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Show NORTHWEST NOTES During tho first four months ol 1910, more than 500 families had settled set-tled on dry fnrmlug lands in the vl clnlty of Olondlvo, Montana. There is nn epidemic of la grlppo in Tonopnh just at present. And thoro is not a physician In town who has not all the way from two to ten cases of the disease on his hands. A special invitatibn will bo sent by special commissioners to President Taft and Former President Roosevelt, asking tho mto attend the fifth Dry Fnrmlng Congress at Spokane during tho week of October 3. William Gohl, a former agent of tho Sailors' union, convicted at Monte-seno.-Wash., of murder In tho first degree for tho killing of Charlos Had-berg, Had-berg, was sentenced to llfo imprisonment. imprison-ment. Gohl took the sentence calmly. During a drunken brawl In tho foreign for-eign quarter at McGlll, Nevada, Jo-Boph Jo-Boph Pistovich, an Austrian, fired sov-era! sov-era! shots Into a crowded boarding house conducted by his cousin, Dan Pistovich, and narrowly missed killing kill-ing sovoral of the occupants. One thousand head of cattle havo boon gathored in tho vicinity of Currant, Cur-rant, Nevada, as a result of an old-fashioned old-fashioned rodeo, which has been In progress for two weeks. About fifty vaqueroB from Whlto Pino and Nyo counties took part In the round-up. Announcing that ho was a ripsnort-In' ripsnort-In' roarin' Texns steor, a man who later gave his name as John Jones at police headquarters, terrorized the women in a residence district of Pueblo Pu-eblo until n rnnch-brod woman lassoed las-soed him with a clothes lino and tied him to a water plug. Rather drastic reductions in express rates In Montana are ordered to bo made by tho Montana railroad commission com-mission In a decision entered May 24. Tho prosent rnto to transport one hundred pounds of merchandise, GO centB, is reduced to 40 cents. The general merchandise rato of 50 cents Is cut to 40 cents Loyalty of the range was strikingly demonstrated at Grand Junction, Colo,, when "Billy" Williams rodo wearily into town carrying the limp form of John Mock, his partner, in his arms. Williams had carried Mock thirty miles on horseback to havo him treated by a physician. Both of Mock's legs were broken. Chief Forester Henry S. Greaves, returning to Washington from a trip of Inspection in tho west, arrived In Denver Thursday night. "You may say that tho policies of Mr. Plnchot have been made mine," ho said to Interviewers. In-terviewers. "I do not caro to discuss tho Balllnger-Pinchot imbroglio. It covers too wide a range." Tho Central Christian church of Pueblo, Pu-eblo, Colo., has Inaugurated a unique plan by which mothers of small children chil-dren may attend church. Tho mothers havo boon asked to bring their babes to church in buggies, wnon tney will bo placed In charge of a Kindergarten teacher nnd school girls will wheel them about until after tho services. Tho proposed railroad botweon Goldficld and a connection some-whore some-whore along the lino of tho Nevada Northorn has taken tangible form and may bo a realization within tho next year. Reports from Goldflold aro to tho effect that C. R. Zabrlskle tho promoter, has returned from Europe Eu-rope with $5,000,000 backing to start the road. Representative Hamer of Idaho had a long conference with President Taft on Thursday regarding tho tie-up of tho bill authorizing the issuance ot $30,000,000 of bonds or certificates to carry to completion various Irrigation projects In the west. Tho president authorized Mr4 nnmor to say thero was no bill pending in congress in which ho was moro interested, nnd he proposed to use his personal influenco to got that piece of legislation through. Officers of tho Dry Fanning congress con-gress claim that 200,000,000 acres ol unoccupied lands in tho westorn states can be placed undor tho plow within the next four years if they push the dry farming propaganda to Its limit, and of this fully 50,000,000 acres will bo wheat producing land. Commercial conditions in overy city and town In tho westorn grain growing states will be changed boforo 1915 as the result of Increases In farm production, pro-duction, It tho plans of the Dry Farming Farm-ing Congross, which has hoadquartora In Spokane, are enrrled out as planned by tho national officers. Civil ongineers said to be in the employ of tho Northorn Pacific railroad rail-road aro at work near Point ot Rocks, midway botweon Twin Bridges and Dillon, Mont., classifying land which was given tho railroad in lieu of tho mineral land inside the grant which has boen returned to tho govornmont. Two Japaneso sleeping in a lodging house at Belllngham, Wash., woro erematod whon flro destroyed a solid block of two and throe-story tramo buildings. Two llremon wore In-lured, In-lured, The loss la estimated at $50,-000. $50,-000. ' '"!k |