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Show ilipoiEs" Southern Montana was visited by a two-inch snowfall Sunday night. Harvey Shoemaker shot and killed Mrs. Dan Davis at her rooming house and then killed himself at Baker. Ore. Henry A. Stevens, a rancher, while driving home from Baker, was badly injured, when his team ran away and threw him out. Nine-year-old Lucile Scott, daughter daugh-ter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Scott, met with a painful accident at Beno while skating on the sidewalk. Great preparations are being mado for the Rodeo to be held at Elko this month and some of the best riders in the country will be there. Little Joe Fisher, the six-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Fisher of Carson City, was dragged by a horsa and received serious injuries. Recrudescence of infantile paralysis on the Crow Indian reservation was reported last week by the state health authorities at Billings. Mont. George Yakich, a Serbian, ran amuck with a gas pipe inflicting serious ser-ious injuries on three men before no was captured by the police at Seattle. The acreage planted to beets during the present season was more than S3.-000 S3.-000 acres in Idaho and Utah, an increase in-crease of almost 23,000 acres over last year. Timothy F. Mahoney, engineer in the employ of the Salt Lake Route between be-tween Caliente and Pioche, New, was shot to death at Caliente by C. E. Dawson. B. Visuevac was arrested at Tono-pah Tono-pah on a charge of stabbing John Terkla, who had put him out of a grocery store, where it was alleged he was creating a disturbance. Eichard Price, formerly a resident of Las Vegas, was found dead on the railroad track at Las Vegas. It Is thought that he was stealing a ride and was thrown off the train in some way. John Merver, Henry Lamb and Lester Trout, aged 17 years, of Gold-field, Gold-field, were injured on the Goldfleld summit when the auto driven by the Merver boy turned over, pinning the youths underneath. Joe Mitchell of Fallon, New, met with an accident which resulted in a terrible laceration of his right arm in a barbed wire fence. He was breaking break-ing a horse to ride when the animal bolted into the fence. Storey county, Nevada, has adopted the measure of protecting quail prescribed pre-scribed by Washoe and Ormsby counties coun-ties and the shooting of quail will be allowed but one day only, November 30, Thanksgiving day. Decision of the question whether members of the District No. 10, United Unit-ed Mine Workers, should strike as a result of the operators' recent refusal re-fusal to grant their demands, was again postponed by the miners' convention con-vention in session at Seattle. The lateness and scarcity of the tomato crop in Utah this year, according accord-ing to the state dairy and food bureau, bu-reau, is due lo the early spring frosts. It is thus that only one-fourth of the canneries have been able to secure the crop desired for canning. Estimates by agricultural experts of the Utah-Idaho Sugar company and the Amalgamated Sugar company place the beet crop of the intermountain country at 30 per cent greater than it was last year. The increase is due solely to the greater acreage of beets. John Miller, a prisoner at the cily stockade, who was being returned to the city jail at Sealtle for release, attempted to escape from the prison van, fell, and the wheels of Ihe vehicle ve-hicle passed over his body. I lis back was broken and bis condition is serious. ser-ious. Angry over the arrest of an I. W. W. speaker, a crowd of sympathizers, estimated at between 500 and 1,500 in number, attempted to break into the jail at Everett, Wash., and were dispersed only when a number of special deputies and citizen volunteers with billies charged them. A Carson, New, dispatch says Secretary Sec-retary of State Hrodigan has been relieved re-lieved of considerable anxiety by the arrival of the ballot paper for the coming election. The threatened tie-up of the railroads by the strike and the shortage of paper were giving giv-ing him considerable concern. William A. Muhr, citizen Boldier from a concentration camp at Golden, a suburb of Denver, went into the Salt Lake recruiting office and gave himself him-self up, stating that he had been a member of the militia of Colorado and had fled from the concentration camp at Golden. He will be returned to Colorado. After spending nearly two whole days in a heavy storm at the top of Mount Ranier, four men struggled through the miows which covered the mountain, to a mining camp on Its side, and were hurried from there to their homes at Renton, Wash, to receive Ireatmbent for badly frozen Angers and toes. A company has been organized at Goldfield by a number of people who claim they have a scheme to mako rain. They have placed the "rain making" device on top of the First National bank, of Gold.'leld, and will make demonstrations. William Nelsen, a farmer, was Instantly In-stantly killed while working In a wheat stack, his helper was knocked unconscious and thrown from bis agon in the field by a runaway team ind two stacks of wheat were set lfire and destroyed by lightning five idles north of Eugene, Ore. |