Show = = = NORTHWEST NOTES Business men of Denver have begun talking for a worlds fair to bo held In the Colorado capital In 1911 Tho Oregon legislature assembled on January 11 both houses perfecting organizations C N McArthur being chosen ns speaker ot the house and Jay Bowerman president of the senate sen-ate According to the report of tho slate uperlntcmUnt of public Instruction lf Montana thero are 70909 children of school age In that state This Is a fain of several thousand over tho necedlng year The recent severe rainstorms have caused n great deal of atmoyanco and lOss to residents of Reno Nevada business houses along tho river being hooded and telephone and < telegraph service badly crippled In a pistol duel In a saloon In Seven Troughs Nevada George L Jordan was shot In the left arm after striking strik-ing William Morrison over tho head with a bottle Both men fired several sev-eral shots but their aim was bad Sheepmen whoso Hocks air ranging rang-ing In the Tied Desert country In Wyoming fear heavy losses ns a result re-sult of the recent snowstorms It Is estimated that there aro at least a nllllou head of sheep In that section sec-tion Two men wore burned to death fnc was probably fatally burped i and two painfully Injured In tho destruction destruc-tion by fire of tho Great Northern hotel at Everett Wash on January 14 An explosion of gasoline caused the fire g Tho Southern Pacific oil house tit Wells Nevada was destroyed by fire last week Por ci time tho flro threatened threat-ened to spread to adjoining railroad property but was held In chock by the effortsof citizens and railroad employes Tho French lhree masted ship Alice bound from London to Portland Port-land went ashore during a gale at Ocean Park which lies about twenty miles up Washington coast from the Columbia river The crew got safely ashore John C Beatty aged 05 of Mount Vernon N Y said to bo a wealthy landowner was found dead In a bathtub bath-tub In Denver In which hot water was running As far as known tho body had been in the water all night and was literally boiled Thomas Naghton one of the ear llest pioneers of Montana aged 80 tears died suddenly at Helena on January Jan-uary 12 He was one of the first bottlers of Alder Gulch and was prominently prom-inently connected with mining and ranch interests of the slate Beryl Benjamin Lasa a young attorney at-torney was declared not guilty in Federal Judge Lewiss court in Denver Den-ver of using tho hypnotic eye or exercising powers of clairvoyance to Influence jurors to hand down verdicts ver-dicts favorable to his clients George Campbell and William Par i Dell came near losing their lives thirty mles north of Reno Nevada when they were caught In a storm while walking from a construction camp to Reno They were found b passersby end It is feared both men will lose both legs they were so badly bad-ly I frozen Bellingham Wash was shaken by an earthquake at 345 oclock January 11 The buildings In all parts of town were Jarred Hundreds of people rushed into the streets Tho duration ol 1 tho shock was about ton seconds Some of the brick buildings were so badly shaken that the plaster fell to tho floor Wnat Is probably the largest tfI1 cf caribou on earth numbering according ac-cording to arrivals at Dawson from Laleux valley half a million was last week reported trekking In the course of a sudden chango of winter quarters from Sixty Milo creek to the ipnana river the line of march being be-ing from 18 to 20 miles In width to his message to the legislature Governor Chamberlain of Oregon urges strict observance of the direct primary pledge on the election of a United States senator It happens that Governor Chamberlain himself Is the choice of tho people for the senate 0 W Mathis who confessed to wiecUIng tho Exchange State bank of Blalno Wash In November 1907 and pleaded guilty to a forgery charge of May 1908 receiving a sentence sen-tence of fourteen years In tho penitentiary peni-tentiary has been portioned by Governor Gov-ernor Mead The Denver Trades and Labor assembly at a recent meeting adopted resolutions denouncing tho recent decision de-cision of the supreme court of tho DIsUlct of Columbia sentencing Com pens Mitchell and Morrison of tho American Federation of Labor to fine nnd imprisonment A lono masked bandit entered the Bridge restaurant on tho West Holly street viaduct Bellingham Wash Just before daylight on January 11 He lined tho patrons cook and waiter up against tho wall with a revolver and looted the cash register securing 103 and disappeared Jacob Brcntlc a PolishGerman 46 years of age was brought Into Lombard Lom-bard Mont In a serious condition trans wounds and exposure tho charge being made by Brentlc that he was sot upon by a companion shot and robbed He will recover from his frightful experience E H Harriman has ordered the engineering en-gineering department tho Union Pacific Pa-cific railroad to at once parallel tho lines of the Colorado and Southern In the northern part of Colorado A construction force of over ltfOO men will be thrown Into the field as uv > n ia hey can be organized |