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Show NORTHWES NOTES Leo Bens, Montana middleweight ;lmpkn, was outpointed by Frank Barrieu of Vancouver, U. C., in nix rounds at Missoula. Public improvenif.tti costing ap Droximately $2.000,n) were undertaken under-taken by the city gpvernment of Sail Lake in 1914, thus breaking all records rec-ords for a single gear's activities. Statistics comuiled by the statQ Seologist sho-w that during the first eleven months lf 1914 companies for the development of oil fields in tha state of Wyoming were incorporated with a total Capital of $41,240,000. Utah mint1- have paid stockholders a total in d'jrtdends of 1110,716,321; in 1914 alone Ve dividends aggregated , $6,902,003. aN general revival of the mining industry is predicted from in. creased inquii"' concerning properties. During lDufutah rose to fourth, place among beet sugar producing states in the country. Almost $5,000,-000 $5,000,-000 was paid to farmers for .beets . grown duriag the year. The outlook, for 1915 is said to be even more prom, ising. Canning factories of Utah put out . 1,339,407 cases of products in 1914, almost 400,000 cases more than in 1913. Nearly $750,000 was paid to farmers and growers for the products and $3M,000 paid to employes of the factories. The Southern Pacific shops at Sparks, Nev., have resumed operations opera-tions with a full force. 'For six weeks . the shops have been operated by a force of 125 men, and with the increased in-creased operations the men employed ' will total over 60o Wyoming's oil production in 1914 is estimated by the state geologist at 3,- J 100,000 barrels, op approximately the same as that of 1913, but additional refinery facilities made the value of the 1914 production in Wyoming much greater than that of the 1913 produc- 1 tion. j Cattle raising in Wyoming produced j $16,225,100; horses, mules and swine j produced $2,871,104, and dairying and poultry raising produced $967,450. The j rapid advance in the state of dairying is notable. The milch cow herds are growing steadily, both in size and quality. ' Wyoming's business sheet for 1914 , balances with a heavy margin of profit. Income from the producing industries in-dustries of the state during the year , totaled $106,017,609, which is approx-a approx-a imately $500 for each inhabitant, and not one-half of the inhabitants are engaged en-gaged in these industries. The trial of the so-called La Veta murder case, in which nine members of the United Mine Workers of America Amer-ica are charged with the killing of ! three mine guards and a chauffeur j and the wounding of a mine official a near La Veta, Colo., on November 8, j 1913, is being held at Pueblo. Anthony Perry was found guilty of f first degree murder, and a sentence of j life imprisonment recommended, by a , jury in the district court at Boulder, 2 Colo., for the killing of Stephen Koju- 3 haroff, leader of the Bulgarians at the Hecla mine at Louisville last August The killing occurred during a persona - quarrel. I No railroad development of unusual importance occurred in Wyoming dur-( dur-( ing 1914, aside from the completion of the Burlington's central Wyoming ex-5 ex-5 tension. This, however, is considered r the most important railroad develop- ment since the extension of the Chi-t Chi-t cago & Northwestern into Wyoming a score of years previously. 3 Governor Oswald West of Oregon has announced the appointment oi 3 Miss Kathryn Clark of Glendale to be state senator to fill a vacancy. Th ( attorney general has ruled that the 0 governor has no constitutional author 3 ity to, make the senatorial appoint j ment. If seated Miss Clark will be t the first woman to serve in the Ore-B Ore-B gon senate. 3 The jury at Canon City, Colo., In the case of the seven men who were indicted for the murder of William 8 King, in the attack of strikers on ths Chandler mine on April 25 last, ac-y ac-y quitted Felix Pogliano, Tom Easton t Dr. Frank Sutorius, John Ylepso and Matt Graham. Dave Robb and Ber g Richardson were found guilty of voluntary vol-untary manslaughter, The federal estimates supply som Interesting figures en increases In the , value of 1914 crops in Wyoming ovei ! that of 1913 crops. The increase in j the value of .com is estimated at $42,-300, $42,-300, that in the value of wheat al , $135,200, that In the value of oats al $511,840, that in the value of barley , at $42,600 and that in the value ol , hay at $2,779,200. The latter estimate is low. A decrease in the value of the potato crop of $217,200 is estimated. , The National Horse and Stock show 1 will be held in Denver during the , week of January l'S to 23, according to arrangements completed a few days ago. Owing to the prevalence in some i states of the foot ar.d mouth disease , among cattle, exhibitions of livestock will he limited. . . After being carefully stfedjv ! dressing himself, J-His "best cf E H. Brown- Walked intJ.Ofr "' .o . N" ai"hotel at ' g . placed a revolver iiv" J i x blew his brains out. -r" s ; cash in his pockets and ' c'', i the suicide Is kno"'11- s By the terms of an order iss. e,N,S 1 week by the )uW'c utilities con, sion, the Oregon Short Line m.' i within 20 days cease to charge at the rate of more i"an 3 cents per miie , , tor passenger tffin c' any of it8 ; branch lines in IdalK'' j, , Despondent ecause of fan,'ily trou- ble and fearing that she n'ould be ! able to "n.ake good" as the manager of a cafe Mrs- 'rene Sanderson, wife of Harry' S.inderson- a lunch counter 0; I owner 'in Re- took BeVen" tabIets of tic,o-ide ol mercury recently and died In pert agony. - ley a machinist at Bonnie i rt i F' v"r suffered an intensely al I , Jy recently. In attempting It I falllfuI """"soline engine, he looked to start 4 ulon hole to observe 0 W .he g exploded properly, h'bethf " s badly burned. ' 3al His eye""'1 |