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Show NQRTHWESL NOTES The school board at Tonopah has j declared the high school of that city open for county pupils. A $1,500,000 shipbuilding plant for the construction of steel steamships will be established in Portland and work on the plant will begin within a few weeks. It is quite probable that a cabarat entertainment will replace a number of the speeches customary at the annual an-nual banquet of the Las Vegas chain- j ber of commerce. The question of issuing bonds to j the amount of $30,000 for the purpose ; of extending and making necessary, I repairs on the sewer system carried ; two to one at Elko, Nevada. Spokane physicians are joining ' hands in a campaign to safeguard the ; public health and have organized a special committee to work in conjunction conjunc-tion with the chamber of commerce. Yee Bow, secretary of the Hop Sing tong, iwas locked in the city jail at Seattle, pending further investigation inves-tigation of the murder in Chinatown of Y. U. Park, a Korean cannery worker. Charles Place, alias Smith, and Kenneth 'McBwing have withdrawn their former plea of "not guilty" to the charge of burglary in the district court at Ely, Nevada, and entered a plea of "guilty." James Tinney, a miner of Tonopah, drank the contents of a two ounce bottle bot-tle of carbolic acid while in a downtown down-town saloon and still lives. Despondency Despond-ency is thought to have been the reason rea-son for attempt at suicide. Eight women and four men comprised com-prised the Jury In a peace disturbing case in the municipal court at Las Vegas. The defendant evidently gained the sympathy of the majority of the jury as he was acquitted. As a mark of appreciation to the lady telephone operators of Fallon, Nevada, for their promptness in reporting re-porting fires, members of the Fallon volunteer department made the local operators honorary members at their last meeting. It Is announced that the Fallon, Nevada, Ne-vada, sugar factory is to run the com ing season. The importation of sugar beet seed will overcome the difficulty which for a while was thought to be the one which would keep the factory closed this season. Between two million and three million mil-lion dollars will be spent by the Great Northern railroad for concrete snowsheds in the Cascades, in accordance ac-cordance with an understanding reached with the Washington state public service contmission. As the result of throwing ,twenty-two ,twenty-two caliber revolver cartridges into a bonfire, the 12-year-old son of O. V. Stubblefield of Golconda, Nevada, will lose the sight cf his right eye. The exploding cartridges struck him in the eye, destroying the sight. . . The sentencing of Vicior Allard, a coal miner of Cambria, Wyo to from two to five years in the penitentiary for theft has left his three sons, 11. 13 and 15 years of age, homeless and the state board of child and animal protection has been asked to take charge of the youngsters. Elko county (Nevada) will spend $15,'000 on a new grade out of Jar-bidge, Jar-bidge, completely eliminating the Crippen grade, if the commissioners of Owyhee county, Idaho, can be induced in-duced to improve that part of the highway from Twin Falls to Jarbidge that passes through Owyhee county. The grand jury at Ely, Nevada, recommends rec-ommends that all schools be equipped with fire escapes, where needed, and that in such of the schools where the practice Is not now in force, a fire drill be inaugurated and practiced prac-ticed at least once in each week for the better protection of the pupils in case of fire. Glen R. Bush, the Union Pacific watchman who shot and killed Enrique En-rique Cordova, will remain In jail at Rawlins, Wyo., until his trial because of his inability to provide $10,000 baiL He is charged with murder in the second degree. Bush claims he shot the Mexican in self-defense. No gun was found on Cordova's body. Wyoming Is a state of large resources, re-sources, whose development has only begun. Within its 97,594 square miles He the most extensive coal fields and the most productive oil fields of the Rocky Mountain regions, thousands of acres of Irrigated and dry farming lands, and extensive areas of splendid splen-did stock range. When J. R. Edgheill of Salt Lake purchased the wool clip of the Sel-way Sel-way Sheep company of Dillon, Mont., last week for a trifle more than 31 cents a pound, he not only opened the season by making the first purchase, pur-chase, but paid the highest price ever recorded in southern Montana, if not in the en'ire state. Eng Chong, an aged Chinese gardener, gar-dener, was shot and after be had fallen wounded, was beaten about the head with a revolver butt at La Grande, Ore., by another Chinaman who, he said, had lain in wait for him with a companion. Lem Quong, a cook, was arrested later and identified identi-fied by Eng as his assailant. The explosion of several hundred pounds of dynamite in a small powder house at a limestone quarry near Guersey, Wyo., caused a report which was heard thirty-five miles away ani caused damage estimate at $5,000. Windows were broken in Guernsey, Hartville and Sunrise. The safe cash register, bar fixtures, glassware, tables and other articles seized by the police in a raid on the Arlington hotfd bar at Spokane, were ordered confiscated in police court and ordered sold at auction, the funds to be turned over to the school fund. GOOD CONDITIONS IN RUSSIA Former American Physician Testifies to Benefits That Have Followed Doing Away With Vodka. "Fewer cases of insanity are being received in the asylums and hospitals jof Russia today than before the war, notwithstanding the brainracklng experiences ex-periences which hundreds of thousands thou-sands of people of that country have gone through during the last year. This indicates to my mind that prohibition prohi-bition of the sale of vodka has been a great thing for Russia." i This statement was made to a reporter re-porter by Dr. Philip Newton, formerly a hospital physician of Washington, now a brigadier general in the medical branch of the Russian army. Doctor Newton arrived here recently after having served for fifteen months In Russia first as a surgeon o the ( American Red Crees sad since Ocu ber, 1915, in the Russian army. ,j "The prohibition of the sale of vod-jka vod-jka and other Intoxicants has mads better citizen and soldier of the Russian,'' Rus-sian,'' Doctor Newton said. "Ho may hot be as smart as the English and French, but he can do harder work and better withstand hardships. The Russians make ideal hospital patients. The manner In which they endure the most painful Injuries Is wr.derful." Washington (D. C.) Star. |