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Show NORTHVVEST NOTES! Fire which started from a lamp destroyed de-stroyed the Jarman house at Good-springs. Good-springs. Nevada. John Burrowes. aged 45. was found dead in his cell in the city jail at Reno, .vhere he had been placed for being intoxicated. Mrs. William Covert, wife of an employee em-ployee of the Florence mine at Gold-field, Gold-field, during a period of despondency took strychnine with suicidal intent and died two hours later. The residents of Searchlight are building a cut-off on the Vegas-Searchlight road, which will shorten the distance dis-tance between the two towns several miles and avoid the hills near Nelson. Government Hunter Brennan, operating oper-ating near Denio, brought in 30 coyote pelts to Winnemucca, Nev., for shipment ship-ment and Brennan said the coyotes were quite thick despite the large number killed. The state board of pardons has granted a reprieve of 60 days to the week beginning November 12 to James C. Bulgar, under death sentence m connection with the killing of Lloyd F. Nicodemus, a Denver hotel proprietor. Hog cholera throughout the western states has caused the bureau of animal ani-mal industry of the department of agriculture ag-riculture to issue an order to all railroads rail-roads in the west to placard cars containing con-taining hogs shipped from public stock yards. Demands of shopmen on Colorado railroads for an eight-hour dav and a 5-cent hourly increase in waes has been partly met. The ror-ds have agreed to the eight-hour day tlemand and offered an increase of one cent an hour. One hundred representatives of Wyoming Wy-oming communities met the federal farm loan board at Cheyenne last week, and urged the establishment of one of the banks in that city. The state's agricultural and live stock resources re-sources were outlined. While driving an automobile across the surface of Dry lake, three miles from Roach, Nev., a tire came off, and Wallace Wilkerson and John T. Harrington Har-rington were pinned under the machine ma-chine when it turned over. Both men were painfully injured. S. J. McLean of the Carson Indian school has been making a tour of the southern part of Nevada, rounding up Indian boys and girls for the fall term of school. About 15 boys and girls were gathered at Tonopah, who will be taken to the school. Utah and Idaho will supply the greater part of the alfalfa growing sections of the United States with seed during the coming season and the price of the seed has already gone soaring. The seed was quoted at 20 cents a pound last week. Walter L. Fisher, former secretary of the interior and counsel for the American Live Stock association, outlined out-lined at a conference of the marketing committee of the association and prominent pro-minent stock men from the southwest at Denver, steps taken to improve marketing mar-keting conditions. Whether the waters of the Green river, the second largest stream in Wyoming, shall be denied to the people peo-ple of that state and appropriated for the benefit of California and Mexico irrigators, is at issue between the state and the reclamation department of the federal government. Leon Dellinger of Goldfield has filed suit against the Tonopah & Goldfield Railroad company for $3,575 and costs for damages alleged to have been received re-ceived on July 27, when the plaintiff's automobile collided with a Tonopah & Goldfield train at the intersection of North Main street and the tracks. Statistics compiled for presentation to the federal farm loan board, which held a hearing of Denver'sclaims for one of the banks, set forth that the aggregate valuation of farm crops produced pro-duced In the five states comprising what supporters contend would be embraced em-braced in the districts is $2,000,000,000. Capitalists of Nevada and Utah have formed a company for the purpose of constructing a telephone line between Reno and Tonopah, something which has been needed for years. The line will follow the railroad via Hazen to Reno, a distance of about 250 miles, connecting with all the intervening mining and railroad townc -nd stations. sta-tions. While Joseph Slocum, proprietor of a pool hah. At Rock Springs, Wyo., was pursuing, shooting and capturing Jim Jones, who had attempted to steal $90 in gold coins from his place, somebody else made away with the money. Both Slocum and Jonei were arrested, the former charged with theft and the latter lat-ter with shooting Jones, who is not seriously se-riously hurt. Discouraged by domestic difficulties, Mrs. S. R. Cordua. residing on a ranch near Peckenpaugh postoffice. in Wyoming, Wyo-ming, led her five small children into the barren hills and wandered aimlessly aim-lessly with them during t he ensuing fifty hours, while her husband and scores of volunteers scoured the country coun-try in search of them. Finally they were found, almost dead lrom exposure. expos-ure. Joe Martin and Lou Carter engaged In an argument over politics at Union. Nevada, which resulted in a fight. It is said that Carter was getting the best of the encounter when Martin drew a knife and sla.-hed Carter in several places. He was removed to the hospital. Farm life may appeal to some folks, but jail life seems preferable to Mrs. Agnes C. Adams, aged 25. wno uesert-ed uesert-ed her husband and four children recently re-cently rather than stay longer on her husband's truck farm in Jefferson county, Colorado. |