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Show INLAND NORTHWEST It Is estimated that 50,000 visitors were in Seattle Monday night on account ac-count of the forty-first annual imperial im-perial council of the nobles of the Mystic Shrine. Rabbits are so numerous in Reese river valley, Nevada, that plans are talked of for a movement of some kind to reduce their number by about 10,000 during the month of August. Cecil Thompson, wealthy Tonopah pioneer and partner of George Wing-field, Wing-field, the Goldfield millionaire, when their combined capital amounted to $1.92, is dead at his home in Los Angeles An-geles on July 15. The voters of Washington will have an opportunity at the fall election of 1910 to register approval or disapproval disap-proval of seven measures passed by the last legislature, upon which the referendum was invoked. Richard Grant, aged 64, was found dead in his saloon, at Pinedale, Wyo. His skull had been split with an axe and his body hacked in a score of places. The safe of the saloon and the cash register had been rifled. The camp of the biological survey near Newcastle, Wyo., was swept away by a cloudburst. Ralph G. Du-sell Du-sell is reported drowned and others were marooned in trees. The party was engaged in exterminating prairie dogs. According to the water resources branch of the United States geological geologi-cal survey, the effect of the light snowfall throughout Utah and Nevada Ne-vada last winter is becoming apparent appar-ent in the diminishing flow of the different streams. Colonel Alden J. Blethen, for nearly near-ly twenty years editor and publisher of the Seattle Times, died at .hia home at Seattle last week of a complication com-plication of diseases, following an illness ill-ness of many months. He was 68 years of age. Two masked men, each armed with two guns, held up a saloon at Tonopah Tono-pah and secured $700 from the gambling gam-bling game they interrupted, from the cash register and from the pockets of sixteen men, whom they forced to face the wall with hands up. Chester A. Dickey, former clerk in the Corvallis (Oregon) State bank, pleaded guilty in the circuit court last week of having embezzled $1,490 of the bank's funds. He was sentenced to the penitentiary for an indeterminate indeter-minate term of one to ten years. Tse-Na-Gat, Piute Indian renegade whose trial at Denver for the murder mur-der of Juan Chacon, an obscure Mexican Mex-ican sheepherder, in the wilderness of southwestern Colorado in March, 1914, stirred nation-wide interest, is free to return to his native desert. The Humboldt river in Nevada is now practically dry in certain localities, locali-ties, where last year there was a large surplus over all requirements. The water shortage is not as pronounced pro-nounced generally throughout Nevada as it is in the Humboldt drainage region. re-gion. Samuel Krasner, once active in politics pol-itics at Portland, but recently convicted con-victed in the federal court of white slavery, after being brought from New Orleans, where he was arrested on a federal warrant, was sentenced to serve eighteen months in the penitentiary. pen-itentiary. The first act of vandalism in connection con-nection with the trip of the Liberty bell occurred between Pendleton Ore., and Walla Walla. Boys standing stand-ing on a high bank by the side of the track threw rocks at the bell and one hit squarely but apparently did not damage it. The state law providing statutory provisions for the enforcement . of slate-wide prohibition in Colorado cannot be referred to the voters, according ac-cording to an opinion handed down by Attorney General Fred Farrar. The opinion was rendered on the request of J. E. Earner, secretary of state. After being compelled to stay in their cabin two nights and a day by an insane man whe threatened to destroy de-stroy them with their own shotgun, C. Muldoon and partner were liberated liberat-ed by the arrival of Sheriffs Ferrel of Washoe and Stern of Ormsby county, Nevada, summoned by Muldoon Mul-doon who managed to sneak out of the cabin and make his way to a telephone. tele-phone. William Anderson, alias "Tip" Sel-widge, Sel-widge, who escaped June 22 from a Salt Lake hospital, where he was recovering re-covering from an ugly cut across the throat, alleged to have heen inflicted at the county jail by Gregorios Polo-georgi, Polo-georgi, who was being held there on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon wea-pon on Leonidas Skliris, Greek labor agent, has been arrested at Great Falls, Mont. Adrian C. Wheeler, better known as "Big Bill," was sentenced at Reno to pay a fine of $4,000 or serve a term of 2,000 days in the county jail. Wheeler, several weeks ago, in a fight with an Indian, cut tbe Indian s throat from ear to ear. The state public utilities commission, commis-sion, after a hearing, has decided that the three cent rate for passenger service on the Short Line from Idaho Falls to Ashton. Idaho, shall remain at three cents .1 mile. The same rate will prevail on the branch from Minidoka Mini-doka to Twin Falls. Detailed search and the running down of slender clues have resulted in throwing no new light on the author au-thor of the "Black Hand" message which George Wingfield received some clays ago at Reno, in which a demand as made for $15,000. |
