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Show NORTHWEST NOTES Lato reports Indicate that tho forest for-est fires In tho Clearwater forest ro-servo, ro-servo, Idaho, aro gaining hoadway. Advices from 'Washington say that tho District of Columbia has started n crusade against flies and is offering a bounty of 4 coats a hundred for them. Representatives of various trade unions of Montana met at Groat Falls Monday, when the Montana Federation Federa-tion of Labor opened Its seventeenth convention. BocauBo an aged Greek would not donate $10 por month to them, John and Tom Boudlas nearly beat him to death at Ely, Novada. Thoy were capturod and are serving Jalt sentences. sen-tences. Tho governors of tho wostern states wore In session In Salt Lako City to dlBcuss conservation matters, preliminary prelimi-nary to tho meeting of Uie national conservation congress. Glenn H. Curtlss, the well known vlntor, haa closed a contract with the Montana state fair management to give dally exhibitions at Helena this fall during tho fair. After driving with ono hand a team of bronchos for forty miles on a stormy night, Alfred Villa delivered the body of his dend brother to his parents near Tucson, Ariz. Thursday night. Tomo Totnlck, a miner, was shot and killed by nn unknown man in a saloon at Raton, N. M., while an accomplice ac-complice of the murderer held his arms. Both tho murderer nnd accomplice accom-plice escaped. Thursday at Welser, Ida., E. E. Helgho, president of the Pacific and Idaho & Northern railroad, was hold for trial In tho district court on tha charge of manslaughter. He wa3 released re-leased on $G,000 ball. William Johnson and Alva Cornell, colored men, rescued from a mob at Manitou, after Johnson had Insulted n whlto woman on a street car, are being be-ing held on charges of assault and ol resisting an officer. Settlers on tho big creek of the St Jo river In the.Coour d'Aleno dls trlct, Idaho, aro reported to have beer driven from their homes by the rav ages of forest fires, and Joseph Bur zlnsky and wife are missing. The Salt Lake delegates to th national encampment of Spanish-Am orlcan war vetoraus at Denver, Aug 29-31, are Instructed to vote for The odoro Roosovolt for national com ma ml or. Charles Jacobs trapped a 1,200 pound bear on tho mountains east o Layton, Utah. Mr. Jacobs Is herding sheep for Graham & Williams ana this Is tho third lear ho has kllleq this summer. An unknown man was ground to pieces by a Union Pacific train on Solon Hill, Wyo. Pieces of tho body, scattered along tho track for a dlstanca of 50 yards wero gathorcd up In a has-ket. has-ket. Five hundcr representatives of the deaf mutes of Canada, Austria, Germany, Ger-many, China, England and America are In Bcsion at Colorado Springs on tho occasion of tho third world's congress of deaf mutes. Representatives of tho Spreckles Sugar Refining company or California aro busy in tho vlnclnlty of Price securing se-curing options on local property for tho purpose of erecting a beet sugar factory there,, Two womon, mother and daughter, wore arrested nt 4:30 this afternoon at tho Broadway department storo and locked up for shoplifting. Tho elder gave tho name of Mrs. E. Martin Mar-tin when arrested. Sho subsequently admitted thnt her name Is Mrs. B. B. Wilson. That if there was any padding of the consus, the Groat Falls chambor of commerce Is responsible, will be the dofenso raised by Joseph Thompson, Thomp-son, former enumerator, whoso trial started ln tho fedoral court Wednesday Wednes-day on a charge ot having made false, Ictltlous and fraudulent returns in the figures roturned by him. Accompanied by Sheriff James Cotter Cot-ter of Canon City, Colo., and Detective Detec-tive Snodgrass and O'Larry ot the Snnta Fo railroad, G. M. Grcenbush, who was arrested at Portland, Ore., last weok, passod through Ogdcn Mon day on his way to Canon City, whoro, ho will ho tried for tho wrecking of a Santa Fe train at Fowler, Colo., In 1903. Forest fires In the northwest, threatening threat-ening destruction to human Hfo and to millions of dollnra' worth or property, prop-erty, have alnrmod officials of tho Interior In-terior department and of tho forest service. In rosponso to appeal from Iho fire zones additional United States soldlors nre being rushed to tho scenes o assist in combating the Haines. Without opposition on tho pare of her husband, Mrs. Margaret Emerson McKlm was granted n decree of dlvorco dl-vorco from Dr. Smith Hollls McKlm at Reno, Nov. Dr. McKlm was not represented rep-resented In court and mado no answer an-swer to his wlfe'ss complaint. |