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Show NORTHWEST NOTES A smallpox epidemic is feared at Fallon, Novadn, whoro several cases have been quarantined. Falling from a raise, .Too Fergus sustained a tracturo of tho skull in Mlzpah mlno at Tonopah, Nevada. A shocphordor named Camlorno, was found frozen to death in a cabin in southorn Humboldt county, Nevada. Ne-vada. Hay in the Fallon country In Nevada, Ne-vada, has advanced from $7 to $9 per ton In tho stack, duo to Increased feeding required because of the cold. Fred Skinner, granted n new trial for tho murder bf Mona Doll two years ago at Ithyollto, Nevada, when, ho was convicted, will be nrralgned February Feb-ruary 7. Survoyor General Doady of Novada reports applications for moro thnn 200,000 acres of Carey act land in Parumph Valley, where ho has been making survey. Accidental discharge of a revol vnr ho was handling sent a bullet through the face of It. D. Cushman at St. Clair, Novada, but lio waa not fatally Injured. A PJuto Indian found dead in a tool box In tho Southorn Pacific yards at Sparks, Nevada, is supposed to havo .crawled thoro for shelter and frozen to death. Two trainmen wcrp killed' and three others badly Injured when a freight train locomotive on tho Don-vor Don-vor & Rio Grando railroad blow up near La Vcta, Colo. Mrs. F. B. Kern and child disappeared disap-peared from Carson, Novada, whoro slio was making hor homo pending" application for divorce, when hor husband appeared from San Podro, Cal., to claim tho child. Charge for keop of fedoral prisoners nt tho Virginia City, Nevada, Jail has been raised from GO conts to 83 1-3 cents on a comproml3o mndo by a United States Inspector with the commissioners, com-missioners, who asked $1.00. Five young people of Everett, Wash., who sailed from Everett on Wednesday In a sixtcon-foot boat on what was to have been a short pleas--ure. trip, havo not returned. It is feared they wore caught In a violent gnlo and drowned. Tho central Wyoming snow block-ado block-ado was broken on tho evening of January 25 when Casper citizens dug 6ut a train, which was the first to reach Lander In eleven days. Three snowplows wore disabled anu drifts were higher than tho cars. A terrific wind damaged thousands of dollars' worth of property through out Colorado Tuesday night. All over tho state telcphono and telograph polos and wires were blown down, framo hous'es torn from their foundations founda-tions and hundreds of chimneys and smoko .stacks demolished. Union Pacific dotectives claim tc havo unearthed a long sorios of robberies rob-beries of baggage, express and United States mall at Choyenno. C. F. Olson, a baggngeman, and L. II. Sample, an expressman, aro undor arrest and other employees aro hold ponding an Investigation by pstofflco inspectors Superintendent N. K. Franklin ol Novada Thanksgiving mine, at Manhattan, Man-hattan, Novada, has a broken rib nnd bad bruises as tho result of boing shaken from a bucket at 150 feet In an incline shaft Just as it turned to a vortical drop. Ho managed to grasp tho cablo aijd held until the onglneor stopped. Colosto Mario Lomolne, tho young daughter of Charles' O. Tucker, who was murdered in a hotel at Soattlo by Elvira nunklemnn, may become solo heir of tho furniture dealer's estate es-tate of moro than $50,000. Tho girl's mothor ran away from her homo in 'St. Louis years ago with Tucker, and tho couplo had never boon married. Tho Montana stato railroad corm mission has dlroctcd tho Montana, Wyoming and Southorn railway to equip itself with su'lllclont locomotive, power and cars to supply more coal to tho mnrkots of tho tnto. Settlors ore coming Into tho Great Falls, Montana, district so fast that tho board of commorco has made an appeal to Secrotary Ilnlllnger forv additional ad-ditional help In tho land olllco In order or-der to keep up with tho rush. Miss Jcnnio Roson, a young woman of Donvor, whoso leg was broken nnd who received other Injuries when she was struck by a Donvor & Rio Grando railroad train on August 21, 1007, hnB been awarded a verdict for $13,422 by a Jury in hor suit for dnmngea against tho railroad. Traffic on tho Great Northern has boon at a standstill on tho eastern district of tho Kallspell division, on account of heavy snowslldos at Paola, Skylnnd nnd Hlghgato. Tho biggest slide, nt IllghgatOs 300 feet long and fifteen feet deop. It is reported two men wero killed. . Donver was a "dry;, town on Sunday, Sun-day, it not being posslblo to obtain liquor either With or without moals. The npproachlng campaign for a "dry" Denver Is thought to. Infiuqncq the movomont, toward a parchVd Sun-day:" Sun-day:" V , - k |