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Show NORTHWEST NOTES In tho state legislature ot Washing, ton, Senator Davis has introduced a bill repealing tho Sunday closing law. A heavily armed lono robber held up & stage near Jacksonville, Ore. and secured about $300 from nine pas sengcrB nnd a farmer who happened to drive up. Tho census of 1910 will undoubtedly undoubted-ly show that for the decade from 1900 Nevada will havo led all other Btatct of tho Union In proportionate growth in wealth and population. Tho Red Elcphnnt Is reopened and new ore discoveries havo been made, which Is true also of tho Nay Aug. the War Dance, Iho Eureka and the cntlro Muldoon, district, In Idaho. Somo Idea of tho size of Gnldfleld, Nevada, nnd the manner of living In Golddcld may bo 'gained by th5 knowledgo that last year tho city consumed con-sumed more than a half million dollars' dol-lars' worth of meat at wholesale prices. Moses L. Tlchner, ono of tho best known commercial travelers on the Pacific coast, and a former business man of Portland, Is dead of henrl disease, at the home of his brother In-law, Isaac I White. Mr. Tlchnoi was 47 years old. Carroll G. Dolman, a well known nt tornoy of Butte, shot and seriously In jurcd a man, who gavo his name nn Fred Engle nnd whom Dolman found entering his houso and took him for a burglar. Dolman wns . released on his own recognlznuce. Esther Mitchell, who since July last has been confined In the county Jail In Seattle, charged with tho murdoi of her brother, Georgo Mitchell, wns sent to tho state asylum for tho In-Bane In-Bane last week. Tho killing of Oeorgo Mitchell by his. sister was the rosull of a reign of "Holy Boilers" In Oregon. Ore-gon. Wolves nre doing considerable damage dam-age around Shultz's ranch, on the Greon river mesa, near Plnedale, Wyo-mind, Wyo-mind, and ranchmen Had It necessary to ride tho field and bring the cnttlo to the corrals at night. Tbrco animals ani-mals have beeu hamstrung and others show tho marks of the fangs-of thu wolves.' The Nevada Northern is working n largo forco of men on Its grade for tho lino which Is being run to Lane City, the McDonald-Ely and other promising mines west of Ely, Nevada. Tho tunnel tun-nel through tho mountain tit the entrance en-trance to tho Luun City canyon Is being driven from both sides by largo crows. There has never before been such nctlvlty In the building trades as that prevailing at Ely, Nevada, and nrtl-6uns, nrtl-6uns, mechanics, contractors and other classes of workmen havo all thoy .can do to fill flit their contracts. It is not a camp for the Idler, and thoro In no excuso for Idleness. Every ono can sccuro work. Tho Oregon Railroad & Navigation company hns suffered the worst wash-puts wash-puts In years and the Indications nt present aro that It will bo weeks before be-fore the Hue is again In operation. Twelve miles of Hue is washed out be.tween Umatilla and Pendleton nnd twenty or more between Pendleton nnd Wnlla Walla. Tho town of Ely Is Jubilant over the settlement of the wuter problem, which has vexed the camp for tho last year, tho county commissioners having hav-ing granted a franchise to tho Ely Wator company to supply both Ely nnd Georgetown, tho now townslto nd-Joining nd-Joining tho old cnnip, with a water system for nil purposes. Should the rullroad bill now before the Nevada legislature ho defeated, Francis ,). Heuey of Snn Francisco will conduct nn Investigation on tho part of the people of Nevada agalnbt the railroad lobbjlsts. A fund to pay nil his expenses bus been raised by private parties, ami he haB consented to carry on the Investigation. Tho orders Issued recently by the Whlto Pino county, Nevada, board of health commissioners, to compel prop orty owners to thoroughly clennso their premises, have beon obeyed promptly nnd sanitary conditions are greatly Improved. The fears of typhoid ty-phoid fever, which wero expressed a short tlino ngo, nre now allayed. Burglurs pried open the fcnfo of Rub-ort Rub-ort Fechncr's Jewelry store nt Che.' halls, Wash., and stolo $15,000 worth of diamonds, watches, rings nnd brooches. Thoy divided tho booty In nn alloy two blocks awny and threw somo of tho plunder uwuy. Tho burning of n sixty-foot brldgo eighteen miles west of Laramie tied up the main lino or tho Union Pnclllc for soveral hours, Iho l.os Angeles Limited and Atlantic Express trains being caught west or the bridge and thu westbound trains being acid nt Lnramle. Interest In tho Roper murder at Blulno, Wnsh., in which Addle Bopor w robbed, murdered and her house fired to conceal evldonccs of tho crime, has been rcnowed by tho discovery dis-covery of a pair ot blood-stnlnod overalls over-alls within 100 ynrds of the sccno of tho murder. It Is now it certainty that Goldileld is to bo put In closer touch with tho rest of tho world by linos to bo built from Austin and from Ely, In a short time tho Clark lino will bo completed com-pleted between Goldflcld nnd Rhyolltc, affording a straight haul to Salt Lake and the const, |
