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Show jNORTHVEST NOTES It is alleged that gambling has been resumed at Goldfield and a grand jury has been called to investigate the charges. Lloyd G. Hyatt, postmaster at Te-Iocaset, Te-Iocaset, Ore., has been sentenced to a terra of three months In jail for misappropriating federal runds. Eighty-five horses were burned to death in a fire at the Standard Livery Liv-ery company stables at Denver. The loss is estimated at about $70,000. Bob Greenleaf and Ed Betlach were injured at Tonopah whfle practicing in the motor cycle races by Green-laf's Green-laf's machine striking a manhole on Main street. Theodore Tobiason, owner of a millinery mil-linery store at Spokane, was shot and killed while in his store, by-Al-phonso Pansiera. Pansiera, according to the police, claimed that Tobiason owed him $5,000. Forty-three failures in Utah for 1916, as compared with forty-seven for the same period in 1915, are noted in the R. G. Dun report. The liabilities liabili-ties of Utah's failures total $346,477. All the other western states show similar decrease In the number of failures. Support of the American Red Cross organization in its campaign to care for both the United States soldiers called to the Mexican border and for dependents lefV at home not otherwise other-wise provided for is recommended to the people of Utah by Governor William Wil-liam Spry. The largest individual wool sale in the United States this season was completed at Cheyenne last week, when the Swan Land & Cattle company com-pany sold to W. R. Adams of Fremont, Neb., its 1916 clip of 600,000 pounds, for 25 cents a pound. The purchase price is $150,000. Marguerite Cook, 14-year-old bride of J. G. Cook, aged 52, a steel worker, was found dead on a bridge in the downtown, district at Pocatello. A few yards away lay the body of Cook with a bullet through his heart. Cook is thought to nave shot his wife and then committed suicide. A petition to place on the November Novem-ber ballot an amendment to the state prohibition law -forbidding the importation impor-tation of all spirituous and malt liquors liq-uors has been filed with the secretary of state at Salem, Ore. Under the present law a limited amount -' oi liquor can be imported. Mable White was discharged at East Ely by the justice of the peace of a charge of arson. The woman was running a place at Star Pointer and was ordered tm move and it is alleged that she threatened to burn the place down. Shortly after she departed for Ely .in an automobile the fire broke out. Thomas Hayes suffered the loss of his left arm by getting the sleeve of his jumper caught in the track layer attachment of the big caterpillar while hauling ore from the Green Monster mine near Goodsprings, Nevada. Ne-vada. Hayes' arm was drawn in the machinery, completely crushing it below be-low the elbow. From every part of Montana protests pro-tests have been directed to the state's delegation in congress against that part of the general revenue measure that proposes a special tax upon the copper mining Industry. Under the act, the business of copper smelting and refining is classified with the manufacture and sale of munitions of war. With the first squadron of Utah cavalry, which left for the border last week, were four grandsons of Brig-ham Brig-ham Young. Three other grandsons of the late president of the Mormon church are in service with the Utah battery at Nogales. Probably no other family in the state can boast of such a representation in the national guard. That the streets of Diamondville, Wyo., are more perilous for a deep sea mariner than the mine-strewn and UJboat infested North sea, is the testimony tes-timony of John Beno, a sailor, who caused the arrest of Charles E. Sam-mon, Sam-mon, Albert Falconer, Otto Zeigler and Sam Potter on the charge that they held him up on a Diamondville street and relieved him of $375.85. San Francisco capitalists have bought for a reported consideration of $250,000 the rich group of mines in the Jarbidge district, known as the Success and the Bluster. The properties proper-ties are located about 100 miles north of Elko, Nevada. Howard S. King has been formally charged with the murder of his aunt, Mrs. Corinne Wheeler, in her cottage at Seattle. Mrs. Wheeler and her sister. sis-ter. Miss Kate Swift, were chopped to death with an ax, presumably for the purpose of robbery. In a shooting affray resulting from a quarrel over irrigating ditches, according ac-cording to reports received at Denver from Pine River valley, Abner Lowell, aged 48, and his son Hugh, 18. were killed, and Frank Lowell, another son, 16, seriously injured. W. P. Mclnerny, formerly of Virginia Vir-ginia City, Nevada, but now a member mem-ber of the capitol police at Washington, Washing-ton, D. C, secured a flag, which once Buttered from the staff of the dome f the capitol at Washington, and sent It to Virginia City to be unfurled in the breeze on the top of Mount Davidson Dav-idson on the Fourth of July. Freddie Welsh was given the de-:ision de-:ision over Ad Wolgast in the eleventh elev-enth round of a scheduled fifteen-ound fifteen-ound contest at Denver, July 4, for .he championship of the world, formerly for-merly held by Wolgast. |