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Show NOItTIIAVEST NOTES" A lulcldo wave swept over the stato or Colorado October 4, five persons killing themselves and ono other making mak-ing an unsuccessful nttempt. IlPtbert R. Morton, an Australian millionaire, slipped on tho steps of tho Vancouver, It. C, opera house nnn fractured his skull and will probably dlo. Hecftitse nn engineer and" a brake-man brake-man wore found taking a drink In a saloon nt Tonopah and discharged, tho trainmen on the Tonopah & Goldfleld railroad went on n strike tying up the system. The laying or stool on the llorle-Athol llorle-Athol Hill cut-off of the Wyoming division of tho Union Paclllc wns commenced com-menced last week. The Intention of the company is to plnco the lino In commission about tho first of the year. A reunion of tio hntid-cnrt veterans was hold In Salt Lnko City last week, when several hundred of tho veterans who crossed the plains to Utah In tho hand cart brigades listened to a program pro-gram consisting of speeches nnd musical musi-cal numbers. (Jenoiul Superintendent Stcwnrt of tho Lnvumle, Halm's Peak &. Pacific Railway company announces thnt tho extension of the lino from Centennial to Wnlden ntul to the coal fields or North Park will be completed within tho tii-xt venr. All the hotels In l.iirnmlo. Wyo., which hnvo Ik "ii dunging 2G cents Tor meals have entered Into tin agreement agree-ment to Increase the price to :15 cents, due, It Is claimed, to tho Increased cost of provisions and expenses of seivlug n.cals. v II. H. Perham, national president of the Order of Railway Telegraphers, arrived In Denver Inst week to take personal charge of the grievance of the telegrapheis against tho Denver &. Rio Grande railroad, acting as adviser to tho committee. Al D. Meyers, the millionaire mining man of Goldfleld and Los Angeles, Is credited with having lost close to $30.-000 $30.-000 at roulette at Goldfleld tho past few days. Meyers dropped $20,000 In one play at tho Northern, nnd various smaller sums at other houses. . P. H. Cook, charged with stealing a rlllo and tevolver from Albert Cookt not related, but who befriended him, pleaded guilty In the district court at Laramie, Wyo., and wns sentenced to eighteen months In tho penitentiary. Cook was arrested in Now Mexico. Ueciiuso ho failed to heed signs forbidding for-bidding tho hunting or ducks, Chris Stanlslch. a l-year-old Servian boy, was shot and Instantly killed by Sorus Nelson nt tho Mac White ranch, four miles south or Hutto. Hunters who witnessed tho shooting dcclnred thu killing to ho unprovoked nnd very cowardly. cow-ardly. A lnrgo American eagle rested on n !lvo electric wire passing through tho Davis ranch nt nakersfield, Cal., and vas slowly roasted. When It fell to tho stubblo field below, ti mass ol uurnlng feathers. It stnrtcd a blazo which burned over 4,000 acres ol ;ratn and stubblo before It was conquered. con-quered. Hon. Ell Crumrlnc of I.nramlo. Wyo., x stato senator rrom Albany county, has written u letter to Senator Phil-indor Phil-indor C. Knox ot Pennsylvania, con grntulatlng him upon hiivlng boon mentioned ns a possible Republican candidate tor president next year nnu assuring him his support In case ho Is nominated. Tho Topeka Copper company, hav lug one of tho moat promising claimt In tho Centennial mining district, In Wyoming, assays rrom tho ores ol which have shown a value ot $260 in gold to the ton, Is sacking 100 sacks ol oro to hu sent to a smelter nt Denvet for trcntmont to determine the fuliyo of tho property. Two hundred nnd fifty members ol tho National Wholesale Druggist association asso-ciation wore In nttondnnce when Pros idont John I). Carey called tho convention con-vention to order In Denver last week. Among the most Important questions discussed wero tho effect of the national na-tional pure food law as applied to drugs and proprietary medicines. Jacques Larumln chapter, Daugh-torn Daugh-torn of tho American Revolution, which best year offviud a prize of $10 for thu best essay on "The Overland Trail," ban offered another an-other prize of the snmo amount for tho best essay by u student of tho University of Wyoming on "The Relation Re-lation of Fort Lunimlu to Pioneer Wyoming." As the result of Investigations by D. R. Hnbcock, n special ngjunt or tho United States trensury department sent to Vancouvor when tho nntl-Jnp nneso riots occurred, a torce of fed-oral fed-oral officials will bo Installed nt the International boundary lino to Veep back tho scores of Japanese who nrc dnlly crossing the border Into the United States. Morton Johnstono, nn electrician. 27 years old, was electrocuted several miles southeast of Hutto, and fell rrom tho polo to thu ground almost hcslda tho unconscious form or his helper. Henry Gngnon, who had been stunned by n similar shock. Gngnon was re BUHcltated, J. N, Victor, who built tho Southern California railway In tho '80s, nnd whe wns Its first superintendent, Is dud nt San Dcrnardlno, Cal, Victor began railroading In 1855 and for thrco years had chargo of tho military railway under un-der Gonoral McPherson during tho civil wur. According to tho Portland Orcgo-nlnn, Orcgo-nlnn, the Portland Eastern Rnllway company, that will build a road southeasterly south-easterly from Portland through central cen-tral Orogon to n connection with one or more custom trunk lines, was quietly quiet-ly Incorporated Juno 3, with a capital stock of $5,000,000. |
