—From The Grand Canyon

Fight Club: Floyd Mayweather Jr outpunched Manny Pacquiao last night in Las Vegas to win the welterweight title and remain undefeated in 48 matches. Mayweather jumped up on the ropes and posed with crossed arms in pompous triumph, getting boos from the crowd rather than cheers.

It was heralded as the match of the century, although the century is not that old. Mayweather landed 148 of 435 punches, Pacquiao just 81 of 429. Still, Pacquiao said he thought he had won the fight, saying of Mayweather, “he didn’t do nothing.”

Baltimore: Thousands of people of all races marched to City Hall yesterday in a celebratory mood after the indictment of six police officers in the death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray. They called for an end to police violence, and an end to the curfew placed upon the city during days of rioting over Gray’s death of injuries suffered in police custody.

But despite the good vibes, police used pepper spray and several people were arrested after the 10 pm curfew went into effect.

Nepalling: The Nepalese government, which is desperate for supplies for earthquake victims, is actually dealying foreign aid piling up at Katmandu airport for regular customs inspections. The UN has appealed for Nepal to speed it up, but a spokesman for the home ministry said all goods coming into the country must be inspected and, “This is something we need to do.”

In other developments, searchers pulled about 50 bodies, some of them foreign trekkers, out of an avalanche area.

Permawar: Several hundred Yazidi prisoners were killed by Islamic State extremists west of Mosul, the Iraqi government says. The Yazidi are a religious minority who have been a particular target for the religiously intolerant ISIS killers who consider the Yazidi to be infidels.

The Derby: The favored American Pharoah won the 141^st running of the Kentucky Derby yesterday in a close race. Looking like a possible winner, Firing Line ridden by Gary Stevens gave out in the last sixteenth of a mile and Pharoah bolted by to take it by a length.

American Pharoah has been compared to the great Seattle Slew. And so begins again the hope for another Triple Crown winner.

The Obit Page: Silicon Valley entrepreneur David Goldberg, husband of Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg (“Lean In”), died suddenly at age 47. Well known in Silicon Valley, but shadowed nationally by his wife, Goldberg was an executive at Yahoo before joining the chief of Surveymonkey. He had two children with Sandberg.

Canyon News: Little known outside the rim of the Grand Canyon are plans for massive tourist and housing developments that some opponents say would “Disneyfy” the Canyon. An enormous development is being planned on the Navajo Indian reservation that includes a 1.4 mile tramway that could carry as many as 10,000 people a day down on to the confluence of the Colorado and Little Colorado Rivers.

And the US Forest Service along with the town of Tusayan are cooperating with a development company to build a sprawling 2100 acre housing, hotel, and retail center in national forest land near the south rim of the canyon. The superintendent of the national park calls it a threat to the park’s ecology because the development will depend upon pumped groundwater.

But by far the most controversial proposal is the tramway known as the “Escalade,” which would be a mechanical intrusion into the canyon itself. When President Teddy Roosevelt declared the Grand Canyon a National Monument he said, “Leave it as it is. You cannot improve on it. The ages have been at work on it, and man can only mar it.”

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