Show NORTHWEST NOTES The next Montana legislature will bo Democratic by a fair working majority ma-jority B 0 Largo tho young Butte millionaire mil-lionaire was elected to the Montana I legislature at tho recent election I The Socialist vote In Montana was small outside of Butte where something some-thing over 2000 votes were cast General Solicitor W II Hoggs of tho Great Northern has confirmed tho shortage of 50000 In the accounts of A J Gordon of Spokane Wash formerly for-merly general counsel of tho Great Northern at Spokane Tho monthly reports of the Union Pacific railroad and Southern Pacific railroad for September issued recently recent-ly showed that these Harriman lines had the largest not earnings of any month In their history Tho directors of the Northwestern Improvement company tho stock of which is owned by tho Northern Pa clllc road last week declared an extra ex-tra dividend ot 1120 a share on tho stock of the Northern Pacific Hallway Hall-way company S W A Conant 92 years old oast his eighteenth vote for a Republican candidate for president of tho United Stales at Colorado Springs on November Novem-ber 5th Ho attended tho convention In 1852 which gave birth to time Republican Re-publican party A Lander Wyo dispatch says Mrs Henry Hudspeth who became Insane while traveling to Colorado City Colo where her mother resides Is not to be committed to the state asylum but hall been adjudged mentally incompetent Incompe-tent and her estate Is to bo settled At Denver Colo when a tipsy mans man-s brought into tho police station ho is propped up against tho wall and at once photographed Next morning when ho is sober ho Is shown tho pIcture pic-ture und they say it Is quite surprising surpris-Ing how many absolute cures have been effected by this simple proceeding proceed-Ing injustice justice Stafford of tho supremo court of tho district of Columbia has overruled tho motions for now trial made by Frederick A Hyde and Joseph Jo-seph Schneider convicted last spring of conspiracy to defraud tho United States In connection with securing of land grants In Oregon and Washington Washing-ton tonAs As tho result of a double shooting affray at the residence of Mrs D Camolc at Hamilton Ont Chester A Johnson Is dead and Roslo Oulmet is In the hospital and may not live Johnson did tho shooting He had been keeping company with the young woman against the wishes of her parents Eieven yea old Robert Slawson of ronesvllle Wis was awakened at night and found the house filled with smoke Ho help d his mother father md baby sister out of tho house as they ware ull In a dazed condition mil then retained presence of mind to turn in an alarm thus preventing a serious fire Tho initial capacity of the Big Horn companys plant on the Dig Horn river near Boysen Wyo is to bo iOOO electrical horsepower although he company will have at Its disposal water power sufficient to generate 10 000 electrical horsepower Additional electrical power will be converted as soon as there Is a demand for it A headon collision between a passenger pas-senger and freight train on the Grand Trunk railway occurred near Danvy Canada Oliver Tremly of Wheat lands Canada an old mnn was killed C II robin member of parliament from Bromptonvllle and his two daughters wore seriously Injured and several others were slightly injured The body of a man believed to be Volly Mann who had been shot through tho head was found on tho prairie about twelve miles from North Platto Neb by Sheriff Eugene Deal Tho officer had been guided to tho spot where the body lay by Mrs Jennie Jen-nie Miner Smith who charges that her husband John Henry Dale Smith killed Mann Residents of Seattle arc confident that the coming Yukon Alaska Pacific exposition will equal tho great worlds fair held some time ago at Chicago and anticipate that it will boom Seattle Seat-tle to such an extent that the city will become tho leader of tho entire Pacific Paci-fic coast James J Hill chairman of tht executive ex-ecutive committee of the Great Northern North-ern Railway company arrived In Portland last Friday to attend the ox erciscs in connection with tho formal opening of tho Spokane Portland Seattle railroad known as the North Dank road Sunk In twentyfive feet of water and ten feet of driftwood and sand at tho bottom of river rapids a diamond drill steam engine hoist and other machinery belonging to the reclamation reclama-tion system has been salvaged In La lore canyon 110 miles south of Rock Springs Wyo As a result of an election quarrel Gene Pendorgast a gambler is In Jail at Reno Nevada charged with attempting at-tempting to Kill his brotherinlaw William Lunsford president of the Typographical union Pendorgast repented re-pented Irtmsfords election Tuesday to the state assembly Robert Anderson of tho official start of the United States geological survey of Washington who has been devoting several months to the study of oil conditions con-ditions In various parts of California arrived in Reno last week to engage in a ten days Investigation of oil prospects pros-pects near that towns Thomas Smith a bridge contractor was accldently killed at Taft Mont While exhibiting to some friends his now automatic revolver Time weapon slipped from his hands struck the floor and was discharged the bullet striking Mr Smith in the left side and penetrating the heart |