| Show ra NORTHWEST NOTES Former Judge Gordon arrested at Tacoma for alleged embezzlement at Spokane gave bonds In the sum of 20000 and will demand Immediate trial John IT Horner proprietor of the hotel at neltz Wyo dropped dead on January 20 from heart disease Horner Hor-ner was well known In hotel circles nf Utah Wyoming and < Montana The Butte Miners union Is raising 4 fund for a monument to tho late Ucorgo A Iettlbono of Orchard murder mur-der trlal fame Subscription lists arc still open The shaft It Is said will he raised In Denver Sterilization of tho criminal Insane le the object of onp of tho Important measures Introduced In tho Oregon legislature The measure Is being advocated ad-vocated by many physicians and It Is arousing unusual Interest A richly dressed woman was found face down hi a skiff half filled with water floating in the bay at Seattle The only clue to the Identity of the woman was n delicately tattooed bracelet on the left arm with the word Mllly i on It It Is 1 believed that Dr II I Stuart who loft Ocean Springs Miss In fiord 1007 for the gold fields of Nevada has perished In time desert file lost word received of Dr Stuart was from Wellington near Walker late and Reno After a prolonged debate the Oregon Ore-gon senate refused to memorallzo congress to tidopt measures for tho I suppression of polygamy Republican members declared that Utah the nato aimed nL Is capable of taking tare of tho question Wi lam Rockett of Fall River Mass formerly employed at the Utah Construction company on the Western Pacific railroad was found dead sitting sit-ting ifrlght lu a chair in a back loom of a saloon In Reno Nevada The cause of death Is unknown At a meeting of tile executive com mlttee of the Colorado Federation ot Womens clubs In Denver Mrs Adrlanna Hungerford president of the Colorado Wi C T U charged that iJ polygamy was being practiced openly In tho southern portion of the state Because of financial losses and poor health II D lough state organizer lot the Woodmen of tho World and well known In Montana made a desperate I des-perate but probably unsuccessful attempt at-tempt to com mitt suicide at Living Eton slashing his wrists and throat The Central Colorado Electric Power Pow-er company has closed u conrtact for Inilldlng the Baker reservoir dam In Boulder county at a cost of JGOOOO fhe now dam will bo the largest In Colorado and will Impound 500000 000 cubic feet of water It will bo 180 feet high and C50 feet long on tho crest The first serious mishap orrtIIo Montana Northern Pacific as a result of the high water caused by the warm 1 weather of last week and tho consequent I conse-quent melting of the heavy snowfall cccurred at Eddy Mont when 120 1 feet of track was washed out and through heavy train service brought to a standstill P S Hanson head carpenter of tho Meyer Chapman bank In the course cf construction In Red Lodge Mont was Instantly killed by the door and framework of the vault weighing 2800 pounds falling on him The accident acci-dent occurred while Hanson was talking talk-ing to the wife of one of the owners of tho building It develops that W < L Scelcy who killed his wife and daughter at Seattle Seat-tle and then committed suicide had reached the end of his means had borrowed money saw no way to pay it back and let false pride keep him from making known Us desperate financial straits to his friends or relatives rela-tives and ended the struggle t t Tho trial of George Franklrausor nt Helena on lima charge of robbing a Great Northern train near Rondo In September 1007 Is now on Tho evidence evi-dence adduced tends to show tho 1 presence of Frankhauser and his alleged al-leged companion In crime McDonald In the vicinity of Rondo Immediately prior to the Bcnsatlonal affair Radical changes are proposed by sportsmen In eastern Washington as amendments to the now code of laws for the protection of game to bo submitted sub-mitted to the legislature now In sts Ion at Oyympla by the Washington State Game and Fish Protective association asso-ciation Governor D II lirooks as com tnnnder 1n chief of the Wyoming ml f lltla has renppolnted AdjutantGen crab P A Gatchcll and Assistant Adjutant Ad-jutant Gencrnl W R Schnltger Tho remainder of the staff was reappointed reap-pointed with one or two minor exceptions ex-ceptions With his bride of three months whom ho married In the Jail clinging to his arm and Bobbing convulsively 1 Tony Clark found guilty of one of this most daring saloon holdups In the history of Butte waa sentenced tc nineteen years In the Deer Lodge ponltenltary Robert Spauldlng a Janitor was killed In an elevator accident In tin city hall in Tacoma Ho was In thf freight cage beneath the passenger cage of the elevator and the onorntoi vas not aware of his presence As the elevator started Spauldlng was caught and hie skull crushed John T Dunn secretary of tho hoard of control of time TrnnBinlssourl Dry Farming congress has sent n letter to Pro ld < nf Roosevelt urging the president to rrqui t members ot the COUP try Irt i < ciniiulsslon to attend at-tend the sessions of tho Dry Farming tOllsrres at Clicyrnne February 25 |
