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Show NORTH WIEST NOTES The Alaska-Yukon-Paeific exposition will be the first world's fair to be complete com-plete in advance of the opening day. The Seattle Electric company haa expended $910,000 for new cars to be used next summer during the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition. Motor boats exhibited at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition will be entered en-tered in a race from Seattle to Juneau, Ju-neau, Alaska, and return. The Washington state exposition commission will duplicate the prizes offered by the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition in the poultry show. John Poran, a miner, became violently vio-lently insane in a hotel at Reno, and started in to demolish the furniture, giving the officers a severe tustle before be-fore being landed in a cell. C. Verry Bartaga. a coal miner who was shot during an affray in a resort at Diamondvillc, Wyo., and who was brought to Rock Springs to be operated oper-ated upon, died at the depot. A bill has been introduced in tne-Montanai tne-Montanai legislature which would create cre-ate a fund for disabled and maimed coal mine employees by levying a roy- 4. alty of one centt a ton on all production. produc-tion. A new bill to prohibit pool rooms and bookmaking, except at fairs, and limiting race meetings to six days In-any In-any one year in a single county has been introduced in the Montana legislature. leg-islature. Newspapers all over the United States are going to send parties to Seattle Se-attle next summer during the Alaska-Y'ukon-Pacific exposition. The par ties will be composed of young ladies selected by contests. The supreme court of Nevada has rendered a decision in the case of T B. Rickey, president of the defunct State bank, in which is upholds th6 constitutionality of the Pyne banking law passed years ago. Following the arrival of a United States postal inspector, Postmaster J W. Kennedy of Searchlight, Nevada, blew off the top of his head with a revolver. re-volver. A shortage of $600 was dis covered in his accounts. Th Seattle Aero club has offered a trophy for airship and balloon flights similar to the Scientific American clubs. The cup will be awarded to the winner of the contest at the Alaska-Yukon-Paeific exposition. Alaska will show its salmon fisher ies, sealing, halibut and cod fisheries and the whaling industry at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition by photographs and moving pictures. It will be the most novel moving picturo show in existence. . George Frankhauser, convicted oi holding up a Great Northern train at Rondo, Mont., when he and his companion com-panion stole $40,000 from a registered mail sack, has been sentenced to life imprisonment in the military prison at Fort Leavenworth. The state of Wyoming has offered a beautiful gold and silver cup for the best exhibit of dry-farming products pro-ducts made during the Transmlssourl Dry Farming congress at Cheyenne' next month. Other valuable prizes have also been offered. M. J. Meany, the 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 Butte, has been sentenced by Judge Michael Donlan to twenty years in the penitentiary, the limit. While riding along the big canal of the Wadsworth Light and Power company com-pany at Wadsworth, Nevada, Robert Esden, aged 12 and- son of the president presi-dent of the company, was thrown from his horse, and had his brains dashed out against the trunk of a-tree. a-tree. The Atlantic, Gulf & Pacific company com-pany has filed articles of Incorporation Incorpora-tion at Reno, Nevada. The principal business for which the company is formed is dredging, pier and dock building, railroad construction and general engineering and construction work. M. Paxlon. a rancher living near Sundance, Wyoming, shot his wife in the face and his stepson In the groin, and then attempted suicide, but all of the parties will recover. Paxton is believed to be Insane, and is confined in the county jail, awaiting an investigation. investi-gation. The Infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Boorman of Kalispell. Mont., was choked to death by a peanut pea-nut shell becoming lodged in the child's throat. The parents started for Spokane to have an operation per- t formed, and death ensued on the train. Governor Norris of Montana has granted a respite of sixty days teC"" Frederick I:l:iu y -Flmhoa coixv sentenced to br hangi-d February ... tor the murder of the Yokum f;imlly Lebau's partner wat given a life sen- tence, and Lebau wants his sentence fc commuted. As the result of an explosion of Are damp following a discharge of dynamite dyna-mite In the mine operated at Ashford Wash., by the Moore Investment company com-pany of Seattle, one miner Is entombed en-tombed under tons of rocks, another is dead from suffocation, while two are injured. I-ouis Jerodk, a coal miner who had hoarded his savings and bought a farm near Tacoma, where he lived the life of a hermit, last -week went raving rav-ing mad, and is now In the asylum. On his person was round five $1,000 county bonds, with coupons calling for $450 Interest. May Peonc, an Indian girl who has $30,000 in cash in bank and valuable real estate, was arrested in Tacoma lor drunkenness last week and fined. The girl offered the desk sergeant $3,000 in cash and a kiss If he would release her without prosecution, but to no avail. |