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Show KORTIHYEST NOTES. The Union Pacific payroll at Chey-i Chey-i enneis now larger than it has ever bir j fore been. P. L. Flannigan of Reno. Nevada, shipped three train loads of sheep to the eastern market last week. The Nevada cavalry is now on the high seas en route to San Francisco, where they are expected to arrive about the 20th of October. A Montana fruit inspector named Bandraan, found San Jose scale on fruit shipped from Utah, in an Anaconda Ana-conda store. The fruit was condemned and destroyed. John Lindela of Carbon. Wyo.. was accidentally shot in the abdomen by a friend who was examining a revclver which he supposed was not loaded. He was admitted to the Rock Springs hospital hos-pital in a serious condition. William Bueckner was shot and killed at Medicine Bow, Wyo., last week by B. Cravenson. The coroner's jury exonerated Cravenson, as Bueckner Bueck-ner fired three times at the latter before be-fore he defended himself. Two of the largest mortgages eyer filed in Nevada were recorded at Reno, Nevada, last week, They were executed exe-cuted by the Southern Pacific company in favor of the Central Trust company of New York, and bore 883,500 worth of revenue stamps. William Law Campbell, a resident of Colorado since 13"8, died last week at his home eight miles east of Denver, after a lingering illness. Mr. Campbell Camp-bell was appointed surveyor-general of Colorado by President Grant in 1S77, and held the office a number of years. Senator White is lying dangerously ill at the Palace hotel in San Francisco, suffering from a severe hemorrhage of the lungs. Senator White returned but a few days ago from a trip to the country, but he was so feeble that he was compelled to take to his bed. His condition is such as to greatly alarm his friends. Prof. Mead of Wyomiug, expert in charge of the bureau of irrigation investigations, in-vestigations, has received from City Engineer Kelsey of Salt Lake City a fine collection of plans, maps and photographs pho-tographs of Utah irrigation works. The collection will form part of the exhibit Prof. Mead is collecting for the Paris exposition. About 375 settlers on the Maxwell land grant in New Mexico are to be evicted by orders from the land department depart-ment at Washington. They have occupied oc-cupied land which, it has been decided by the courts, belongs to the Maxwell Land company. Twelve deputy United States marshals have been detailed to evict these squatters. The mill and warehouse of the Salemi Ore., Flouring Mills company was destroyed de-stroyed by fire last week. The estimated esti-mated loss i Si 50,000. The insurance on the mill is estimated to be 865,000. The warehouse contained 135,000 bushels bush-els of wheat, only a small portion of which was insured. The fire was caused by an explosion in the dust-room. James McGrath, a young man working work-ing at Medicine Bow, attempted to boai-d a moving freight train at Rawlins, Raw-lins, last week, for the purpose of stealing a ride. His footing slipped and he fell under the train. His right leg was crushed so badly as to necessitate neces-sitate amputation. He also lost three toes on the left foot. He was taken to . the Btate hospital. Chief Justice Brantly of the supreme court of Montana, while hunting with a party of friends in the woods of the northern part of the state last week, became separated from the party and wandered about in the mountains for four days. He reached Libby late in the afternoon of the 20th much emaciated ema-ciated and completely worn out. A hundred men were hunting for him but could not find his trail. Masked men attacked the sheep camp of the Warren Live Stock company, com-pany, twenty-five miles northwest of Sterling, Colo., last week, beating the herder, a youug man named Crane, nearly to death, shooting about 100 sheep and scattering 1,500 more. Crain will probably die. Wan-nuts have been issued for the arrest of four men living in the vicinity and the sheriff is looking for them. O. B. Byland lulled his wife and his brother, Grant, at Walla Walla last week and then committed suicide. The tragedy occurred under the brow of the hill a few hundred yards from the state penitentiary. Byland arrived there from Pomeroy, Wash., in search of his wife, who, at the instance of her mother, Mrs. Kilgore. deserted him. Shecame to Walla Walla several weeks ago, since which time she has been living with her mother and Grant By-land. By-land. War has broken out between the sheep and cattle men of Ruby valley, Montana. Last week 200 sheep belonging be-longing to the Ruby valley sheep company com-pany were shot down by men concealed in the timber near the range. The herders were frightened away and went into Dillon and notified the sheriff. sher-iff. The sheep are now under guard and further molestation will probably lead to a battle between sheepmen and cattlemen as feeling runs high between be-tween them. There is no slue a to who did the shooting. |