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Show 7.LA1J HCRTHV(r5T Tw,: men we.e orr.s'el and a ti'.xi all iiLd ap:iroi.iia:o;.v l-'.M gall' us o' wine selzL-'i by p; i;!'i.-;!''U :-u.orce.i;e!i. ohiiers iu a raid a: -ev. n A carload of lion,-.- wa loaded a' MerMian. Nov.. reeii;:ly and is M h aiai-l.eteil in .San l-'i-'o-iso. The consignment con-signment consists of oV J eases, or ten tons and was valued at $3,000. Bullion valued at S;0,-k7 was shipped ship-ped to the mint by a sil,-,-r corporation near liocliester, New, ihe result of a lean-up from two weeks' i peration. Shippers of nine western states, nr.! ted together for sel.-prote.:t:un havis jegun their fight agah.it the imposition imposi-tion upon them of a transcontinental rate structure they claim would be vho'.ly destructive ot tl.elr interests. 9 Delegates represent'r.g a member-ihlp member-ihlp of SOO.000 in 3H states went into session in Portland. Ore., at the fifty-ifth fifty-ifth annual convention of the national jrange. s A big meteor, s:iil by those who wiw t fall, to be the largest that ever fell near Reno, New, was traveling south .vhen it came into view and was very orilliant, leaving a trail of sulphur behind it. Judge Ralph P. Quarlos, former justice jus-tice of the supreme court of Idaho, lied at his home in Salmon City, Ida. i few days ago. Judge Quarles was 09 years of age, and for many years had Deen a prominent lawyer in the Gem state. A deer too heavy to ca) ry down the Mountain sile without being cut up, .vas killed recently near Virginia City, Sev. It weighed 220 pounds four days ifter being dressed and skinned. Its intlers had a spread of 36 inches, five-oint five-oint and weighed 62 pounds. Advices have been received at Love-.ock, Love-.ock, New, that steps have been taken to set aside a certain area of the Nevada Nev-ada national forest reserve in Whit fine county to establish a national park to include the area ou which Leh-uan's Leh-uan's Caves are situated. Reclamation and its value to the na-:ion na-:ion were emphasized to the 135 mera-jers mera-jers and officers of the National grange is they stopped off in Boise on their Ray to the annual convention of the organization at Portland. The special train on whi i they are traveling car-tied car-tied representatives of 30 states. V Mrs. F. X. A. Eble, formerly Miss Eccles of Baker, Ore., and Salt Lake City, Utah, has been invited to be the soloist at the reception to be given by the Washington Salon of the United Arts society, in honor of the foreign press representatives now in Washington. Washing-ton. Former State Highway Commissioner Commission-er Sam Webb and former Stillwater county engineer, Ralph W. Barr, met instant death at Reed Point, 55 miles west of Billings, Mont., a few days ago, when he automobile in which they were riding was struck by an east-oound east-oound Northern Pacific train. The ancient custom of singing Christmas carols from door to door is to be revived In all its picturesque features fea-tures on Christmas eve in Salt Lake City, according to an annauncement made by Mary Pulliam, secretary of the Charity Organization society. State rangers, acting under instructions instruc-tions from Colonel Patrick J. Ham-rock, Ham-rock, adjutant general, took charge of law enforcement just a few hours prior to the time-set by union leaders for a strike in thirteen mines cf fuel and iron in Huerfano county. Colo. Reduction Reduc-tion of 30 per cent in wages was to be the signal for closing of the mines by a walkout. Alfred M. Hubbard a 19-year-old inventor in-ventor of Seattle, Wash, is said to have hit upon a scheme of obtaining electrical energy, based on a little known law of matter which has been overloaded and which the Inventor hit on by accident. Scientists and practical practi-cal electrical men say that the experimental experi-mental apparatus measures up to the claims made for it m m m The two new bridges near Mlnden, New, Is soon to be completed. The bridges nre reinforced concrete throughout. Their combined cost is about ?2S,000. The main bridge is 19S feet long while the north bridge is 72 feet in length. The highway department depart-ment is hopeful of soon being able tc linance the construction of two and one-h,alf m'les of new road which will make possible use of the now bridges and shorten the distance between Carson Car-son an 1 ilinden. The shotgun messenger, lone: a picturesque pic-turesque figure of the far west, lias come back. Twenty 'civilian guards," modern prototypes of the colorful former for-mer group, have been put o-i duty or, mail trains runn'ng between Spokane. St. Paul and Seatle and t'or:!an,l. (ire. They are armed with pistols and sr.w-ed-off shotguns, and have nrV. 3 to I sh'kot to kill in defense of ti e malls. They wear civilian clothes, s:i--l the'r I hours of duty are regulate I as art? j those of railway mall clerks. |