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Show NORTHWEST NOTES Former Judge Gordon, arrested at Tacoma for alleged embezzlement at Spokane, gave bonds In the sum of J20.000, and will demand Immediate trial. John H. Horner, proprietor of the hotel at Deitz, Wyo., dropped dead on January 20, from heart disease. Horner Hor-ner was well known In hotel circles of Utah, Wyoming and Montana. The Butte Miners' union Is raising A fund for a monument to the late George A. Pettibone of Orchard murder-trial fame. Subscription lists are still open. The shaft, It Is said, will lie raised in Denver. Sterilization of the criminal insane 1b the object of one of the important, measures introduced in the Oregon legislature. The measure is being advocated ad-vocated by many physicians, and it is arousing unusual interest. A richly dressed woman was found face down in a skiff half filled with vater, floating In the bay at Seattle. The only clue to ihe identity of the woman was a delicately tattooed bracelet on the left aim with the word "Mllly" on it. It is believed that Dr. H. I,. Stuart, who left Ocean Springs, Miss., in March, 1907, for the gold fields of Nevada, has perished in the desert. The last word received of Dr. Stuart was from Wellington, near Walker Lake, and Reno. After a prolonged debate the Oregon Ore-gon senate refused to momorallze congress to adopt measures for the suppression of polygamy. Republican members declared that, Utah, the state aimed at. is capable of taking care of the question. William Rockett of Fall River, Mass., formerly employed at the Utah Construction company on the Western Pacific railroad, was found dead sitting sit-ting upright in a chair in a back room of a saloon in Reno, Nevada. The cause of death is unknown. , At a meeting of the executive committee com-mittee of the Colorado Federation of Women's clubs in Denver, Mrs. Adrlanna Hungerford, president of the Colorado Wi C. T. U., charged that polygamy was being practiced openly in the southern portion of the state. Because of financial losses and poor health, H. P. Gough, state organizer for the Woodmen of the World, and well known in Montana, made a desperate des-perate but probably unsuccessful attempt at-tempt to committ suicide at Living-Eton, Living-Eton, slashing his wrists and throat. The Central Colorado Electric Power Pow-er company has closed a conrtact for building the Baker reservoir dam in Boulder county at a cost of $60,000. The new dam will be the largest in Colorado and will impound 500,000,-000 500,000,-000 cubic feet of water. It will be 180 feet high and 650 feet long on the crest. The first serious mishap on the Montana Northern Pacific as a result of the high water caused by the warm weather of last week, and the consequent conse-quent melting of the heavy snowfall, occurred at Eddy, Mont., when 120 feet of track was washed out and through heavy train service brought to a standstill. P. S. Hanson, head carpenter of the Meyer & Chapman bank in the course cf construction in Red Lodge, Mont., was instantly killed by the door and fxamcwnii; .of the vault, weighing 2S00 """poinds, tailing on him. The accident acci-dent occurred while Hanson was talking talk-ing to the wife of one of the owners of the building. It develops that W L. Seeley, who killed his wife and daughter at Seattle, Seat-tle, and then committed suicide, had reached the end of his means, had borrowed money, saw no way to pay it back, and let false pride keep him from making known his desperate financial straits to his friends or relatives, rela-tives, and ended the struggle. The trial of George Frankhauser at Helena on the charge of robbing a Great Northern train near Rondo in September, 1907. is now on. The evidence evi-dence adduced tends to show the presence of Frankhanser and his al- leged companion in crime, McDonald, in the vicinity of Rondo immediately prior to the sensational affair. Radical changes are proposed by sportsmen in eastern Washington as amendments to the new code of laws for the protection of game to be sub-lrdj! sub-lrdj! to the legislature, now in sessional ses-sional Oyympia, by the Washington CState Game and Fish Protective asso-ri!9tjnll. asso-ri!9tjnll. Go rnor B. B'. Brooks, as com-x com-x niandfrin-chief of the Wyoming mi-litia. mi-litia. trss reappointed Adjutant-Gen- oral P. A Gatchell and Assistant Ad- 'lutant-Geheral W. R. Schnitger. The vemaindW" of the staff was reappointed reap-pointed with one or two minor exceptions. ex-ceptions. Wfth his bride of three months. !i6m he married in the jail, clinging to his arm and sobbing convulsively Tony Clark, found guilty of one of the most daring saloon holdups in the history of Butte, was sentenced to nineteen years in the Deer Iodge penitenitary. Robert Spaulding, a janitor, was killed in an elevator accident in the city hall in Tacoma. He was in the freight cage beneath the passenger cage of the elevator, and the operator was not aware of his "presence. As ihe elevator started Spaulding war caught and his skull crushed. |