Show J NORTHWEST NOTES Tho total valuo of Wyoming products pro-ducts during 1907 was 61928958 Tho mineral production of Wyoming Wyom-ing for the past year added 18375000 to the wealth of tho state Something like 15000 horses woro I shipped from Wyoming during time I past year returning approximately 1500000 to the growers I Prairie fires Bturtcd n disastrous conflagration In Boulder Colo twelve buildings being burned before the firo was gotten under control Tho hog Industry of Wyoming Is growing and there were marketed during tho year about 5000 swine returning re-turning to the state about 50000 Rings watches lockets and trinkets to tho valuo of 1800 wero stolen by a daring thief who broko tho front window of tho Kntorprlso Jewelry companys store In Denver The total of capital surplus deposits depos-its and undivided profits of tho banks of Reno Nevada amount to more than 11000000 an Increase of more than 100 per cent In the past year Starting with one buck and a fow owes In the early eighties Wyoming has rapidly Increased her sheep holdIngs hold-Ings until now there aro being grazed In this state approximately 5000000 sheep Tho population of Ely Nevada has doubled five times within the past I eighteen months Its assessment roll I has more than doubled It has been by far tho most prosperous year In Its history Surveying will start during January Janu-ary for tho new Guggenheim road from rEly to Tonopah and Goldfield Tho road will carry oro to the big 10000ton smelter now nearly completed com-pleted at McGill Nov There are at tho present time np proxImately 800000 cattle In tho state of Wyoming valued at 20000000 During 1907 tho shipments of cattle from this state wore valued at approximately ap-proximately 8000000 Ten miles of electric railroad have been built In and around Reno Nevada Ne-vada during the past twelve months and surveys for 100 miles more wero completed Work on these lines will begin early next spring Hugh Fulton was shot and Instantly Instant-ly killed by Ed Johnson at Silver Bow a Nevada camp limo cause of tho killing was over some mining claIms Johnson was armed with a rifle and Fulton with a sixshooter Seventeen persons were Injured none of them fatally In a collision between two trolley cars in Denver Ono of tho cars ohould have taken a siding brit failed to do so and the two cars crashed together headon A passenger train was derailed near Reno Nevada the engine tender and t1t cars leaving the track Two baggage bag-gage cars overturned and the track was torn up for half a mile Passengers Passen-gers wero badly shaken up but none seriously Injured Tho reports of the assessor Just in shows a total property valuation in Reno Nevada of 5432820 an increase in-crease of more than 3000000 in the past five years It Is estimated that the increase for the coming year will be close to 2000000 The population of Wyoming at the present time Is estimated at 125000 The bonded indebtedness of Wyoming Wyom-ing is 180000 and this is being paid off at the rate of 20000 per year Tho annual Income of tho state government gov-ernment is about 700000 Former Senator Thomas M Patterson Patter-son was assaulted by Fred G Bonllls one of the editors of the Denver Post and Mr Pattersons nose was broken by Bonflls Time assault was a climax to attacks made by each on tho other in their newspapers for several years CB Shaver president of the Fresno Fres-no Flume and Irrigation company one of tho largest lumbering concerns of tho coast died of diabetes at Fresno Fres-no Gal on Christmas day after an Illness of three weeks Deceased before be-fore coming to this country was manager of a large lumbering concern In Michigan Charles E McConnell president of the Smelter City bank of Durango Colo which closed its doors December Decem-ber 17 has been placed under arrest The warrant upon which ho was arrested ar-rested was sworn to by Harry Jackson Jack-son a depositor of the bank who had 3400 on deposit when tho institution institu-tion closed Its doors Out of work and despondent because be-cause ho could not buy a Christmas present for his daughter Charles William Wil-liam McReynolds said to be the oldest old-est telegraph operator west of the Mississippi river committed suicide In Denver Christmas afternoon by shooting himself In tho head Me Reynolds was 61 years old Colonel T C Woodburn acting commander of the Department of tho Columbia U S A in a statement made at Seattle saId that tho whole Pacific coast would be helpless incase In-case tho navy should prove unable to prevent tho landing of a force of 20000 Japanese or other foreign army at any of the numerous unpiotected bays along the coast In the past year COO families have taken advantage of the governments offer and havo settled on tho once arid lands of Churchill county Nevada Ne-vada In the next year at least a thousand more families are expected Ahead the result of their work Is manifesting Itself In the past twelve months Nevada has addo moro to the worlds wealth than over before In that tlmo moro mines have been discovered moro farms havd boon started more people peo-ple have come to tho state and mr o Industries have been established thar dutiuj any previous year |