Show NORTHWEST NOTES the nevada commercial league will I 1 push a bill creating a railroad corn mission A bill has passed the state senate to move the county seat from hawthorne to goldfield nevada the coal shortage in oregon anal washington has become so merlou that the railroads are annulling trains and refusing freight at many po ants in order to haul coal five firemen including chief john dulmage were injured at a fire which raged tor hours in denver robert geddes and william martin who fell from the roof are seriously injured an express train on the southern pacific was ditched near deeth ne vada the spill being caused by a broken rail eight cars being thrown from the trade one man was killed and alve slightly injured five indians were burned to death in a fire which destroyed the jail at the umatilla reservation in oregon the origin of the fire is unknown but it is thought that they were try ing to burn their way out the first case of the rare oriental disease of beri beri known in the west is now being treated at the union pa hospital at cheyenne M ma a japanese bention hand on the union fie is the victim charles filpot who was charged with the murder of ness cole a lone ly rancher on march 28 1906 was found guilty at spokane of murder ir the first degree the jury was ou two hours and minutes the senate and house of the bregor legislature elected two united state senators jonathan bourne jr 0 portland for the long term and fredi W mulkey of portland tor the shor term both are republicans what bids fair to be one of the long est drawn out and bitterly contested contest eq criminal cases in the history of thi united states court in montana wa begun in helena last week when ed ward P mason was placed on trial tor the alleged murder of riley hafl of chicago at fort assiniboine last august james pingree and aman moore of the union portland cement company at ogden announced in butte last week the purchase of 3 acres of cement field at logan mont they say they will put in a million dollar plant to produce 1 barrels dally in eighteen months they will also build the town of Ce menton the preliminary skirmish in the fight tor railroad regulation in ne vada came off last week folsom ol 01 washoe county introduced a tion providing for a steering corn cittee to be composed of one mem her of each county in the state to formulate methods of procedure on all railroad legislation three boys playing war in the base ment of the new infantry barracks at fort russell near cheyenne wyo set fire to a quantity of powder and in explosion occurred which damaged the barracks to the extent of 15 ind seriously injured the boys one of the boys a son of the tort plum ber named mcdonald is expected to die persons who have made homestead on land in the states of north dakota south dakota idaho minne sota montana washington and wyom ing where the period in which they were required by law to establish rest dence expired after december 1 1906 are granted under a joint resolution passed by the house last week until may 15 1907 in which to make such settlement arthur brown of sprague wash a student in the veterinary course at the washington state college in pull man was arrested at moscow idaho on a charge of threatening the life of edith acoree of oakesdale Oak esdale also a student at the college brown was insanely jealous of the girl and tried to shoot her A windstorm at centennial thirty miles west of cheyenne did much damage tire wind came from the southwest and raged several hours the gang on the lara mie plains line were forced to leave work the town of rhyolite the capital city of the bullfrog district is now the proud possessor of a genuine stock and mining exchange the membership of the exchange is urn cited to 0 and anere are seventy five charter members after a spirited debate a resolution was adopted by the tenth annual convention of the american national livestock association in session at denver supporting the policy of the federal administration in reference to ane public lands the execution of patsy dwyer con evicted of the murder of wil hams a conductor of the nevada cen aral railway at austin nevada was prevented at carson last week by an order of the supreme court of nevada granting him a new trial A party of burlington contractors and constructors have begun building i line of railroad through the famous big horn canyon in wyoming in or der to forestall the northwestern line which was to be built borough the same canyon next spring francis E warren was last week re elected united states senator from wyoming receiving 63 votes out of a total of 70 senator warren ra calved the unanimous vote of the re publicans the democrats votes were given to colln hunter of cheyenne A aibel law framed along the lines of ue pennypacker law of pennsylva nia and containing an anti cartoon provision which was introduced by representative J J laton 0 denver vas passed by th lower hove ef the colorado legislature by a vote ol 01 3 to IS |