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Show -t NORTHWEST NOTES. Tho first train passed ofcr tho new railroad to Tonqpab, Nov., on tho 15th. Foreign nations will bo Invited by this government lo participate In tho Lewis nnd Clark exposition to bo hold noxt year at Portland, Oregon. It Is claimed that Prosldont Mitchell ot tho United Mlno Workors Is to com'o to Colorado and attempt a settlement of tho labor troubles In that state Stephen Whltbeck, n Union vetornn nr-l pensioner, found monoy and securities aggregating $14,000 sowed In tho clothing of his wife, who died in Groat Falls, Mont. Novada, for tbo first tlmo, very gonerally observed Arbor day on tho lBth. Tho planting of troos by school children was a featuro of tho holiday In orcry part of tho stato. J. W. Gorllnger, a brakoman, had his right foot badly crushed at Warn-Butter, Warn-Butter, Wyo. Ho was climbing over tho coupling of two Burlington cars, whon tho slack of tho train brought tho cars together, catching his ankle, Tho Republican state convention held at Virginia City, Nov., unanimously unani-mously Indorsed Gcorgo Nixon for United States senator to succeed W. M. Stowart, who sent a. telegram stating stat-ing that ho would not bo a candidate Rollo T. McAllister was arrested at Butte, Mont, last week on an order from tho sheriff nt Delta, Colo., whoro a charge of bank robbery has beon lodged against him. McAllister do-ntoB do-ntoB the charge. Ho was working Jn a mlno. , The strlko In tho coal mines of tho Northwestorn Improvement company at Now Lodge, Mont, Is still on. Tho 000 'men thrown out comprise tho working population of the town and a protracted strlko will moon great suffering. President Roosovolt has signed tho bill appropriating $476,000 for tho Lewis' and Clark exposition, to bo hold next year at Portland. To Son-ntor Son-ntor Mitchell of Oregon, who' was presont, tho president gavo tho pen with which ho elgnod tho bill. Tho city election nt Rawlins, Wyo., resulted In a victory for tho Democrats. Demo-crats. For mayor, J. H. Clauso was given 173 majority over C. R. Boll. B. S. Prlco won over J. F. Hlttlo by 137 majority. Tho voto was vory light, 106C having registered .and 653 voting. The Republican stnto convention at Holona, Mont, indorsed tho administration adminis-tration of President Roosovolt nnd Instructed Its delegates to voto for hlnr. Tho resolutions opposo tho repeal re-peal of tho desert land laws and indorse in-dorse tho work of Congressman Dixon. Albort Ltndermnn, ono of tho four men under sentence ot death for tbo murder of Patrick Wolsh, noar Win-nemucca, Win-nemucca, Nev last summor, has mado a confession. Implicating nil four In tho crlmo. Wolsh was shot and thrown from n moving freight train aftor being robbed by four mon. A. Holt assaulted Ed Nathan at Encampment, En-campment, Wyo., with a bar of Iron, fracturing Nathan's wrist and two ribs and cutting his right arm. Tho trouble is tho outgrowth of Holt's arrest a fow woeks ago, whon ho was chargod with assaulting a young girl. That charge was dismissed within a few hours. , Tho skeleton of a human holng supposed sup-posed to be between 200 and 300 yoars old, has beon found undor a giant fir on the grounds of A. M. Hunt at Gin Harbor, noar Tncomn. Wash. The tree Is thrco foot In dlamoter nnd tho skeleton Is be-lloved be-lloved to hnvo boon buriod centuries ago and tho throo planted on tho grave. A lottor received hero from Frank Cole, woll-known In Bolllngham, Wash., whero ho has resided most of his life, rays that ho Is among tho Americans hemmed In at Leigh J. Hunt's mines In northern Korea. Colo says that ho Is In no danger, but that ho will havo to remain thoro, as tho Russians nbsolntoly rcfuso to lot him pass tho linos, which ho must do In order to Iravn tho country. |