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Show NORTHWEST NOTES The reappointment ot Matthew Kylo ot Rono as surveyor general ot Nevada has been made on the recommendation of Senator Nixon. Coal cannot be supplied In quantities quanti-ties ndequato for tho needs ot Ely, Nevada, -and orders must be placed a week In ndvanco for wood, bo great Is the demand for fuel. Five workmen were Injured, two perhaps fatally, by the collapse of a bridge on which they woro working at Portland, precipitating tho men into a gulch forty feet below. During a .quurrcl ovor a poker game at a ranch rifxr Klho, Nevada, Charles Splnks wn -dot In tho shoulder by William MeCants. Doth men aro cow' boys and hnd boon drinking heavily. Another railroad for Nevada Is tho latest report. Tho Information Is given giv-en out thnt a railroad Is to be built through Smoky valley from Austin soutli to Manhattan and later will bo extended to Tonopah. A liendlsh attempt to blow up an Albtim avenue electric car was discovered dis-covered In Portland when a motor-man, motor-man, slowing his car up to take a 'switch, noticed a peculiar object 'lying in tho "frog" between tho tracks. Examination Ex-amination disclosed a stick of dynamite dyna-mite four Inches long, capped at both ends. While prospecting near Ely, No-vada, No-vada, Charles Jacklcr encountered a big mountain Hon. Jnckler was unarmed un-armed and offered no opposition wheu the lion raided his supplies and ato all that was eatable. Tho Hon was a male, and Jnckler says was an unusually un-usually largo one, apparently starving. starv-ing. Alarmed by the prevalence of.pnou-inonia of.pnou-inonia and other diseases, and fearing fear-ing that the coming of wnrm weather will aggravate local health condl tlons, the White Pino county, Nevada, board of health has issued a bulletin ordorlug Ely people to place their property In a sanitary condition at once. The action of the service bill will affect nearly every member of Custef Post No. 1, Department of Coloradc and Wyoming, Grand Army of the Republic, Re-public, ot Laramie, tho adjutant of tho post, Colonel It. E. Fitch, being able to recall not more than two or three of the mombers of the post who are now under the age of 62 years. The trial ot Representative Dinger Hermann ot Oregon, who was Indicted for conspiracy to defraud the government govern-ment while commissioner of the general gen-eral land office, was begun 'last week In the criminal court of the District of Columbia. The specific charges against Hermann are that while commissioner com-missioner of the laud office bo destroyed de-stroyed certain letter press copies of records in his office. Mrs. Etta Duvall, arrested at Laramie, Lara-mie, Wyo., charged with forgery, has been released on ball and the proba blllty Is that she will not bo prosecuted. prose-cuted. She bought some goods from tho Woodruff & Terry Clothing & Shoe company, giving a $7,000 check on tho Fort Collins Nntlonal bank as security. She Insists that the check Is good. 1 The board of control of the fifteenth National Irrigation congress, at a meeting held In Sacramento, fixed the date of the next congress and finally decided upon an Interstate exposition ot Irrigated land products to be held simultaneously. The congress will convono September 2 for a full week's session, and the exposition will open on tho same date and continue two woeks. It hns been a very hard winter for stock in Montana, and the losses In tho largo stock districts of tho stato will bo heavy. In Chotenu, Valley, Teton, Te-ton, Fergus and Dawson counties this loss will reach between :10 and -10 por cent. Tho strlko ot the girl oporutors In tho employ of tho Hocky Mountain Hell Telephone company nt Hutto has been Bottled, and the operators havo resumed work. Tho girls get an lu-crouso lu-crouso of $G per mouth and all their othor demands aro granted. Hoprcsentatlvo Mondoll has Joined the general movement against Secretary Secre-tary Hitchcock by offering a resolution resolu-tion calling on tho Hccrotnry to advlso congress by what authority he withdrew with-drew tho agreement 01,000,000 ncrcs ot mineral lands from public entry. In a head-on collision thlrty-ulno miles cast ot Helena, on tho Northern Pacific, D. Beach and A. J. Orr, fire-mon, fire-mon, wore killed, and an engineer and nine passengers woro injured. Firo broko out In tho wrcckngu and tho bodies of tho firemen woro buricd to n crisp. Governor Hooding of Idaho hns signed a proclamation establishing quarantine ugainst sheop coming into that state from Nevada and Oregon. Tho customary rules nro laid down for Inspection and dipping ot Blieop from thoso states boforo they can enter en-ter tho state. Professor Thomas Condon, tho well-known well-known geologist, died nt his home In Eugono, Oro last weok, aged 75 years. Professor Condon occuplod for a great many years the chair ot geology In tho Oregon State university, univer-sity, but retired from active work a few years ago. |
