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Show "HS BOTES The Oregon supreme court has pro nounced valid an election held last fall to create Jefferson county from a portion or Crook county, aitirmins the state circuit court A highwayman, single-handed, held up the electric train on Portland Railway. Rail-way. Light & Power company's inter urban line, at Canemah, Ore., and ob tained $43 from two conductors. Nine hundred coyote pelts were submitted to the Lincoln county (Wyoming) (Wyo-ming) Woolgrowers' association, at its recent meeting, for the bounty of $2.30 apiece, offered by the association. President Wilson has signed the New-lands bill, which quiets title to lands owned by private parties along the right-of-way of the Central Pacific, in Winneniucca, Ijovelock and Elko. Sufficient ties were cut from the Wasatch forest from July to January to amount at 8 cents apiece stumpage to $24,000, more than is required to administer the entire forest for twelve months. W. L. Kuykendall, 80, a Wyoming pioneer and former grand sire of Odd Fellows of the United Stales, died at the honie of his son, H. L. Kuykendall of Denver. Mr. Kuykendall's home was at Cheyenne, Wyo. The resignation of Colonel B. K. Lawson, superintendent of the Oregon Ore-gon state penitentiary, was accepted at a meeting of the state board last week and Harry P. Minto of Salem was appointed to succeed him. Frank Foreste has been convicted of assaulting Francois Casagus with a razor at a dance held in Sparks. New, January 17. He is 21 years old, and the trouble was said to have been caused by too free use of liquor. Testimony that an "arson syndicate" syndi-cate" has existed in the Pacific north, west for the last two years was brought out in the superior court at Seattle in the trial of B. Rosenthal, a tailor, charged with arson in the second sec-ond degree. Sand grass, white sage, button (or apple) sage, and salt sage, or shad scale, are the principal forage plants of Nevada desert winter ranges. The past winter has been favorable for desert ranging, there having been adequate, ade-quate, but not too much snow. The forest service has just completed com-pleted an estimate of the timber of the Teton forest, adjoining the Yellow-stone park on the south, and finds that it contains sufficient spruce, fir, and pine timber suitable for wood pulp to supply a mill of 130-ton a day capacity. Governor Kendrick of W7yoming vetoed ve-toed the bill passed by the house and senate permitting boxing bouts and sparring exhibits. In explaining his action Governor Kendrick said such a law would injure the reputation ot the state and the experience of other states with boxing justified his action. The governor of Oregon has accepted ac-cepted an invitation to participate in the celebrations commemorating the completion of the Celilo canal, which will be held at Lewiston, Idaho, Pasco, "Wash., and Kennewick, Wash. These towns are planning elaborate ceremonies ceremo-nies in honor of the opening of the Columbia river. The first step toward establishing the flax growing industry in the Willamette Wil-lamette valley to furnish material for the proposed flax retting plant at the Oregon state penitentiary, was taken last week by the state board of control, con-trol, when it ordered the purchase of 600 bushels of flax seed in Wisconsin at $2.50 per bushel. The Wyoming supreme court has granted a new trial to Robert Mel-drum, Mel-drum, the famous "gunman marshal" of Cripple Creek, Colo., .and Baggs, Wyo., who was convicted of murder in the second degree for killing Chick Bowen of Slater, Colo., at Baggs three years ago. Meldrum was sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment. The Black law form of government was rejected by the citizens of Idaho Falls, Idaho, at a special election held last week, by a vote of 651 votes against the adoption of the proposition, proposi-tion, with 281 votes in favor of it. Advocates Ad-vocates of the Black law worked hard, but were unable to convince the people peo-ple that the city would prosper under its provisions. Alleging that the Malheur Home Telephone company had violated its guaranteed agreement with its patrons, pa-trons, and also violated the state law requiring public service corporations to notify the state railroad commission of any raise of rates, complaint was lodged with the railroad commission, and the case will be heard at Ontario, Ore., March 13. Governor Kendrick, by signing the game and fish act passed by the recent re-cent W:yoming legislature, has made it unnecessary for big game hunters who desire to bag a moose to go to the wilds of Canada. The new law qualifies the closed season on Wyoming Wyo-ming moose, which has been in effect for several years, by providing that fifty moose may be killed in this state each year. The governor of Oregon and his wife were guests of honor at a celebration cele-bration ield at Portland in honor of the completion of prohibition legislation legisla-tion in Oregon. The Women's Christian Chris-tian Temperance union arranged the program and several hundred people from all sections of the state were present. Harry .M. Beck, for two years a railway postal clerk, was arrested at Portland and confessed to the theft f several hundred dollars from the mails during the last five months. He has been in the service two years. Curiosity inspired Wymer Nutt, Robert Rob-ert Thorpe and John Washburn, young runaway boys from Denver, to pull up wiree which they observed attached to l ie Union Pacific main line rails seven miles east of Cheyenne, and as a result re-sult all trains were blocked for two hours. Arthur R Parsons, who died last week at Las Vegas, Xev., was one of the best known cyanide metallurgists in the west, and had been superintendent superintend-ent of Tonopah Mining company's milling operations at Touopah, Nev., since the construction of that planL |