Show III INLAND LAND VEST NORTHWEST Estimates of the potato crop In N Nevada Nevada Ne Ne- vada this year jear ran range e close close to 1000 bushels Night School chool In Virginia City Nev Nov will be organized September 20 In com commercial mercial l home economics and regular academic courses Conferences are to be resumed resumed between between between be be- tween operators and miners on the proposal to Increase the pay scales of the men employed in the of ot Montana i Work of grading the road between Inden and Gardnerville preparatory to building the new concrete highway Is now under way and a large force of men are at work The recent assessors' assessors meeting In Carson City Nev brought out the fact that Japanese now own acres aeres of land In Ia Nevada the larger part being In Elko county A operative co-operative store movement sponsored by the railroad brotherhoods brotherhoods brotherhoods brother brother- hoods of the division of whom there are sixteen different locals Is being launched In Missoula Mont About sixth one-sixth of the 2 2000 00 sheep purchased at the ram sale held In Salt Lake under the auspices of the the National National National Na Na- association were purchased by Nevada stockmen Wisdom Mont one of the few frontier towns of the west remaining was host to more than than 2000 people during the tire staging of their annual Harvest festival and wild west show last week I Actors actresses singers and other talented Montanans are invited to compete compete compete com com- pete in the Montana state fair vaudeville vaudeville vaude vaude- ville vine contest by the Helena Commercial Commer Commer- cial club In a special bulletin Issued by the club James Tames F P. P Carter who recently style stole stylea a horse saddle bridle and other ther ridIng riding rid rid- ing lag equipment from the Williams estate estate estate es es- es- es tate ranch at Alpine Nev has been sentenced ed to from one to fourteen j years years' ears ears' imprisonment With the Idea of or of encouraging the planting of a large acreage to potatoes In Valley county next ext spring a movement movement movement move move- ment is under way In Glasgow Mont to bring a about out the erection of a n potato potato po po- potato tato warehouse there yet Pl e and Washington counties of Idaho and Malheur r county Oregon conducted a Joint farm bureau excursion excursion excursion sion for the study of livestock paying vIsits to dairy and beef bee cattle rattle herds and to sheep breeding farms New launches equipped with underwater underwater un un- I water der-water exhausts to still their engines engines en en- gines have appeared among the boats used on Puget sound to smuggle liquor In from Canada according to Donald McDonald l federal prohibition director for the state of Washington Straight business with no no banquets dances ct motor rides or other amusements amusements amusements amuse amuse- ments but all aU of the time devoted to bettering the business makes the the annual an an- annual nual convention of the Launders Launders' Association AssocIation Association As As- of of- Montana held at Butte last week weel different from most con Breeding of ewe lambs lambs lambs' Is Inadvisable inadvisable inadvisable able and the attempt usually results In partial failure according to II n. B. B Millin sheep specialist of the University sity sUy of Idaho extension division Not more than 50 per pr of such ewes get with lamb Jamb and both ewe and lamb are stunted A new worlds world's champion Jersey cow has been developed in Oregon This This' time it Is J Jean Jan an Marigold of St. St Mawes a register register-d sd m Jersey cow on the farm of of Robert L L. Burkhardt Albany Ore that has Aist l completed an official lal test of pounds fat and over pounds of milk Suffering from a broken leg and from terrible cuts received when h hll he was thrown In front of a mower when his team ran away Knute Nomeland 33 35 35 lay for twenty four four hours In in- ina a field fieldon on his ranch near Malta Mont until discovered by neighbors He lIe succumbed succumbed suc sue to his bis injuries three days later The trial of eleven men prominent in northwest shipping circles who were Indicted by a federal grand jury last January and March on charges of irregularities In accounts with the government In connection with shipbuilding ship building contracts with the shipping board during the tho war will begin this week at Seattle Notice has been served upon the governors of Nevada and Idaho that a anew anew anew new railroad line tobe known as the Idaho Central will be constructed constructed from Wells Vens Nev to Rogerson Rogerson Ida connecting the Southern Pacific and Union Pacific lines uneS' Tl The e new line will willbe willbe be built along the route via yia Contact Contact Nev Nov covering a distance of ot ninety miles Game Is pI en throughout it the state of Montana except as to elk which were slaughtered and dl died d from from- severe w. w winters Inters and grouse lost In those sections of the state where strychnine was used In gopher poison polson according to the state game n and fish warden Cleveland Hunter 10 19 liked 1 I watermelons watermelons watermelons water water- melons fresh from the patch without consent of the owner Today He lie l is j Ina in ina ina a hospital at Grand Junction Junctions Colo dangerously wounded by a n charge of ol bird shot from th shotgun of ot B. B B B. Goddard owner of a melon patch pith th the t favorable weather weathers weather conditions condi condl conditions which are prevailing In the su sugar at beet sections of Utah and Idaho Id ho this his important money crop is progressing rapidly l to the digging time nm and the manufacturers are comp completing th their lr arrangements ar art for forr the handling of or a n banner ban nor ner er 1 product r |