Show INLAND NORTHWEST the virginia truckee railway has announced a reduction of trip fares from virginia city to carson to reno to manden william J dalton a pioneer real dent of nevada died last week at sparks he was 78 years of ago and came to nevada in throughout utah the livestock men are trying to get sufficient teed to prevent cattle and sheep from starving and to protect the lambs the ely packing company of ely nev made its first appearance on the salt lake stock market last week and purchased a carload of hogs wheat went above the 2 mark at portland last week tor the first time in the history of the merchants ex change when bushels of may bluestem sold at 2 08 a bushel robbers early saturday blew open the safe in the sheriffs office at st helens ore and took 35 late arl day the sheriff bad taken 1500 from the sate and banked it the robbers left no clue attorney J M frame of reno call ed to carson on supreme court busl ness entered a garage there and walked into a repair pit he struck on his shoulder dislocating it and as a result Is carrying the right arm in a sling the neda industrial commission at a meeting last week passed a reso gutlon binding the commission as ad of the state insurance fund to subscribe of the 5 war loan to be issued by the government reports from western wyoming along the bear river are to the ef feet that the cattle and sheep in that section of the state are entirely with out teed and the owners are going into the hills and are cutting willows to teed the cattle estimate Is made by the general manager of the utah idaho sugar corn pany that bis concern now Is ed for the manufacture of sufficient sugar tor 3 people he adds that there are prospects for big in creases in activity the advisability of increasing the capital stock of the utah idaho sugar company from 10 to 30 an increase of 20 will be considered at a special meeting of its stockholders which has been called to take place at salt cake city the town ot searchlight nevada was swept by a fire last week that did damage amounting to 10 before it was brought under control the blaze started in the rear of a saloon the second floor of which was used as a lodging house four buildings were destroyed one million sheep on the west des ert in utah cannot be taken to the lambing grounds on the summer ranges as an investigation proved the lambing grounds to be under from two to three feet of snow A great num her of the owners are preparing to iamb on the desert A lury at klamath tails ore brought in a verdict of acquittal for mr and mrs henry hobbs charged with the murder of edwin C way last october it was the second trial way was killed following a quarrel with hobbs over it was alleged visits ot way to the hobbs home george D mcgall international field secretary of the Y M C A was in reno last week preparing the way tor the campaign that the Y M C A la soon to wage to raise tor building and equipping Y AI C A buildings in the mobilization camps of the united states army heart trouble attributed to erces alve indulgence in tobacco and liquor Is one of the main causes for di squall fl catlon of most of the young men who have sought to enlist in the national guard at salt lake and have been turned down by the examining doc tors according to local recruiting of the first three months of 1917 ac cording to the records of the reno weather bureau were the coldest thy city has experienced in 20 years only twice in 27 years has the average tern pera ture tor the first three months of the year fallen lower than average temperature of january february and march of this year a and livestock men of utah and wyoming have set about to devise ways and means to prevent great losses to their flocks and herds the cold weather and the storms of the past month have been such that the sheep owners of the Inter moun tain country fear that great losses will attend the lambing season the committee in charge ot speed ing up farm production in ada county idaho Is losing no time in efforts to relieve the shortage of work horses now confronting the tanners in this section senator boran has been ap pealed to for use of some 60 horses belonging to the federal government and used by the crews of the geology leal survey president allson has pardoned thomas R sheridan former president of the first national bank at rose burg ore who was sentenced to five years imprisonment for alon of the banks funds W W marshall tor has advertised for ads on premises and equipment to toe leased by the postoffice post office department as a post office in goldfield during the next five or ten years the lease on the present premises has expired and in mak ing a new one it Is necessary to ad vertese tor bids |