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Show NORTHWEST NOTES. The receipts of the state register of the land board of Wyoming for rentals of state and school lands during September Sep-tember were 83,385.20. The California state board of health has decided not to quarantine California Califor-nia against the consumptives of other states. It has adopted a resolution, however, recommending that in all state institutionsthose afflicted with tuberculosis be separated from the other inmates. According to estimates made by experts, ex-perts, the farmers of California will receive about 815,000,000 this season sea-son for such products of their orchards aod vineyards as are canned or dried. This is an advance of about 83,500,000 over the total received last year. The state's dried fruit output is estimated at 88,300,000. The tract of land ten miles squar ceded by the Shoshone and Arapahoe Indians to the United States, includ. ing the tract one mile square given bj the general government to the state oi W'3'oming and containing the celebrated celebra-ted Thermopolis Hot Springs, hav been surveyed, and most of the lands will soon be thrown open for settlement. settle-ment. Ellen Richardson was shot in the head and instantly killed by her husband, hus-band, Charles Henry Richardson, in a saloon conducted by the woman on Howard street, San Francisoo during a quarrel between the two. The murderer mur-derer was caught with the weapon still in his hand and taken to prison. His shot struck his wife over the left eye, and caused almost instant death. Rain has been falling in nearly all parts of California, with indications of a i-uunuutiiiutj. j.u most places id naa been welcomed by farmers and stockmen, stock-men, though slight damage has been done in the raisin and prune-growing districts. Forest fires, which have been raging in several densely wooded sections, have been extinguished, and a number of valuable redwood groves have been saved. The board of supervisors of Denver has passed two important ordinances. One provides for the issuance of bonds by the city to the amount of $4,700,000 for the purchase of the plant of the Denver Union Water company, or the construction of a new one. The other is to compel the street railway company com-pany to heat its cars in winter. The Denver Union Water company demands 80,000,000 for its plant. Henry W. Pinkham, pastor of ths Bethany Baptist church, Denver, and one of the most prominent young clergymen cler-gymen in the city, has been dropped from the Rocky Mountain Baptist association as-sociation for alleged heretioal views The charge is that Mr. Pinkham does not believe in the literal resurrection of Christ; in the supernatural birth of Christ, nor in vioarous atonement. One of the severest shocks of earthquake earth-quake ever felt in California occurred at Santa Rosa. Chimneys were thrown down and plaster in many parts of the city was shaken from the laths. A few minutes after two other shocks of a similar nature, but less severe, followed. fol-lowed. The earthquake was not felt at Petaluma, sixteen miles south of there. A large foroe of men from Denver and Salt Lake has begun work on the new copper wire telephone line from Laramie to Cheyenne. Cedar poles will be set, the line taking a shorl route of forty-five miles over the Laramie Lar-amie mountains, and will be completed in a month, giving Laramie direct communication com-munication to Cheyenne, Fort Collins, Greeley, Denver, and all Colorado towns of importance. Before rain quenched the recent forest for-est fires in California, 6ays a dispatoh from San Jose, the extensive winery ol E. E. Myers caught fire, and as th water had given out, it seemed certain that the winery and the extensivi buildings surrounding it were doomed. A suction tap was then run into one ol the tanks and 40,000 gallons of win poured onto the flames. By the use ol this expensive fire fighting fluid th buildings were saved. The Bay State lave Stock companj of Omaha has made one of the largest sales of land in the history of Wyoming, Wyom-ing, when 34,4fll acres of land passed into the poisession of John and Anthony An-thony Wilkinson of Pine Bluffs and Egbert respectively. This land is situated sit-uated on Little Horse creek, and consists con-sists of the odd numbered or railroad sections in a tract fourteen miles long aud eight miles wide. The land is of the very best in Laramie county. It is from this tract that the ver? best Wyoming cattle are raised, cattle having hav-ing been sold from those pastures netting net-ting as high as $54 per head. The Wilson Wil-son brothers are extensive stock-growers, dealing iu both cattle and sheep Deputy Sheriff George Kinchen, at Norwood, Colo., thirty-five miles west jf Ouray, Colo., shot and killed John Carter, alias Kid Adams, one of the autlaws who held up the Sneffels stage near there a few eays ago. Beit Willraore, who was sent up in California four years ago with Abe ' Majors now in the Utah penitentiary i under sentence of death for killing Police Captain Brown of Ogden last spring, was killed in Oakland last week while robbing a store. I |