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Show NORTHWEST NOTES Sportsman of Kcmmcrer, Wyo., are organizing n gun club. Wyoming now hns over .'1000 members mem-bers of Hie American Leghli, and It is expected the membership will be Increased to -1000. The annual meeting of the Montana Association of Commercial Club secretaries sec-retaries will be held at Great Foils, imi February 10 and 11. Construction work totaling $10,750,-(HM $10,750,-(HM for mow roads Is Involve! In tliu ' 1020 piogram of the state highway , commission of .Montana. Tom Johnson, engineer In u mine I ut Toiiopah, was killed by nil explosion explo-sion which blew out the head of the compressor In the engine room. I State Forester J. C. Vnnllook has urged the newspapers of .Molilalia to more vigorously champion the use of lodge pole pine for print paper. Five bridges are to be. constructed j In Wyoming, one In Carbon county, one In Converse county, one In Ulnlii county, coun-ty, one In Hot Springs county mid one In Crook county. Desire Onspard, who was' probably the oldest coal miner In 'length of service In the state of Wyoming, was killed In Hie Union I'aclilc. mine' at Cumhciiaud, Wyo. "Johnny" .Martin, n well known prospector, was found dead In his cabin nt Ophlr canyon, near Austin, Nevada. One of bis arms had been cut Just above the wrist and he had evidently bled to death. Itcsortlng to u hideous mhthod of escaping the machinations of Imaginary Imagi-nary enemies, John 1'. Anderson, a well-known Washoe county, Nevada, rancher and stockman, Indicted a fatal slush- across his throat with a razor. W. H. Alexander, chalnnan-dlructor Df the Nevada department of highways, has been removed by Governor lloyle ns nn "obstructionist" In the prosecution prosecu-tion of Nevada's good roads program, uccordlng to an announcement by tho governor. A coyote, which had attacked two dogs at the Da Ii forth home In Wlnnc-luitccii, Wlnnc-luitccii, Nevada, was killed by Mr. Oanfiirtli and the head of the brute will he sent to the university for examination, examin-ation, to determine whether or not the animal was rabid. Assurance of complete co-operation In efforts to prevent shipment of hides and pelts Illegally removed from live stock that perished during the December Decem-ber blizzards bus- been given the Wyoming Wy-oming state board of live stock commissioners com-missioners by representatives of all railroads operating In Wyoming. When the chains on his truc'i broke, while trying to climb an Incline In the road u few miles north of Coalwood, Mont., J. M. Llndeberg narrowly escape es-cape with his life and suffered only minor Injuries when It rolled back over ii 10-foot embankment and turned turtle at the bottom of the Incline. Thousands of dollars will ho refunded re-funded to patrons of tliu Tonopah Water company ns a result of un order of the Nevada Public Service commission commis-sion allowing a raise of from 50 cents to $1.50, hut compelling Hie company to return money collected In excess of this new rote since since April 1, 1010. Itlchurd Ward, aged 10, was found guilty tit llozeman, Mont., of murder In the second degree. Ward, on November No-vember 15 last, killed Fred lingers, nlsil colored, giving as his reason Hint the latter owed him $.'1.-10 and wouldn't pay. No denial was made of the killing, kill-ing, which was done with a borrowed ihotguu. A committee of Idaho educators, appointed ap-pointed by the state commlslouer of education, at tho request of the Idaho Teachers' association, will shortly begin be-gin n state campaign to urge young men and young women, between the ages of 15 and 20 years, to continue their sehiHil work and to complete It In Idaho. A. H. Hulllt of Chicago, secretary of the National Wild Life association, reports re-ports that fully 5000 head of elk In the Jackson country hnve died, or wiH die, on account of the feed shortage. The government now has twenty six-horse six-horse teams engaged hauling buy u distance dis-tance of. forty miles In order to feed the elk. In eliminating grade crossings 911 the main Yellowstone trull In the Henrinmtth-Nlinrod eunyiAi between Drtimmond mid Missoula, Moat., a crew of seventy-llvu convicts Is helm; moved to build 11 mile of highway from t rock hillside. It will be necessary lo Must the highway out of the solid rock for n distance of it mile In Granite Gran-ite county. The great distances between the many ranches In Nevada of John G. Taylor will he traveled by his son Hugh In 1111 airplane on his trips of Inspection. John G. Taylor has tlio largest sheep Interests of any Individual Individ-ual or corporation In Nevada nnd his ranches may he found In many sections sec-tions of I'crshlug, Humboldt, Lander ami Klko counties. Iteoignulziitloii of the Nevada stuto police sti us to meet new conditions lm-.toseil lm-.toseil by the national prohibition amendment and so that the slate will no better able to co-operate with tho federal authorities In the enforcement enforce-ment of prohibition laws' Is planned. The problem of handling large elk herds, big gamo nnd livestock on the forest reserves will' be discussed nt a meeting of forest reserve officials and the game wardens- of tho western states, together with the federal game warden nnd his deputies at Suit Luke City, February 10. |