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Show NORIHW NOTES A two years' campaign, in which the great religious denominations of the United States have combined, and during which the entire country will be toured, opened at Seattle last week. Marysvale, Utah, is to have another an-other potash factory. The Frank R. Taylor company of Philadelphia will build a plant within three miles of Marysvale, which will represent an investment of 5250,000. District Attorney Lawrence J. Lile-quist Lile-quist of Coos county, Oregon, announced an-nounced last week that hereafter all newspapers and magazines carrying liquor advertisements would be barred from sale on news stands. Predatory animals were responsible for the loss of 40,000 sheep during 1915 on the ranges of district No. 4 o the United States forest service, which embraces Utah and parts of Idaho, Wyoming and Nevada. H. H. Riddell, former secretary of the Oregon Inland Development company, com-pany, is on trial at Portland, charged with having used the mails to defraud in a plan to sell lands scattered throughout the state on the contract plan. Louise Turner, 20 years old, a student stu-dent at the state normal school at Bellingham, Wash., was seriously and probably- fatally injured in a coasting accident. A sled descending a hill ran into a group of coasters ascending the hill, injuring five. There was a large attendance of representatives from all parts of the state at the conference held in Win-nemucca, Win-nemucca, Nevada, last week, to discuss dis-cuss the rabid coyote situation. A committee of seven was appointed to recommend a plan to the conference for coping with the situation. Perry Lowe, aged 29, while hunting hunt-ing with his brother, A-lden Lowe, aged 23, was accidentally killed by being shot through the body. The two men were near their home on the McKenzie river, about thirty miles from Eugene, Ore. Perry Lowe was mistaken by his brother for a deer. The Elko county, Nevada, officials are drawing up a call for another special spe-cial election for the sale of sewer bonds to the amount of $30,000. It lias been found that the election held last summer for the same issue upon which the people voted favorably, was illegal on account of a technical flaw. Marion Gould, an aged resident of Las Vegas, Nevada, aged 65 years, perished per-ished in the snow in or near the Charleston range on New Year's day. The aged man had set out from Owens siding to inspect some mining interests inter-ests in spite of the fact that he was warned not to fret out in the blinding blind-ing snowstorm. Believing that everyone he met was talking about him, John Hen-drickson, Hen-drickson, a laborer 56 years old, living liv-ing at Salt Lake, made a second attempt at-tempt to commit suicide by slashing his throat with a razor.. The other attempt to end his life was made last spring, when he swallowed carbolic acid. He is expected to recover, Judgment for $42,500 is asked against the Cleveland-Wyoming Oil company in six suits filed at Denver by as many Colorado, New York and Salt Lake men. The suits upon which attachments against the company's property were issued are for the recovery re-covery of tnoney which the plaintiffs say they invested in the company's stock. The Montana supreme court has sustained the validity of a Nevada divorce di-vorce decree. The case cited is that of P. J. Loveland who secured' a decree de-cree of divorce in 1911 .in Reno and was recently arrested for bigamy in ' 'Montana, it being claimed that a divorce di-vorce decree granted in Nevada was not recognized in the state of Montana. Mon-tana. Wyoming is a state of large resources, re-sources, whose development has only begun, says a bulletin of the geological geologi-cal survey. Within its 97,594 square miles lie the most extensive coal fields and the most productive known oil fifilds of the Rocky Mountain re- gion. '"thousands' of acres of irrigated and dry-farming lands, and extensive areas of splendid stock range. Among The mineral products of the slate of Wyoming, coal is pre-emi- nent. Its coal fields cover about 41,-500 41,-500 square miles two-fifths of the 1 state-s area and contained originally an estimated 670.723,000,0110 tons. Of i this quantity only 17S.000.OO0 tons, or about one-fortieth of 1 per cent, has i been exhausted. The production in i 1913 was 7.393,066 tons, valued at i 11.510.045. ' ' '' More than $30,000 annually is lost to the farmers and ranchers of the in-1 in-1 (prmountain st.:es and Oregon and ' Washington through the making and i sale of hutt-JVo the storekeepers in the varioiv fnwns and Idaho is iosing lif "'jtiy other in- i term A tlie m- - r |