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Show NOitTinYEST NOTES Edward Madden, who was shot while attempting to eseape. after having held up a poker game in Butte, is dead from his wounds. The body of Fireman Wallman has been found at White Pine, Mont., beneath be-neath his engine tender, the body being literally ground to pieces and unrecognizable. un-recognizable. Secretary Ballinger. of the interior department, has agreed to attend, i! possible, and make an address at the National Irrigation congress at Spokane Spo-kane next August. Albertus H. Johnson, chief of th? correspondence division of the postof fice department, has been designated to represent the war department at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition at Seattle, Wash. Eastern wool buyers are again in the vicinity of Lewiston, Mont., and the offers made are a little in advance ot those last January by perhaps a cent, 21 cents now being offered for the best class of wool. Donald Boyd was convicted at Mount Vernon, Wash., of kidnaping Patrick McCoy, a wealthy Seattle lumberman, in the woods near Bow-last Bow-last autumn, with the intention of holding him for a ransom. Luis McFadden, a Seven Troughs teamster, fired two shots with a revolver re-volver at his wife, Mary, at Reno, Nev., shooting away a finger and producing pro-ducing an ugly wound in her neck. Believing Be-lieving her wounds mortal, McFadden killed himself. W. T. Onyon, assistant cashier of the First National bank in Lovelock, Nevada, was found dead with a bullet wound through his heart. It is believed be-lieved that the wound was self-inflicted. Bank officials declare Onyon's accounts ac-counts are straight. The state board of health of Montana Mon-tana has issued a new set of rules and regulations for sanitation and ventila-tion ventila-tion purposes, applicable on all railroads rail-roads operating within the state, effective effec-tive June 1, and which is said to be the most stringent on record. Only $1,000 worth of property was left by Major William A. Stanton of Goldfield, Nev., who killed himself by shooting in the California hospital last week, according to a petition for letters of administration filed in the superior court at Los Angeles. The twenty-fith encampment of the Montana division of the Grand Army of the Republic convened at Billings on April 15, the encampment being attended at-tended by about 125 members of the Montana post and an equal number of members of the Women's Relief Corps. Two persons were seriously injured, one probably fatally, when a touring car containing Wl E. Worden, a business busi-ness man, his wife, three children and Amasa Inscho, a horticulturalist, was run down by a train at San Diego, Cal.. Mrs. Worden and Inscho being injured. Nine heavily loaded freight cars, which formed a portion of a Northern Pacific freight train being pulled into Helena, were WK.cked. Just as the train was passing the station a coupling cou-pling in the middle of the train broke and nine cars were hurled from tn& track. Suit has been instituted against the Helena Hot Springs company in the district court by James Breen, of Spokane, Spo-kane, for $25,000. The Helena Hot Springs company is the concern organized or-ganized iby F. Augustus Heinze to take over and conduct the Broadwater hotel, a noted health resort of Helena, Mont. Dick Anderson, arrested at Laramie, Lara-mie, Wyo., on a forgery charge, preferred pre-ferred by the Dillon, Mont., authorities, authori-ties, escaped while being returned to Dillon by leaping through the toilet window of an Oregon Short Line train near Idaho Falls, Ida., while the train was traveling at a speed of forty miles an hour. Thomas Crouse, of Helena, Mont., has just concluded negotiations for the sale of his Fergus county ranch, to a Chicago sndicate, headed by W. M. Powers, a banker. The deal includes the largest cattle, sheep and horse ranch in the state of Montana, and the purchase -price is near the million-dollar million-dollar mark. Applications for lands under the en-lnrged en-lnrged homestead law will not be received re-ceived by local land offices until the lists are received from Washington. The officers at Washington will designate desig-nate the lands subject to entry, and no applications for unlisted lands will be received. Joshua Klein, the "radio active philosopher," will be deported from Tacoma. Klein recently was convicted of an attack upon a woman who was trying to persuade him to recall to America two Tacoma girls whom he had persuaded to join his colony in Switzerland. Juan Niculas. a Filipino, was executed exe-cuted at the Washington penitentiary on April 16 for the murder of another an-other Filipino and a white boy at Port Blakely. ' Niculas died with a smile on his face. Niculas is believed to be the first Filipino ever executed in the United States. Harry Gillig, well known in California Califor-nia and New York, died April 14 in Los Angeles. Gillig was prominent a few years ago as one of the bright lights of the Bohemian club of San Francisco, and later of the Lambs' club of New York. He had been in poor health for several years. Advices from Washington state that the secretary of the interior has vacated va-cated the reclamation service order withdrawing from settlement 209.0OU acres of land in connection with the Madison river project. These lands will be subject to entry at the Helena land office after June 30 next. Several thousand slot machines In San Francisco, into which it is declared de-clared more than a million dollars a month is placed, will be abolished after af-ter July 1. Mayor Taylor having signed the ordinance recently passed by the board of supervisors which prohibits their use under heavy penalty. |