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Show INORTHWEST, notes The two branches of the Oregon legislature came in to conflict last week over the proposed revision of the workmen's compi'nsaton act. The hill providing lor a six months' residence in Nevada for divorces passed the senate by a vote of 1- to 10. The bill goes to the governor. . Death claimed another of the pioneers pio-neers of western Wyoming when Charles Kathbun succumbed to heart failure at Kemmerer last week. Mr. Kathbun was til' years of age and had been ill i.nly two days. Following charges that he had annoyed an-noyed the girls at a school in Portland, Port-land, the coroner reports. .Marion Ji. Bridges, aged 60. took enough poison to kill twenty men and was found dead in the school basement. Six dead, two so badly burned that their deaths were momentarily expected, expect-ed, and six less seriously injured, was the toll taken by a lire which destroyed de-stroyed the three-story wooden bunk-house bunk-house at the C. A. Smith mills at Bunker Hill, Ore. The failure of the bill introduced in the senate of the Wyoming legislature by Senator Gardner of Lincoln county, for the reimbursement of the county from the original assets of old Uinta county, puts as end to a long standing question, and Lincoln county loses about $60,000. Following the lead of the house, the Montana senate has adopted a report of a standing committee recommending recommend-ing a hill abolishing race track gambling. gamb-ling. The senate also passed a saloon closing law, the hours during which they may be open being from S a. ni. to 12 midnight. Appropriations of the present Oregon Ore-gon legislature will stpproximate the total of $6,037,000, according to esti-maies esti-maies reached by the joint ways and means committee of the two branches. The total of appropriations for the 1913 session was $7 973,320, and for the 1911 session $6,778,950. Samuel Hill, chairman of the Oregon Ore-gon Belgian relief committee, and a close friend of King Albert of Belgium, has received a cablegram from the head of the distressed nation in which he expresses appreciation for the shipload ship-load of food and supplies which recently re-cently sailed from Portland. Dan Parker, a negro, shot and killed "Mink" Porter, also a negro, at Kemmerer, Kem-merer, Wyo. Jealousy over a woman is said to have been the cause of the killing.- Both were arrested and fined for fighting a few days previous, at which time each is said to have sworn that he would "get" the other. According to newspaper accounts in iFallon, Nev., a sugar faotory there may be moved to Salt Lake county. The factory is controlled by Michigan capitalists and it is understood that those boosting for a factory in Salt Lake county have been endeavoring to have the factory moved there. The bills reorganizing the state land commission and the state board of equalization, vetoed by Governor v., Ernest Lister of Washington, became laws last week when the senate by a. vote of 32 to 10 passed them over the governor's veto. The bills had previously pre-viously received the necessary twu-thirds twu-thirds majority in the house. Fishing in the Narrows west of Point Defiance, Oliver D. Clarke hooked an octopus or devil fish that put up a vicious fight, throwing its long arms or tentacles around the bottom of the boat and nearly capsizing it. The octopus oc-topus weighs 144 pounds and its eight arms measure nine feet in length making mak-ing a spread of more than 20 feet. Although the Oregon house of representatives, rep-resentatives, by holding night sessions, ses-sions, limiting debate, slaughtering what were pronounced unimportant bills in committee, and withdrawing , others, had succeeded last week in disposing of 420 of the 47S bills introduced in-troduced in that body, more than fifty appropriation bills remain to be introduced. intro-duced. An answer has been filed in the dis-tirct dis-tirct court at Butte to the suit of President Pres-ident Charles H. Moyer and other officers of-ficers of the Western Federation of Miners against officers of the Butte local to regain control of the local, alleged al-leged that Moyer hired gunmen when he came to Butte last June, and that the local organization was forced to pay them. Summer and Albert Lakes, in Lake county, Oregon, will be the scene 1m-mediately 1m-mediately of the Inauguration of a $7,000,000 development project, as the t2 result of the ratification by the legis-lature legis-lature of a lease of thoBe bodies of water to Jason C. Moore and associates asso-ciates of New York, for the saving of valuable mineral deposits which their waters contain. The Oregon Short Line has, during the past two weeks, been storing gravel and all other material needed to check the flood water, which usually usual-ly results in a great loss to the company com-pany in the canyon ju:-t west of Kemmerer, Kem-merer, Wyo. On the sidings aftbo stations of Fossil and Nugget is stored two train'.oads of this material, to be used in case of need. Mrs. T. M. Douglas of Boise. Ida., has appealed to the authorities at Denver, according to a dispatch from the Colorado capital, to assist her in locating her lost relatives. Her letter carries the plea that every one of her relatives have been lost to her sines babyhood. Alexander Reed, former half owner of the Toledo Blade and the Toledo ( ommercial. died at Tacoma last week aged 87. Reed was appointed by Mi-taham Mi-taham Lincoln as United States supervisor super-visor of Internal revenue. Later Lin-co.n Lin-co.n made him postmaster of Toledo. Plans are under way Tor the estab-lishment estab-lishment of a new town along the line Mvf, " PaC,fic ln Wyoming, which its promoters propose to make the glass manufacturing center of the west The company will be known a the yomlng Window Glass company and several business men in Chevenne and Laramie are at the head of the organization. or-ganization. Fire broke out In a stops off the 116 level or the Uelmont mine in Tonopah. A mine rescue crew got the men out safely and reported the fire under control con-trol the same day. i I |