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Show NORTHWEST NOTES Five death 'sand a property loss of $1,000,000 Is tho result of the recent floods In King county, Washington. As a result of the recent election, n llpubllcan will be sent to Washington Washing-ton to succeed Senator Clark of Montana. Mon-tana. Six men narrowly escaped death by drowning on Pnget Sound, near Seattle, Se-attle, when nn explosion of a gasoline lank aboard the launch Polywog rendered ren-dered them helpless and nt the mercy ot n gnlo. l,ouls and Harry Sorokoff, two Rus-jlnns, Rus-jlnns, recent arrivals In Seattle, have Jlsappeareil as completely ns If the ?arth had opened and swallowed Ilium, Friends of the two men think they wero shanghaied. A blizzard has been raging in tho Judith basin, tho big grazing territory 3f central Montana, and It Is feared that considerable damage (o tho stock Interests will result, especially should the storm be or any duration. Chester Thompson, accused ot murder mur-der In the first degree for tho killing of 0. Mcndo Emory nt Seattle on July 7, will be tried In Tncomn, tho county sent of Pierce county, Judge Frntcr having granted a change of veuuo asked for by Thompson. William I'cnna, convicted of tho murder of Mrs. Susie Bryant In Butte, bus been sentenced to denth by Judge Donlau. Penmi refused to stand up when scuteuco wns being passed, and when the bailiff attempted to assist him, the condemned man showed fight, the first show of llfo ho had made since his arrest. Armed bandits held up the overland limited at Carlln, Nevada, and escaped es-caped with tho suit cases of passengers passen-gers and thu money sack of Conductor Conn. Tho railroad men at Sparks stato that they secured about $1,000 In all, A posso was formed und a pitched battle took place nt tho edge of tho town, no one being hurt. Fred Adams pleaded guilty to robbing rob-bing tho United States assay office In Seattle, and was sentenced to ten years at hard labor lu the federal penitentiary pen-itentiary nt McNeil's Island. Ho pleaded guilty to two counts charging thu theft of $:ir,000 worth of gold dust. It Is generally understood that his thefts amounted to o-vcr $200,000. According to members of tho special spe-cial prison commission, officials of tho Washington State penitentiary have unearthed a plot to blow up tho guards' quarters with liltro-glycerlne, , stolen from tho Jute mill, and effect the release of nearly 2f0 convicts, as they were being marched from tho prison to tho mill. Michael Storms, u pioneer mining man of Idaho nnd Montana, died of general debility In Denver Inst week. He was eighty-three years of ago and hnd been one of the mast familiar fa-miliar figures In Denver for 47 years, llo was secretary of the Colorado Pioneers' Pio-neers' association and had tho distinction distinc-tion of being tho oldest active miner In this state. Mrs. Maud Chellleld is dead at So-attle. So-attle. Mrs. Crollleld wns the wife of "Joshua" Chellleld, who was shot by George Mitchell, who believed that Creflleld had 'maltreated his sister Esther. Es-ther. Esther later shot her brother George. She and Mrs. Creflleld woro arrested for tho crime, both woman confessing that they had done It to avenge the death of "Joshua." A. J. Hcmbrcc, who wus found guilty at Tlllamnrk, Ore., of the murder of his 17-yenr-old daughter, has been sentenced sen-tenced to nn indeterminate term of Imprisonment Im-prisonment In the state penitentiary. Hombreo killed his daughter on tho night of December 28, lflOG, nnd was suspected of having nlso killed his wife, both tho bodies being practically consumed In tho flro which destroyed tho house. A burglar entered the homo of Mrs. Purker at Laramie, Wyo., stealing a purso containing $13 and some papers. Tho house Is used ns n scarlet fever quarantine hospital, tho Inmates Including In-cluding thrco or four patients. Captain II. II. Bodflsh or tho whaling itcamer William Baylies, charged with assault upon a member ot his crew on thu voyngo from San Francisco to tho Arctic whaling grounds this spring, and Captain E. W. Nowth of tho whaler Jeanette, accused of the abduction abduc-tion of nn Eskimo girl, hnvo been Indicted In-dicted by tho Seattle grand Jury. Tho British ship Galena, sixty days from Junln, Chile, for Astoria, Ore., went ashore on Clatsop beach, near Geurhurt park and within a fow miles south ot where tho Peter Ircdalo went ashore three weeks ago. Tho ofllcerc and crew all camo ashore safely. A northwestern Indoor track and field meet by telegrnph among tho leading Y, M. C. A. teams will probably prob-ably bo a feature In sporting circles within ii short time. v Tho towns represented repre-sented will be Tncomn, Seattlo, Spokane, Spo-kane, Portland, nnd probably Salt Lake City. William Whnlen, an aged mining prospector of Nevndo, who was arrested ar-rested at Sacramento, Cal tor swindling swin-dling ii number or citizens, securing several thousand dollnrs by falsa rep-tcsontntlons, rep-tcsontntlons, has been sentenced to ten yeurB' Imprisonment nt San Qucn-.In. Qucn-.In. Tho Indians of the low lands near North Ynklma, Wash., hnvo been driven driv-en from their wlgwnms by tho high wutors. and many of them uro coming Into town, hungry and penniless. Several Sev-eral Indian families iro reported drowiiodrbut this' rumor baa not been continued |