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Show NORTHWEST NOTES Novada has only one city of more than C.000 population. It Is Rono, which lncrensed 141.4 per cent In the past deende. Tho state legislature of Oregon has ratlflod tho proposed amendment to tho federal constitution permitting tho levying of an incomo tax. A rainstorm of unprecedented severity se-verity in tho Willametto valley in Oregon Ore-gon has caused immense damage to bridges and roads. Somo of tho streets In Albany nro under water. Work on tho now high lino of tho Salt Lake Routo through tho Meadow Valloy wash is now progressing in a satisfactory manner, nnd tho road will bo ready for servico about March 1 unless un-less tho unforeseen happens. Evidently nttompting to conceal tho theft of a horso, tho robber is thought to have set fire to tho largo barn of the Rocky Mountain Timber company, eight miles west of Trinidad, Colo., 'when 32 horses were cremated. John Lambert Dutrlovllle, a barber, well known In Dutte and Virginia City as "tho duke," is dead at Bolt, Mont "Tho duko" had the proud distinction dis-tinction of having shaved three presidents presi-dents Duchanan, Lincoln and Grant. Mlko Yokel, champion welterweight welter-weight wrestler of tho world, had been appointed by President Taft postmaster postmas-ter at Wilson, Uinta county, Wyoming, Wyom-ing, where ho owns a storo, a black-Binlth black-Binlth shop and an lco cream parlor. A man who killed himself by shooting shoot-ing In a Tacoma hotel has been Identified Iden-tified ns Charles Ducklln, formerly of Fremont, O., whero his relatives are said to bo prominent in business and social circles. Ducklln was S3 years old. As a result of the celebration to bo held at Greeley, Colo., In honor of the 100th birthday nnnlversary of Horace Greeley, February 3, a movement Is proposed to start a fund for tho erection erec-tion of a pioneer's monument to honor him. A wireless dispatch from Marsh-field, Marsh-field, Ore., says that tho sterim schooner Lakme, watorlogged and In distress, wa's saved from destruction near Cape Dlanco whon tho Bteamer Nann Smith succeeded In getting a tow line nboard. Before tho Colorado nnd Wyoming Lumber Dealers' association meeting at Donverf Arthur L. Holmes, editor of a lumberman's mngazino, advocat ed a national association of lumbermen lumber-men and a code of ethics between wholesalers nnd retailers. Senator Nixon of Novnda has Introduced Intro-duced n bill authorizing tho secrotiry of intorlor to throw open to entry without tho necessity of residence thereon tracts of land not exceeding 2,000,000 acres "on which tho water Is not sufficient for domestic purposes." pur-poses." Surveyor General Hanson of Wyom lng hns filed Bitlt for $25,000 dnmages ngalnst Ed F. Dahle, manager of a Cheyenne theater, on a chargo of defamation de-famation of charactor. Hanson alleges al-leges tho defendant wrongfully accused ac-cused him of aceptlng a bribe in pa pers filed In Washington against hi appolntmont nB surveyor general. Oregon cities having a population in excess of 5,000 contributed 55.& per cent of that state's total lncrcnso of 259,229 In tho last decade. Portland's Increase was 81.5 per cent of tho total to-tal Increase of theso cities, and 30 per cent of tho stato'b ;otal. Tho report has becomo current thnt tho United Proportlcs company of California, Cal-ifornia, with a capital of $200,000,000, is to stand back of tho proposed construction con-struction of tho Ely-Goldfiold railroad to bo built from Cuprite to Tydo and Hamilton, nnd then via Ely and Deep Creok to Snlt Lako City. A mass mooting of business men was held In Cheyenne to protest against tho boycott of Cheyonno merchants mer-chants by 3,000 soldiers quartorcd at Fort D. A. Russell. Tho merchants nad rofused to Join with tho soldlors In boycotting tho street railway company com-pany In nn effort to securo lower fares to Fort RusboH. Wyoming Is second m tho list of sheop-growlng states with 4,650,000 sheep, producing 7-pound flceco to tho total or 30,037,500 pounds, worth $G,342,C00, or 55 cents per pound, against 67 conts In 1909. Tho shrinkage shrink-age was 68 per cont In 1910, however, bringing tho total down to 11,532,000, by which tho average pound price Is obtained. Montana leads ovcry Btato In tho Union In tho number of shoep grazing on her hills. Tho total numbor is 4,800,000. Theso produced 33,600,000 pounds of grease wool in 1909, in average Bovon-pound fleeces, shrinking shrink-ing 64 per cont in 1910. to 12,096,000 pounds of scoured. This uveragod 56 cents por pound, ngalnst 68 cents tho year boforo, bringing tho total valuo to $6,773,760. Charles Ordlsh of Libby, Mont., has mado n wagor with a Kallspell man that he will kill at least twonty mountain moun-tain llonB this wlntor. Ho has already killed eleven, and as ho Btlll has sov-eral sov-eral weeks in which to operate, the outlook is that ho will win. |