Show INLAND NORTHWEST hundreds of horses are dying in beaverhead county montana this winter from lack food and exposure ac 1 cording to reports the city election at cariln nevada on alie question of bonding the city for to build a municipal electric plant carried by a majority of three to one A man believed to be harold rothwell with the murder of andrew uren aged oil station tender at seattle I 1 february 8 1918 has been arrested at Lv anston vio thunder mount aln brei om acres lying approximately miles northeast nor theist of balse the capital hi act of congress has been created n national foredt re serve prohibition in county mon tana seems to have cut in two alie number of arrests made the sheriffs decord for 1918 alie last wet year was 1228 in 1019 the total w as ga J A new method for gas which will produce n large quan alty of coke for commercial and do mettle consumption Is being discussed by directors of alie billings mont gas company montana s common school permanent fund which Is administered by the state land office Is the larger of all the permanent state funds according to alie report of the net balances for for december A fox farm Is to be in full opera aton at billings mont within a few weeks if the plans of II 11 B green leif le if and J L 1 ox mature the two plan to raise the fur bearing animals on a large scale the state supreme court in n decision handed down at gilem ore held that governor ben alcott retains his office throughout the entire term of alie late governor james combe state police raided a homemade home made still being conducted it Is alleged at dafton by A the etall Is alleged to have been making five gallons of whisky per dav at the time of s arrest billie lucas well known in nevada as a prize fighter and who has been latela making hla home in I 1 ly shot and killed woman in the district at I 1 iko then turning the gun on himself ended his life the menace of the in bangham counti idaho Is so great that drives are almost dalla affairs in one locality from within a space of one square mile 10 COO rabbits were driven into a corral and slaughtered walter S avans who had been connected with a number of mining enterprises terp rises in southern nevada died in a goldfield hospital last w eek from what physicians said was the result of drinking whisky containing wood alco liol ratification of alie national equal suffrage amendment in oregon was completed on january 14 when jie president of the senate and the speaker of the house in the legislature affixed their signatures to the resolution of the ever increasing seriousness among the farmers and stockmen stoc kmen of the rodent problem in cavadi cv adi Is in in the statement sta tunit ground squirrels and are main talked in nevada at an annu il cost of between and reorganization of alie i police so as to meet new conditions imposed bv the national prohibition amendment and so that alie state will be better able to operate cooperate co the federal authorities in the enforcement of laws Is at once joseph bogio of billings mont has applied tor compensation to the state board on the claim that while employed emp loyid as i fireman tor a hiking company he was bitten bi n tat ills claim was disallowed because his injury did not cause him to lose time the still several barrels of mahy and a goodla quantity of moonshine whisk taken lu recent elds on the lahav ranch near dallon mont are now licud uy officers pending alie trl il 0 thomas lahey and wife on a charge of illicit liquor all persons who filed application for tracts of ahe acres of government land which was to have been disposed of b lottery at cheyenne on december 23 w be ambled to have just aliat chev wanted instein of draw ing str iw s for the desirable portions this condition due to the fact that there were not enough applications filed to cause an contests this has been a fartak winter in montana lite L ite and earla december were almost the coldest in the history of the state during tha coal strike when little tuil was to be biad the mercury hovered around M below and often readied 30 s soon as alie resumed work alie tern piru ture shot up and the latair part ut december w as baliv and grasshoppers mere sun in the fields miss maud Too iney 8 of S D was so seriously injured she died and lieutenant bert cole pilot was seriously injured as the insult of a fill of COO feet in an airplane following an exhibition flight at casper wyo the machine was attempting to land at the casper hangar cyrus caipen arrested at sheridan wyo on a charge of attempting to leold up two men b point ing his fingar in an andt nor to make them hello 0 lie held a revolver Is an esi iu M int y s |