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Show NORTHWEST NOTES Tulc lake, in Oregon, Is emptying Itself through a subterranean hole down which tho water is pouring In a whirlpool with deatenlng noise. Tho First National bank of Fallon, Nevada, has been authorized to commence com-mence business by tho comptroller ot tho currency with a capital stock ot $25,000. Whllo tho driver or n Wolls Fargo express wagon was delivering a pack-ago pack-ago at a store In tho business district of Reno, Nevada, a thlct took a sack containing $5,D00 In gold and currency from tho wagon scat and escaped without detection. Tho sennto voted down Senator Borahs amendment to tho codo bill prohibiting senators nnd congressmen nccoptlng fees for services as attorneys attor-neys In any court proccduro In which tho United States Is directly or Indirectly Indi-rectly Interested. Rov. Benjamin Parsons, aged 82, tho oldest Presbyterian minister on tho coast, died at Scattlo on tho 20th, nfter an Illness or ono day, whllo preparing pre-paring ror n foreign missionary rally In Seattle, over which he was to pro-sldo pro-sldo on March 9. In tho death or Mrs. J. B. F. Reynolds from valvular heart troublo on Sunday, Sun-day, at her rosldenco In Denver, Colorado Colo-rado lost ono or Its most actlvo philanthropists. phil-anthropists. Needy nnd unfortunate persons who havo been assisted by Mrs. Roynolds number hundreds. Tho announcement of tho candidacy or Tascar L. Oddlo or Tonopah for United States Benator has been mado by prominent Republicans of Carson, Nevada. Mr. Oddlo has amassed a largo fortuno In mines. Ho will on-denvor on-denvor to succeed Senator Nowlands. J. J. Fltzmnurlco, nged 73, blind nnd an Inmnto ot tho poor houBO, who had been chnrged with tho murder ot W. F. Baker, nged 72, also n pauper, wns dismissed by Judge Grlce at Butto laBt week. It had been shown that Fltzmaurlco struck Baker In soir-defonso. soir-defonso. Danlol Sulllvnn has been renominated renomi-nated for postmaster or Cripple CrcoU, Colo. Sullivan was actlvo In protecting protect-ing Mr. Roosevelt against assaults when ho wns at Crlpplo Creek In the campaign ot 1900, nnd ho secured his rcnominatlon In tho fnco of somo opposition. op-position. Frank Pnrkhurst of Chicago accidentally acci-dentally shot himself Just aftor boarding board-ing n Colorado & Southern passenger train at Trinidad, Colo., inflicting a probably fatal wound. As ho was walking through n car tho hammer ot a revolver In his overcoat pocket struck tho end of a scat, llrlng tho weapon. Georgo W. Wcssclls, n veteran actor who had played loading parts with Edwin Booth nnd many other prominent promi-nent stago folk during tiro past thirty-ilvo thirty-ilvo yenrs, died in Denvor laBt wcok of parnlysls, superinduced by exposure expos-ure when playing with Blancho Batoa in "Tho Darling ot tho Gods," threo years ago. Tho rcdoral court or Nevada has granted n temporary Injunction In favor fa-vor of tho plaintiff company against tho Jumbo Extension Mining company, com-pany, forbidding cltlror company from oxtrnctlng, shipping or selling ot nny oro from their workings on tho Gold Wedgo claim. Tho dlsputo Is over apex rights. Tho Inspector In chargo ot Immigration Immigra-tion service, with headquarters In Helenn, has rocolvod Instructions from tho department at Washington to begin an Investigation ot all penal, charltablo, reformatory and other Institutions In-stitutions In his district, with tho vlow or ascertaining tho number of aliens quartered therein. Tho sawmills nt Hamilton, Mont., of tho Anaconda Copper Mining com-pnny, com-pnny, of tho Amalgamated Coppor group of companies, will resume oper-ntlona oper-ntlona March 2. This plant cuts tim-bor tim-bor for uso In tho mines or Butto nnd In somo quarters Irs resumption Is regarded re-garded as significant or nn early re-oponlng re-oponlng or tho coppor mines. Representative Mondell has Introduced Intro-duced a now 320-ncro homostcad bill, somewhat different from tho Bmoot bill, roportcd to tho senate last week, which applies only to Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, North and South Dnkota. Oregon, Utah, Wyoming, Now Mexico nnd Ak-lzona, and permits porsons qualified to make homestoads to take up under tho homestead law 320 acres ot non-mineral, non-lrrlga-bio", unresorved nnd unappropriated survoyed public lands which do not contain merchantable tlmbor. Rail rates trom Northorn Pacific common points in Montann to Chlcngo havo boon reduced from 45 ceptu to 42 conts, nccordlng to word received by tho railroad commission. This is tho result ot a now ngrooment mado by tho Northorn Pacific with tho Burlington. Bur-lington. Burlington train No. 5, westbound, on tiro Northf-rn Pnclilo tracks, was ditched near Cocolnlka, Ida., presumably presum-ably by a broken rail. Everything but tho onglno lett tho tracks. Conductor Con-ductor J. U Brnzollon wob badly cut and bruised and soveral passongora received bad bumps, Flvo rallroqd men, who wero ovor-como ovor-como by gns In tho Mullan tunnel near Blossburg. Mont., narrowly escaped es-caped death by asphyxiation, and ono or then Is not yet out ot danger. An exceptionally heavy train, drawn by tin onglno nnd a Irolpor, stalled In tho mlddlo or tho tunnel. N. M, Lowthor, a Denver & Rio Grnndo railroad timekeeper, was shot and mortally wounded at Alamosa, Colo., when scoklng admlttanco to his wlto's apartments In tho Mandor I block, by Linn Holbrook, Bon ot District Dis-trict Judgo C. C. Holbrook. Holbrook surrendered to tho authorities. |