The Western news., 1900-02-07
GENERAL NORTHWEST NEWS
BRIEFLY TOLD IN NOTES.
An Interesting Collection OF Items
From the Four Northwest States
Of . Miscellaneous Nature Gath.
cred the Past Week.


MONTANA.
The musicians Of Missoula have for
med q union.
The state veterinarian reports tha
cattle mango is prevalent in northern
Montana.
Wolf bounty claims filed with tn,
state authorities during the past yea,
amounted to $61,639.
The cattlemen of the West Rosebud
IN carbon county, propose to get rid
OF the wild animal pests.
John Muir reports the prevalence o,
olackleg In the vicinity of his ranch
on the Missouri river. He has lost si,
head so far.
The Teton Cooperative Creamery
Association reports that during the
past season its plant manufactured
S205 pounds Of butter. which sold at
1896.
At the annual election Of the board
OF directors held by the Montana club
AT Helena, A. l.. Smith was reelected
to the three-year term and E. c. Dav
was elected to the one-year term.
Before the Butte Atheletic associa.
tlon Chester Levere of st. Paul earned
the right to 60 into the first class Of
hghtweights by knocking out Jack
Livingston Of Denver in the sixteenth
round.
Lester Bertram Morton. a young man
who raised check from "a cents to
$124 was sentenced to the states prison
at a recent session of the district court
at Missoula by Judge Woody for three
years hard labor.
Lieutenant Edward A Hickman.
First cavalry. has been ordered from
Fort Yellowstone to take charge of the
detachment at Fort Assiniboine, re-
lieving Lieutenant John F. Stephens.
Tenth infantry. who Is ordered to Join
his regiment.
G. T. Boswell, Of Silver City, aged
"a years, committed suicide by shooting
himself In the head with q revolver
January 20. The young man was one
OF the Montana volunteers in the war
with Spain. and had good record. No
cause is known for the suicide.
The monthly mean temperature of
Montana for December 1899 was 23,4
degrees; the normal for the state as
shown from degrees at Glasgow on
the 18th. The FIVE years or more of
record, was 23.4 degrees and indicates
that the temperature for the last
month was an average December.
The following is list of dead of the
First Montana infantry, whose bodies
were bdought from the Philippines on
the City of Pekin:
Company G-Private Edward s.
Moore, killed in action.
Company K-Private ]. Kennedy,
drowned.
Company M-Private Henry Archi-
bald.
Band-Private Fred Hall.
Wood is bringing $3.50 a cord on the
Moscow market.
A permanent poultry association has
been organized in Latah county.
The Security Abstract Company has
filed articles Of incorporation at Wal
lace.
The district court for the first iu.
dicial district convenes at Wallace
Monday.
Cal. White received letter from his
daughter announcing her safe arrival
at Dawson.
Lewiston has an ordinance prohib-
iting the use of barbed wire fences
along the streets
There is smallpox scare at Wallace
and at Gem, there being five cases in
the two towns.
The body Of Joseph Hook, an old
placer miner from Myrtle, was brought
over from Delta and inferred at Wal
lace.
Fire at Gem destroyed the restaurant
adjoining the postofice. The 2-year
old son of A. Magnuson, the proprietor
OF the restaurant, was burned to death.
Dan ellison working at the Father
Lode mine at Wallace, was injured by
an explosion caused by his pick strik-
ing some powder which had failed to
explode at the time the blasting was
done.
Rev. W. M. Crowther of Salmon City
has a COW that made a record of two
pounds and five ounces of butter from
one days average milking, fed on moth.
ing but clover hay.
Robert Smiley. laborer at Bells
logging camp near Granite, was killed
by the falling Of tree. He was en-
gagged in cutting down a tree when a
dead tree standing near fell upon him,
crushing his skull.
Judge Stewart has overruled the mo-
tion for new trial in the case of Paul
Corcoran, the Occur d'Alene labor lead
er serving 17-year sentance for mur-
der. A great number Of afidavits
were presented in support of the mo-
tiOn
The weather has been exceedingly
for fruit trees during the
past three weeks around Kendrick and
some express fears that February will
bring about some cold weather which
will prove disasterous to the trees The
damage that came to the trees last year
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