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Show mm notes While riding a bicycle on the rail-cad rail-cad track at Reno. Nov.. .lames Mack-. Mack-. .- ri'n dou.'i bv a nzie. ageu ,. was 11." rain ami killed. lire believed to he incendiary at A'ilkison. Wash., destroyed a store, niou ball, the vosioftice and two esidence. The loss is estimated at St.'.oOO. .v 1, act of land, lyi"S '' xv,.,... Ore., wM.li comi'.-s u.-ar.y ,ue hundred thru -;.n'. 1 w. -brown open last wck by the govern, incut to homestead. Governor Withycombe has announc--d the appointment of John W Alex-ruder Alex-ruder of Portland on the Oregan stale board of forestry. He succeeds C G. lliiggs, who recently resigned and has left the slate. The state fair hoard has decided to erect on the state fair grounds at Salem, Ore., a rest cottage for the livestock men, which structure will contain an office for the fair board and have other conveniences. Herman Barnet, arrested by the Portland, Ore., police, on request of Salt Lake authorities, who want him to answer charges of forgery prelerred bv George A. Wilson, was released under $1,000 bonds and has leit Portland, Port-land, fl G. 1. James, secretary of the Xe- vada fish and game commission, has received from Washington his appointment appoint-ment as deputy federal game warden for the state of Nevada. The appointment appoint-ment is made under the provisions ot the new federal game law. Six persons narrowly escaped death in a fire that destroyed the home of R. Rogoway at Albany, Ore. Their escape was due to the barking bark-ing of a pet dog which ran to the room of Rogoway, who is blind, and awakened him and his wife. Christian F. Baxmyer, secretary and sales manager of the Story Manufacturing Manufac-turing company of Portland, Ore., shot himself on a through train as it was nearing Chicago. He died in a few minutes. The police were unabie to-find to-find a motive for the deed. The Colorado legislature has passed three bills to abolish the juvenile court and transfer its work to the district courts. One effect, of the-bills, the-bills, if signed by the governor, would be to remove from office Judge Ben B. Llndsey of the juvenile court of- ' Denver. It is said that Bert Hoi'rn. under arrest in Utah on a charge of bank robbery, served eight years in the Oregon Ore-gon prison on conviction of second degree murder in having slain Ben-Tracy Ben-Tracy at Junction City, Ore., in 190::. Heaton was pardoned by Governor West in 1911. With thirty thousand dollars worth-of worth-of county bonds, issued to pay for the. construction of a bridge across the Snake river, sold to a Portland firm, but delivered to a Denver firm, the county court of Malheur county is fac- " ing a serious question in how to gel the bonds into the hands of the rightful right-ful owners. The Western Pacific railroad, which-was which-was recently placed in the hnds of a receiver, was opened in Ju'.y. 1:111. The last spike was driven on November Novem-ber 1 at Spanish Creek bridge, 2St miles from San Francisco, without formal ceremony. Grading was begun in September, 1905, 21 miles from Salt Lake. The road was completed at a cost of $60,000,000. . The outer door was blown from the safe in the store of J. H. Gooding at St. Paul, Ore. The noise awakened-the awakened-the city marshal, John Lambert., who rushed to the scene and opened (ire on a robber, who plunged out the door and fled. Colonel .Frank J. Parker, who was owner and editor of the Walla Wa-Uu. Statesman for more than a quarter of a century and at one time a prominent prom-inent Democrat of Washington :,;-divorced :,;-divorced in Seattle last week bv .Mrs. Martha J. Parker. Lorris Martin, the Trail Creek-mountaineer, Creek-mountaineer, was acquitted by a jurv m the circuit court at Medford, Ore., for the killing of Game Warden A S. Hubbard last December. The jury was out four hours, but the verdict was unanimous on the first ballc'.. Fire wrecked the interior and destroyed de-stroyed the stock of a wholesale produce pro-duce store which occupied a three story brick building i the Front street wholesale district at Portland 'v The loss to stock and building was 2 estimated at upwards of $100,000. The Wyoming supreme court has granted a new trial to Robert Mel-drum, Mel-drum, the famous "gunman marshal" of Cripple Creek, Colo., and Baggs V.vo.. who was convicted of murder in the second degree for killing chick Bowen of Slater, Colo., at P.aggs three years ago. Meldrum was sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment. Efforts to repeal the second rhoioft voting provision of the Oregon primary pri-mary law were defeated when the senate sen-ate by a vote of 31 to 12 indefiniielv postponed consideration of the house bill amending the primary law. The state fair board in session at Salem, 0re., decided that after the l-'lo la.r the Oregon futurity races shall be wiped from the card The move was made necessary on account of the automobile so rapidlv t;lui, the Place of the horse that' breeding of racing animals has become almost a thing or the past. Wolves, said to be afflicted ttU1, tables, have become so bold and ferocious fero-cious near McDermott. Nov m-it tr,-trustees tr,-trustees have closed the school' there ;' '';" 'he students i , ,, " 'heir homes might .MUwWd The governor of Oregon has ac-'Pfd ac-'Pfd an invitation to participate i the celebrations commemorating tlm coinple.lon ,' ,e tvliu, will be held at Lewlston, Idaho, Wash., and Kennew ick. Wash 'Tu.,e l"' v Planning ,.,, ;.,.; , "'' in honor of the opening t tlu- Columbia river. I'lospects for water throughout 11,. summer have been much beuered , :t"e snowiall of tl,c past nl.i.Ko the suow.mi ,nilltl,; , -ucd iron, ,hu Sult ,,llk ; 'l'-l Sutes wcuher bur |