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Show NORTHWEST NOTES By the wreck of a freight train at Durant, Mont., Brakeman J. D. Thomas Thom-as of Helena was killed and a tramp fatally hurt. Mrs. A. P. Dorance, the wire of a prominent Helena coal merchant, was shot and killed by a burglar at Hot Springs hotel. Miss Ina Patterson, a school teacher, is dead at Harlem. Mont., from an overdose of poison which she was using as a flesh reducer. She was 22 years of age. Laverne Sovereign, a 15-year-old boy was instantly killed by lightning about ten miles from Great Falls, Mont., while he and his brother, aged 11, were driving into town. The Butte Ministerial association has passed resolutions calling upon the sheriff and the county attorney to ptop the proposed prize fight, July 28, between Jack Tippets and Tony Ca-poni. Ca-poni. A man has been arrested at Dillon, Mont., who is believed to be Billy Westbrook, wanted in Billings for horse Btealing, and for whom the officers of-ficers have been searching for some time. Crazed with liquor, Fred S. Browning Brown-ing shot his wife and attempted suicide sui-cide at their home in Spokane. The woman is dead. The man is in the hospital and is believed to be fatally injured. P. J. Patton of Merrill, Mont., has just completed negotiations with Colonel Col-onel Thomas Cruse for the purchase of 12,000 head of spring lambs. This is the largest sheep deal made in the state this year. The third annual carnival in commemoration com-memoration of the pilgrimage of Lewis and Clark from Montana into Idaho more than a century ago by way Df what is now Helena was celebrated In Helena last week. While in the act of eating, A. C. Spalding, a well known horsebuyer from St. Louis, a member of the firm of Spalding & Yates, expired suddenly sud-denly in a cafe at Miles City, Mont. Death was due to an affliction of the heart. Two men were drowned in the Big Horn river near Billings, Mont. They were laborers at Crow agency, and with three companions were swimming swim-ming in the river when they were caught in the swift current and carried car-ried down, j Fifty thousand able-bodied men are wanted in the harvest fields of the west to take care of the bounteous crops. Farmers are literally begging for help, according to officials of the department oi commerce and labor at Washington. Out of 530,000 sheep that are moving mov-ing into the Humboldt, Nevada, national na-tional forest reserve only three herds were found to be afflicted with scab, according to Dr. V. W. Knowles, former for-mer inspector for the United States bureau of animal industry. During a sham battle in the Al3ka-Yjikon-Pacific stadium, between 100 members of, the Improved Order ol Red Men and an equal number oi state militiamen, Joseph Morhinway of Everett, Wash., one of the R,ed Men, was shot and killed. The state railroad commission announces an-nounces that it has been successful in securing a $3.5 rate on coal from Bear Creek, Mont., to Spokane. Both the Northern Pacific Yellowstone park lines have assented to the rate, which is a reduction of 70 cents. With the present mayor, W. H. Spudgeon, Republican, aided by the Local Option league, as his opponent, Henry Avery, Democrat, was last week elected mayor of Colorado Springs under un-der the charter form of government by a majority of about 1,400 votes. 4 A bronze bust 'Of James J. Hill has been completed in Brooklyn and will be shipped at once to the Seattle exposition, ex-position, where it will be unveiled on August 3, Minnesota day. The bust is said to be the largest of its kind in the world, weighing 1,700 pounds. It is announced that Prince and Princess Kuninomiya and Prince and Princess Nashimoto, all of Japanese royal blood, who are traveling in Europe, will visit the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition on their way home. The crown prince will attend the fair later. Two hundred Masons, representing all parts of the state, participated on July 20 in the dedication of the Masonic Ma-sonic temple, just completed in Lew-tston, Lew-tston, Mont., at a cost of $50,000. Grand Master C. B. Nolan of Helena conducted conduct-ed the grand lodge service of dedication. dedica-tion. Upward of 500 head of sheep, which were being driven to summer pasturage pastur-age on the Helena national forest, were poisoned by loco southwest of Helena and died. Rain on the previous pre-vious day is supposed to have given the poison weed an abnormal growth over night. Mrs. Howard W. Oherry, wife of the editor of the Lovelock (Nevada) Review, Re-view, committed suicide by drinking carbolic acid. It is said that she was despondent over the fact that a married mar-ried sister, living there, opposed her recent marriage and forbid her access to her home. On August 2 the new Western Pacific Pa-cific railroad will be opened for commercial com-mercial purposes to Elko, Nev., a distance dis-tance of about 250 miles west of Salt Lake City. For several months past it has been open as far as Shafter, Nev., and trains have been running three to five times a week. At a meeting of the Pacific coast Logging congress at Seattle, U. T. Andrews An-drews of the federal forestry service said that the government holds 20 per eht of the standing timber of the country and that 5-0 per cent of the government timoer is over-ripe and ready for the ax. |