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Show INLAND NORTHWEST About JS'J.OOO boxes of apples were raised in Utah this year, against fi."i".,-(K0 fi."i".,-(K0 fur 3917. A larfie part of Ibe Utah apple crop is consumed locally. After fort.v-eif.iU years of married life, a Sheridan (Wyo.) woman acknowledges ac-knowledges tile venture a failure by applying for divorce from her husband. hus-band. Apparently asphyxiated while asleep, Anselnto Keyes, Mexican miner, was found (lead at a hotel in Salt Lake. Keyes rented the room tile previous evening and requested he be called early. The board of health has removed all restrictions that have been in effect ef-fect at Butte due to the epidemic of influenza. The disease has practically practical-ly disappeared after running sinco early in September. Arizona will work with Utah in reclaiming re-claiming lands in northern Arizona and southern Utah, says a message received by Governor Bamberger of Utan, rroui Anson H. Smith, chairman of the data committee of Kingman, Ariz. Anthrax has caused a loss of more .than 200 animals in Utah during the past two years. Serious outbreaks of the disease have occurred in four counties. coun-ties. One thousand six hundred animals ani-mals have been inoculated. The Colorado public utilities com-niis.-ron has issued an order granting authority to the Denver Tramway company, which operates in Denver, to charge 7 cents car fare and 1 cent additional when a transfer is asked. The attorney general is sending out instructions to all Montana . county attorneys that the prohibition statute takes effect at midnight of Decembei 30, instead of midnight of December , 31, and that the law must be en-. en-. forced. Twenty-oue thousand two hundred and seventy-five persons visited Yellowstone Yel-lowstone National park during the year ending October 12. 1918, according- to the annual report of Chester A. Lindsey, acting superintendent of the park. The Yellowstone Park Transportation Transporta-tion company carried 3026 people into the Yellowstone National pars during the season. Three bicyclists and twenty-five persons on -motorcycles also made the trip. Private camping parties numbered 474 persons. Nevada is now "dry," Colorado "bone dry" and Montana will join the prohibition pro-hibition procession at midnight ot Deeijmber 30. Wyoming voted against John Barleycorn at the last election, and before many months California will be the omy "wet" state west -of .the Missouri. Charles M. Levey, president' of the Western Pacific, has gone to Washington Wash-ington to confer with officials of the railroad administration relative to the proposed contract between the government govern-ment and the owners of the Western Pacific relative to the guaranteed annual an-nual income of the road. Because of cattle losses through the ravages of wild beasts, the supervisor of the Helena national forests would place trappers at work and would like applications from professional hunters desiring employment. The. killings by mountain lions, bears, wolves and coyotes increased considerably in 101S. A fine pool table, comfortable lounges, easy chairs and innumerable other articles required for a club have been donated the past few days to the . Fergus County Soldiers' club at Lewistown, Mont., and the rooms are very comfortable and inviting, although al-though these gifts will keep on pouring pour-ing in for a long time. An empire containing 4.000.000 acres of land is to be reclaimed under an irrigation ir-rigation project designed to conserve the flood waters ofthe Colorado river basin. The project lies north of the town of Green River, Utah, and filings for the water have been made by the United States through J. L. Lytel, project pro-ject manager,, whose residence is in Provo, Utah. Twenty-eight cents' worth of coal in southern Idaho will give as. much heal to a home as $1 worth of electricity, according to tables and exhibits introduced in-troduced by the Idaho Power company in the hearing being held by the Idaho public utilities commission on the feasibility of forcing water power companies to furnish power tor heating heat-ing Idaho homes. Only men will be discharged from the army at Camp Lewis, Wash., .who reside in the states of Washington. Oregon. Montana, Wyoming, North and South Dakota, Utah, Colorado ami northern California, northern Nevada, northern New Mexico, western Nebraska Ne-braska aud a very small corner ot Texas. Men from other states will be sent in large bodies to the camps nearest their iRimes. Indictment under 4R counts charging charg-ing him with defrauding the federal government and relatives of deceased members of the Thirteenth naval district dis-trict is conducting funerals and shipping ship-ping bodies of sailors, was returned by a federal grand jury against J. M. BuKerworth of Seattle, general man-nger man-nger t) a large undertaking firm. Dospite the fact that all the saloons in Nevada closed their doors promptly at midnight December 10, the initiative initiat-ive prohibition law did not become effective until December 17. All the saloons of Reno that had any stock remaining reopened on the 17th. Development of a new oil field in Wyoming thirty miles north of Chey-' enne. and to be known as the National Anticline, is assured by the announcement announce-ment that a drilling rig and 3000 f . e of casing have been ordered and that drilling is to be started within sixty days. ' |