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Show mine NOTES Joe Patani of Independence valley, near Tuscnrora, Nev., last week sold 111 head of cattle for $9,000. This is better than $81 per head. A. G. Diexler, who pleaded guilty at Reno to forgery, was sentenced to serve a term of not less than one year nor more than ten years In the state penitentiary at Carson City. Greater facilities for handling the parcel post business will be added to the Salt Lake postoffice as a result of the inspection of the federal building build-ing by Secretary William G. McAdoo. Indictments have -been returned by the grand jury against W. B. Slaughter and Coney C. Slaughter, former president presi-dent and cashier, respectively, of the closed Mercantile National bank of Pueblo. To provide a place of resort after the prohibition law goes into effect January 1 next, for laboring men who now gather in saloons, the city of Portland has leased a four-story building build-ing and will fit it up at once. In order to stimulate the efforts of the volunteer department, the Elko commissioners have passea an order awarding a prize of $15 to the first company of Elko that gets water on a blaze arid $10 to the second company. com-pany. Word has reached friends in Reno of the death of George Kristzer, who for many years was a resident of Reno, which occurred in San Rafael, Cal. Mr. Krltzer was one of the Nevada Ne-vada pioneers, who maue and lost many fortunes. Fire, said to have started from a minor explosion while a locomotive was being fired up at Greybull, Wyo., destroyed the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad roundhouse and the machine shops adjoining. The loss Is estimated at $50,000. The Oregon highway commission has adopted resolutions that $90,000 ibe set aside for the completion of the highway between Hood River and Hosier, Ho-sier, provided that Wasco county vote -bonds and construct a highway from Mosier to Fairbanks. At a meeting of the Spearhead company in Goldfield, Nevada, it was decided to resume work on the property prop-erty on company account. It is estimated esti-mated that it will require about a week or ten days to get the shaft and top works into shape. J. C. Roberts, for several years representative rep-resentative at Denver of the United States bureau of mines, has resigned to become the first professor of the Dr. Joseph A. Holmes chair of safety engineering at the Colorado State School of Mines at Golden. The auditor of Humboldt county. Nevada, has been advised by the sec retary of the state tax commission that the increase made In Humboldt county lands by the state hoard ol equalization does not include lands ol the Southern Pacific company. The national convention of the Wo ! men's Christian Temperance union, Ir, session at Seattle, refused to change ' the annual meeting time from the closing three months of the year tc spring, by defeating a constitutiona: amendment making the proposet - change. ' His right elbow shattered when he 1 was thrown from an overturning auto 1 mobile, Charles Huffield of Riverton 1 Vfyo., did not realize that he had beer hurt until after he had used the in t jured arm in rescuing three com - panions who were pinned under the 3 machine. ; Sheriff Slavin of Tonopah still hai a posse on the trail of Santucci, the bartender who shot McFarland ane 3 Chase at Manhattan last week, bu f on account of the lapse of time since the shooting affray, it is consideree t that the chances of capturing the gun .. man are slight. William Bramson, aged 23, was hele :- on a charge of murder and Mrs. Wil ,. Ham Booth, aged 30, as an accessor; D following a preliminary hearing a ;. Williamina, Ore., of charges growinj t out of the slaying -of William Booth the woman's former husband, agee . 52, who was found shot to death nea his home. I Governor Alexander has issued ! .. quarantine proclamation, pronibitini importation of livestock from al states in the union into Idaho, ex 'i cepting from Utah, Washington, Ore f gon, California, Nevada, Wyoming t Arizona and New Mexico. Its purposi f is to prevent foot and mouth diseas- being imported into Idaho. f Mrs. John Peterson, aged 36, 1 dead at Superior, Wyo., and Mrs John Isaacson and baby are In seri '' ous condition as the result of the ex plosion of gasoline with which the wc y men were cleaning clothing. One o c 'he women placed a pan of gasolin-a gasolin-a n or near a heated stove and a fev ? linutes later the explosion occurred ' howerlng the three occupants of th- oom with blazing fluid. R Ray Bradley, a seal clerk at La II egas, met with an accident in th 11 ailroad yards at that place whicl '' resulted in his death. Falling betweei n wo cars he was caught by the trucl ind dragged some distaace. One lei 11 vas almost severed from the body, am the torso was frightfully bruised. 0 Thieves entered the Lamoille Mei g cantile company's building at La moille, Nev., blew open the safe am 0 took therefrom about $800. The saf e carried the funds of the Mercantil a company and the U. S. postoffice e which was located in the same buile ing. Del McFarland, a shift boss, am e Carl Chase, a miner at the Wittenber; 1- & Mushett Pine Tree camp, were sha e by a bartender named Santaucci. i: 1- Manhattan. Both men will recover. I t' is claimed Santucci opened fire will out provocation. |