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Show NORTHWEST NOTES 1 A kite for nn executlvo mniiBlonhns bwn chos'jn jn CarBon City. Tho i finest re uienco In tho Btnto will bo erected. i Thco'doro Trouquot, a Hock Springs tony, 'aged 4& yenrs, shattered his hand ,y tho explosion of a railroad torp edo with which ho was playing. f. Pnzzl was seriously Injured by W 10 accidental explosion of a box of I '.slant powder enps at tho Smith Green ' antimony mlno nenr Mill City, Nov. Governor Brooks, of Wyoming, hns designated Friday, April 20, as Arbor day, and tho occasion will bo observed by tho children of tho schools with n programme. Stockmen In Wyoming will mnko a united efTort to cradlcato mange, which has spread so rapidly among cattto lu this stnto and especially In tho vicinity of Laramie. A passenger train ran into a freight train at Brown's siding, in Nevada, as tho result of an open switch, Engineer En-gineer Hampton being killed and a number of others Injured. Tho Utnh Construction company has Just commenced work on tho construction construc-tion of thirty-five miles of now double track between Green ltiver and Granger, on the Union Pacific. Tho machinists at Anaconda havo signed tho fivo-year contract with tho Amalgamated Copper company. All unions employed at tho Wushoo smelting smelt-ing plant havo signed tho contract. A pioneer of .Nevada, J. S. Shoo-makcr, Shoo-makcr, a former clerk of Washoe county, is dend in Oakland, Cal., agod 31 years. Ho was at ono tlmo grand master of Odd Fellows of tho state. Tho Ninth legislature of tho stato of Wyoming, which convened Jnnu-ary Jnnu-ary 8, 1907, .passed raoro bills relative rela-tive to tho schools of tho stato than any legislature has done .for mnny .years. Governor John Sparks has signed tho bank taxation bill, .passed at tho last session of tho legislature, and from now on National banks In Nevada Ne-vada will bo taxed the samo as -other financial Institutions. Tho city council of Douglas has granted to Moses Uljur of New York City, owner of tho extensive oil fields near that place, a fifty-year .franchise to pipe gas Into Douglas and through tho streets of the city. John O'ltourke, pioneer .placer minor and one of the wealthiest merchants mer-chants in Jlutte, whoso homo has been in Montana for moro than a third of a 'Century, died last week dn a sanitarium sani-tarium near Fresno, Cat. Harold Merrlam, of Laramlo, Wyo., tho only recipient of tho Ithodes scholarship to Oxford university, England, Eng-land, who will comploto tho three yenrs' course In that Institution In midsummer, hns been offered tho chair of English nt Paget Sound university, a Methodist Institution, but has not yet accepted It. Ora Haley, ono of tho largest land owners In Albany county, Wyoming, last week began removing nil fences from government land .In which he Is interested and will not Htop until all tho wires are down. Mr. Haley says ho will leave tho posts, but will turn every foot of government land ho has had fenced Into open -range. A dam across tho lower Laramlo river at GlllespIo'B ranch, near Laramie, Lara-mie, is being complained ngalnst. It Is nbont six feet lilgh, and there Is so llttlo wnter that tho largo trout cannot cross It in their migrations upward. up-ward. Llttlo fish can leap the distance, dis-tance, but tho lnrgo fish are kept below and fishermen aro complaining. Congressman Frank W. Mondell, of Wyoming, has appoluntcd It. W. Dyer, a young man of Carbon county, ns private secretary to succeed Louis DoLarlo, who lost his llfo In a burning burn-ing Pullman car nenr Council Bluffs last winter. J. C. Hlncs, who killed Count Pod-horsky Pod-horsky in a Goldfield enfo, alleging that tho dead man betrayed his wife, will plead tho "unwritten law" as Justification for his action when tho trlnl comes up at Hawthorne boforo Judgo Lnngnn, Charles Brown, of Itawllns, who sustained Injuries In n railroad accident acci-dent on tho Union Pacific, suffering tho loss of ono arm, und secured a Judgment against tho company, hns accepted tho compromise $12,000 offered of-fered by tho company. Michael Keavey, a miner, who has been working in tho Florence mlno at Dlamoiidllold, Nevada, for somo time, fell from a bucket whllo being hoisted to tho top of tho shaft early this wook and received Injuries that caused his death In a fow hours. The electrical workers, blacksmiths and machinists' unions of Grcnt Falls smolter havo agreed to resume work, pending n conference with John D. Ityan, of tho Amalgamated Copper company, when tho question of wage advance of 50 cents will bo discussed. 'A young lady who boors tho unique distinction of being tho only deputy United States survoyor of mineral lands In tho country Is Miss Bradford, of Tonopah, New Miss Bradford Is a native of California, and took her degreo In civil engineering at Leland Stanford university. |