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Show NORTHWEST NOTES Owing to the 'heavy passenger traffic now on to tho Grconwatcr district In Novada, an 'automobile overland ser-' vice Is to 'bo established at once tn connection with itho Salt Lake route, Tho Lub "Vegas and Tonopah railroad rail-road company Is making good progress pro-gress 'In laying thu rails of tho road from Beatty to Rhyollte. and Bullfrog expects to be collected up by tho first of tho coming month. The Ute Indians who huvu been tmvcllng through South Dakota Into Wyoming In doflnuco of 'the government's gov-ernment's orders, havo arrived at Fort Meade, accompanied by tho Sixth United Status cavalry. Sixty lives were lost and nenrly a score of vessels wore swept to destruction de-struction on treacherous reefs and Sand burs of the Gulf and Illver St. Lawrence during the season of navigation navi-gation now drawing to a colse. At tho quarterly meeting ou tho (ltth of December, at Cheyenne, Wyo., at the Stnte Hoard of Medical Examiners, Ex-aminers, thu board will begin tho preparation of Its report to Governor U rook 8 and tho statu legislature. Coroner Carroll, of Seattle, haa signed n ccrtitlcate stating that Mrs. Maude Creflleld, wife of the leader of tho "Holy HoITers," who died suddenly in tho county Jail, came to her death by sutcldo from strychnine poisoning. The people of Port lllnkely have appealed ap-pealed to thu government, authorities nt Seattle for purmlsslon to use dynamite dyna-mite In order to blow up the wrecked steamer Dlx, so that the bodies of thoso who drowned In thotcablns may be rocovcred. Con Lopez shot and killed his paramour, Thcreso llepossa, in a houso of Ill-fame at N'owman, Cal, I-opez than shot himself through the head, falling dead across tho body of his victim. Jealousy was tho cause of tho tragedy. Tho Las Vogns & Tonopah railway rail-way company, which Is Incorporated unw'er tho law ot Utah, filed an amendment to Its articles of incorporation incorpor-ation with the county clerk at Suit l.ako City last week, which will permit per-mit of Its building aline to the Green- water mining district In Inyo county,-Cal. county,-Cal. The Identity of Mlku Kelly, who committed suicide In the county jail at Colorado Springs, has been discovered dis-covered and the discovery practically proves tho theory that be was ono of the three divide bandits. Kelly was knowo for many years at Colorado City and In tho Ute pass region as "Kelly the Hobbor." After a Jury hud been drawn In a suit brought by United States District Attorney Hurku ngalnst the Burling-ton Burling-ton railroad In the United States district dis-trict court at Cheyenne, for violation ot tho safety appliance law, tho attorneys at-torneys for tho railroad confessed Judgment. The suit wus a civil uctlon and a fine of $100 and costs was Imposed Im-posed by the court. Charles A. Smith, proprietor of a drug store In Hillings, Mont., Is in a critical condition ns a result of being shot through tho shoulder and groin by Daniel F. Watts. Watts also shot Oscur Colburn, prescription clerk, In tho bark of the head. He will recover. re-cover. Watts had boon discharged for short-changing thu register. Tho demurrer of tho defendant In the action of $100,000 damages brought by Charles 11. Moyer, president of the Western Federation of Mlnem, against former Governor Peabody, former Ad-Jutunt Ad-Jutunt General Sherman Doll and Adjutant Ad-jutant General Bulkeley Wells, Is sustained sus-tained In an opinion returned by Judge Robert E. Lewis of the United States district court at Denver. Moyer alleged wrongful Imprisonment by the mlltary. Material Is being assembled at Cullcnto, Novnda, for tho Plocho branch of tho Salt I-ake route. About bait the rails aro already unloaded at Callonto and enough ties will ho on hand within tho next sixty days or so to cover tho line. Linemen at Larumlo have begun stringing ti copper wire In the new lino to connect New York and San Francisco already leased to a Now York brokerage concern. The wire Is of copper, 210 pounds to thu mile, cost 23 cents a pound. Since the destruction of thu round hoiiBe lit Wlnnemucca, Nevada,, by fire a' short time ago, tho Southern Pacific haa decided to make Emloy, u station midway between Humboldt Houso and Mill City, a division point Instead of Wlnnemucca. Al Trusses, a brakeman on thu O. H. & N., wns killed a few mlloB from Huntington, Ore. He wan setting brakes on u car on a siding, lu some manner ho fell from the car, ami another that had been kicked In truck him, crushing his head. Joe Collins, section foreman In tho Ijirame, Wyo., yards of the Union Pacific, Pa-cific, was run down by a switch engine, en-gine, meeting almost Instant death, lohn Helmet's, foreman of thu suction Just south ot the yard section, had his left leg broken above tho anklo, Conductor Frank luud Is dead und trrakemnn Hurnstdo is fatally hurt as tho result of tin accident on tho Alpine Al-pine branch of the Colorado & Southern Sou-thern rnllroad near Leudvllle, Colo. A train of 17 loaded coal cars broke loose whllo climbing a heavy grade. |