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Show NOKTIIWEST iNOTES The next Montana leglslaturo will ho Democratic by a fair working majority. ma-jority. ID. 0. Iargey, the young Hutto millionaire, mil-lionaire, was elected to tho Montana legislature at tho recent election. The Soclnllst vote In Montana was small, outside of llutle, where sorao-thing sorao-thing over 2,000 votes were cast. (Jcneral Solicitor W. II. ileggs of tho Orcnt Northern has confirmed tho shortage of $50,000 In the accounts of A" J. Gordon of Spokane, Wash., formerly for-merly general counsel of tho Great Northern ut Spokane. Tho monthly reports of tho Union Pacific railroad and Southern Pacific railroad for September, issued recently, recent-ly, showed that these llnriimnn lines had the largest net earnings of any month In their history. Tho directors of the Northwestern Improvement company, tho stock of which Is owned by tho Northern Pacific Pa-cific road, last week declared an extra ex-tra dividend of $11. 20 a share 011 tho stock of tho Northern Pacific Hallway Hall-way company. S. W. A. Connnt, 92 years old, cast his eighteenth vote for a Republican candidate for president of the United States ut Colorado Springs on November Novem-ber 6th, He attended the convention In 1852 which gave birth to tho He-publlcnn He-publlcnn party. A Lander, Wyo., dispatch says Mrs. Henry Hudspeth, who becamo lnsnno while traveling to Colorado City, Colo., where her mother resides, Is not to bo committed to the stato asylum, but has been adjudged mentally Incompetent Incompe-tent nnd her estate Is to bo settled. At Denver, Colo., when a tipsy man Is brought Into the police station ho I? propped up against tho wall and at once photographed. Next morning, when bo Is sober, ho Is Bhown the picture, pic-ture, and they say It Is quite surprising surpris-ing how ninny absolute cures havo been effected by this simple proceeding. proceed-ing. Justice Stafford of tho supremo court of tho district of Columbia hns overruled tho motions for new trial made by Frederick A. Hydo and Joseph Jo-seph Schneider, convicted Inst spring of conspiracy to tie fraud tho United States In connection with securing of Innd grants, In Oregon and Washington. Washing-ton. As tho result of a double shooting affray at tho resldenco of Mrs. H. Cnmcle, nt Hamilton, Out., Chester A, Johnson Is dead and Hosle Oulmot Is In tho hospital and may not live. Johnson did tho shooting. Ho had been keeping company with tho young woman against the wishes of her parents. Kloven-yenr-old Hobort Slawson of Jonosvlllc, Wis., was awakened at night and found the house tilled with smoke. Ho helped his mother, father and baby Bister out of tho house, as I hoy were all In a dazed condition, ind then retained presence of mind to turn in nn alarm, thus preventing a serious fire. Tho Initial capacity of tho nig Horn company's plant on tho Dig Horn river, near Uoysen, Wyo., Is to bo 5,000 electrical horsepower, although tho company will have at Its disposal water power sufficient to generate 10,-000 10,-000 electrical horsepower. Additional electrical power will bo converted at soon as there Is a demand for It. A hend-on collision between a passenger pas-senger nnd freight train on tho Grand Trunk railway occurred near Danvy, Canada. Oliver Tremly of Wheat-lands, Wheat-lands, Cnnnda, an old man, was killed. C. II. Tobln, member of parliament from llromptonvllle, nnd his two daughters woro seriously Injured, nnd savornl others wero slightly Injured. Tho body of a man, belloved to bo Volly Mann, who had been shot through tho head, wns found on tho prnlrio about twelve miles from North Plnttc, Nob., by Sheriff Kugeno Heal. Tho officer had been guided to tho FjKit whero tho body lay by Mrs. Jen-11I0 Jen-11I0 Minor Smith, who charges that her husband, John Henry Dale Smith, killed Mnnn. Hesldents of Soattle aro confident that tho coming Yukon-Alaska-Paclflo exposition will equal tho great world's fair held some tlmo ago at Chicago, and anticipate that It will boom Seattle Seat-tle to such nn extent that the city will become tho lender of tho entlro Pacific Paci-fic const. James J. Hill, chairman of the ox-1 ecutlvo comniltteo of tho Grcnt Northern North-ern Itnllwoy company, nrrlved In Portland last Friday to attend the ox-erclses ox-erclses fn connection with tho formnl opening of tho Spoknne, Portland & Senttlo railroad, known as tho "North Hank road." Sunk In twenty-live feet of water and ten feet of driftwood nnd sand at tho bottom of rlvor rapids, a diamond drill, steam cngluo, hoist nnd other mnchlnory belonging to tho reclamation reclama-tion system has been salvaged In I.n-doro I.n-doro canyon, 110 miles south of Hock Springs, Wyo. As u result of nn election quarrol, Geno PendergaRt, a gambler, Is In Jail nt Hcno, Nevada, charged with ut-tomptlng ut-tomptlng to kill his brothor-ln-lnw, William I.unsford. president of tho Typographical union. Pendergnst resented re-sented Lnnsford's election Tuesday to tho stnto usuombly. Robert Andorson of the official Btaft of tho United States geological survey of Washington, who has been devoting sovornl months to tho study of .qll conditions con-ditions In various parts ot Callfnrulu, arrived In Itono lust week to cngngo In n ton day's Investigation ot nil prospects pros-pects noar that town. Thonins Smith, n brldgo contractor, wns accident ly killed at Tuft Mont., whllo exhibiting to somo 'frlouda his now automatic rovolVor. Tho weapon slipped from his hnnds, struck tho floor and was discharged, tho bullet striking Mr. Smith In tho loft sldo and ponotrallng tho heart |