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Show ffllfS NOTES ,n Idaho and Wyoming the , lamb crop the present season was 2.2o0 000 Over "ill. students were present at the opening day on August 30 of the diversity of Nevada, at Reno. The accidental upsetting f a kerosene kero-sene lamp resulted in the death of Mrs. M. K. Lane of'Carlin, Nev.. the following day. Lee Craven of Carson City, who was recently brought to Reno for treatment at a local hospital as the result of being kicked in the face by a vicious stallion, will reefer. Investigation upon the part of the district attorney's and sheriff's office of Elko county has failed to reveal any clew to the killing of Oliver Bates, a saloon .ran on Goose Creek, Nevada. According to the reports that come from Klko county the farmers of the Rubv valley section are being literally eaten out of house and hone by the nocks of wild geese that are working great havoc In the grain fields. Ml danger from fires in the na-,I,nal na-,I,nal forests of District 4 has been eliminated by the general ram m'lne intermoiintain country, acording to re. ports from the supervisors of the various forests received at the Ogden headquarters. Little Jean Cnsci. the 10-year-old boy who was struck on the head by x passing train near Sparks while attempting at-tempting to protect his smaller brother from an infuriated cow, is reported re-ported to be doing as well as could be expected at a Reno hospital. John Cameron, one of the early pioneer mining men in the Comstock section, died suddenly at the home of his daughter at Goldfield last week. He was formerly one of the pioneers of Virginia City and had resided on the Con.istock for a quarter of a century. cen-tury. Simon Benson of Portland was recently re-cently selected as the most popular man in Oregon and the man who has acomplished the most for his state. He is one of the wealthiest men of Portland and has freely devoted his wealth to the advancement of his city and state. At the preliminary examination of Em. Forquer, charged jointly with James O'Donneli with the murder of her husband on the 5th of last July, "the woman was remanded to the custody of the sheriff of Humboldt county, Nevada, to answer before the higher court. More than 500 Pacific Fruit Express cars are being held in the Salt Lake yards of the Oregon Short Lne to aid in the shipping of the fruit crops of Utah and Idaho to the east. At Poca-tello, Poca-tello, Nampa, Glenn's Ferry, Ida., and Huntington. Ore., cars also are being-held being-held in reserve. After chasing W. A. Adams for a distance of 165 miles in his automo-hiel, automo-hiel, Sheriff Harris of Elko county-succeeded county-succeeded in overtaking the man who stole the Truett horses last week. Thirteen of the stolen animals were in the possession of the rustler at the time he was captured. D. C. Hanks of Springfield. 111., claims he was robbed of the side combs which were worn by Nancy Hanks Lincoln, mother of Abraham Lincoln, while he was on a Denver & Rio Grande train between Denver and Salt Lake. He asserts he was faking the combs to the exposition for exhibition ex-hibition purposes. Inquiries which have been received from several large touring agencies in the east by railroads, hotels and companies com-panies operating in the Yellowstone park indicate that the westbound tourist tour-ist travel in 191G will almost equal the westbound travel during the present pres-ent summer, although the. two expositions exposi-tions on the Pacific coast will be closed. At Deeth there is on exhibit what is claimed to be the largest hen's egg on record and the producer of this product is a native born Nevada chicken. The egg is said to weigh a trifle over six ounces, and its circumference circum-ference around the long way is exact-.y exact-.y nine inches, while about the middle mid-dle it measures seven and three-eifeluhs three-eifeluhs inches. John Cuddy aLd William Parker, the two Tonopah boys who trundled a wheelbarrow load of high grade ore irom the Tonopah minL-s to the S.iu Fiancisco exposition where the mineral min-eral was placed on exhibit in the Nevada Ne-vada state building, have returned to their hemes in the somh to claim the substantial reward promised them if they made the trip in a limited time. That the past season has been au ' epoch-making one in the history of the sheep industry i:i Utah, I('lall0 and Wyoming, not so much from the standpoint of a largo production of wool and mutton, but from the ready market for all wool produced in the triangular wool neu s alliance. ,ho high price that the wool brought in eastern markets and the general excellent ex-cellent conditiou of the flocks at the cose of the season, is the declaration H e iTi -Li- StK"art' secretary of the Utah Woolgrcwers' association. Pratctioes of farriers and p.ddlers In selling iruit and vogotnb.es in measures, bags crates or cases must cease ,n Utah pursuant to a law passed by the lst legislature. ir ng that these commodities he sold hv weight, is the final declaration of the "ate food and dairy commissioner. Someone who did not like the noise the Uc.inKha.u. W:lsll ,. srcn rushed a hag of sawdust down tu hroat and shut o5 this aid to marin-i marin-i at a ,i,e wtwn dense forest ..re moke i:;.nde navigation unusually d.f-Icult. d.f-Icult. avoiding to uu official report. |