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Show Northwest Notes. A shipment of 12,000 sheep, most of the animals being consigned to Swift ' Co., at Chicago, wns held In quarantine quaran-tine at the stock yards at Laramie, ind dipped before being moved. A fed-oral fed-oral Inspector found one bunch of dieop affected with scabies, and as tho ithors had been exposed, It was decided decid-ed to order tho wholo lot dipped. Laurel, Mont., was practically wiped ;'iit on the 18th by lire which tleBtniyeil to business center and which would 'iao destroyed tho entire city hud not dynamite boon used. Tho loss Is placed at botweon $150,000 and $3S0,-net) $3S0,-net) and tho buildings destroyed lu lid1 t'.io bank, posiofflce and two lirge general merchandise stores. . hold-up, which for boldness an nerve has never been equalled, occurred oc-curred In Butte one night last wec-k A lone marked man walked Into n 'Plrcn, gun In band, and In tho pres-' pres-' '.cc cf some fwjtv customers rohbt' tho till of about $3D. At th tlmr there wore dozens of peoplo on the street and less than half a block away a pollccnnyi was on duty. Tho Ely, Nevada, police, postal authorities au-thorities and offlclals of tho Glroux Consolidated Mining company, are try Ing to explain the mystorlous dlsap pearance of pay checks aggregating ll.COO, which were sent to the post-ofllco post-ofllco for shipment. Tho letters were sent by a drayman to be posted, who In 'turn entrusted them to a stranger -Neither tho letters or the stranger have since been seon. Whon about to board tho overland limited, bonnd for Philadelphia, and ul tlmately destined for Oxford unlver alty. England, Arthur St. Clair ol Deoth, a student of the state unlver slty, tho only Rhodes scholarship man ever sent from Nevada,, was made th victim of tho theft of a suitcase con mining bis clothing, credentials and personnt belongings , Ely, Nevada, papers are rather proud of the. llceiiBo collections for tho quar tor ending Scptcmbor 1. This la In erestlng tho tenderfoot population be sniiMi of $10,400 collected $0,510 was collected from gambling houses, $000 from saloons and $1,550 from dance halls. A flock of mallard ducks flew against high tension electric wires fifteen mllet from Vancouver, 11. ('. The current was short circuited and $2,000 dam ano was done In tho Vancouver power hmrnc. Street cars and electric light wo.ro put out of commission for tVentj infinites. Thu eighteen mouths old son of Mr and Mrs. Thomas Lynch, of Virginia City, Mont, fell headfoiemobt Into a live-gallon keg and was drowned lu six nchos of water. The father had left tho child but a few minutes before and whon the mother found the baby life van extinct. |