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Show NORTHWEST NOTES Ablso Robert!, for over 40 years a resident of Virginia City, Nevada, died last week. John Cassasas was instantly killed and Larry Slatovlch was badly injured in-jured in the White Caps mine at Manhattan, Man-hattan, Nev., when Cassasas drilled into a missed hole. A fire which broke out at an early hour at Winnemucca, Nev., entirely destroyed the stock of goods of Coo-ney Coo-ney & Co. The fire is supposed to have started from some fireworks in the window. While the heavy frosts of the late spring severely damaged the fruit crop of Utah and Idaho, the crops will not be as short as was first reported re-ported and fruit growers are preparing prepar-ing for a good market. Mrs. Lucile Mapes had a narrow escape es-cape from death at Tonopah when she was thrown from a horse she was riding. rid-ing. Her foot caught In a stirrup and she was dragged about a hundred feet before the horse could be stopped. A warrant has been issued at Winnemucca Win-nemucca for the arrest of L. L. Noon-cheater, Noon-cheater, charged with having issued a worthless check for $50. Noonchester is from Burns, Ore., and has been around Winnemucca for the past year. President Wilson has pardoned S. B. and W. G. Simpson, owners of the First National bank of Caldwell.Ida., convicted in March, 1915, and sentenced sen-tenced to five years' imprisonment for issuing a certificate of deposit with intent to defraud. Some unknown miscreant attempted attempt-ed to blow up a Chinese restaurant at Ely, Nev. A stick of dynamite was placed on the ground at the corner of the kitchen in back of the building and its explosion shattered the glass 'n all the adjacent windows. The air is full of war talk at Tonopah Tono-pah and a company of militia has been raised and Archie Bilyeu has been elected captain, who said after his election that he was willing to go clear through to the Panama canal if the people of Tonopah requested it. Wayne Grider and his wife, residents resi-dents of Condon, Ore., were found shot to death in their apartments. Four bullet wounds were in the woman's wom-an's body and one in Grider's. A coroner's coro-ner's jury returned a verdict that Grider Gri-der had slain his wife and then killed himself. The 10-year-old son of J. P. Stewart, a rancher near Lamoille, Nev., was at play in the rear of the Stewart home when a coyote, evidently possessed of rabies in a violent form, attacked him, and before assistance could be rendered the animal bit the boy twice on the right thigh. H. U. Mudge, president of the Denver Den-ver & Rio Grande, has completed his trip of inspection through the Uintah basin, in Utah, and placed a corps of engineers in the canyon of the Strawberry Straw-berry river to run a line for a railroad rail-road through that part of the basin and hold the right of way. Fire completely destroyed pier No. 11, known as the Oriental dock, at the foot of Virginia street at Seattle. The pier is used by the United States army quartermaster department as the wharf for the cable steamer Burn-side. Burn-side. Frequent explosions shattered the burning shed, scattering embers in all directions. Dan Lloyd, hrakeman and Harry Archibald, Ar-chibald, fireman, on the Prince Consolidated Con-solidated railroad near Pioche, expe rienced a wild ride when five ore cars heavily loaded, broke away and went down a steep grade at the Mendba switch. They leaped from the cars before they were derailed and escaped with slight bruises. Francis Ruffon, who with Fred Ant-chano, Ant-chano, was operating a lease near Austin, Nevada, was instantly killed by a rock cave at the mouth of the tunnel where he was working. Five or six tons of slate dropped on the miner as he was swinging his pick to uncover an ore lead he had exposed ex-posed at one side of the tunnel floor. Samuel Piatt, candidate for the Republican Re-publican nomination for United States senator from Nevada, has made the proposition to his two opponents, A. H. Howe and F. H. Norcross, that the question as to which of the three shall be the party candidate be determined de-termined by popular vote, taken at the time the election to name state convention con-vention delegates is held. Announcement is made at Billings, Mont, by the local manager for the Great Western Sugar company, that the directors had decided to grant a voluntary increase of 50 cents a ton over the present contract price for sugar beets in all of its territory covering cov-ering Montana, Wyoming, Colorado and Nebraska. Thirteen factories consuming con-suming about two million tons of beets are affected and the farmers will benefit to the extent ot about $1,000,000. The postofflce department has authorized au-thorized the establishment of rural routes on August 1 from Richmond, Cache county, Utah; Jerome, Lincoln county, Oakley; Cassia county; Rupert, Ru-pert, Minidoka county, and Sand Point, Bonner county, Idaho. In the pine-covered hills of the Verdi section, in Nevada, over-topping the Truckee river, a city for boys is to be started by Judge Willis Brown, noted juvenile authority, author of the juvenile lows of Ufah and educator of note. It is to be called Boy City and will enroll citizens from throughout the United States. While on the trip up the Willamette river to Corvallis the river steamer Grahamona, of the Oregon City Transportation Trans-portation company, struck a snag'&nd sank in a few feet ot water on Grey Eagle bar, ten miles above Salem, Ore. |