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Show NORTHWEST NOTES The greater part of the wool clip of the iutermountain country has already al-ready been sold to the eastern buyers. buy-ers. Advices from the wool centers of Nevada, are that this season's output will be about the same as that of last season. Fully 500 delegates are expected to attend the Iutermountain Good Roads convention which will be held in Og-den, Og-den, Utah. June 13 and 14. Wool clipping in all parts of Nevada Ne-vada is progressing rapidly and indications indi-cations are that the season will continue con-tinue well into the month of June. While preparing to leave Salt Lake for Los Angeles, Arthur M. Coll, aged 33 years, a Canadian, was arrested at the station on a complaint charging him with grand larceny at Miles City, Mont. The Jarbidge mining district to the north of Wells, Ntv., is calling on the Western Pacific to supply It with miners, min-ers, as a number of the mines in the district have increased their operations. opera-tions. The state Republican convention held at Chicago, after electing delegates dele-gates to the national convention, adopted a resolution criticizing as "incompetent "in-competent and vacillating" the Wilson administration. Frank White, Indian, arrested in Reno, will have to go back to Carson City to serve out a 14-year sentence on a serious charge. White was out on probation. He violated his probation proba-tion by getting intoxicated. The office of the Japanese bookkeeper book-keeper connected with the Kemmerer Coal company of Frontier was looted by three youths who live there. Some money and a number of powder checks valued at over $60, were stolen. One hundred and twenty-one dogs of every species, description and disposition dis-position have been caught by the poundmaster at Reno since he went to work, March 21. Of this number 54 have been killed and the remainder remain-der redeemed. A Russian wedding celebration at Cumberland, Wyo., lasted several days and resulted in several fights. Seventy-two kegs of beer, eighty gallons gal-lons of wine, fifty chickens and thirty turkeys were consumed at the wedding wed-ding feast, which accounts for the prolongation of the occasion. J. A. Young is the assumed name of a former grain merchant, mayor and postmaster of an unnamed Utah city who has confessed, according to Ihe police at Tacoma, that in two years he has swindled grain firms of Tacoma, Portland, Oakland, San Francisco Fran-cisco and Minneapolis out of $11,000 on forged bills of lading. The Denver & Rio Grande railroad will make a survey of the proposed thirty-mile branch extending south from the main line to Castle Dale and Huntington, Utah, to tap the 30,-000-acre tract of land whereon it is proposed to build a $1,000,000 sugar factory and an irrigation project to cost another $1,000,000. Miss Margaret Danlzler and Harold Har-old Jackson were the winners at the annual declamation contest held in the White Pine county high school at Ely, for the purpose of selecting representatives rep-resentatives from the local institution to compete at the state interscholas-tic interscholas-tic oratorical contest which will he held at Reno on May 13. What is believed to be the first case in Utah of a rabid animal biting a human hu-man was reported last week to the state board of health, when Wilda Hanson, 3 years old, daughter of William Wil-liam Hanson, a rancher living near Lucin, Box Elder county, was brought to the home of Dr. L. H. Robinson at Bountiful after she had been attacked by a coyote. Bids have been asked of a number of locomotive 'building companies by the Denver & Rio Grande for the construction con-struction of ten Santa Fe type locomotives locomo-tives to be placed in service on its Utah lines. The cost of the engines will be about $400,000. The deal for the Nevada Sugar company's com-pany's plant at Fallon has been closed, nccording to a statement issued by George Wingneld. Wingfield and capitalists cap-italists interested in the Utah-Idaho Sugar company will form the Nevada-Utah Nevada-Utah Sugar company. The monthly crop report of the United States department of agriculture, agricul-ture, issued April 15, 1910, shows that the losses from disease In horses and mules in Nevada were 25 per 1.000 head, the heaviest percentage of loss for any of the western stales. The Nevada-Utah Sugar company filed articles of incorporation tit Salt Lake last week and will take over the plant of the old company, which attempted to operate a sugar factory at Fallon, Nov., some years ago. The Utah-Idaho Sugar company Is behind the proposition to rejuvenate tlio sugar beet industry in Nevada. Burglars broke into the office of the Fruit & Produce association at Ashland, Ash-land, Ore., and blew up the: safe, tho explosion being extremely violent. Only a few dollars were secured. Utah is to have a state public health b-ague. Charles M. DeKorest, Held secretary or the National Association Associa-tion for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis, is in Salt Lake City to organize the league. Some forty other oth-er states have such organizations. Three men w-re overcome and 2.jQ of-'gers hail narrow escapes in a forest for-est fire at Powr-rs, Ore. The loggers were burning brush, wlu-n a h'-avy wind came up, and in twenty minutca :arri'-d a sheet of flames through the orest over an area a quarter of a Tiilo wide and more than a mile long. |
