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Show MOMS! NOTES Frank C. Nutter, while stealing a ride, fell from a train near Lovelock, Nevada, and had both feet cut off. He will probably recover. After an illness of two years' duration dura-tion Willard P. Stanton, for many years a mining man in Colorado and Nevada, passed away in Reno last week. 11. P. Best, a conductor, and T. E. Pctter. a brake:n:m. were instantly killed when a Southern Pacific freight train collided with a light engine en-gine near Rivera. Ore. A crew of civil engineers Is at present pres-ent engaged near Virginia City, Nevada, Ne-vada, making a complete survey of the Virginia & Truckee railway right of way for the purpose of establishing a revaluation. The Nevada state board of equalization equali-zation has decided to adopt the method of segregating and classifying the assessed properties of the state on their respective rolls into lands of all descriptions. Governor Withycombe has appointed appoint-ed fifty delegates from towns in Oregon Ore-gon to attend the International Irrigation Irri-gation congress to convene at Stockton, Stock-ton, Fresno, Sacramento and San Francisco next month. Because there is no federal judge in Los Angeles to sign an order for the removal to Salt Lake City of Leonard Leo-nard Webster Asher, confessed embezzler, em-bezzler, he may have to remain in the county jail there until September 7. A cloudburst on Ten-Mile Creek in the region of Winnemucca, Nevada, caused considerable damage to ranch property in that district. Water is said to have stood a fool deep on the floor of a ranch house on the Carlo ranch. The report of the city port warden for July, 1915, shows that Seattle's exports ex-ports were $6,606,000, an increase of $1,392,000 over July of last year. Imports Im-ports were valued at $14,926,000, an increase of $3,659,000 over July of last year. The suit of the Western Federation of Miners and Charles Moyer, filed recently in the federal district court to recover from the Butte union property valued at almost $100,000, was dismissed last week on a motion of the Butte union. Non-union orchestras have been established es-tablished in all of Portland's theaters, thea-ters, as a result of a controversy between be-tween the managements of vaudeville theaters and the musicians union concerning the number of men to be employed in each house. A carload of lumber and ties to be used in the construction of the proposed pro-posed electric road from Fallon, Nevada, Ne-vada, to Sand Springs has been delivered deliv-ered on the site and the work of laying lay-ing the track will be commenced at once, all of the grading having been completed. Miss Marian Carterette, the cowgirl cow-girl postmistress at 'Deeth, Nevada, has departed leaving no particulars of her whereabout, it is reported. There have been no irregularities found in her accounts and the postal authorities authori-ties are at a loss to know what has ecome of her, When an interurban car bound from Seattle for Everett, stopped at the Bitter Lake station, Saturday night, the only pasenger who got on was a masked man who, instead of offering fare to the conductor, pointed point-ed a pistol at his face, gave h?m a bag and compelled him to go through the car and collect money from -the forty passengers. The collection amounted to about $25. According to San Francisco dispatches, dis-patches, Mrs. Anita Baldwin, daughter daugh-ter of the late California horseman, "Lucky" Baldwin, has announced her determination to erect a magnificent hotel and home on the shores of Lake Tahoe. W. D. Van Pappen, a car repairer from Salt Lake, was seized with cramps while swimming in the Jefferson Jeffer-son river near Three Forks, Mont., and was drowned. He sank before the eyes of half a dozen companions, also bathing. Dale Maxwell, aged 20 years, whose home is at Boise, Idaho, and who, for the past two months, has been working work-ing with a United Slates surveying crew in the Clearwater country, died in a Stevensville. Mont., hospital of spotted fever. While two of her girl friends were playfully struggling in the water at Liberty lake, a resort near Spokane, Fay La Rue. 16 years old, became alarmed and fainted. She sank in five feet of water. Before friends missed her she had drowned" George Hill, a resident of Winnemucca, Winne-mucca, was found in a pool of blood in a lodging house. Hill had slashed himself in the neck with a pocket knife while suffering from an attack of delerium tremens. The knife blade had barely missed the Jugular vein. After lingering in a comatose condition con-dition for ten days, as the result of a paralytic strrke. Daniel O'Keefe, pro prietor of Ihe Grand Central hotel, and one of the pioneers of Reno, died August 15. Through the filing of a release and cancellation of a trust deed In the of fice of the county recorder of Utah county at Provo, Utah, by the Hart ford Security & Trust company ol Hartford, Conn., there was wiped out the last of the bond issue of the Utah Sugar company executed in 1S95, foi $400,000. In the construction of the new road through Secret canyon from Halleck Nevada, to Ruby valley the contrac tors have found it necessary to blast down the entire side of a hill to make i hill across one of the deep ravines 4 |