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Show NORTH WEST NOTES A general epidemic of measles line broken out among children and youths of Butte and has In a number of cases mado its nppearanco in adults. Becauso ho slipped and fell on a smoothly worn iron door nnd re celved a broken leg, Chris Bllsko has started suit against tho city ol Butte, asking $G,475 ns damages. D. II. Moffat, president of tho Firsl National bank of Denver, and J. A Thatcher, president of tho Denver Nn tlonal bank, linvo Issued a joint statement state-ment denying reports that tho twe banks are to bo consolidated January 1 An ordinance) prohibiting smoking nl polling places on election day wai passed by tho city council of Seattle last week. Tho ordinance is tho dlrecl result of tho adoption of tho wnnnr, suffrngo amendment to tho state con stitutlon. Charles Lansing, whom tho officer! bollovo to bo one of tho cleverest for gcrs in Montana, has beon arrestee and brought bnck to Lowlston froir Roundup, Mont., nnd placed in tin county Jail for passing worthiest checks. Many of tho applicants for forts! resorvo homesteads in tho Kootenai valley and Us tributaries havo already moved on their land, but tho majority of tho applicants will wait until spring before beginning residence on tlioli homesteads. Cultural mnps aro now required tc bo filed with tho state engineer by all users of water under permission granted under tho terms of tho state laws of Novada, relating to tho appropriation appro-priation and use of water for irrigation and other purposes. A. L. Peterson of Fort Dodge, la., was Instantly killed, and C. K. Wellington Wel-lington fntally Injured at Walcott, Wyo when tho hand-car on which thoy were riding was struck by a work train. Both men wero connected with tho engineering department of the Union Pacific. Mlko Manajlovic, an Austrian, against whom an indictment was returned re-turned by tho last grand Jury for causing caus-ing n religious riot at McGUl, Nevada, last September, has been permitted to plead guilty to a charge of simple assault, as-sault, and will servo flvo months In tho county Jail. Robert II. Armstrong, Seattle manager man-ager of tho United Wireless company, has been arrested and furnished a $500 ball for his appearance In New York January 30, to testify in tho government's gov-ernment's enso against Colonel C. C. Wilson, president of tho United Wireless Wire-less company, who Is accused of using tho United States malls to defraud. Donver poltco have about reached tho conclusion that tho murdor of Mrs. Dorinto Cellanto, whoso mutilated body was found on a farm six miles from Denver Sunday, was a part of tho work of a murderous gang. Thoy associate It with the deaths and disappearances dis-appearances of Boveral other persons in tho north side foreign colony of Donver. According to complete official returns, re-turns, tho plurality of Governor John A. Shnfroth, Democrat, at tho recent election wns 17,783. Of this Denver county gavo him a plurality of 13.G57. Tho heaviest snowfall of tho season was general throughout Montana, on November 15, the precipitation in Butto reaching more than fifteen inches in-ches after a storm lasting practically all day. Holona onoyed a fall of eight-tocn eight-tocn inches. Mrs. C. D. Smith of Hulot, Wyo., who was charged with killing her husband hus-band by shooting him through tho heart with a rlllo while ho lay asleep, has beon acquitted by a jury at Shod-dan, Shod-dan, Wyo. Tho Judge Instructed tho jury to bring In a vordlct of first degree de-gree murdor or acquittal. It Is reported that black wolves, nearly extinct, aro reducing tho hords of cnttlo near Kremmllng, Colo. Tho Grand Valloy Cattlemon'B association, to which tho cattle raisers around Krommllng belong, is offering a bounty boun-ty of $55 per head for wolves, with tho promise of all assistance possible to hunters. Tito avalanche nt Mllllngton, Wash., on March 1 last, which carried two Great Northorn passenger trains Into a deop gulch and killed nlnoty-threo persons, was an net of Providence, against which tho railroad company could not gunrd, according to a decision de-cision handod down by Suporlor Judgo W. W. Black, at Everott, Wash. Ono of tho last of tho lino of tho famous old Novada pioneorB and empire em-pire builders who mado western history, his-tory, in tho days of the Comslock mothor lode, H. M. Yerington, superintendent super-intendent of tho Virginia & Truckoo railroad, died at his homo In Carson City on November 25. Ho was 82 years old and had beon In actlvo service ser-vice until a fow wooks ago. A dispatch from Shoridan, Wyo., says that Alonzo W. Cotton was shot and killed at his ranch, ono mllo over the southern Montana boundary, by Georgo Harris, a neighboring ranchman, ranch-man, presumably in a dlaputo over their fence. |