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Show INLAND NORTHWEST The heavy windstorm which visited ;arson City, New, last week, did considerable con-siderable damage in the state capital. Fire destroyed the main business ilock and the Jordan Inn at Palisade, welve miles east of Grand Junction, Dolo. The loss is estimated at 135,000. Th offices of the Humboldt Na-:ional Na-:ional forest which have been located 'or several years at Gold Creek, Nev., vill be moved to Elko within the lext few days. Mrs. J. E. Jack, one of the oldest residents of the Tuscarora, Nevada, listrict, died recently at her home in .hat place. She and her husband moved to Tuscarora in 1894 and have resided there since. Following the arrest at Portland of a. F. Courtney, a special officer, in !he act of theft from a store on his beat in the retail district, loot approximating ap-proximating three thousand dollars ralue was discovered in his home. Herbert Munter, an aviator, and J. 0. Hull, who was riding with Mm as i passenger, narrowly escaped death when a large hydroaeroplane in which they were flying capsized and fell 75 feet into Lake Washington, says a Seattle dispatch. Alleging that her husband, Louis J. Bachner, is pernurious and has treated her with extreme cruelty, Tina Lerner Bachner, the Russian pianiste, has filed suit In the district ourt at Reno for absolute servance of the bonds of matrimony. The farmers of Nevada are beginning begin-ning to branch out in their crops and new products are continually being re-sorded re-sorded by papers throughout various vari-ous sections of the state. The latest jhronicled Is a crop of celery raised at Fallon by an enterprising farmer. H. Sullivan, who was arrested sev-9ral sev-9ral months ago in connection with th murder of Ollie Bates, a saloon man, near the Nevada-Utah line has confessed to the killing. The Elko officers had no clew as to the assassin assas-sin and arrested Sullivan as a suspect. The Blackfoot Indians of Glacier National Park reservation are collecting collect-ing the most elaborate assortment of furs ever given to a single person, and the red men will send them as the gift of the Indians to Mrs. Norman Gait, the future "first squaw" of the land. Senator William Flinn of Pittsburgh Pitts-burgh has 'been granted a court judgment judg-ment by a Reno court against the Twenty-One Mining company of California Cal-ifornia and its directors for $25,000 as the result of an effort on the part of the company to sell a "salted mine" to him. Zachary T. Wilcox of Carson City, Nev., can boast of having the longest beard In the state of Nevada if reports from the state capital are correct. He has cultivated his whiskers for the past thirty-two years and now has a beard that is eight and a half feet long. The short course for prospectors at the Mackay School of Mines, which was successfully inaugurated last year, will hold its second session from January 30 to February 26, 1916. It is expected that the attendance of 25, which was' realized last year, will be greatly exceeded this season. The body of a man was found recently re-cently in the Carlin, Nev., railroad yards and from all appearances he met his death while stealing a ride on one of the trains which run into that town. He had in his pocket certificates certifi-cates of deposit for over $5000 and a few cents in cash. The nuoney is deposited de-posited under the name of Christian Bond and is in San Francisco banks. A Mexican in connubial mood applied ap-plied at the office of the country clerk of Elko county, Nevada, last week for a license to wed a half-breed Indian In-dian girl. Such a case never having come before the clerk he telegraphed the attorney general for an opinion and the officer replied that a Mexican Mexi-can and half-breed Indian could not marry under the laws of the state of Nevada. For the fourth time since last July, the sheriff of Elko county, Nevada, has been called upon to investigate a murder. The crime occurred at the Mclntyre ranch, about four miles from Halleck,. where Wah Gim, one of the best kown Chinese in the county, was slashed to death by unknown un-known parties. Wyoming's taxable wealth has increased in-creased more than $16,000,000. The past year shows an increase of $9,-573,245. $9,-573,245. The present assessed valuation valua-tion of property in the state Is $210,-677,963.19, $210,-677,963.19, which is approximately $1,500 per capita. The increase during dur-ing the past two years has exceeded $149 per capita. As an aftermath of the recent melee me-lee which took place in the Dunbar club, a society of colored men of Tonopah, Nev., Dewitt Morris was bound over to the grand jury on a cbarge of assault with a deadly weapon, wea-pon, it being alleged that he shot his brother, Schuyler Morris, in the leg during the heat of excitement. Carson, Nevada, citizens have ef: fected a boost organization with the names of seventy-five leading men on the roll. Virginia City, Nev., experienced the first freezing weather of the season last week, the mercury dropping there to 18 above zero. Many water pipes in the city were frozen and il is reported that a number of reduc tion plants were put out of eommis' sion until the pipes could be thawed out. Laramie county, of which Cheyenne is the county seat, is still the wealth iest in the state of Wyoming, its as sessed valuation being $23, 403. 427. 31 In the past two years its taxjjl wealth has increased $948,951.83, |