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Show jjfiRIM I10TES I Orlando F. Jeuks died at Reno as the result cl a fractured skull sustained sus-tained In an automobile accident. The commissioners have let a contract con-tract for street lights at Lovelock. Nevada. The Women's Civic Improvement Improve-ment club was instrumental in starting start-ing the work. A Commercial club has been organized organ-ized at Midas, Nevada. The club has twenty-five members, with the prospect pros-pect of the number being doubled in the near future. Montana and Idaho will send approximately ap-proximately 2.000 recruits to the citizens' citi-zens' military training camp at Fort Douglas, Utah, this summer, if the enthusiasm now prevailing is sustained. sustain-ed. A concentrating plant of 100 tons daily capacity is to be erected on a small hill about a quarter of a mile back of the hotel at Sodaville, Nevada, Ne-vada, and grading for this is- now about complete. The San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake railroad Is to be renamed in honor of one of the two most Important Import-ant cities on the line. By the management manage-ment it has been officially designated as the "Salt Lake Route." William F. Chapman, who was a familiar figure in all of the lumber camps of Nevada in the past forty years, died in Reno last week. He was a contracting teamster and worked in nearly all the camps of the state. Eddie Duffy of Brooklyn and Perry Lewis, the fighting Italian of Denver, went ten rounds to a draw at Ely, Nevada. Ne-vada. The fight was one of the most vicious ever witnessed between two men in the welterweight division. Ednrund K. Stallo and Nash Rock-wood Rock-wood of New York City . and Alfred Frank of Salt Lake City, prominent capitalists, are in Tuscarora, Nevada, and propose to erect a large plant to treat the old dumps and to open up a number of old mines. An Illness of some duration ended in the death of Catherine Barrett, a pioneer resident of Nevada. Mrs. Barrett Bar-rett came to Nevada forty years ago with her husband, residing the greater part of the time at Empire. The last few years of her life were spent in Reno. Prohibitionists of Oregon have put out a ticket which includes Oswald West, Democrat, of Portland, as candidate can-didate for representative in congress from the Third district, and Mark Weatherford of Albany, Democrat, as candidate for representative from the First district. Two Chinese girls, both just 21 years old, daughters of a wealthy Chinese Chi-nese widow of Helena, Mont., are now full fledged citizens. They were registered reg-istered last week as voters, being the first Chinese women in Montana to attain the right of suffrage. They were both .born in Helena. From five to seven years in the penitentiary peni-tentiary is the sentence inflicted on Joseph Sanches, a ranchman near Sundance, Sun-dance, Wyo., who confessed to an attack at-tack on his 13-year-oid sister-in-law when his wife left the child at his home to prepare dinner while she went to town for supplies. Paul C'.enchar is in the state hospital hos-pital at Cheyenne with a bullet in his brain; P. Kranszki, 7 years of age, has a serious wound through the hipS, and Peter Rochi is in the county jail at Green River as the result of an affray at the Kranszki home near Superior during a christening party. Claude and Roy Bird, two brothers accused of wantonly destroying elk in the mountains in Wyoming for their teelh, have received penitentiary sentences. sen-tences. Roy had pleaded guilty ami was sentenced to a year. Claude had been convicted by a jury and was sentenced sen-tenced to a year and a half. The Manufacturers' Association ot Utah has hit upon a new scheme for bringing its members to the regular monthly membership meetings. It invites in-vites the wives of the members, as well as the members themselves, and sends them regular notices and holds out inducements in the way of entertainment enter-tainment features. Miss Jane Barrett, Salt Lake's police-woman, is working zealous'.y toward to-ward the enforcement of the ordinance which provides that it is unlawful for minors under the age of! 18 years tc be on the streets or in any public building, unaccompanied by parents, jetween the hours of 9 o'clock at night md 4 o'clock in the morning. Nevada will be granted following appropriations by congress: Support of Indians in the state of Nevada, gia'uity, $18,500; Indian school at Carson Car-son City, $62,430; homes and farm sites Nevada Indian gratuity, $15,000; irrigation Pyramid lake reservation, eiinbursab'.e, ?:jo,000; land and water rights, Washoe Indians, gratuity, $15,-0;i0. $15,-0;i0. Total, $140,930. 1 Efforts are being made to locate promiscuous suooters who fired through the window of the office of the state controller at Carson City. Nevada. As it happened no one was in the way of the bullet. Ernest Carstens, president of the German-American Bank of Seattle, died last week of paralysis, aged 49 I years. Mr. Carstens was one of the founders of the Carstens Packing company of Tacoma, one of the largest larg-est packing - plants in the Pacific northwest. Allan Charles Bragg, pioneer of the territorial days of Nevada, a man who had a prominent place in the history his-tory of the territory and state, died at Reno, May 15. The end was peaceful and painless. It followed an apoplec-j apoplec-j tic stroke. |