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Show NORTHWEST NOTES . I For a distance ot ono mllo tho Southorn Pacific railroad track, near fl Battlo Mountain, wns washed away by fl tho sudden rlso. of the Reese river. .Tnko Schaofo'r, world's famous bll-Hard bll-Hard player, is bollovcd to bo dying at his Denver home. Schaofer, who la suffering from tuberculosis, export- onccd n rclapso Monday, and has slnco boon sinking rapidly. Plans for making tho Third No-tlonal No-tlonal Applo show at Spokano groator In bIzc, broader in scope nnd mora educational In purposo aro now being made. Asslstanco from tho northorn railroads la freely promised. T. M. Schumacher, vice-presldoni and general manngor of the Westorn Pacific, who 'was in Salt Lake City a few days ago, announces that tho pas-Bongor pas-Bongor cars on tho rond will bo wholly of steel, and that passenger traffic wll be opened not lator than Juno 1. Engineer A. E. Holms of a Southern Pacific work train, is in tho Ogdon general hospital suffering from a so-vcrcly so-vcrcly sprained back. Whilo at work at Cobre, Nevada, Holm's engine struck a weak place in tho track and was derailed. His injuries aro not considered fatal. Barnoy Koll nnd Tom O'ConnolI, two of tho oldest engineers on tho Southern Pacific, havo boon placed on the pension list. Kelly has boen In tho sorvico since 18G5, and an cngl neer since 1869. O'ConnolI started with the Southorn Pacific in 18G9, and H wns mado an engineer in 18.73. Arrangements havo been completed for tho construction of tho main canal of tho Wyoming Central Irrigation company, near Rlvorton, Wyo. It will bo fifty miles long nnd eight foot wide, Irrigating 240,000 acres. Undor tho Carey act 10 por cent of tho land-holders land-holders havo guaranteed to tnko water. For tho first tlmo in tho history ol Esmeralda county a Japanese and white woman wero married at Gold-field, Gold-field, Nevada, on March 2. Tho couple gave their namos as II. -Y. Inul and Vivian Blackwell of Los Angeles, tho H groom claiming to bo ono of tho load-ing load-ing Japancso merchants of that city. Workmen engaged in cleaning up tho "main" Prlmero (Colo.- mine, in which scvonty-slx miners lost their lives In the explosion ot January 1, recovered tho body of Fidel Arguello. This makes slxty-nlno bqdics that hnvo been removed from tho mine. Arguello was identified, by a leather H Approximately 51,200 acres ot land H In Orogon havo been designated by tho sccrotnry of tho Interior as sub-jeet sub-jeet to disposition under tho enlarged homestead act permitting 320 acres to H each settler. Tho total amount of H lnnd that has been placed within tho provisions of this act up to tho present tlmo Is 8,811,200 acres. Tho offlco of E. H. Calllstcr, internal H revonuo collector for Utah, Idaho and Montana, Is flooded with the stato- H ments of gross nnd net incomes of cor- porations for the calendar year ot H 1009. Close to 300 belated returns havo been rocolvod, and in pursuance to law thoeo will bo forwarded to the H commissioner's ofllco at Washington. H Representatives of coal minors In H District 15, United Mino Workers of America, which includos Colorado, H New Mexico, Wyoming and Utah, have H made demand upon operators for an increase of 15 per cent in wages. Tho H demand was refused. Tho matter will bo reported to tho convention of tho H national body, which meets on March H It is officially announced from the H headquarters of tho Salt Lako Route H that farmers near Moapa and other towns along tho Hue of tho lato Mead-ow Mead-ow Valley wash flood can plant tholr usual crops of melons and garden truck, with full expectation of finding H a ready market for them, as It Is ox- H pected to havo tho temporary track through tho wash dono not lator than H July 1. At tho banquet held In Dcnvor on H Thursday night Inaugurating tho Den- H vcr convention of tho Laymen's Mis- slonary Movement, nogro delegatos H woro barred. Many members of no gro churches accepted tho Invitations H sent to them nnd to practically all ' H other congregations in Donvor, but H tho caterer for tho bnnquot, when ho H lenrnod negroes woro to be present, H refused to act unless tho invitations to negroes woro withdrawn. News reached Ely, Nevadn, of tho H death at his ranch on Warm Crook H of Truffle Doutro, a woll known resl- H dent of that section, as a result ot H exposure In a blizzard about a month H ago in tho eastern part of tho county. H Tho report of tho Montana stato H board of health for tho months of Do- H cembor and January shows that In tho H former month thoro woro 310 deaths H and 541 births, whilo in tho latter thoro wero 359 deaths and 543 births, H A fire protoctlvo association to pro- H tcct from llro and other Injuries tho H standing forests ot mo titato has been H formed at Kallspell, Mont, with tho H assurance of co-operation from tho na- H tlonal forest service and from State H Forester Grungborg. H |
