Show NORTHWEST NOTES Ho lelia hns has an epidemic of there being cases amon among the school children dark dungeons anil and bread and water diet are to bo be prohibited at the industrial school for girls at denver during 1897 about 1000 brands were placed on the record making in all about brands recorded in the montana state office fifteen anaconda miners miners will soon start for klondike each man contributes his share of a years supplies lies and 1000 in cash and the profits are to bo be divided tho the county assessors held a state conven convention t to n at helena mont last week for the purpose of adopting a uniform schedule of values live stock valuations were increased recently when ralf and dick peterson of rully montana went to look after their traps they found they hai had capt captured ureda a mountain lion sued nine ft fucet et from tip to tip jolin john W kelley an old timer la in butte died last week at tile the sisters hospital li ile he was in the neighborhood of f 80 years old and was vas among the earliest corners to the camp the montana land and improvement irrigation canal is being improved by the substitution of a culvert for the flume across valley creek near park city the alie expense of tho the improvement will be about mrs rose Sc blattman who has lived in cheyenne for three years has departed for dawson city mrs is the first woman from to go co to the klondike she has no defaite plans but is is confident she can win a fortune in the land of snow the wyoming oil sydni cate is tating for a well drilling outfit and proposes to put down it a test well on its P property ro perty near douglas the wyoming oil company has reached it a depth of too feet with its well but is IF having considerable difficulty by reason of the caving in of the shale through which the well veil is being driven twelve sticks of powder exploded in the house of alfonso massucci at basin mont completely wrecking the whole house massucci sustained injuries which in all probably will prove fatal his right leg was completely shattered being broken in a number of places while his entire body is covered with cuts and bruises A suit stilt to test the law under which the montana state arid land commis commissioners proposes to build the billings canal has be beun begun un in the supreme court by At attorney attorney torne general nolan the action is a friendly one instituted to determine the authority of the arid land commission which desires to know its position before enteric entering upon the construction of the canal A man whose name is thou thought alit to be ba john oleson was brought to the alic hospital suffering from terrible injuries received while thawing powder out at the flume tunnel north north of anaconda mont it IL is supposed that a stick of giant powder exploded while he was holding it in his hand as his ri right lit land hand and arm was terribly shattered so that the bones bodes are all broken and laid bare the gallatin valley montana is is to have a new industry lyman walton one of the prosperous farmers of the valley is going to change his grain ranch into a skunk ranch and ra raise ise the tha animals for the purpose of making I 1 money out of their pelts aud and also the oil from their bodies As the skins are worth from 73 75 cents to 81 1 and the increase of each female is from six to twelve every year and as the cost of feeding them is small the new enter provo prove may be a success frank swanson of rock springs has returned from dawson city lie has rn n interest in a number of klondike claims besides havin having brought out it a fair sized roll the result of a years year cleanup clean up iia he will return to klondike during tho the present winter thomas thom as Il artney of rock springs bends a lett letter e r from dawson city to the miner hiner in which he states that there is a C corner or on nearly every article in dawson beer sells bells at a gallon whisky at a gallon candles sl q each there ther a I 1 is is plenty of meat in the town but it is held at a high figure mutton being and bed beat alco per pound all allot of the rock spi springs ings men who w went e n into the gold fields this wittier winter are doing well weil one of them william having already cleaned up the first locomotive ever used in minnesota is now dow switching in the kalispell Kal yards of tho the great Nort northern bern largo large numbers of elk are being slaughtered on tile the north for fork of the sun river in montana in violation ol of the game law during the progress of the franey francy mu murder ader trial at butte mont attorney baldwin special prosecutor winked at the reporters report erd and judge jude clancey fined him 10 for contempt of court which the attorney paid under tinder protest ex commissioner J IV mardsen of la rone wyoming states that lie has lost 33 31 head bead of hornes by tile the disease that has been afflicting horses the past couple of years lie he has now only a few lead of working animals left uis his loss will foot up to 0 over vcr 1200 |