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Show NORTHWEST NOTES A new syndicate establishing a and 10 cent stores throughout the country will open a house in the near future in Salt Lake. , Charged with embezzling funds ot the estate of Mrs. Mary Murphy, the Rev. Father J. J. Carroll of Helena has been arrested. Fire at Lebanon, Ore., completely destroyed the mill of the Lebanon Lumber company. The loss was $S0,-' $S0,-' 000. The origin ot the fire is unknown. Mountain lions have become so numerous nu-merous in the counties of Nye and Esmeralda, Es-meralda, in Nevada, that large numbers num-bers of horses and cattle are being killed. Utah had a larger representation at the International Irrigation congress in California than any other state in the union, with the exception of Texas. Salt Lake City was chosen as the next meeting place of the National Master Bakers' association at the closing clos-ing session of the convention in Columbus. Co-lumbus. Ohio. Nick Milnevich, who shot at Mike Sabon at Tonopali several days ago, has been bound over to the grand jury on a charge of assault with a . deadly weapon. Jake Gray, who was recently arrested arrest-ed at Reno on a charge of selling liquor to Indians, was taken before the federal grand jury at Carson and sentenced sen-tenced to serve fifteen months at Mc-N'eals Mc-N'eals island. Goldie Smith,'' the Chinese woman who was arrested at Wells recently by an internal revenue officer, has been held to ,ansver before the federal grand jury for disposing of opium in violation of federal law. Mike Kukichiwas, recently arrested at Yerington and accused of . failure to support his family, was arraigned before a justice of the peace and informed in-formed that unless Ihe supported them he would have to go to to jail. Charged with having shot elk in the Jackson hole country of Montana to furnish an eastern company with teeth for emblem purposes, Roy Bird, aged 29, and Claud Bird, 23, brothers, broth-ers, were arrested at Huntsville, Utah. F. A. Wilson, a janitor, sustained injuries in-juries which were considered probably fatal and Austin Fox, an elevator operator, op-erator, who rescued him from flames was seriously burned in a fire wrhich destroyed several stores at The Dalles, Oregon. Utah has the champion mine rescue team of the United States. The Sun-nyside Sun-nyside team of the Uah Fuel company finished first in the. third national joint field meet, at San Francisco, with & score of 9 out -of a possible 100 points. At the last meeting of the Nevada Bar association it was ordered that -Gordon W. Bailey, formerly practicing practic-ing law in Reno be disbarred by the supreme court of Nevada. This action comes as the result of certain charges of deception and fraud. Both of Salt Lake's storage reservoir reser-voir dams at the head of Big Cottonwood Cotton-wood canyon have been carried to that stage of completion that the reservoirs res-ervoirs may be used this winter and coming spring to store surplus waters for use in the dry season of next year. H. S. Fuller, aged 75, who was arrested ar-rested at Reno on suspicion of attempted at-tempted robbery, was banished from (he city of Reno for the period of one year, by the police judge, and was informed that if he comes iback a long term in the city jail will "be -his reception. What is without doubt the most rapid divorce case on record in the state of Nevada was concluded at Reno last week when suit was commenced, complaint filed, summons issued, answer an-swer returned, testimony taken and a decree granted all within the period of an hour and a half at the very most. William Curoe of Jarbidge and P. Robert Prunty of Charleston have each sent the sum of $25 to the county coun-ty clerk of Elko county, Nevada, to be excused from serving on the grand jury. Both men live more than 69 miles from the county seat and under the law may be excused upon payment of the amount stattd. While unloading express from a car at Tecopa, Nevada, Jack Miller, express ex-press agent, met with a peculiar, yet most distressing and serious accident. One of the articles which he took from the express car was a loaded gun, which was accidentally discharged, the charge entering the right leg below be-low the knee, fracturing the shin bone. At a recent meeting of the Nevada board of revenue a resolution was unanimously passed giving the town council the power and authority to borrow ten thousand dollars for the purpose of paving the main street of Carson. John C. Campbell was recently killed in the National mine at National, Na-tional, Nevada, by a premature explosion. explo-sion. Death was not Instantaneous but the miner was so severely injured that he only lived about five minutes after the doctor arrived. Ruth Reed was bound over to appear before the district court at Reno on a charge of assault with intent to commit com-mit robbery with ball fixed at $3,009, in default of which she was remanded remand-ed to the custody of the sheriff. She is charged with having shot and -wounded George Geiger on July 25, after which she robbed him. Two car robbers were arrested at Golconda, Nevada. The men were accused ac-cused of breaking into Western Pacific Paci-fic outfit cars at Winnemucca and stealing clothing, bedding and provisions. |