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Show NORTHAVEST NOTES Fifty-one melons on one square rod is the record of B. S. Prather. a prominent dry' farmer of Fort Pierre. S. D. A. W. Hobbs, a well known rancher living about twenty miles from Havre, Mont., was killed by a kick of a horse. Martin Nelson, 13 years old, died at Bellingham, Wash., July 13, of tetanus contracted through a wound from a toy pistol on the Fourth of July. The plans for the addition to the capitol building at Helena, Mont., have been practically agreed upon. The work is to cost half a million dollars. dol-lars. Ross Titus, an attache of a circus, was fatally beaten on the circus grounds in Butte, dying later. The police suspect a man who has disappeared. disap-peared. Immense quantities of asphaltum have been found on the Shoshone Indian In-dian reservation, and a stampede from Lander, Wyo.. to stake out claims and secure land from the Indians In-dians is taking place. The delegates to the international conference Epworth League of the United States and Canada, spent July 12th at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition, ex-position, where the day had been named in their honor. President Taft has notified the officials offi-cials of the Trans-mississippi Commercial Com-mercial congress that provided the tariff bill is disposed of by August 1 he will attend the meeting of the congress con-gress in Denver, August 16. Margaret Sellick, aged 19, wife of a driller at Copper Flat, Nevada, was burned to death at her home. She was attempting to start a fire with kerosene, her dress ignited and she fainted at sight of the flames. An unknown man walked into a construction camp near Ravenna, Mont., and begged the camp cook to cut his throat, and upon his refusal, the crazed man seized a butcher-knife butcher-knife and cut his throat from ear to ear. Because of the prevalence of scarlet scar-let fever and diphtheria in the city, the health board of Great Falls, Mont., has ordered that no public meetings, including churches, theaters, dances, etc., shall be held for ( the next thirty days. TTventjyseven special itrains have already been engaged by commercial organizations in various parts of the country to bring their delegations to the seventeenth session of toe National Na-tional Irrigation congress .in Spokane August 9 to 14. Bids for the contract to construct the Missoula-Kooskia division of the Northern Pacific railroad, known as the Lolo Pass cut-off, were opened by the Northern Pacific at Missoula, Mont., last week. The new line will cost nearly $5,000,000. "Durum Bread Day" is the latest idea of the wheat growers of the Dry Farming regions of the United States. Already the farmers of the Dakotas and Minnesota have petitioned their respective governors to proclaim this new agricultural day. The Commercial club of Reno, Nev., has issued a very attractive booklet on the town and its resources and attractions. at-tractions. The book shows the surroundings sur-roundings of the place, with fine farm lands adjacent, and emphasizes its location lo-cation on the Truckee river. There is reason to believe that the climate of Montana is undergoing a change, and it is likely that, following follow-ing the experience of other states, it will be found the more the land is broken up and cultivated the more pronounced this change will be. The body of Richard Samples, a Mizpah rancher, has been found in a pasture twenty miles from Miles City, Mont. He had been drinking heavily, and evidently committed suicide, as a bullet hole was found over his left eye, and his face was powder-marked. In a desperate fight near the Northern North-ern Pacific depot at Missoula, Mont., Special Officer "Chick" White was stabbed in the throat by a negro named Archie Welmore. White attempted at-tempted to arrest the negro, who was acting in a suspicious manner, and the negro turned upon him with a knife. Concerning the report circulating in the west that the Cole-Ryan interests have become identified with the Ely-Goldfield Ely-Goldfield project, C. B. Zabrlskie, head of the syndicate preparing to build the road, said last week that so far as he is aware these interests have no connection with the undertaking. under-taking. Because Donnels & Stelnmetz of Reno, whose bid was $2,000 higher than theirs, was awarded the contract to furnish the governor ot Nevada's mansion, the John Bruner company has filed suit at Carson City, Nevada, enjoining the state officials from paying pay-ing any money to the successful contractors. con-tractors. The explosion of 100 pounds of powder pow-der In barracks of battery A. at Fort Russell. Wyoming. Injured seven soldiers, sol-diers, three fatally, and destroyed the building. The Injured men were preparing pre-paring blank ammunition at the time of the explosion, the cause of whicli Is unknown. Jerry and John Kearful, brothers, and neighboring ranchmen at Clear Creek, In the Havre country. In Montana, Mon-tana, had trouble on account of the former's wife claiming that the latter had insulted her. Both drew knives and Jerry was so badly cut In the fracas that he may die. Louis Beaupre. an old resident of Montana, died at Helena, last week, at the age of 63 years. Mr. Beaupre, at the time of the Custer massacre, was engaged In the business ot freighting up the Yellowstone valley, and was among the first to arrive on the scene after the battle. 1 |