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Show NORTHWEST NOTES The population of North Yakima, Wash., is 14,182, as compared with 3,164 In 1900. C. R. Jones, a prominent California horseman, waa found dead In his apartments In the Mantle block In Butte, of natural causes. Tho lnltlntlvo nnu referendum hill has passed the upper house of the Colorado legislature after previously having passed tho lower house. Tho national encampment of the United Spanish war veterans In session ses-sion nt Denver, selected Oklahoma City, Okla., for Its next encampment. Tho Spanish wnr veterans devoted the first dny of their encampment at Denver to tho welcome of their former for-mer comrade in arms, Colonel Roosevelt. Roose-velt. The contracts recently let for tho construction of the new high line of tho Salt Lake Route through the Mcndow valley wash aggregate $G,-000,000. $G,-000,000. Tho derailment of a caboose ot n Union Pacific freight train nt Hillside) Hill-side) Wyo sixty miles east or Green River, caused the Injury of sl:t men who wero riding In the car. Word received from Denver Is to the effect that the Denver & Rio Grande railroad is to be double-tragked double-tragked from Denver in Salt Lake and that the, road will spend between ?10,-000,000 ?10,-000,000 nnd $12,000,000 for Improvements. Improve-ments. Accused of hnvlng driven his daughters daugh-ters from home with a butcher knife, and charged with having wantonly beaten them with a club, Bert Copies, an engineer in the employ of the Steptoe Smelting company at Ely, Nevada, Ne-vada, Is under arrest. In his nddress at Pueblo, Colonel Roosevelt, turning to General T. .1. Downen, president 'of tho Y. M. C. A., declared that wherever ho found a veteran of tho great war who was chairman of the Y. M. C. A., ho could give his unqunllllcd approval. An attempt to dynamite a new six-story six-story building under process of construction con-struction at Seattle, shattered all the windows, and two persons passing wero slightly Injured. It Is claimed that tho attempt to wreck tlio build-lng build-lng was duo to labor troubles. At a meeting of the board of directors direc-tors of the Butte, Boise & San Francisco Fran-cisco Railroad company, Dr. George N. Fleming of Boise, Idaho, was elected elect-ed a director and first vice-president of tho company. Active work Is to start on on the roadbed at once. At a mooting held In Portland between be-tween officers of tho Held service of the general land office and officers ot tho forestry service an agreement was reached which gives to tho gon-eral gon-eral land office all responsibility for the patenting or larids on tho public domain. Following tho news' thnt tho Oregon Short Uno is to build a cut-off from Evanston, Wyo., to Ogdon, with a vlow of shortening tho line 'and decreasing tho gfadc. comosjtho report that another an-other cut-ofT Ik to bo built rrbm a point on the Ogdcn-Lucln cut-off to Rupert, Ida. Members of tho special scbsIou of the Colorado legislature, now In session, ses-sion, havo discovered that they stand a good chance or not getting any money Tor tholr services unless some futuro legislature appropriates it. There Is no money available In tho general rund. Before tho eyes of his bride of thrco months, Fred W. Cheney ot Manchester, N. II., 2G years old, shot hlmsolf In tho head at Grand Junction, Junc-tion, Colo. Ho will die. Cheney is said to bo tho Bon of a former president presi-dent of tho Now Hampshire Mutual Fire Insurance company. Judge Lewis In tho federal court at Donvcr refused to grant tho Injunction Injunc-tion asked for by. holders of bonds of tho Denver Union Water company against tho holding of an election on .Soptember G for tho purpose -of issuing issu-ing $8,000,000 In bonds for tho construction con-struction qt a municipal water plant. State Treasurer 'E. EsseJstyn has filed with Governor Edwin L. Norrld ot MoiUnna.. the roport of his department depart-ment for tho month of August, which shows that tho state has nearly ?4.-OOO.OOQr.ln ?4.-OOO.OOQr.ln cash securltlos In Its strong box. Tho receipts for tho month nmounted to $232 791.74 and the disbursements dis-bursements to ?2G9,25G.01; " Tho stale supremo court 'Jias "handed' down a decision In tho direct primary election caso In Nevada, which Ib a reversal qf Its previous. opinion, except with roferonco to voting for county committeemen. Tho court states that although tlwr Nevada pr4mary- law rects that blank spaces bo placed under un-der tho names of candidates, on tho ballot, there Is no ljTovlsion .Authorizing .Authoriz-ing voters to write tho names of candidates can-didates in tho blnnk spaces. It is estimated that In Clnrko and Cowlitz counties, Washington, ?2,000,-000 ?2,000,-000 no more than represents tho aggregate ag-gregate loss from forest fires. Eight hundred porsons hnvo boon rendered homoless, nnd 2,000 men havo been thrown out of work. |