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Show NORTHWEST NOTES Business men of Denver have begun talking for a world's fair to be held In the Colorado capital In 1911. Tho Oregon legislature assembled on January 11, both houses perfecting organizations, 0. N. McArtlnir being chosen ns spenker of the house, nnd Jay Dowcrman president of tho sen-nte. sen-nte. According to the report of the state superintendent of public instruction tf Montana, there nro 70.9G9 children of school nge In that state. This Is n I aln of sevQrul thousand over the juecedlng J'enr. Tlio recent severe rainstorms havo caused n great deal of annoyance and loss to residents of Itcno, Nevada, business houses along the river being flooded and tclcphono and telegraph service badly crippled. In a pistol duel In n snloon In Seven Troughs, Nevada, Oeorgo L. Jordan was shot In tho left unit, after striking strik-ing William Morrison over tho head with a bottle. Both men fired several sev-eral shots, but their tilm was bad. Slmepinen whoso ilocks ai' ranging rang-ing In the Hod Desert country In Wyoming fenr heavy losses as u re-hijlt re-hijlt of the recent snowstorms. It Is estimated that thero nro at least a rdlllou head of sheep in that section. sec-tion. Two men woro burned to death, (,ne was probably fatally burned, and tvo painfully injured In the destruction destruc-tion by lire of tho Great Northern hotel ut Everett, Wash., on January 14. An explosion of gasoline caused the fire. Tho Southcni Pacific oil house nt Wells, Nevada, was destroyed by lire last week. For n time the (Ire threatened threat-ened to spread to adjoining railroad property, but was held In check by the efforts of citizens nnd railroad employes. Tho French three-mnsted ship Alice, bound from Ixindon to Portland, Port-land, w.cnt ashore during a gale at Ocean Park, which lies about twenty miles up tho Washington coast from llio Columbia river. Tho crow got safely ashore. John C". neatty, aged C5, or Mount Vernon, N. Y.. said to ho a wealthy landowner, wns found dead In n bathtub bath-tub in Denver, In which hot wntor was running. As far as known tho body had been In the water a'l night, and was literally boiled. Thomas Nasghton, ono of the ca.i-llcst ca.i-llcst pioneers of Montana, aged 80 cnrs, died suddenly at Helena on January Jan-uary 12. Ho was ono of the first settlers of Alder Gulch and was prominently prom-inently connected with mining and ranch Interests of tho state. Uoryl Uenjnmln Lnsa, a young attorney, at-torney, was declared not guilty In Federal Judge Iewls'a court in Denver, Den-ver, of using the "hypnotic cyo" or exercising powers of clairvoyance to Influence Jurors to hand down er-diets er-diets favorable to his nllents. George Campbell nnd Wllllnm Par-noil Par-noil came near losing their lives thirty niles north of Ueno, Nevada, when they woro caught In a storm while walking from a construction camp to Ueno. They woro found b passers-by, nnd It Is feared both men will lose both legs, they were so badly bad-ly frozen. Helllngham, Wash., was bhnken by nn earthquake at 3:4G o'clock January 11. Tho buildings In all parts of town wero Jarred. HundredB of people rushed Into the streets. The duration ol the shock was about ten seconds. Sonio of the brick buildings wero bo badly shaken that tho plaster foil to the (loop. What la probably the lnrgest herd of caribou on earth, numbering, according ac-cording to arrivals at Dawson from I.adcux valley, hnlf a million, wns lust week reported trekking in the courso of a sudden chango of winter-quarters winter-quarters from Sixty Mile creek to tlio 'innnna rlvor, the lino of march being be-ing from 18 to 20 tulles In width. In his message to tho legislature, Governor Cliatnborlaln, of Oregon, urges Btrlct observance of tho direct primary pledgo on tho election of United States senator. It happens that Governor Chamberlain himself Is the choice of the. people for the sonato. O. W. Mathls, who confessed to wrecking tho Kxchango Stno bank ot Hlalno Wash., In November, 1907, and pleaded guilty to a forgory chargo ot May, 1908, receiving a sentence sen-tence of fourteen years In tlio penitentiary, peni-tentiary, has been pardoned by Governor Gov-ernor Mead. Tho Denver Trades and Uinor QBBcmbly at a recent meeting ndopted resolutions denouncing tho recent decision de-cision of the supremo court of tho District of Columbia sentencing Gom-pers, Gom-pers, Mltcholl nnd Morrison of tho American Federation of Labor to lino nnd imprisonment. A lono masked bandit cntorcd tho Ilrldgo restaurant 011 tho Vst Holly f,trnet vlnduct. UnllliiL'ham. Wash- Just beforo daylight on January 11. Ho lined tho patrons, cook nnd waitor up against tho wnll with a rovolvor and looted tho ensh reglstoi, securing $1G.1, and disappeared. Jacob nwntlc, a Polish-German, 4(1 years of age, was brought Into Lombard, Lom-bard, Mont., In a serious oondltlon Irom wounds nnd oxposuro, tho chnrgo being mndo by Urentlc tlint ho wns set upon by a companion, shot nnd robbed. Ho will recover from Ms frightful experience. 15. H, Hnrrlmnn has ordered tho engineering en-gineering department of tho Union Pacific Pa-cific railroad to at onco parallel tho lines of tho Colorado and Southern In tho nnrtliorn part of Colorado, A construction forco of over 1,000 men will bo thrown Into tho field as soon us they can bo orgnnlzed, |