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Show NORIljSnOTES An Increase of 5 per cent for all shop employees was made on May 12 at the Cheyenne headquarters or the Union Pacific Railroad company. Eight hundred men are affected. In constant fear of being attacked by rabid coyotes, residents of the Grouse Creek district of Nevada stay indoors at night and are Inclosing their ranches with hog-tight wire fences. A special to the Keno Gazette from Golconda says that a tungsten strike, which bids fair to eclipse anything yet discovered in Nevada, has been made 15 miles north of Golconda, in the Hot Springs range. An Indian with a wooden leg drank too much whiskey at Carson City, Nev. His ballast was bo uneven that he fell over on his head and for a time it was thought that tho fall had killed him. He has since fully recovered. recov-ered. Bogus $5 gold pieces are being circulated cir-culated in Virginia City, Nev. The matter has been called to the attention atten-tion of the treasury department officials offi-cials and it is probably that secret service men will be detailed on the case. Thirty students will graduate from the University of Nevada this year. The largest number of graduates will receive the degree Bachelor of Arts. Engineering graduates are next in number. Fourteen of the graduates are young women. Edward Harris, the negro who escaped es-caped from Sheriff William Ingalls of Hsmeralda county, Nevada, while being be-ing taken to Carson to serve a term of from two to five years for grand larceny -committed in Goldfie'.d, has been-located at Redding, California. Mrs. Ella Connell, who last week read guilty at Elko, Nev., to an attempt at-tempt to kill her husband by administering adminis-tering poison, has been sentenced to a term of from ten years to life. Mrs. Connell took the sentence indifferently indifferent-ly and refused to make a statement. W. P. P. St. Clair of Moab, Utah, wft3 arrested near Mack, twenty miles west of Grand Junction, Colo., on a charge of having profited $700 by a scheme of, depositing drafts for $500; $1,500 and $20 in the banks of Grayson, Gray-son, Moab and Monticello on California Califor-nia institutions. Miss Henrietta Harris, a school teacher of Tonopah, will be kept from the class room for several days as the result of a fall from a horse she was riding. She was returning with others from a horseback ride when her mount stumbled and fell, throwing throw-ing her heavily to the ground. William L. Carlisle, the Union Pacific Pa-cific train bandit, said following his conviction at Cheyenne: "I'm wanted want-ed and wanted bad in other places. My life hasn't been worth a cent for six years. I had made up my mind to be a 'topnotcher' and if this hadn't happened I would have pulled a big stunt." Two men named Allen and Wilson are under arrest charged with robbing rob-bing the Golden Rule store at Coke-rille, Coke-rille, Wyo. The men were caught at Montpelier with stolen goods in their possession. They had been hanging around Cokeville previous too the rbbery. Property valued at $200 was taken from the store. After two members for forty-eight hours hadi held out for acquittal, the jury at Cheyenne in the case of Reuben Reu-ben H. Shafford, on trial for attaokjng Miss Kathryn Simota in Yellowstone park in 1914, returned a verdict of guilty. The jury had the option of fixing the penalty at death or life imprisonment, im-prisonment, and chose the latter. R. C. Morin, who was arrested last October on a charge of uttering a fraudulent check in Marbleton, Wyo., has been acquitted by the jury owing to conflicting evidence. Morln had been in the employ of H. A. Bowers, an alleged bootlegger, and had signed the latter's name to a check on the Marbleton bank, which was returned marked "no funds." The first jail sentences imposed on women for violation of the liquor law of Washington were imposed at Seattle Seat-tle on Miss Rose Farrell who was fined $100 and sentenced to 10 days in Jail and Mrs. Jessie Greenwald, who was fined $100 and sentenced to 15 days in jail.. Policemen testified they purchased beer at the lodging houses conducted by the women. Walter Goetz, a machinist, 21 years old, was drowued in the bay at Seattle hen his gasoline launch capsized while being towed home in distress by a tug. Don Thomas, who was with Goetz in the launch, was rescued by the tug.. Eh-. Joseph M. Sinclair, a dentist who had a large practice among naval men attached to the Puget Sound navy yard, committed suicide by shooting himself through the head with a pistol at his home at Bremer-r.on, Bremer-r.on, Wash. A deal has Deen closed whereby the new creameiy for Virginia City Nevada, is secured. The Beeson tungsten deal apparent ly means a new mill for Humboldt county, Nevada. It will probably be located on the edge of Humboldt sink in the vicinity of the St. Anthony mines near Toy, and somewhat inside of ten miles in a direct line from the property. The plants of the Montana Sash &. Door company and the Cardell Ridge Lumber company at Billings, Mont., were destroyed by fire last week. The loss is estimated at $200,000. Spontaneous Spon-taneous combustion is thought to have been the cause. |