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Show INLAND NORTHWEST It is estimated that to box tlie apple ap-ple crop of Ihe northwest alone. P-l.tHJH,- j OOO feet of lumber is required. j The eleventh annual convention of j llie Nevada Federation of Woman's ! Clubs was held last week at Elko. Jerry Holland and John Sievers, station tenders, were killed at the Fast I'olitsa mine at Butte, when the cable in the mailt shaft parted, llie men fulling :XHI feet. 'i'be county commissioners of Musselshell Mussel-shell couniy. Molilalia, have called an election for January l.'. l!to, to vine on the issuance of SeOO.OOO of road improvement im-provement bonds. While operating a circular saw at Ely, Nov., Lee Lockett had his hand caught in the saw, which resulted in tlie amputation of four fingers and tlie thumb from his left hand. Reports from the new camp of Arrowhead, Ar-rowhead, in Nye county, located between be-tween Ely and Tonopali, indicate the most important mineral discovery made in Nevada for many years. As the result of a runaway on the Miller ranch near. Las Vegas, Nov., a valuable mare tore her foot off when it became entangled in the barb wire and it was found necessary to shoot the animal. The Las Vegas Land & Water company com-pany will help supply the demand for furnished houses at Las Vegas. Nov., by completely furnishing '2 of llie 05 houses erected l,y the company for t'air employees. Within a few minutes after he arrived ar-rived in Billings to visit his sick wife, Ok'orge Steele of Bear Creek, was held up and robbed of $2o0 by two unmasked un-masked men within a block of the hospital hos-pital for which he was bound. One-fourth of Unites' lierclianls have not paid their annual city licenses. li-censes. Furthermore, they have agreed among themselves not to pay them until forced by a decision of the stale supreme court. Salt Luke is to retain headquarters of the Oregon Short Line railroad and Portland will retain headquarters of the Oregon Railway & Navigation company after tlie railroads are returned re-turned to private ownership. Denver S. Fuckerson, former governor gov-ernor of Nevada, and at present inspector in-spector of federal prisons, lias been laid up at Carson for tlie past two months as the result of an accident in which he suffered a broken leg. To reduce loss and damage claims, the northwest is planning to secure uniformity in sizes of boxes and to attempt to get fewer and better packages. pack-ages. California's standard sizes of boxes liave been incorporated into a code. Gasoline yield from crude oil run through Wyoming refineries' in tlie second sec-ond quarter of 1919 amounted to about SO per cent, being the same as from Appalachian crude. Wyoming crude sells at a minimum of $1.50 a barrel. Pennsylvania crude sells at $4.25. John B. Ronstodt suffered a peculiar and painful accident at Las Vegas, New Mr. Ronstadt was' working with a large pipe wrench when something slipped and lie fell, striking his throat, fracturing his liyoid bone, or Adams apple. Elijah Bess, Upper Stillwater rancher ranch-er and trapper, was found guilty at Columbus, Mont., of murder in the first degree, the jury fixing the penalty pen-alty at life imprisonment. Hess on July 5 last shot and killed Jake Lyons, his neighbor. Ivan MacLellnn, a convict from Spokane Spo-kane couniy, was killed in Ihe Washington Washing-ton penitentiary at Wylhi Walla in a terrific hand-to-hand light with J. Stevens, another prisoner. The fight resulted from a quarrel that was started start-ed in the dining room. Water can convert untapped resources re-sources of Molilalia into millions of dollars and increase agricultural production pro-duction Joo per cent. The available waier supply in Montana is sufficient to irrigate (i.OOO.oOO acres, although the area now watered is but 1,750.000 acres. Jordan, located in the odder of Garfield Gar-field county, Montana, and possessing no telegraph lines, will have wireless eoinuiunieiition with the outside world, according, to the claims of the Jordan Power company, which has Incorporated Incorporat-ed for $25,oo0 for the purpose of installing in-stalling a wireless service between Miles City and Jordan. Efforts made by Denver cnpiinlisls to finish the James Peak tunnel on llie Moffat road before the railrod promoted by Governor Bamberger of Uiah into the Uintah basin can be completed promises to lie one of the greatest railroad hat ties since the building of the transcontinental roads, according to Denver newspapers. The total net receipts from the national na-tional forests ill Montana during the fiscal year ending June :. 1919, were SeSO.171.1'0, according to figures just announced from forestry headquarters at Missoula. Montana Red Cross chapters are completing their organization for the Third Red Cross roll call which will lie held from November 2 to Armistice day, November 11, when it is expected that more than loo.non Montana lied Cross members will enroll for 1920. Through the workman's coinp'-ii-a-j tion act of Wyoming, si t t lenient has ! been made In fa or of Mrs. John C. j William-, whose hu-b.itel was killed ill j the coal mines at Almy. Wyo., last ! un::n--r. Mrs William- will receive $ u:..J minor ke:r v. :;i :! ve |