargo of violating-tho violating-tho anti-pass Inw, S. C. Witts was lined $800 and Gortlo Williams $100-in $100-in the fedoral court at Helena, Mont,. Watts, who Is a Great Northern brake-man, brake-man, secured a pass for his wlfo nnd gavo It to tho Williams woman., Both wero Indicted. M. Stoltz, n freight conductor-hand-ling his lnst train as such, was killed. near Grand' Junction, Colo., by being inn over by a trnlm OrdorKTollovIng StolU of Ills position us freight eon- doctor and promoting him to nipas- 'M tcngcr run wero awaiting him nt rH Grand Junction. imrp Ono hundred' sheop woro struck and" killed by lightning whllo taking alielt ''fy ter from a Btorm nt Bridgeport, Cal.,. . -'jnM at tho head of tho Carson -river. When jlc$jJ tho storm came up tho sheop rushed v1k1'J undor a tamarack treo whllo tho her- kSi dor und his dogs sought' tho proteo ;Sft"t? t:on of another. 79'k Tho Batik of Austin, Novada, ono of' W(V tho oldest bnnks of that place, failed: r lnst week. According to tho cashlor, J. A. Millor, Jr., however, it Is a torn- 'wtvi' pornry ssupenslon, as ho says tho ' nth hank has $281,000 In outstanding ,'fiTi, loans nnd $20,000 cash and owes about. gflji '.v tho samo amount. lBflT Jnpaneso section men capturod a Jff 'l inbhor In tho act of rltllng tholr- jwF'7 trunks In tholr bunk car nt Bozcman.i -Jilkj Mont., and an. oxainlnatlon ot tho- fflv man's effects disclosed $CG In battered' ,9fc money, tho oxnet amount secured .by v - jwjL& a crackman at Park City, Mont., Bev- 991 oral days' provlous, i jttfl An unknown man was struck by an engine on tho Southoru Pnclfla about - o 'l ono mile from Golconda, Novada. Th( Jjl body was Immediately picked up nnd J) found to bo cold, leading tho crow to -bcllovu tho man was already dead 'H when hit by Iho engine, and that- ho-- , ; had been murdered. |