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Show NORTHWEST NOTES A tramp was killed and an engineer and three other persons injured when two trains collided near Lind, Wash. The population of Nevada at the census of 1910 was SI. 875. and it is estimated es-timated that it was 99.000 on Julv 1, 1914. Indications are that the proposed railroad from New Meadows. Idaho, to Grangeville. Idaho, may soon he financed. Dick Noonan. an aged miner of Tonopah, Nevada, suffered a broken leg when he was run down by some boys coasting on the street. John Hart, who was arrested at Reno on a charge of leaving his team standing in the storm without food or water for more than six hours, was fined $10. An appropriation of $10,000 was added to the fund' for the eradication of the rabies epidemic in Nevada by the Nevada sheep commission which met in Reno last week. Drunkenness In Seattle during the first twenty-nine days of January decreased de-creased 82 per cent from the corresponding corre-sponding period of last year, taking police arrests as authority. The long-eared bunny is doomed on the Salmon river tract in Idaho, as an organization of farmers has been formed there to poison the animals, which are making big holes in the haystacks. A wild cat was killed at Clear creek, near Winnemucca, a few days ago. The animal bore evidence ot having had a tough tussle with a porcupine, por-cupine, as its mouth and nose were covered with quills. A training school for aviation will be established at Fort Douglas, Utah, next August as an adjunct of the citizens' citi-zens' military training camp, according accord-ing to plans of L. B. McCornick, chairman chair-man of the aviation committee. The lowest the mercury dropped in Nevada during the recent cold snap was recorded at Empire, near Carson City. The thermometer fell to 34 degrees de-grees below zero, but warmed to "only" 26 below after the sun came out. Yourt Sioux, the Indian who attempted at-tempted suicide at Winnemucca, Nevada, Ne-vada, by discharging the contents of a shotgun into his face, has gooa chances of recovery. The red man was drunk when he committed the rash act. Fire which started in the basement of a drug store at Kalispell, Mont., destroyed de-stroyed the building and damaged two mercantile establishments adjoining. The loss is estimated at $25,000. The fire followed an explosion in the basement base-ment of the drug store. Representative Humphrey of Washington, Wash-ington, at the request of Ezra Meeker, has introduced a bill making an appropriation ap-propriation of seventy-five thousand dollars for surveying and locating a military and post road from St. Louis to Olympia, Wash., over the route of the old Oregon trail. Norman and Carl Smith are under arrest, suspected of the murder of William Maynard, whose charred body was found a few days ago in a burned cabin four miles from Carlin, Nevada. At first it was thought that Jvtaynard was burned to death while . in a drunken stupor. Officers of the Utah-Oregon Sugar company have announced that the bond issue of $500,000 has been sold and that the capital stock of the company com-pany increased. The company is now financed and contracts will be let within with-in a short time for the erection of the factory near Grant's Pass, Ore. A. A. McAulay and D. T. Cochran, miners, nearly perished in the storm that swept over Nevada last week, while walking from Reed's ranch to Lower Rochester, a distance of thirty-two thirty-two miles. The walk took them from 6 o'clock Wedensday morning to 4 o'clock Thursday afternoon to cover the distance. Miss Myrtle Smith, living near Eureka, Nevada, while returning from a rabbit hunt, dropped a rifle, the weapon being discharged, the bullet entering under the heart and emerging emerg-ing at the breast. Pieces of the clothing cloth-ing she was wearing entered the wound, but were picked out. From last accounts she was. on the road to recoverys A movement was started last week by settlers and land owners on the Salmon river project, in Idaho, to petition pe-tition the state land board to make an appropriation out of the Carey Act fund of $10,000 to aid the settlers In litigating to a definite conclusion their differences with the bondholders, who succeed in interesting the Twin Falls Salmon River Land & Water Co. Not less than $330,000 is to be saved in the administration of state expenditures during the biennial period pe-riod that Governor Alexander serves as chhf executive of the state of Idaho. At least that is the aim. During Dur-ing the first year of the biennium he saved no less, than $160,095.43 in expenditures ex-penditures as compared to the first year of tje Haines administration 1913. The body of Hayden Dean, a miner who left Galice, Ore., for hi3 cabin in the mountains during a snowstorm January 7, was found Monday night by a searching party. Dean had left his pack on the trail when exhausted, and collapsed several hundred yards lway. A movement has gained considerable consider-able headway -in the southern part of Nevada for the establishment of a state highway running from Reno to Las Vegas through . Tonopan, GoLd-field GoLd-field and other southern towns along the route marked out. |