Show NORTHWEST NOTES Ono fireman Ulllctl and six Injured 11 i 3 tho record of a fight with fire In the sixstory block of tho Davis Stuith Furniture company In Tacoma Coal was first discovered In Wyoming Wyo-ming by Fremont In 1843 on Platto river near the mouth of Sago crcelt at a point now known as Coal Bluffs Gulseppo Alia slayer of Father Leo pleaded not guilty to tho charge of murder when arraigned In the criminal court fn Denver Judge Greeley Whltford set his trial for Monday March 9 Edward Price a Colorado Midland railroad engineer shot his wife set flro to tho house and then blow out his own brains at Florissant Colo Tho shooting Is supposed to have been tho result of Insanity The Ormsby county Nevada Jury returned an Indictment against 11 13 nlckey president of tho State bank on six counts for embezzlement fixIng fix-Ing the ball at ten thousand dollars on each count or GO000 In allAn all-An International congress of authors au-thors editors publishers and publicists public-ists In Denver from July 14 to 25 Immediately following tho national Democratic convention Is projected by tho Denver convention league Wilford B Hoggott governor of Alaska was married to Miss Clarissa Eames Millard at tho homo of the brides parents at Utica N Y on the 2Gth Miss Millard met tho governor while on a trip to Alaska last year It Is believed that Father Heln rlchs who was assassinated In Denver Den-ver lust week Incurred tho enmity of anarchists at Paterson N J while stationed there and that ho was a marked man when ho came to Denver William G Conrad of Montana who Is now In tho east will bo a candidate candi-date for vice president on the Democratic Demo-cratic national ticket to be nomlnted at Denver In July Ho Is a native of Virginia and many times a millionaire million-aire Diphtheria has been quite prevalent In Callente Nevada several cases and one death having occurred It Is thought the Indians have spread the contagion It is known that an Indian child died with tho disease before it appeared among the whites Montanas sixteenhour law for railroad rail-road employes in tho train service has been declared by tho supremo court to bo valid and constitutional and tho Northern Pacific must pay tho 100 fine for Its violation imposed by Judgo Clements of Helena A project which will mean tho reclamation rec-lamation of 230000 acres of desert land In the southeastern part of Ne odtl on tho Salt Lake Route between be-tween Salt Lake City and Loa Angeles Ange-les has been started and will reach its culmination in a few months Future boxing exhibitions in Cody Wyo are to be held In a large tent which tho Cody Athletic club has purchased pur-chased from an Omaha company Recently Re-cently tho largest hall in Cody has been too small tb accommodate the crowds desiring to attend prize fights Superintendent O M Marsh of the Ellers smelters at Pueblo Colo I owned by tho American Smelting I Smelt-ing Refining company has received two letters In the past week In which ho Is threatened with death unless tho plant resumes oper ation at once giving employment to the men who nro idle In connection with tho attack made In tho supreme court upon the constitutionality consti-tutionality of the legislative apportionment appor-tionment acts of 1U07 1U01 and 18U3 the startling contention is made Hint if tho suit succeeds every law passed by every Wyoming legislature with the exception of that of 1813 must be declared unconstitutional Sixteen persons were Injured live of them seriously at Lakeside a now amusement park in Jefferson county vest of Denver and Just beyond the city limits when a car on the scenic railway left the tracks and hurled tho occupants to tho Mooing ten feet below Tom Dean a miner has been murdered at Gold Circle Nevada his frozen body being found covered with snow The back of his head had been crushed in and his pockets had been rilled George Dove another miner has been arrested for tho crime Former United States Senator W A Clark in a telegram to the Butte Miner from New York City positively positive-ly denies a Boston report of tho sale by him of his properties in Butte to the Amalgamated Copper company or companies associated with that croporatlon Made Jealous because of the refusal I of Mrs Omar Klum of Portland to I recelvo his attentions William Dur rail a horso trader of Oregon City hot the woman four times and Inflicted Inflict-ed probably fatal Injuries and then shot himself Durrall died a few moments mo-ments later United States Attorney Rasch of lIelena last week filed suit against tho Great Northern and Butte Anaconda Ana-conda Pacific Railway companies alleging violations of tho safety appliance ap-pliance laws rite suits woro brought at tho behest of tho Interstate commerce I com-merce commission Horace G McKinley convicted of land frauds in Oregon has been sentenced sen-tenced to servo two years in tho Mul tonomnh county Jail and to pay a fine of 7GOO McKInley was wildly excited when he learned ho was not to bo sent to McNeils Island and his joy wns unrestrained Jessup tho now mining district thirty miles southwest of lovelock Nevada continues to bo tho center ol attraction for the prospector and Investment seeker and dining the past week tine Influx of people has been much larger than any tlmo since the big rish was started |