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Show "NOETHWEST TOTOS' "Two thousand machinists employed In Denvor shops -will rccoWo nn ad-vanco ad-vanco In 'wnges Janriary 1, 'ranging from Dvo to fifteen per cerlt. An nuto has 'been Tunning between Tenabo and Hcownwc. 'Nevnda, and 'the traffic has Increased 'to Bitch an extent that 'another -unto 'has beon ordered. or-dered. Ycrlngton appears to 'be the place of the next great mlno excitement 'In Nevada. All tho Walkor Lake valley has atrcady 'been taken up, and thcro Is great activity In tho coppor mines of that section, The Union iPacillc railroad company has sold 'to the Ml lb rook Land nnd Livestock company, already ono of tho largest land owners In the southern part of Wyoming, 19,000 acres of land and Carbon counties. Thirty persons were poisoned as a result of eating stewed chicken and gravy ut a siippur given by the Ladles' La-dles' nuxlllary nt l.iramle, Wyo., last week. None of the patients died, but some are still sick. A special from Walla Walla, Wash., says that Joe Wright liaR boon arrested ar-rested on a charge of swindling John .Klsler, a Montana cattleman, out of $1,350 in an alleged surethlng card game, Wright wll be taken to Pasco, Wash., for trial. A daughter, weighing only two pounds, was born it few nights ago to Mr. and Mrs. Will Ullgorson, on Lower Clear Creek, Wyoming, and tho attending physician believes tho little lit-tle one will live, as she Is well formed and seems healthy. Tho mint at Denver began operations opera-tions In February, 1900, and nt tho close of the fiscal year was employing employ-ing 155 people. The coinage of tho new Institution from February 1 to June 30, amounted to $17,740,000 In gold and $1,709,000 In silver. DIanioudlleld Jack Davis has purchased pur-chased the rich Daisy Wonder property prop-erty for himself and a syndicate of Nevada mining Investors. This property prop-erty lies noxt to tho Nevada Wonder mlno at Wonder und Is considered ono of tho wealthiest properties In tho new mining district of Churchill county. Tho stato board of horticulture of Wyoming hns revoked tho license of Mount Arbor Nursery company, of Shenandoah, Iowa, to do business in this stato. Tho nursery conumny brought Into tho state and distributed In the Illg Horn basin a carload of nursery stock badly affected with tho woolley aphis. Percy Allen, who was sentenced to the penitentiary from Laramie, Wyo., In March, 1905, for three years for burglary, has 'icon paroled by Oovornor Urooks, who requires that the boy write to hi in on tho first day of each month during tho year 1907, telling of his whereabouts and his occupation. It requhvd tho jury In tho state circuit cir-cuit court at Portland forty minutes to acquit Orlando H. Murray of the chargo of murdering Lincoln Whitney, Whit-ney, Nov. 5, last. Murray shot Whitney Whit-ney to death in obedience to tho "unwritten law," after Whitney had persistently refused to marry Murray's Mur-ray's ulster. Tho Laramie, Wyo., Commercial club was organized last week with 111 members, representing every In terest In the city, Including the university uni-versity of Wyoming, tho city schools, tho Union Pacific and tho Laramie Plains railroads, the tie preserving plant, the rolling-mills, and every business firm In town. Former Governor C. S. Thomas, with headquarters at Denver, Colo., has boen engaged by Nixon Sc. Wing-field Wing-field as chief counsel for the owners of the Mohawk mlno at a salary of $50,000. This prlncoly sum Is the largest larg-est retainer fee ever offered to nny attorney at-torney by any Novada man or firm. John Smith, a piiKsengur on the steamship Umatilla, committed sulcldo by shooting himself shortly after tho vessel sailed from San Francisco for Seattle. It Is believed that the dead man assumed tho name of John Smith boforo boarding the Umatilla. During the progress of a dnnce at Alcova, Wyoming, Hubert Kelly and Walter Knox beennin Involved In a quarrel and drawing their knives attacked at-tacked each other. Knox was badly cut across tho faco and neck und received re-ceived to stabs In the shoulder. There will be no strike of Home-stake Home-stake miners nt Load, S. D. Superintendent Superin-tendent drier hus received a telegram tele-gram announcing (hut tho eight-hour day demanded by the miners had been granted. This concession Is regarded re-garded by tho men as satisfactory. Tho now town of Illalr, Nov., which Is the name given to the town at Silver Sil-ver Peak, Ib growing rapidly. Thren stores are already established and doing do-ing business. A; new bank will bo In opuratlon with ten days. The town Is four weeks old, and has a population of about 700. After examining thlrty-llvo veniremen, venire-men, a Jury was secured nt Portland In tho case of Orlando S. Murray, charged with the munlor of Lincoln Whitney. Murray shot and killed Whitney, November 21, because the latter rcfiiKi'd to marry Murray's young sister |