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Show NORTHWEST NOTES The Alaska-Yiikon-Pacinc exposition will bo tho first world's fair to bo com pleto In advance of tho opening day. Tho Seattle Electric company hnf .expended $91Q,600 for now cars to be ubed next summer during tho Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition. Motor boats pxhlbltcd at the Alaska Yukon-Pacific exposition will bo en tered in n roco from Seattle to Juneau, Ju-neau, Alaska, and return. Tho Washington stnto exposition commission will dupllcato tho prizes offered by tho Alaska-Yukon-Paclflc exposition in tho poultry show. John Dornn, n miner, beenmo vlo lently Insane In a hotel at Reno; nnd started In to dcmolsh the furniture, giving tho officers a severe tustle before be-fore being landed, In a cell. C. "Verry Bnrtaga, a coal minor who was shot during an affray In a resort nt DIamondville, Wyo., and who was brought to Rock Springs to be operated oper-ated upon, died at tho depot. A bill has been Introduced In tho Montana legislature which would create cre-ate a fund for disabled and maimed coal mine employees by levying a royalty roy-alty of ono cent) a ton on all production, produc-tion, A new bill to prohibit pool rooms and bookmaklng, except at fairs, and limiting race meetings to six days In any ono year In a single county has been Introduced In the Montana legislature. leg-islature. Newspapers all over the United States aro going to send parties to Seattle Se-attle next summer during the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition. The par ties will bo composed of young ladles selected by contests. Tho supremo court of Nevada has rendered a decision In tho case of T B. Rickey, president of tho defunct State bank, In which Is upholds the constitutionality of tho Pyne banking law passed years ago. Following tho arrival of a United States postal Inspector, Postmaster J W. Kennedy of Searchlight,' Nevada, blew off tho top of his head with a revolver. re-volver. A shortago of $G00 was discovered dis-covered In his accounts, Th Seattle Aero club has offered a trophy for airship and balloon tllghtt similar to tho Scientific American clubs. The cup will bo awarded to tho winner of tho contest at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition. Alaska will show its salmon fisher les, sealing, halibut and cod flshorlet and the whaling Industry at the Alaska-Yukon-Paclflc exposition bj photographs and moving pictures. It will be the most novel moving picture, show In existence. George Frankhauser, convicted ol holding up a Great Northern train al Rondo, Mont., when he and his companion com-panion stole $40,000 from a registered mall sack, has been sentenced to life Imprisonment in the military prison at Fort Leavenworth. Tho state of Wyoming has offered a beautiful gold and stiver cup for tho best exhibit of dry-farming products pro-ducts made during tho Transmissourl Dry Farming congress at Cheyenne next month. Other valuable prizes havo also been offered. M. J. Meany, tho Portland youth who was convicted upon his confession confes-sion to an attempt to rob Henry Schilling, Schil-ling, a well known business man of Butto, has been sentenced by Judge Michael Donlan to twenty years In the penitentiary, tho limit. Whllo riding along tho big canal of tho Wadsworth Light and Power company com-pany at Wadsworth, Nevada, Robert Esden, aged 12 and son of tho president presi-dent of tho company, was thrown from his horso and had his brains dashed out against tho trunk of a tree. Tho Atlantic, Gulf & Pacific company com-pany has filed articles of Incorporation Incorpora-tion at Reno, Nevada. Tho principal business for which tho company Is formed is dredging, pier' and dock building, railroad construction and (iener.il engineering and construction work. M. Pnxton, a rancher living near Sundance, Wyoming, shot his wife- in tho face and his stepson In the groin, and then nttemptcd sulcldo, but nil of tho parties will recover. Paxton Is believed to be Insane, and Is confined in the county jail, awaiting an investigation. investi-gation. Tho Infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T, A. Doorman of Kallspoll Mont., was choked to death by a peanut pea-nut shell becoming lodged In tho child's throat. Tho parents started for Spokane to hnvo an operation per formed, and death ensued on the train. Govornor Norrls or Montana has granted a respite of sixty days tc Frederick Lcbau of Flathead county, sentenced to be hanged Fobmary 1G for tho murder of tho Yokum family Lcbau's partner was given a Ufo sentence, sen-tence, nnd Lcbau wants his sentence commuted. As tho result of an explosion of fire damp following a dlschargo of dyna-mlto dyna-mlto In tho mlno operated at Ashford Wash., by tho Mooro Investment company com-pany of Seattle, ono miner Is entombed en-tombed undor tons of jocks, another la dead from suffocation, whllo two aro Injured. Louis Jcrodk, n coal miner who had hoarded his savings nnd bought n farm near Tacomn, whero ho Hvod the llfo of a hermit, last woek went raving rav-ing mad, nnd Is now In tho asylum. On his person was-found five $1,000 county bonds, with coupons calling for $150 Interest. May Peono, an Indian girl who has $30,000 In cash in bank and vatuablo real ostato, was urrcstod In Tacoma lor drunkenness last weok and lined. Tho girl offored tho desk sorgequt $3,000 In cash and a kiss If ho would rolcaso her without prosecution, but to no avail. |
