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Show NORTHWEST NOTES I ' At an auction of state lnnds In Broadwater county, Mohtnna Doputy Register Oker disposed of t'.BGG acres at nn nvcragq price of $11 an aero. A soven-mllllon dollar merger of traction, light and power companies Hj In Colorndo, New Mexico nnd Wyoni-lug Wyoni-lug wns consummated in Denver a fow days ago. Becoming enraged at his wife, 13. H. Htgeley of Ely, Nevada, took all of her clothing Into the back yard, applied a torch to tho garments and " destroyed everything but the clothing sho had on. llldgeley is In jail. To determine whether deforcstra-tlon deforcstra-tlon nffects the water How in streams, Joint experiments will bo conducted In Colorndo by the wenther bureau, geological survey and forestry depart-mcnt depart-mcnt of tho national government. State Senator Moncuro Cockroll of Powell county nnd Miss Ollvo King Anderson, daughter of a prominent Mcnghor county merchant nnd live-stock live-stock men, were married at Whito Sulphur Springs, Mont,, on Juno S. It is now believed that "Jack" Ow-ens, Ow-ens, sheriff of Nyo county, Nevada, did not start for Ely ns ho originally Intended, but went to San Francisco, stilling from there to Sonttlo. It is rumored thnt Owens Is short In his accounts, but this his friends deny. A large amphitheater at Ellen's gardens, nn amusement park In Den-vor, Den-vor, collapsed Wednesday afternoon. Six men were In tho-building at tho time, but escaped unhurt. Tho amphl-theater amphl-theater was constructed by a Seattle, Wash., company, nnd cost $100,000. Tho supreme court has handed down a decision affirming tho district court of Silver Bow county, Montana, which ordered the restoration of W. J. Buckncr to tho Butto pollco force, JH from which ho had removed although mM appointed undor tho metropolitan law provisions. The sulphuric acid plant of tho Western Chemical Manufacturing com-puny com-puny nt Denver wns detroyed and other buildings of tho company dam aged by fire, which Frank A. Ashley, president of tho company, attributes jjH to Incendiarism connected with labor troubles. Resenting a reprimand for attending a dance after permission to do so hnd been refused, Lois Holland, tho seven-tccn-yenr-old daughter of a hotel pro-prletor pro-prletor of Reno, Novadn, committed suicide by shooting herself in the tomplc nt her grandfather's ranch near Yerlngton, Moro danger Is, threatening tho res-ldents res-ldents In tho vicinity of Jakes Valley, Nevada, and tho forest service linn been appealed to for help. During tho past fow weeks cattlo and stock havo been dying off rapidly, tho re-oitlt re-oitlt of being poisoned by tho deadly fl larkspur roots. Official returns of building opera-Hons opera-Hons In 44 cities throughout tho cotiti-try cotiti-try shows an aggregate loss for May, 1010, of 17 per cent, ns compared with May of 1009, Denver shows a gain of OG per cent whllo Salt Yako Is building at tho same rate as during the past year. Four prominent business men, dls-gulsed dls-gulsed as bandits, held up and robbed a stngo coach party of faahlonablo peo-pic peo-pic near Seattle, securing . about $7,000 worth of valuables. The "ban-dlts" "ban-dlts" later returned tho plunder and confessed that tho episode was In the nature of a Joke. During a drunken quarrel over tho division of community property, Jnck Nones, who conducts a saloon at tho Star Pointer, near Ely, Nevada, bru-tally bru-tally beat up his wife. It Is claimed that Nones struck his wlfo ovor tho head with a stove poker and other-wise other-wise maltreated her. Police, throughout the state of Colo-ratio Colo-ratio nre searching for Esther White, a pretty soveiiLcon-yenr-old Trinidad girl, who disappeared from a boarding house in Dcnvor, to which sho camo three months ugo to tako a courso In a business college. It is feared that she has met with foul play. The waters of tho Spokano river r'H have given up tho body of P. II. Sauth-eln, Sauth-eln, a merchant pollco officer of Spo-kane, Spo-kane, missing since March 10. Post-tlve Post-tlve identification of tho bndly dccoin-pose dccoin-pose remnlns was ma do through a belt nnd scabbard found on tho body, It ts. believed Sautheln wns murdered, XH An application for dlvorco on grounds of alleged desertion and fall-nre fall-nre to support, wns filed In tho district court nt Carson, Nevada, on Juno 7, jH by Mrs. Helen Gladys Aokl against hor husband, Gunjlro Aokl, a Japaneso, who was formorly employed as a sor-vont sor-vont In the homo of tho wife's par-puts, par-puts, prominent California people. Fifteen minutes after a court order had placed the Denver Resorvolr and Irrigation company, one of tho largest projects of Its kind In tho state, In tho hands of a receiver on Tuesday, steps were taken to insure tho com-pletlon com-pletlon of the ontorprlso, tho court an-thorlzing an-thorlzing Frederick W. Taylor, the re-nclvcr, re-nclvcr, to mnke a $250,000 issue of ro-selvorV ro-selvorV certificates to carry out the |