Show NORTHWEST NOTES NOTE S the total aralue ot of wyoming products during 1907 was the mineral production ot of wyom ing for the past year added 18 to the wealth of the state something like 15 horses were shipped from wyoming during the past year returning approximately 1 to the growers prairie fires started a disastrous conflagration in boulder col colo 0 twelve buildings being burned before the fire was gotten under control the hog industry of wyoming I 1 Is growing and there were marketed during the year about 5 swine re turning to the state ab about out 0 50 o pings watches lockets and trinkets to the value of 1800 1 were stolen by a daring thief who broke the front window of the enterprise jewelry compan company s store in denver the total of capital surplus depos its and undivided pro profits fits of the banks of reno nevada amount to more than 11 an increase of more than per cent in the past year starting with one buck and a few ewes in the early eighties wyoming has rapidly increased her sheep hold ings until now there are being grazed in this state approximately 5 sheep the population of ely nevada has doubled five times within the past eighteen months its assessment roll has more than doubled it has been by far the most prosperous year in its history surveying will start during janu ary for the new guggenheim Gugg road from ely to tonopah and goldfield the road will carry ore to the big 10 ton smelter now nearly corn com plated at mcgill nev there are at the present time approximately cattle in the state of wyoming valued at 20 during 1907 the shipments of cattle from this state were valued at ap proximately 8 ten miles of electric railroad have been built in and around reno ne vada during the past twelve months and surveys for miles more were completed worl on these lines will begin early next spring hugh fulton was hot and instant ly killed by ed johnson at silver bow a nevada camp the cause of the killing was over some mining claims johnson was armed with a rifle and fulton with a six shooter seventeen persons were injured none of them fatally in a collision between two trolley cars in denver one of the cars should have taken ta ken a siding but failed to do so and the two cars crashed together headon head on A passenger train was derailed near reno nevada the engine tender and ten cars leaving the trad two bag gage cars overturned and the track was torn up for half a mile gers were badly shaken up but none seriously injured the reports of the assessor just in shows a total property valuation in heno reno nevada ol 01 5 an in crease of more than 3 in the past five years it is estimated that the increase for the coming year will be close to 2 the population of wyoming at the present time is estimated at the bonded indebtedness of wyom ing is and this is being paid off at the rate of 20 per year the annual income of the state gov Is about former senator thomas M patter son was assaulted by fred G bonfils one of the editors of the denver post and mr pattersons Patter sons nose was broken by bonfils the assault was a climax to attacks made by each on the other in their newspapers for several years C D shaver president of the fres no flume and irrigation company one of the largest lumbering concerns of the coast died of diabetes at fres no cal on chris christmas amas day after an illness of three weeks deceased before coming to this country was manager of a large lumbering concern tn in michigan charles E mcconnell president of the smelter city bank of durango colo which closed its doors decem her ber 17 has been placed under arrest the warrant upon N which aich he was ar a rested was sworn to by harry jack son a depositor of the bank who had 3 on deposit when the tion closed its doors out of work and despondent be cause he could not buy a christmas present for his daughter charles wll wil liam said to be the old est telegraph operator west of the mississippi river committed suicide in denver christmas afternoon by shooting himself in the head me reynolds reynold s was 61 years old colonel T C woodburn acting commander of the department of the columbia U S A in a statement made at seattle said that the whole pacific coast would be helpless in case the navy should prove unable to prevent the landing of a force of 20 japanese or other foreign army at any of the numerous unprotected bays along the coast in the past year families have taken advantage of the governments offer and have settled on the once arid and lands of churchill county ne vada in the next year at least a thousand more families are expected already the result of their work Is manifesting itself in the I 1 ast twelve months nevada 1 as addel more to the world worlds s wealth than ever before in that time more mines have been discovered more farms hac hard been started more I reo iea ea pie have come to the state and nn me e indi s ies jes have been established cutini any is dear |