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Show HOUWKT NOTES The Oregon legislature has approved ap-proved a bill providing for the free use of school houses as civic centers. The total number of sheep in the state or .Nevada is imi.ysi'.i. with a valuaii--n on county assessor's 'nooks of $i.s:;;.7T::. Thomas Monroe, a mine guard, was shot and fatally wounded on the street at Butte by Harry Robinson, mine worl.er and Industrial Worker of the World leader. Hound fast to chairs with their su:i-penders. su:i-penders. the cashier and his assistai.t of the Farmer' State bank at Medicine Lake, Mont., were compelled to witness wit-ness two masked robbers loot the-ii bank and carry away $2,500. Judge Dunlap of Boise. Idaho, in a decision rendered last week, considers consid-ers $;:o a month when the home is owned, sufficient to maintain a widow and her child of S years, pending the settlement of a $ 1 2.S24 estate. An organization of Italian-Americans, which has for its purpose the keeping together of the Italian population popu-lation and to teach those who may wish instructions in order to become American citizens, was recently formed in Reno. Abraham Binnard, formerly a Spokane, Spo-kane, Wash., business man, was shot and probably fatally injured at San Francisco by his wife, Margaret, who ended her -own life with two bullets. Notes left by Mrs. Binnard said that sickness had prompted her act. The Southern Pacific company was Indicted on one count and the Western West-ern Pacific Railway company was charged on ten counts for alleged violations vio-lations of the interstate commerce act by the presentments of the federal fed-eral grand jury in open court at Carson Car-son City, Nev. Portraits of three of Utah's representative repre-sentative men done in Utah by an artist who has adopted Utah as his home will be sent to San Francisco within the next few days to adorn the walls of the reception rooms of the Utah state building at the Panama-Pacific Panama-Pacific exposition. Indian Pete, one of the best known members of the Shoshone tribe, died at Ely, Nev., last week. The aborigine had acquired a craving for intoxicants, intoxi-cants, and the vice that he cultivated cultivat-ed through contact with his pale-faced brethren was largely responsible for his untimely end. Elko, Humboldt and Washoe are the banner counties for sheep in the state of Nevada, the first having 281,-847 281,-847 sheep and 2,588 bucks; the second, sec-ond, 173,400 sheep and 2,333 bucks, Clark county has fifty sheep and 100 goats. Lincoln county adds to this 14,000 sheep, 288 goats. William Dick, an official of the Pi-non Pi-non Supply company, was shot, killed and robbed by unknown persons near La Veta, Colo. Dick was carrying approximately ap-proximately $6,800 in currency from Walsenhurg to Oakview to be used in cashing checks of men employed by the Oakdale Coal company. Thomas Munore, the special mine guard shot at Butte by Harry Robinson, Robin-son, a labor leader, died from his injuries. in-juries. Because of the feeling prevailing pre-vailing over Munroe's death, Robinson' Robin-son' was spirited out of Butte and lodged in jail in some near-by town, the name of which was not divulged. John Gallagher, grave digger at a cemetery, went to a Reno undertaking shop, armed with a revolver, chased three attendants out of the building, then went to the "morgue" in the rear, lay down on a "slab," and took two shots at himself to end his mortal mor-tal career, but only succeeded in stunning himself. Nicholas Bogaiavlensky, Russian consul at Seattle, has been notified that his office has been raised to a consul generalship, with jurisdiction over Oregon, Idaho, Washington, Montana, Mon-tana, Alaska and British Columbia. There are only two other Russian consul generals in the United States at San Francisco and Chicago. Metal mine operators of the state of Utah have organized with R. C. Gemmell, general manager of the Utah Copper mine, as chairman, to oppose a proposed state law to assess as-sess mines at 'full valuation." The' operator op-erator ssay that such a law would eliminate metal mining operations in the state. A bill for repeal of the law which prohibits capital punishment has been introduced in the Washington senate by six senators. Senator Sharpstein of Walla Walla addressed the senate when the bill came up, and said the newspapers were telling of too many murders where men had been killed and robbed for small sums. That death to man and beast Is following fol-lowing in the wake of attacks by mad coyotes in central and eastern Oregon Ore-gon is the substance of many letters being received by Governor James Withycombe from residents of those portions of the state. Rabies is so prevalent that travel on foot and even on horseback is declared, to be perilous. peril-ous. Fifteen strikers, sympathizers and labor officials arrested at Walsenburg, Walsen-burg, Colo., on warrants issued upon indictments found by the Huerfano county -special grand jury during its fifty days of actua-l session, were admitted ad-mitted to bail Monday in sums of $5,000 and $10,000. The lower house of the Washington legislature has passed, a memorial calling upon congress to repeal the Underwood tariff bill, declaring it has crippled the lumber and shingle Industry In-dustry o! the state and has harmed the farmer and poultryman. District Attorney Fedrow announced announc-ed at Denver that evidence would be presented to the federal grand jury now in session, against several Denver Den-ver men charged with having defrauded defraud-ed homeseekers out of large sums through manipulation of government land entries. Senator Kathryn Clarke, the first woman to be elected to the Oregon senate, in her Initial participation in debate, charged certain members of the resolutions committee with not icrlng in good faith, and in turn was accused of acting arbitrarily. |