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Show NORTHWEST NOTES The price of bread was advanced by Ely. Nevada, bakers last week, the staff of life now selling at 15 cents a loaf, or two loaves for a quarter quar-ter of a dollar. Plans have been filed at Pueblo, Colo., for an immense irrigation project pro-ject which will cost almost two million dollars and which will reclaim 200,-000 200,-000 acres of arid land in southeastern Colorado. The Union Pacific is installing in the Cheyenne yards a 100-ton car scale, the largest west of Omaha. The scale Is fifty feet in length and rests in a concrete matrix seven feet In thickness. Patrick Donovan, doorkeeper of the house of representatives at the last session of the state legislature and a prominent figure in local affairs, died at Missoula, Mont., April 23. He came to Montana in 1861. ' Three persons were injured by jumping from a second-story window-in window-in the farm residence of George Stahl, two miles southwest of Missoula, Mis-soula, Mont.., to avoid a fire that totally to-tally destroyed the building. The biggest fur seal herd of years is passing Sitka, Alaska, according to a special dispatch. The natives are lulling hundreds of them. Japanese poachers are following the herd. No revenue cutters are in the district. Bitter racial feeling exists at Vashon college, Tacoma, over a row between a student named Adams and a Japanese engineer. It is said the Japanese stabbed the student and the latter drew a gun on the Asiatic. Harvey W. Scott of the Portland Oregonian has declined the ambassadorship ambassa-dorship to Mexico, preferring to remain re-main with the Oregonian. Henry L. Wilson, now minister to Belgium, it is said, will be promoted to the Mexican Mex-ican post. The highest price paid for sheep at Kemmerer, Wyo.. this year is involved in-volved in the deal whereby the Quealey & Peterson company takes ' over 5,000 head from Boyer Bros., for a consideration of $39,000, or $6.50 per head. Robert W. Brown was found dying in a Goldfield lodging house from an overdose of "dope," death ensuing a short time later. It is not known whether Brown intended suicide or merely took an overdose of the drug by accident. The incinerated body of John Llnd-fors Llnd-fors has been found in his cabin near Twin Bridges, Mont. Robbery and murder are suspected, and the officials of-ficials are investigating. Lindfors was well known in mining circles of that section. Donald Boyd, convicted of kidnaping kidnap-ing Patrick McCoy, a wealthy Seattle lumberman, in the woods near Bow, Mont., last October, has been sentenced sen-tenced to serve an indeterminate sentence sen-tence of from five to twenty-one years in state's prison. Rickert Assinna was shot and fatally fa-tally wounded by Ole Nyserom, in a lonely shack at Bass Creek, near Stevensville, Mont. Both men are Finns and have been living together. Nyserom was taken to Hamilton and lodged in the 'county jail. George Eccles, district attorney of Virginia City, Nevada, in the bonanza days of the lode,' and legatee of a fortune of $150,000 from eastern relatives, rel-atives, was found dead last week in a squalid cabin in Virginia City. He died in penury and alone. The smallpox epidemic which was raging among the Indians on the Coalville Coal-ville reservation in Washington practically prac-tically is over. It is expected the quarantine which kept all white men from entering the reserve without permits per-mits will be raised by May 1. Within a few weeks, when the ballasting bal-lasting of the tracks shall have been completed, the Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound railroad will inaugurate a train service between Butte and Missoula, and this is expected to rapidly rap-idly resolve itself into through service ser-vice from Chicago to the Puget sound country. Judge M. J. Gordan, former counsel for the Great Northern railway, was arrested at Spokane last week on indictments in-dictments by the county grand jury He is charged with embezzlement of funds from the railway company while acting as its attorney. His bond for appearance was fixed at $20,000. The Montana Stock Growers' asso-dictments asso-dictments by the county grand jury, ciation, in session at Miles City, Mont., adopted resolutions endorsing the livestock inspection laws; the work of the agricultural department, and for enactment of needed railway legislation. legis-lation. Senators Gamble and Crawford of South Dakota have invited President Taft to attend the Missouri River Navigation congress at Yankton, July 7, 8 and 9. The president said he could not attend on the dates mentioned. men-tioned. A change of date may be made. Ed Eaton, an old-time cowboy and former Basin saloon man has been arrested in the Black mountains under un-der suspicion of having been connected connect-ed with the recent raid in Big Horn county, Wyoming, in which a party of fifteen masked men killed three sheepmen. President J. B. Schrock of the Pacific Pa-cific Live Stock Insurance association of Spokane has been indicted by the Spokane grand jury for the misappropriation misap-propriation of funds. He was- arrested arrest-ed and held for trial under $25,000 bonds. Seven true bills in all have been found. The recent skyrocketing in wheat and flour is believed to have been responsible for the suicide of an unknown un-known German, apparently about 50 yeaj-s of age, who deliberately threw himself underneath the wheels of an inbound street car on Fifteenth street, in Denver. |