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Show NOlMlTES President Wilson lias appointed Joseph L. Ashbridge of Roundup United States marshal for Montana. After May 1 the Oregon Short Line will operate the twenty-mile branch of the O. W. R. & N. from Juntura, Ore., to Riverside, Ore. With Boise, Ontario, Nampa and Ccildwell as its members, organization of the Idaho-Oregon league was effect, ed recently at a meeting held in Boise.; E. F. Baldwin, well known in. Reno for the last six or seven years as a correspondent of many eastern and coast newspapers, died suddenly last week. A rural free delivery route will be established June 1 at Gannett, Idaho, to serve 94 families. The route is 22 miles long. The carrier's salary is $572 a. year. Herbert Beadle, charged with em-be? em-be? zling about $900 worth of jewelry from Pearl Hughey, a resident of the restricted district of Reno, has .been released on $1,000 'bail. The sole Progressive in the United States senate, Miles Poindexter of Washington, announced at Spokane last week that he would seek re-election on the Republican ticket. On June 1 rural free delivery will be inaugurated at Jieren, -Wyo., where a twe'nty-eight-mile route will supply 110 families tri-weekly. The salary ot the carrier is fixed at $660 a year. William Murphy and C. Farias, who engaged in a pistol duel on the streets -of Reno on December 22, are to ba brought to trial. -Murphy suffered the loss of a leg as a result of the shooting. shoot-ing. The secretary of the Midland Trail; association, with offices at Grand Junction, Junc-tion, states that he has on file 1,300 inquiries from .people who desire to. motor to the Panama-Pacific exposition exposi-tion over this trail. Jeremiah Dewey Brown, 17 years-old, years-old, son of Mrs. William Brown of Silver Sil-ver City, Nev., was instantly killed when he fell from a wagon while-crossing while-crossing a bridge, striking on his head and breaking his neck. Complaints against peddlers 'who are making a house to house canvass, in Reno offering for sale what is purported pur-ported to be rare lace, which is said to have been smuggled into this country, coun-try, have been made by a number of women who say they have been cheated. John Bacigalupi, shot in the left leg when found prowling around the Albee ranch near Spanish Springs, is showing show-ing remarkable vitality and according to the physicians at the county hospital hos-pital at Reno, will quickly recover from the operation necessitating the-amputation the-amputation of the limb. Only a few hours after his release from the federal penitentiary at McNeil's Mc-Neil's island, Samuel Bridges, former clerk of the United States district, court at Tacoma, was a guest at the twenty-fifth anniversary banquet of the Union club, one of the most exclusive organizations of the northwest. A monster oil sprinkling convention in behalf of the Salt Lake and Yellowstone Yellow-stone highway, to be held at Pocatello in June, is in prospect. The object will be to interest all the communities along the Salt Lake-Yellowstone highway high-way in preparing it for auto travel this summer to the great national park. The buleltin issued for March by the state board of health shows 349 deaths from all causes for the month in Utah, with pneumonia contributing most of the mortality list. Out of 104 cases of pneumonia thirty-two deaths resulted. Whooping cough and tuberculosis were-next were-next in the number of deaths resulting. Although the voters at the last general gen-eral election in Montana did away with twelve-round prizefights, and thereby satisfied those who favored the referendum on the law legalizing prizefighting, prize-fighting, the fight promoters intend to go ahead and stage bouts. They have-found have-found that there is a state law effective ef-fective which allows exhibition bouts. It is said that James H. Wallis, former for-mer pure food commissioner and sanitary sani-tary inspector of Idaho, who was indicted in-dicted by a grand jury at Boise on a. charge of violating the state law in. issuing certificates for salaries and drawing certificates on the wrong funds, as appropriated by the legislature, legisla-ture, will go from salt Lake to Boise-in Boise-in the near future to plead to the indictments. in-dictments. An 11-year-old Japanese girl of Oregon Ore-gon City, Ore., for the second time in two months has demonstrated her right to the title of champion speller of Clackamas county in her school grade, the fifth. Twelve hours atfer his wife succumbed suc-cumbed from the same cause, Albeit Bordeck, 36 years old, a baker, died at Seattle of ptomaine poisoning , which physicians said was caused by eating canned soup. What amounts almost to a deadlock dead-lock has arisen between Idaho wool , growers and eastern buyers, and as . a result little wool in either south-. south-. western Idaho or eastern Oregon is changing hands. Six foreign laborer; who have been. , working on the construction of the-, the-, Williamette-Pacific railroad at Marsh-field. Marsh-field. Ore., successfully passed it is al- leged more than $700 in forged checks . at various stores in North Bend and. , Marshfield. Four of the men were captured. . There is enough wool in Elko-. Elko-. ccunly to clothe the entire suite or Nevada, according to the Free Press. t Thousands of pounds of the fleece a , being stored in Elko, not a single ( pound having yet been sold or contracted con-tracted for. t Mortoring will be permitted in Yel- . iowstone national park beginning Au- , gust 1, Secretary Lane has announced, . thus opening the last of the great government reserves to automobiles. . Control stations ate to be established at junction points throughout '.ho park to regulate traffic. , Two daughters of Robert Robinson, t an orchardist, lost their lives in a , fire which destroyed their homo near 3 Hood River, Ore. The victims worn j Violet, aged 14, and Ruth, ugod 7. 3 Robinson and his son were badly burned in an effort to rescue '.he girl |