Show INLAND NORTHWEST the state ot idaho la producing at least pounds of butter per annum deavor in this way to get the interest of the prospective aroused as to the opportunities to be had on nevada land fire started from a defective flue la the rear of the hotel atalla in sparks nevada nearly destroyed the big building before it was exten gulshen governmental statistics show that there are but seven and one tenth deaths pr thousand in idaho per year as compared with the national average of 15 per thousand the sheriffs at tonopah re cendy raided a number of gambling houses of that camp several arrests were made and a considerable quan alty of paraphernalia taken the public lands committee of the united states senate reported favor ably on the bill tor the grant of acres of the public domain to the state school lands of nevada A fuel that Is new to nyssa Is on the market this winter corn cobs are being sold and delivered at 3 a two horse wagon load this may sound like iowa but it la not it is nyss i ore winter sloughing ploughing hing Is becoming a regular thing with the farmers of the rich vaudys in the central part of ne vada according to reports that have recently been published throughout the state james E kearns died at tonopah nevada last week the deceased was a native of virginia city and was a member of company B nevada vol un at the time of the american spanish war the sugar beet industry in idaho paid the growers one million eight hundred and sixty thousand dollars in 1915 according to the best possible estimate there are tour beet sugar factories in lacho caldwell idaho has the biggest horse market in the northwest it handles almost a million dollars worth of horses a year considerably mare than a million dollars worth in 1915 it ere sold at caldwell the 1915 fruit crop of southern idaho placed into circulation 1026 in southern idaho points this industry now comprises 88 acres of which 24 acrea are la bearing and produced 3 cars of products the committee on relief work at tonopah has decided to continue operating tor the winter months the committee will aid the poor of the camps and new plans are now under way tor the furtherance of this work an estimate of 5 deer are killed in idaho every year about elk mountain sheep and goats and several hundred thousand trout are caught with hook and line the state plants 6 trout try every sea son the first arrest for actual violation of th prohibition law of oregon was made at portland when the police raided the union club a negro organ Iza tion and arrested J H reed pres ident and confiscated a quantity of liquor mostly gin the nevada land development company has inaugurated a new plan for the settlement of the lands it has under control at battle mountain the company will plant 1000 acres or more of its irrigated lands in the most approved manner and will en under a contract to be made between the utah construction company and the land board of the state of idaho the big lost river irrigation project which cost more than 6 and was failure will toe taken over by the company and placed un der cultivation the supreme court of nevada has decided that J frank tranmer con of the murder of jean and his wife at imlay several years ago must pay the extreme penalty of the law tor the crime and directs the district court of the county to fix the date on which the execution will be conducted by the warden of the tent lary the trial of arthur and tour other defendants charged with mur der in connection with the killing of dr P P lester a major of the colorado national guard at walsenburg during fighting between state men and striking coal miners april 29 1914 la being held at castle rock colo colorado at midnight december 31 was to swing into the dry column and early at night thousands paraded the streets in a carnival of merryman mer ing while programs of fashionable clubs and other societies were framed to celebrate until midnight the pass ing of john barleycorn and the old year idaho passed through one of the most important epochs in her history on december 31 at midnight every saloon and brewery in what is termed water territory closed not to reopen for the sale of intoxicants as the entire state became dry upon the stroke of 12 the saloons numbered banners of the lower lovelock val ley in nevada have financed and corn plated a system of drainage canals that has involved a bond issue of the system of canals will drain the soured lands of the lower valley and will effect the reclamation of lands valued at an important development in the agricultural industry of wyoming dur ing the past year was the establish ment at sheridan of the first sugar factory in the state an plant was erected at sheridan and begar operations in the fall L ass S |