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Show ' The coal ca..- shortage on the Don ' ver & Hio C.r.mde is becoming more I serious daily as heavy orders for coal ! are coming in froi.i the Paeilie north-! north-! west. ' Homer Williams, the Tonopah mining min-ing engineer who sustained a frac tured skull and lacerations of 1 lit head by a falling rock, will probably recover. Mrs. Sarah McClimock died N'ovem ber 15 at Spokane of rabies. She wa? bitten by her pet bulldog October 1" while playing with him at her home at Latah, Wash. Small French flags and miniature medals were sold in Salt Lake Saturday Sat-urday and the proceeds of the sale will be donated to the fatherless children chil-dren of France. Preliminary surveys for the propos ed railroad into the Uinta basin ot C tah have been practically coniplet ed, it was said at the office of tae Denver & Rio Grande railroad at Denver. Den-ver. The Union Pacific system 'lias placed an order for 1.500 freight cars, delivery deliv-ery to be made as soon as possible, that the car shortage may be relieved. The cars will be built in eastern car factories. An increase of more than 30 per cent is reported by Salt Lake dealeis in the price of all kinds of books and the prediction is made that the cost of the "best sellers" wili soar with the arrival of the holidays. Governor Boyle of Nevada has issued is-sued requisition papers on the governor gov-ernor of Illinois for the arrest of A. G. Crane, who is wanted in Humboldt county on a charge of obtaining money under false pretenses. In taking gravel from the pit at tlie old cemetery at Winnemucca, Nev., unknown persons have exposed the remains of several deceased Masons Ma-sons and Odd Fellows, it is charged, and an investigation lias been started. The first cowr testing association ever formed in Wyoming was organized organ-ized last week in Afton, and is composed com-posed of a number of live dairymen ot Star valley who are anxious to improve im-prove the dairy qualities of their herds. Oregon will go totally dry December Decem-ber 1, if means are found whereby violators of the new prohibition amendment to the state constitution adopted by the voters at the recent election, can be punished, Governor Witycomb has announced. After wrestling at Afton, Wyo., for an hour and a half in an effort to get a deciding fall, Cplton Kimball and Therin Merrit were stopped the other night from proceeding further with the match because of the fact that both men were physically exhausted. The full rented value land tax and home makers' loan amendment, commonly com-monly called the single tax bill, an application of the Henry George theory the-ory that all taxes should be borne by land, was defeated in the election in Oregon by a vote of 1S4.9S4' to 43,829. Charles E. S. Woods, an attorney of Portland, will undertake the defense of the members of the Industrial Workers of the World who are charged with murder on account of alleged participation in the battle at the Everett city dock, in which seven men were killed. Following his conversion at a religious re-ligious meeting at Grand Junction, Colo., Andrew J. Daniels told the police po-lice he was a member of a gang that killed Policeman Thomas Russell in New York City during a street fight five years ago. He is being held pending pend-ing advices from New York City. The car shortage iu the intermoun-tain intermoun-tain country became more acute last week, while the demand for cars for grain and hay increased. The shipping ship-ping of hay to the winter ranges is forming a large part of local railroad traffic and shippers are being told cars must be orderered several days in advance. Electric men of Salt Lake are energetically en-ergetically preparing for Utah's par ticipation in America's electrical week, December 2-9, a period set aside by concerns engaged in the electrical industry in-dustry for celebrating the great achievements that are being brought about constantly in the electrical world. Edwin E. Caine, defeated Democratic Demo-cratic candidate for congress from Nevada, has sent Congressman Roberts Rob-erts the following message of con-congratulations: con-congratulations: "My dear Ed' There is no doubt of whom the people peo-ple of Nevada want for their congressman, con-gressman, and I congratulate you upon their choice. It goes without saying, I am sure, that you and yours nave my best wishes." Max Gentile met with what war bulletins would term a reverse when he returned to Ely, Nevada, after an absence of three years. His wife, who had made her home at the mines during dur-ing his absence, was anxious to divorce di-vorce him, but was unalYle to serve him with the necessary papers On Pellet WS re"'Urn the One hundred and seven application, Have been received by the board of pardons, which met in Carson City Nev., last week, and will continue its' sessions lor several davs. Fir,v. seven applications for pardon or pa-role pa-role were denied the first day. , Wednesday, November 13 wa3 ;-Honey day" in Nevada, die governor , issuing a proclamation in whlh me,' ants of the state were urgetUo t" . ' ture a a:Splay of Nevada honey ,h- t consumers might each purchase a j ooundotethenec,ermadebyn,ebusy |