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Show fiORTHWESODTES Wheat at 11.65 per bushel was realized real-ized on the Portland exchange last week when 10,000 bushels of May Hluestem sold at that price. This was, a Jump of 4 cents over the record eB lablished several days previous. Word has been received from Senator Sena-tor Miles Polndexter that the war department de-partment has granted the use of the abandoned barracks at Fort Walla Walla for the use of the Sisters of St. Mary's hospital, which burned last Agitation in Portland a:;ainst the f,-cent fare auto bus bore fruit in Salem last week, when a bill was Introduced In-troduced in the senate to place all autobussea under control of the stale railroad commission, in common with trolley cars. As the result of a conference between be-tween government forestry men and Wyoming state authorities in Cheyenne, Chey-enne, it Is probable that immediate steps' will be taken to throw open part pf the Wyoming elk preserve to the .grazing of cattle. For the second time during the ses-Bion, ses-Bion, the lower house of the Oregon legislature last week defeated the bill of Representative J. E. Anderson to repeal a law on the statute books making a health certificate for males applying for a marriage license. One million dollars will be saved to the state of Oregon If the plan advanced ad-vanced by Senator Bingam and approved ap-proved by the senate committee on consolidation Is carried into effect. He .would have a dozen departments do itlie work that now Is done by ovur fifty. Preston G. Thomas of Plain City, Utah, has just been appointed an agricultural agri-cultural agent in South Dakota, and will have charge of Butte county with his headquarters at Bellefourche. Mr. Thomas was graduated from the Utah agricultural college in the spring of 1914. In an address on William McKinley before the Bonneville club at Salt Lake, former Vice-President Charles W. Fairbanks said there is no sub-lime-r spectacle in the nation's his tory than MicKinley's efforts to prevent pre-vent the war with Spain and contrasted contrast-ed MaKinley with the present rulers Df Europe. It required two special trains in addition ad-dition to three regular passenger trains to carry the people who left Bait Lake on January 30 for Los An-igeles An-igeles on the Salt Lake Route on the annual midwinter excursion. Each of the special trains carried 175 passen-igers, passen-igers, and a total of 550 persons took advantage of the excursion rates. An aggregate saving of $29,000 in the operation of six of the principal state departments In the next two years un-jder un-jder the biennlum just ended, and a waving of nearly $50,000 in the same departments under the 1911-13 blen-;nium blen-;nium are provided in appropriation lillls Introduced in the Oregon legislature legisla-ture by the joint ways and means committee com-mittee of the house and senate. mms-Governor Lister sent pardons to fifty convicts In the state honor camp at Stevenson, Skamania county, Wash., last week, when the camp was closed. (One member of tho camp was not pardoned. par-doned. He is a long termer and will be returned to the penitentiary. The mien were paid 50 cents a day for their work, and some of the men have as much as $100 to their credit. Laud owners in the East Truckee JVEeadows met at Reno last week and talked over plans for organizing a drainage district for the purpose of lioing the work necessary to drain about S.000 acres of land that is now made practically useless by the backwater back-water from the river caused by rock reefs that interfere with the free flow of the river in that section. One of the unique exhibits from Nevada at the San Francisco exposition exposi-tion will be a metal tree prepared through the genius of John W. Loder, pf the Loder model smelter, near Reno. Mr. Loder dug up a sage brush about two feet high, and coated its body, branches and leaves with matt from the smelter, the matte containing contain-ing copper, silver, lead and gold. Expert evidence that the hair found In the hands of Mrs. Daisy Wehrman, who, with her little child, was mysteriously mys-teriously slain in her home near Scap-poose Scap-poose in September, 1911, was not from the head of John Pender, convicted con-victed of the -crime and saved from the gallows by the passage of the amendment abolishing capital punishment, pun-ishment, has been presented to Governor Gov-ernor Withycombe. Governor Alexander, in speaking before be-fore the Idaho State Horticultural as-o:iation as-o:iation which was herd in Boise from January 11th to the 15th, laid emphasis upon the need of advertising. advertis-ing. He said that the growers have neglected the most essential thing in failing to advertise their wares and that they should be continually agitating agi-tating to get apples consumed in place of bananas, grape fruit and oranges. or-anges. A bill to make electrocution the only legal method of execution has been introduced In the' Utah legislature. The bill also provides that the public hall not know the day of execution in advance. Condemned persons In Utah et present have the choice of death py hanging or shooting. Eight dollars per head Is being offered of-fered for ewes at Carson, Nevada, and the sheep men are the happiest men In the state. ' The war Is the cause of the high price and it Is expected the ten-dollar price will be reached before many moons. Karl Lunsford, arrested with John Is'atil, restaurant proprietor, charged with arson in setting tlie fire that caused the destruction or half a block in the business section of Baker, Ore., has admitted tho latter had offe.-ed him hair or the insurance of $300 for starting the -lire. Miss Klla Wang, aged 19, and NelB . Tlgen. at;ed 2'!, a farmer, were drowned drown-ed while skating on Clarke's lake, near Kent, Wash. They broke through tho Ice in the presence of a large number of other skaters, who were unable to all thorn. |