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Show NORTHWEST NOTES President Taft has sent to the senate sen-ate the nom'nation of Harry J.' Humphreys Hum-phreys of Nevada to be United States marshal for that state. Disastrous floods threaten the farms In Beaver Head Valley in Montana, as the result of the rapidly melting snow in the mountains. The Beaver Head river is rttnnig bank full. The Montana Slate Sunday school association met in Helena on May 14. in the nineteenth annual convention, with a large attendance of delegates from every section of the commonwealth. common-wealth. Fire at the large stock farm of Joseph Jo-seph M. Malin. near Ixtgau. Mont., caused a loss of $8,000. wiih no insurance. in-surance. All the farm buildings, with the exception of Malin s residence, were destroyed. Thirty persons were injured, many seriously, when a section of the railing rail-ing in the east balcony at the new state armory in Seattle gave way during the indoor track meet of the Seattle Athletic club. Senator Nixon of Nevada has introduced intro-duced a bill in congress authorizing an appropriation of $100,000 for the erection of a monument to the late Senator William M. Stewart in Chevi-;hase Chevi-;hase Circle, a suburb of Washington. Montana is to have a new railroad, according to articles of incorporation Bled with the secretary of state. It Is to be known as the Montana-Idaho & Pacific, and will run from Lapwai Junction to Butte, a distance of 350 miles. Organized opposition to any reduction reduc-tion in the duty on sugar is the object ob-ject of the movement started last week at Colorado Springs by tieet growers, sugar factory men and business busi-ness men of the city and southern Colorado. W. E. Dauchy, for the past three years in charge of the construction of the Pacific coast extension of the Milwaukee Mil-waukee railway west of Butte, has resigned and entered into a partnership partner-ship with a railroad contracting firm in the east. James A. Dawson, night watchman for a mill company at Three Lakes, a small town near Everett, Wash., shot and killed his wife and 14-year-old daughter and then killed himself. The younger children in the house at the time were unharmed. Unless President Taft's plans are changed, his trip to Alaska will not take him into the interior. , As now contemplated the president's tour "will be arranged to enable him to visit all the towns in southwestern Alaska, including Sitka. H. J. Keeley, the Northern Pacific train dispatcher who last March was convicted in the district court of Sanders county, Montana, on a charge of manslaughter in connection with a wreck near Perma station last fall, has been granted a pardon. oJhn Cicora. president of the Maz-zonia Maz-zonia society, one of the richest Italian Ital-ian residents of Seattle, was shot by Joe Mazeroa, an Italian baker, on May 7, in the very heart of the city. Ci-coria Ci-coria will probably survive. Mazeroa Immediately surrendered. Mrs. George C. Ellison of Seattle, who came to Denver to try to effect a reconciliation with her husband, whio had instituted suit for divorce, was found dead May 7 in her room. A rubber tube attached to an open gas jet was in her mouth. The Municipal Clean Government league won a great victory over the gambling and saloon interests at Reno, Nevada, last week, by electing three out of four couucilmen and thus securing control of the city council for the coming two years. At a meeting of the Seattle Restaurant Res-taurant Keepers' association last week, a pledge was given to I. A. Na-deau, Na-deau, director general of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition, that prices would not be raised above the present pres-ent standard during the exposition. The will of former United States Senator William M. Stewart of Nevada Ne-vada was filed for probate May 6. It discloses that he owned no real estate and his personal property did not exceed $1,500 in value. This amount is devised to his widow. Mr. Stewart's debts are said to aggregate f25,000. Wool prices throughout Wyoming pontinue well up, few sales having been reported at less than 20 cents per pound. The reason for the marked mark-ed increase in prices over those obtainable ob-tainable last year, the fiockmasters relieve, is largely due to the organization organiza-tion of the Chicago co-operative wool ivarehouse. An explosion of dynamite completely complete-ly demolished a steam shovel working at Tyler's ranch, thirty miles east ot Missoula, Mont., on the Northern Pacific Pa-cific railroad. The cranesman of the steam shovel and helpers were Instantly In-stantly killed. Three laborers are seriously injured and several received minor Injuries. Louis Ferris, charged with having Jynsmited a Northern Pacific train at Butte in April. 1908, appeared in court May 6 for a second trial, having trern acquitted on the first murder charge. The case will be begun May 17. Three men were killed in the wreck. Colonel W. H Bottle, the aged constable con-stable of Lima, Mont., who was charged charg-ed with murdei for the killing of Tony Ennis, an alleged tough character, charac-ter, at Lima, last November, has been discharged from custody, every witness wit-ness for the prosecution having Jeft the county. John (oPsey) Ryan, the pioneer in-dlr.n in-dlr.n fighter who shot his wife and her daughter. Mrs. Nellie Behan. at. Cheyenne, March 14. is to be the first deferdant placed on trial during the June term of the district court. He will o on trial first for the murder of Mrs. Behan. |