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Show INLAND NORTHWEST Mrs. Martha Smith, for many years i resident of Truckee. died of burns received in a Sacramento apartment house last week. R. O. Morrell has resigned the position po-sition of assistant postmastership at Winnemucca and has gone to Lovelock Love-lock to engage in business. Farmers in the northwest are inclined in-clined to hold their grain for high prices this year, but James J. Hill thinks i hey will be disappointed. j As a result of being thrown from her horse while attending the Flko rodeo ro-deo last week. Mrs. Charlton, a visitor visi-tor in Elko, sustained a painful injury to her spine. Dr. Ware, county physician of Mono county, Nevada, died at Bridgeport last week after a brief illness. The deceased had been a resident of I Bridgeport about six years. Bryan Trevillian, formerly a resi- I dent of Virginia City. Nevada, was run down by an automobile in San Francisco Fran-cisco and received a compound fracture frac-ture of the bones of 1iii rlgi't leg. Fred Starr, under ?.v:o ,t at Seattle Seat-tle on charges of holding up inlerur-ban inlerur-ban street cars near there, has been identified by his finger prints and pho tograph as Robert Garrett an ex-convict. The report of the pension commission commis-sion for the past fiscal year shows that 937 pensioners in Utah received $207,372. Two thousand and forty-nine forty-nine in Idaho received $453,561, and 766 in Wyoming received $169,610. Preparations are under way at Battle Bat-tle Mountain for the celebration of the next Fourth of July. A mass, meeting was held there last Week for the purpose pur-pose of devising ways and means for raising funds for the coming event. The mysterious disappearance of Steve Crappo since the 10th of August from Pioche has caused grave anxiety for his welfare and many of his acquaintances ac-quaintances in that section are convinced con-vinced that he has met with foul play. Four serious fires in Polk county (Ore.) hopyards occurred within the 24 hours ending early Friday night-In night-In all cases there was evidence of incendiarism. in-cendiarism. Trouble between hop-uickers hop-uickers and their employers had recently re-cently occurred in the district affected. When the state board of pardons and - paroles meets at Carson City, Nev., it is understood that the members mem-bers will be confronted with eighty-four eighty-four applications from inmates of the penitentiary either for parole, pardon or clemency. , On account of the prevalence of hydrophobia in the northern portion of Nevada, the county commissioners of Eureka . county have passed an ordinance ordi-nance authorizing the peace ofcers to kill any dogs found running at large without muzzles. Discovery of Hie body of J. T. Owens, a horse trader of Twin Falls, Idaho, in an abandoned well 20 miles from Pendleton, Ore., was followed by a confession that he bad 'murdered Owens made by John Richardson, a farmer who had been arrested on suspicion. sus-picion. The Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation company, bwner of a building build-ing on Western avenue Seattle to 'save been used for disorderly purposes, pur-poses, was made a defendant in a suit filed by Prosecuting Attorney Lundin under the so-called red light abatement abate-ment law. 4 Cecil Lear, the S'ear-old son of Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Lear of Carson City, Nev., bad a miraculous escape from death by walking through an open window upon the steep roof of a porch, while asleep. The boy had frequently fre-quently walked in his sleep in the past. Lying in an almost inaccessible spot on Heusser mountain, near Ely, the body of John Myers, formerly foreman fore-man of the Huesser ranch, was found with a bullet hole in his right temple. A revolver with one chamber empty bore silent testimony that the deceased had come to his death ny means of suicide. As the result of a special election on local option, Mono county, Nevada, Ne-vada, went dry by a majority of 75 votes. Antelope and Bridgeport precincts pre-cincts went dry two years ago and now the entire county is under the temperance rule. Joe Armstrong, who is accused of the murder of Paul Coski at Good Springs, Nevada, a couple of weeks ago and left for parts unknown, may be hunted down by the officers and brought tack to Las Vegas for trial. Armstrong shot and killed Coski on the 27th of June as the result of a quarrel over a game of cards. J. C. Matthews, convicted at Reno of wielding a razor upon the face and neck of Mrs. Fay Brickel last June, has been sentenced to from one to fourteen years' imprisonment. With the arrival of H. H. Ryker in Reno, badly lacerated about the face and neck by a rabid coyote, the tot?l number of patients receiving pasteur treatment at the stale university uni-versity was brought i.p to six. The enormous increase in freight traffic through the Ogden terminal during the past few weeks put the Wyoming Wy-oming division of the Union Pacific railroad to the supreme test on Wednesday, Wed-nesday, when a total of 2.023 cars were handled between Ogden and Green River, Wyo. John C. Martin of Tocopah met with a painful accident a few days ago at his home in the silver camp. Martin was training sc-me vines on the porch of his home- when his foot slipped and he fell, f?cturing a rib and sustaining severe bruises. |