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Show NORTHVVESL NOTES Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Miller and three daughters were poisoned by eating mushrooms at their home in Portland, but it is believed all will recover. Coyotes afflicted with rabies have made their appearance at Fish lake, Nevada, and the governor has asked for men to help stamp them out. Mike Kerns, a miner employed at the Extension mine at Tonopah, was hurt last week in a blast that caused a quantity of rock to be imbedded in different parts of his body. Juan Ortego, accused of murdering a man named Espinoso, at Millers, Nevada, Ne-vada, has been removed to the county coun-ty jail at Goldfield, where he will be held awaiting action of the grand jury. Manufacturing in the state of Utah has increased 125 per cent in the years 1914 to 1916, inclusive, according accord-ing to figures made public through the Manufacturers' association of Utah. William A. Burns of Virginia City, Nevada, a leader in the Virginia City Miners' union, was elected a member of the executive board of the Western Federation of Miners at their convention conven-tion last week at Great Falls, Mont. Mrs. John A. Healy of Hibbing, Minn., wife of State Senator John A. Healy, was killed when an automobile automo-bile driven by her husband went over an embankment at Elbow creek, about thirty miles southwest of Billings, Mont. H. Howard Dunbar, vice president presi-dent and general manager of the Interstate In-terstate Life Insurance company of Nevada, has been arrested at Winne-mucca Winne-mucca on a charge of embezzlement of $5,400 of the securities of the corporation. cor-poration. Three rabid coyotes attacked the ranch home of Mrs. Belle Boston at Hot Creek, Nev. Mrs. Boston grabbed " a pump gun and fired several shots through the window, killing one of the animals, when the remaining two decamped. de-camped. Jacob Rose, a foreigner, was taken from a train at Winnemucca, Nev., and placed in jail. It is said Rosa made several attempts to jump from the train and could give no account of himself, but papers in his posses- sion disclosed his name. G. H. Ray, a colored tailor, has been arrested at Winnemucca on a charge of taking five shots at James Hinds, also colored, at a party at the Hinds home. None of the shots took effect, but the party was broken up and Hinds badly scared. Cattle throughout southern Utah . and on the southern Idaho ranges brought better prices during the spring season than they have for a number of years. The heavy winter snows made it necessary for the cattlemen cat-tlemen to feed their stock. The commissioners of White Pine county, Nevada, have offered a reward re-ward of $250 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the party or parties who dynamited the home of J. E. Voorhies at Ruth on the morning of July 14. When the Utah expositions commission, commis-sion, which had charge of Utah's participation par-ticipation in the San Francisco and San Diego fairs, completed its work, it turned $7,078.49 back into the treasury of the state, according to the final report of the commission. Ed E. Lutz, a rancher of Ruby valley, val-ley, Nevada, has a cow that has adopted a young antelope only a few weeks old, whose mother was killed, leaving it an orphan. The cow's love for the adopted animal is unmistake-able, unmistake-able, likewise the latter's gratification. The braying of burros gave warning warn-ing to the town of Good Springs, Nev., that a cloudburst had occurred in the hills, and as a result the people were able to get to the high ground before a wall of water six feet high swept into the town, overturning houses, tearing up the railroad, causing considerable con-siderable damage. Reports have been received from 3,156 homes in the northern and western west-ern states which show that 275,856 quarts of fruits and 270,659 quarts of vegetables were canned during the-season the-season of 1915. The canning was done by adults who requested the home canning instructions furnished by the department to club members. For Utah and Idaho the largest single sin-gle item in the live stock industry is that of lambs. It is estimated by S. W. McClure, secretary of the National Woolgrowers' association, that the lamb crop of Utah and Idaho will approximate ap-proximate 3,500,000, with a valuation close to $16,500,000. Of this amount about $7,500,000 worth of lambs are in the state of Utah. Joe Powers and S. D. White were injured in an automobile accident near Pioche, Nev. Powers lost control con-trol of the machine and it plunged over an embankment, pinning both men undereath. "Twenty-six," sluff and 'freeze-out" may be played In cigar stores and saloons sa-loons of Salt Lake without fear of interference in-terference on the part of the police, according to a recent ruling of the chie-. of police. A number of citizens of Star valley met in Afton, Wyo., last week and raised $1,G83, which was immediately deposited in the bank, for the purpose of meeting Joe Kinney's proposition to furnish two five-ton trucks for work upon the road between Cokeville and Afton. H. Anderson, of Lurline, Nevada, had started on a hunting trip and while taking a shotgun from the wall of his cabin, the gun was discharged, the shot striking Anderson's band, tearing away the little finger and a unrLkin of the flesh- |