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Show H0RTHWE8T NOTES Four men charged witli counterfeiting counterfeit-ing were arrested at Reno last week. Pete SemstiU'h. the Tonopah miner who suddenly went insane last week at the Mine Owners' hospital, is dead. One of the largest conflagrations in the history of the state broke out in . Elko, Nev., last week, and four large buildings, entailing a loss of $65,000. went up in flames. Two young men. one of whom gave the name of Frank Guyman, left a trail of bad checks behind them at 'Lovelock, N'ev., and are being sought by victimized merchants. Two men were shot and seriously wounded and a third, a negro longshoreman long-shoreman strikebreaker, was stabbed and severely beaten during a riot between be-tween strikers and strikebreakers at Seattle. William Stark, charged with a stau-tory stau-tory offense against a young girl of Virginia City has been sentenced to the state penitentiary for a term of not less than five years nor more than 14 years. Melon shipments from the Moapa valley in Nevada have increased during dur-ing the past week and two melon trains daily are being operated by the gait Lake Route through Salt Lake to points in the east Colorado, Wyoming and New Mexico Mex-ico coal operators have been invited by the federal trade commission to meet at Denver the latter part of this month for a discussion of producing produc-ing and marketing conditions. Rev. E. M. Clingan of the First Presbyterian church, at Walla Walla, died Tuesday morning from hemorrhage hemor-rhage of the 'brain following illness that seized him Sunday morning as he was delivering his sermon. The Oregon Short Line is operating operat-ing a number of melon trains daily from the Payette section of Idaho and it is probable that within the next ten days the number of cars available will be used up for melon shipments. Mike Connell, the Elko county, Nevada, Ne-vada, rancher, whose wife was sent t'o the penitentiary on the charge of attempting to poison Vim, has been granted a divorce on the ground that his wife had been convicted of a felony. fel-ony. Ewes for breeding purposes in the iutermountain country are said to be bringing greater prices than in years. Last week a firm of Cokeville (Wyo.) sheepmen bought from the South Idaho Ida-ho Livestock company 5,000 head of ewes at $7 a head. Speed Barens shot J. W. Dunfee, as t lie result of a quarrel at Hornsilver, Nev. Dunfee received 20 buckshot in the head, face and body, which are so deep that only two have been removed. remov-ed. One of the shot is lodged almost against the juglar vein. To show that Utah farming communities commu-nities expect large crop movements this fall, one firm at Tremonton this year is receiving a consignment of 100,000 grain bags. This is out of a cargo of 11,000,000 bags recently received re-ceived at 'San Francisco. The Grand lodge of negro Masons of Washington and Oregon, in session at Spokane, voted to begin the erection erec-tion of a home for the old and dependent de-pendent members on a 40-acre tract if land twenty miles from Portland, Ore. The home wil cost $10,000 when 1: is completed. Mrs. W. H. Myers of Portland was killed and another woman and a child injured 11 or Oregon City, Ore., when an automobile carrying a party of seven left the road and turned over. Mrs. Myers was thrown against a barbed wire fence and caught in such a way that she was strangled. The lamb crop of Idaho and Utah as started moving to the eastern narkets and it is expected that from now on regular movements of lambs vill be bad. In Utah the lambs have not been so freely contracted as in Idaho and shippers will depend on the market prices to a great extent. It is reported that the melon crop in Colorado is not up to the standard as regards the quantity of production and that a number of outside placeR are shipping melons into Denver. It is thought, however, that the late melon crop in the vicinity of Rocky Ford will take care of the Colorado situation. Settlers living on lands entered in Idaho vnder the Carey act won a decisive de-cisive victory Saturday over water companies operating in this state, when the supremo court declared that water could not be withheld from a project because of failure of entrymen to pay the principal and interest on water contracts. An explosion which is considered by the authorities to have b en a deliberate delib-erate attempt to take the life of J. K. Yeorheos, head powder man for the Nevada Consolidated Copper company, com-pany, occurred at Uuth, Xevada. The Yoorhees home was wreeked. The Vd in which Mr. and Mrs. Voorh' es were sleeping fell under the walls in such a way as to somewhat shield the. couple. A movement was put nailer wtiy last week to oomiel th" government to return re-turn to their homes In I'nrtit'iid a score of more of Jliph s"heo! beys under 18 years of are who enlisted with the Oregon national puanl and are n'nv on the Mexieaii bonier. Ti'c draft of a bill to create 1", can. Itai'y !; triets in Washing, oa -vitii a e''::t"l i'et.llh Ollieer ill fhatP'! Of ' h dlstrit' v.-t.s ;.;'v.'."i yj : ' ti 1 :r 1 -is a-,-'tnval f:f state, cr.t.hly ttt'l ei'y h"atli -Tvcrs tit the closing s- .-si-.n of tie .trite CMtrerear-e of health e!Tieer3 of |