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Show NORTHWEST NOTES Tho explosion of a lamp In ono of tho rooms of tho Mooro hotel, nt Moore, Mont,, started a flro which destroyed de-stroyed tho hotel nnd nnother building, causing a lows of $10,000. Mrs. Llzzlo H. Welsh, of niverslde, Cnl a wealthy woman who owns largo tracts of lond In Pueblo county, hns given land valued at $10,000 to tho Mc-Clellan Mc-Clellan orphanage of Pueblo, Colo. Four persons wore seriously und two slightly Injured nt Klamnth Falls, Ore., by tho overturning of n hotel bus. Dr. Ilelun, ot Ucddlng, Cal was the most sprlously Injured, The driver waa hurrying to tho station and made too short n turn, , After n desperate struggle with his wife over the possession of his re-.volvor, re-.volvor, Grovor Cleveland Hill, former county clerk of Humboldt county, shot hlmsolf through the head In his room In n hotel in Ilono, Nevada, dying instantly. in-stantly. Horse buyers from Iowa havo been making a thorough canvass during tho past two months of Lewis nnd Clnrk and Cascndo counties, Montana, and havo secured between 1,200 and 1.D00 head, "which will go to tho Miles City and St, Louts markets, Harry Croylo, a well known Northern North-ern Pacific engineer, was fatally Injured In-jured in a peculiar mannor in tho yards nt Livingston, Mont, Croylo was making somo trilling repairs on an Injection plpo and when his faco was close tho plpo exploded. As tho result of an explosion of giant powder and a tank, of gasoline, tho roundhouso of the Uurlmgton Railroad Rail-road company at Toluca, Mom., was destroyed Juno 18, and L. II. Klntz and Alfred Wlorschcm, trainmen, wero badly, burned nnd Injured. A drunken negro porter on a wool buyers' special car, which wns sidetracked side-tracked at Shanlko, Ore., during tho wool sale's, shot nnd seriously wounded Bernard II. Trumbull, commercial agent of tho Illinois Central railroad, nnd John S. McLaughlin, traveling freight nnd passenger ngent of tho same road. In the federal court at Helena last week, Judgo Hunt declared the Montana Mon-tana Klmborly Mlti.ng company, in which many Chlcagoans are Interested, Interest-ed, to be a bankrupt, and referred the caso to a rofree at Livingston. Tho company hns been Involved in nioro or less litigation between the stockholders. As the result of a gas explosion at the East Helena, Mont., smelter, five men ennio near loj.ng 111011- lived, hut It Is believed nil will recover. Tho roaster had not been In commission recently re-cently nnd tho flue was cold, tho result re-sult being thnt Instead of tho gases going out through tho iluo they camo out of tho front. Tho courts ot Montana will havo to decide who Is entitled to tho reward offered two years ago by tho Northern Pacific for tho nrrcst of James Calvin Towers, George Hastings and Harry J-Grubor, J-Grubor, who held up and robbed tho Northern Pacific coastbound passenger train nnd killed Engineer Clow at Walsh's spur on tho morning of May 7k 1907. Mrs. Leo Solf Is reported to havo suicided at Sandusky, Mont, tho woman shooting herself through tho henrt with a .45-cnllbor Colt's six-shooter. six-shooter. With the exception ot Harvey, Har-vey, Mrs. Self was tho last ot tho Curry family, notorious becauso of tho daring deeds of outlawry ot Kid Curry of Groat Northern train holdup hold-up famo. President James McCrca, of the Pennsylvania railroad, hns been appointed ap-pointed ngent ot tho Alaska-Yukon-Pa-clflc exposition In tho negotiations with tho city council of Philadelphia for tho loan of tho famous Liberty bell as an exhibit. Thoro has been opposition oppo-sition In Philadelphia to letting tho bell lcavo tho city. Tho oxecutlvo committee of tho Mon-tana Mon-tana Development league met at Helona last week for tho purpose of taking steps along so-called "publicity" linos. Govornor Norrls presided, und delivered nn address urging tho raising rais-ing of funds for the work of tho league Frank Stevens, a railroad brakeman, was tho victim of a terrible accident nt Las Vegas, Nevada, ono of his arms being Jerked from his body, nnd his shoulder being so badly torn that part of a lung was exposed. In spito of his frightful injuries, it Is believed he will recoycr. Wyoming will produco forty million pounds of wool, for which tho growers will rccelvo $8,000,000 gross, according to consorvatlvo estimates from authoritative author-itative sources. Tho clips averago close to eight pounds per ilecco nnd somo of It has sold as high as 25 cents por pound. Pollco Officer William C. Taylor was seriously wounded and John L, Will-iams, Will-iams, a drink-crazed cement worker, was almost Instantly killed In a pistol duel between tho two men In Dutto, which was the culmination of nn attempt at-tempt on tho' part ot the offlcer to an rest Williams. At Washoe, Carbon county, Montana, Mon-tana, tho largo warehouse and the wnsh-houso buildings owned by the Wnshoo Copper company nt Dutte, n subsidiary of tho Amalgamated Copper Cop-per company, wero burned to tho ground 011 June 17. Tho loss is estimated esti-mated at $10,000, Fred W. Law, of Ilosebud county, pleaded guilty before Judgo Hunt In tho federal court at Helena, Mont., to unlawfully fencing sixteen hundred n'crcs pf land on Trail creek nnd was fined $100. Law was allowed to escape es-cape so easily bocauso his caso is not n aggravated ono. |