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Show NORTHWEST NOTES. . 4H Smallpox has broke out at Victor, , Cola, and tho town has been quaran- M l L. A. Wright, chief Indian agent for "H the southern California Indians, says they are suffering greatly for want of M food and clothing. H At Los Angles, Cal., under the dl- 'H rcctton of Prof. T. S. 0. Lone, a series M of experiments are to be- made at artl- M flclal raln-maklng. H Consolidation of the electric and M cablo street railway lines of Denver M has been effected, under the name of M the Denver City Tramway company. M The salo of the Colorado Smelting H and Mining company's property at B Ilulte, Mont., to a New York company, tB Is announced. The price la 3,&oo,000. M Reports show that almond and cherry H trees In California are In blossom In H many places, fully a month In advance B of the usual time, owing to the warm B weather. There Is fear of trouble at th Vul- M can coal mines, near Gunnison, Colo., BB as the result of an effort of the com- BB pany to replace striking union miners BVJ with non-union miners, H The Montana legislature having H passed a bill legalizing prize fighting, H under certain conditions, Ilutte has H offered a 825,000 purse for the Fltz. H slmmons-Jeffrles fight. H It Is rumored that the Santa Fe has H secured control of tho California A. H Novada road In order to establish a ter. mlnal that will afford moro easy mean H of access to San Francisco. H Tho claim of Nevada for moneys ad- H vanced In aid of the suppression cf the H rebellion wero referred back to tho H secretary of the treasury, with dlrec- H tlons to report to congress at Its next H Senator Telrncy s bill making gamb. H ling a misdemeanor In Montana, and providing penalties, graduated accord- k Ing as to whether the offense Is com- mltted on the ground floor or upstairs, and according to the population of the town whero It Is carried on, has passed H both houses of the Montana legislature, H and will become a law. A bill has passed the Colorado senate) H which divides El Paso county and B creates a new county, to be known a Toller county, which will Include BV tho Cripple Creek mining dlstrlot. This BV division of El Paso county has been i BBB Igorlously opposed by the 'people of BBB Colorado Springs, and it Is openly f"v-yB charged that a large fund waa raised , 'BB to buy votes against the measure. J BBB Charles Govln and Patrick Foster, H two men with unsavory reputations, H attacked Dr. K. B, Vaughn, a Denver B dentist, and almost beat him to death. I H The injured man claims that one J. D. B Alklre hired tho men to assassinate H him, and had it not been for the . B screams of Vaughn's wife, who waa present when the attack waa made, 'BBB tho dootor would have been killed. t, . BBB Govln, Foster and Alklre are under i BBB j BBBJ Regarding tho loss to stock occsv B stoned by the recent severe weather la j H Wyoming, report are very conflicting, I H but all agree that up to date losses j B have been above the average, probably 1 ; U as high as 10 per cent Somo seetlona ; report cattle very weak and feed scarce, BBB while others report all cattle being BBB cared for, but fears of losses In March. BBB Sheep losses much heavier than cattle BBB losses, probably 15 per cent to date. BBB All grades of cattle are scarce. H Five men and a woman are burled under an avalanche of snow which H came down Granite mountain, near the j H Magna mine at White Pine, Colo., The missing, who are supposed to be ) H dead are: Mrs. Margret Stout, Ml- H chael Welch,, James Jordan and three ,H men, whose names are unknown, H These persons wero all in the board- H tng-house kept by Mrs. Stout, which H was crushed by the avalanche and car H rled with the snow down the guloh. H John Sparks, the Nevada cattle king i H says that as a result of the recent H heavy snowstorms there wilt be the H heaviest loss of live stock between th I H Gulf of Mexico and the Ilrltlsh lines, J In the malne range belt, ever before ), H known. Ills acquaintance la extensive "lH and ha says Its just simply terrlbl to jS contemplate. He says Nevada la In- i H uccu xurvuuuic, lur mo tvam ut biuv u v that state will be comparatively none Ei at all other than the natural loss. fl E. A. Eads, the brother of the fam- i lRj out engineer James Iluchanan Eads, 1 B who designed and constructed tho BE? bridge across the Mississippi river at i vVJK. St. Louis, and who also demonstrated, I 'CfuS- despite tho opposition of government "VMe engineers, the feasibility of deepening fiBKi the channel of the Mississippi by the ImIm-9 construction of jetties, was found dead ' ijj25y3 in his cabin near Elltston, Montana, 'W&a'M Eads, who wns seventy years old, evl- Kmffiim dontly had died from exposure or somo tHS5rti uatural cause. ljnl The stamp mill ana me noisi oi ma ? tejflfl Red Rock Mining company In Arizona, M has burned. The mill had just been $JH completed at a costof over 820,000, and SHjH was started up Wednesday for a trial B The Julesburg branch, which was H recently acquired by the Union Pacific, jB and extending from Julesburg to La H 8allo, Colo., Is practically to be re- H built. Now rails will be put down and BftH the roadbed Improved to make the line BVB compare In excellence wlth-'that of H b rest oj the system. H s - f - JLl -- ! |