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Show NORTHWEST NOTES After years ot argument, pro and con, the public market Is an established estab-lished fact In Uutto. It was opened without nuy grant blnro of trumpets or clanging of cymbalo. The postmaster lit Green Hlver, Wyo,, will soon become vacant and a rlvll service examination to select a new postmaster will bo held September Septem-ber 2-1. The offlco pnyn $1000 a year. Thirty head of beef cattle valued nt $1000 mid a quantity of smoked products wcru consumed In n flro that completely destroyed tho plant of the Oliorto I'acklug company nt Seattle on Monday. Sixteen limes as much commerce wiw carried on between Seattle nnd Vladivostok In tho first half of this year than In the first half ot 1018. l'ho value of the 1010 first halt aggregated aggre-gated $15,783,000, It was announced Monday. Vhllo attempting to remove n tre which beenmo lodged la piers ot tho bridge, J. McCalvey, u rancher, was drowned In tho Yellowstone river at tho Duck creek brldgo near Hillings, Montana. Tho body was not rccov-"red. rccov-"red. Cold tea, attractively svalcd In glass containers and bearing labels resembling resem-bling those used by the government In bonding 100 proof liquor, has been koM In Salem, Oregon, during tho past few days ut prices ranging from 57.50 to $1-1 it quart. Thirsty buyers aro said to have been numerous. Tho timber workers' union of Cocur d'Alcne, Idaho, has docldcd by whnt was declared to liavu been n 03 per cent vote from tho membership, to go on strike In support ot Its demand for nu Increase of i!0 percent In wages. The present minimum wngo Is ?1 a Jay. Tho ban on tho 'two ot tho German Inngungu In Montana, for church services ser-vices or otherwise, continues In force, kmg with nil "other orders Issued by the stiito council of' defense, iicconllng to statements Issued following tho meeting of tho council at tho cnpltol recently. Thought to huvtibeen stealing n ride, William V. Miller, 10 years old, of Wyandotte, Mich., was killed by a freight train at .Thayer Junction, Wyo. In his pocket were found n church Identification curd and his draft registration reg-istration card, dated September 10, H018. K. -J. ltnrker, Montana golf chnm-plon, chnm-plon, retained his title Monday by winning win-ning from Georgo Von Kim, 17-year-oldnamteur champion of Utah, 5 up, I to play In the ilO-hnle final of tho tuto tournuuient. .Mrs. I. M. Wheeler retained her tltlo of Htuto woman -Imiuplon bytfefeatlug Mrs. J. Maglll, H. il'resldent Wilson has nominated E. iV. l'lsko of Sioux 1'allK to ho district ittorney, South Dakota district. Mr. lTlsko succeeds Hubert P. Stuwart, re-ttgned. re-ttgned. Another nomination was l'inuk.A.'llyyle, now receiver, Juneau, Alaska, to' ho registrar of tho land office, of-fice, there. After a long career as a professional wrestler In. tho heavyweight class, Dr. Ileaijamln l Holler, formerly of So-ittlo, So-ittlo, has announced his retirement from tho mat sport. Dr. Holler has do--lurod that his growing medical practice prac-tice i mokes It Imperative for him to forsake tho mat. To meet tho emergency caused by drouth conditions lit tho stuto and to provide amendments to tho road and highway Jaws governing tho state high-ivuy high-ivuy commission and tho county commissions com-missions In tho building and Improvement Improve-ment of roads, tho sixteenth Montana assembly met In special session July -0. A lively fight Is nu between two hotel ho-tel syndicates to sou which shall build uie :$5,000,000 hotel Senttlo Is soon to wioct. D. M. Llnnard of tho Llnnnrd aymllcnto has been In Seattle n week ronfactlng with local business men nnd Jrunes .Wood, representing tho How-nuui How-nuui diotel Interests of Now York, arrived ar-rived .today iforitbo samo purpose. Crlpjilo .Creek dividends, announced for July jHiamieiit foot up to SlUL'.OOO, according .to dlio Hocky Mountain News. Tills total Includes SlUli.OOU from the Crcsson, $00,000 from the Portland, $15,000 from tho Golden Cycle Cy-cle and $15,000 1mm tho Vindicator, tn which fresh bodlos.ot oro aro nl-i most "In sight" In an effort to jullovo drought j stricken former by .affording tliem j employment, the United .States rcclu-1 motion service Is advertising for bids : for construction of a portion of the , l-'mnnlo canal on tho tSlioshono pro-loot. pro-loot. This work has beta) so divided (hut Ismail team outfits suay bid on tho Job. Tho work will be started late tills .month. An npiieul to President Wilson to lend federal troopss Into tho forests of tho Pacllc northwest to help fight fires now endangering lives and property prop-erty was mado by Georgo M. Cornwall, wjltor of tho Tlmbermau nt Portland. Tlw lumber mill of John Lngerqulst Df IIuniHton, Montana, was recently totally destroyed by flro of unknown rlgln. It, J, Copes of Denver, driving car No, 4, won tho Denver Times Denver-to-Choyonno road race Inst week. Ills time, for tho 110 miles was 2 hourss 12 imnrtCB-29-weotrd Mr. nnd Mrs. Georgo Knragnls of Oecr Lodge wero arrested nt Helena m a chnrgo of abandoning their four-nonths-old baby, which tho woman lss mid to have left on a table In a Cat jllo hospital. |