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Show N0RTIIWKST NOTES. i'he wool cup for tho stnto of Montana Mon-tana this season will be about 35,-000,000 35,-000,000 puunds. A cloudburst at Myers. Moid., last week washes' out a largo span of Northern Pacific Irackn. No liven worn lost. Four men walking from Alma to. 1'Silvlllo. Colo, on the 4th were, caught In a blizzard on the rnnge anil one of them had his fnce frozen. A mantle of snow covered l.e.idvlllo. Colo., on the morning of the Fourth, and at night the temperature dropped 40 degrees nnd almost touched the) freezing point. Mosn Iji Fontlse was knocked out In the third round by Joe Wnlcotl nt Ilutte on the llrd. At no time, during; the fight did (be Frenchman appear to have n chance. About I jo telephone operators em-ployed em-ployed In Spokane wont 011 a strlkoj I last week. Too stringent rules nnd a desire for better wages 'appear to havo been the cause. The cereal year of l!in2-nj haa Closed, and out of a tollll crop of 41,- G7K,4.'t5 bushels of wheat In Oregon, Washington and Idaho there remain ') on hand 2.i;:.0,000 bushels. Poring the meal year ended Juno iO tho receipts of Iho Helena brnneh lflro of the ci ctor of Internal revenue rev-enue for the district collllHiseil of Molilalia. Utah and Idaho amounted to i'.ir..t;i;i'..r.7. The Jury In Iho c ise of the stnto vs. C. II. Whlimy, ex-deputy sheriff nt linker Clly. Ore., who was chnrgoit with einhozling IOO'i0. camo In with a verdict of nrqulttal. all. r being out eighteen houra. Miss Nellie Flavin, ngod 22. olio nf the most popular young society wi men of Cuiiiilson. Colo., killed herself Thursday of last week by shooting; herself through I he temple. No cause Is known Tor the deed. In nn nffrny n( ICaionvllle, Wash.. M. J. Morgan, n fireman, was struck on the bend with a club by Kd Kast-man, Kast-man, engineer of the donkey engine, and It Is feared lie will die. The men " were working In a logging camp. An Immense landslide occurred near Onrny. Colo.. Inst week, tho w.mle top of tho tin .11 11 1 al 11 for ffi I width of 1 .41110 foot coming down. (, I slides nro caused by the meltli . 0f I tho deep snows. No one was 1 f ,lri I Pierce (ioddnril. nn Atlantic citJi I Wyo , miner, was struck by "J I hiiu 1 boulder that fell from a dllf V ljuie A him. grinding his legs In atoms "elfnoi IS the knees down. Ho lived nhout le I hours, displaying grent nervo. rollmy i a cigarette and smoking it a few no- I nionts boforo death camo to cud his I sufferings. 1 Early Sunday morning; three high- j wnymcn held up a South Taooma street car anil nibbed tho carmen and four pasBengern of $100 In money and threo watches. The conductor was I chnaed half way acrose tho Tncoma avenue bridge by 0110 of the highwaymen highway-men and brought to a standstill by shots from a revolver. 1 Tho Washoe smelter at Anaconda. I Mont., closed down last week and y aJ I.O00 men wero thrown out of work ' t , there. This reacted umn Kitto, necessitating ne-cessitating tho closing down of such 01 tho AmnlgntnnliKl mines In H11K0-iib H11K0-iib send their ore to Iho Washoe. In all 2.000 men are thrown out In Unite, making 3,0 In Ilutto and Anaconda, or a difference In tho payroll of f 7a. 000 n week. Tho mlnea nnd amel-lers amel-lers will start up aguln Sept. 1. Tho wool senson linn opened In Montuna. Tho first clip In the Henver-head Henver-head was sold to a Philadelphia firm by O. Banders. The bulk wns 30,000 pounds nnd the price 14 cents. Wool la selling at from ISM to lCVi ceuta at Millings. Grasshoppers have deslroyod everything every-thing In a strip seventy miles long and fifty miles wldo In tho vlclnlly of Forsytho, Mont., and thn plains aro dotted with cuttle that hnvo starved to death as the result of 1ho grass- " , hopper raids. 1 Four men coming across MosqultoT T Pass, oust of I.ondville. Colo., on the " u. night of tho 3rd, wore lost In a blind- I lug snowstorm and badly frozen. This I Is tho first time In thn history of tho f district thnt a blizzard of snow oc- ij curred In July. Word has been received In Chny- V enne of tho douth by drowning; of Frod C. McCarthy nnd William Woods, ( I two cowboys of tjie Two Hnr ranch, ' I near that place, i ney were carried l down In tho North Platto rlvor whllo ' aUemptlng to ford. It Is believed Iho fire In the mlno which was' Iho sceno of the recent explosion ex-plosion and consequent heavy loss of j Ufa at llnnna, Wyo., bus been placed j under control. The work of remnv- I lug (he dohrls from the main slope la . progrosslug favorably. . U The supreme court. In session at Cheycuno last week, duslgnirtud Aligned. Ali-gned. 20 as (he date for hearing arguments argu-ments In thn Tom Iloru case, which , Is boforo tho court on a bill of exception ex-ception and nppcul from the district court of Laramlu county. 1 I : i |
