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Show NORTHWESL NOTES Harry McMitchell and Irviu Johnny, two Indian boys wanted at ihe Stew-vrt Stew-vrt Institute at Carson City, Nevada, were picked up by the police in Reno. Several Reno dairies are charged with very low scores in the November :ests for butler fat and bacterial content con-tent made by the city milk inspector. A huge Christmas tree placed in Monument Valley park, bearing trays 3f edibles for the birds, was one of ;he features of Christmas in Colorado Springs. The placer workings of the Battle Mountain (Nevada) mining company from April 1 to September 30, 1915, inclusive, in-clusive, yielded nearly two dollars to the yard. At a meeting of the state board of pardons at Carson, Nevada, R, A. Canavan, sereving a sentence of from twelve to seventeen years for robbery committed in Humboldt county, was paroled. Mrs. Rafalli Puchetti of Floriston, Cal., who was shot in the back December De-cember 8th by Giavanni Margaroli and who was taken to Reno for medical attention at-tention is reported to be getting along very nicely. The case of Walter Rime against the Steptoe Valley smelters has been settled out of court and the court at Carson, Nevada, has entered a formal judgment in favor of the plaintiff for the sum oi $4,000. Boy Scouts and Campfire Girls cs.r ried Christmas cheer to 400 families in Denver, distributing well filled bas kets to the poor. Fraternal and char I (table organizations, in addition, saw that other poor were cared for. A detail of United States army re cruits, 115 in number, passed througl Salt Lake last week on their way fron Jefferson Barracks, Mo., to San Fran Cisco, whence they will be sent to th Philippine and Hawaiian Islands. Public gatherings in celebration o Christmas were more general through out Oregon this season than ever be fore. At a number of towns out-oi door Christmas trees were given to children, and at many others exercise were held in halls. Sheep from Utah and Idaho are b ing kept clear of Nevada grazin ) grounds this year, according to SaJ Lake sheepmen. Whereas last winte fully 150,000 sheep went into Nevad from these two states, this year les than 35,000 will go over the border. Governor Boyle and Dr. Mullen ( the Nevada state board of health, coi ( ferred with the governors of Oregoi Idaho and California the first of la: v;eek in an effort to devise son - 'ans of preventing the rabies, whic MI been increasingof.Jate Q a Jj a.armriig extent. . If Mayor Emerick touched the buttc jj which launched the first municip, ? Christmas celebration at Medfor Ore., and a few minutes later tv, thousand children of the city wei s dancing about an outdoor Christm tree ablaze with light and receivin 18 presents. At Cooper Canyon, Nevada, J. Hoo: er is alleged to have stabbed A. 1 Borcherding. The trouble is said 1 I have started over a remark that Borcl 3 erding made to the effect that the me who aided Peter Mowert to escap from the Battle Mountain jail shoul be sent to the penitentiary. lt On account of umbrage taken e mandatory orders of Chief "Cooney lt the young braves have refused t a respond to his call to join in th d annual rabbit hunt in Eagle Valle: d Nevada, and the farming district i y that section is threatened to be ove i. run with the bunnies this year. 0 David Harkey was arrested at El s Nev., on the charge of placing a w y man in a house of ill repute. Id l- Johnson complained to the sheri e that Harkey, after furnishing he ;- with money to come from Butt( I, Mont., to Ely, placed her in a housi t where she remained for about on t week. ' e The rules to govern the northwes !1 dairy products show to be held a 1 Spokane, Wash., Feburary 24, 25 an 1 26, 1916, at which many northwester dairymen will be prominently repn r sented, have been announced. Th 8 object of the show is to improve th quality and uniformity of dairy pre ducts in this territory. The directors of the Oregon-Utah Si gar company in session at Salt Lak telegraphed their acceptance of fiv thousand acres of Ueet land subscrft ed by the farmers of the Rogue va ley, in Oregon, and announced tha immediately after the holidays a cor tract would be let to build a suga beet factory in the Rouge river va f ley. After warrants were issued at Olyrr pia. Wash., charging J. F. Gillies 1 claim agent, Frank W. Stone an Eugene W. Kearns. a local saloonmar ' with grand larceny in connection wit the passing of a false claim for $1,31 ' on the state industrial insurance de ' partment, Governor Ernest Lister ol fered a reward of $300 for the arres of Stone. Daniel Edwards, who has beei j touring the state of Nevada for th past several months buying up horse for the French government, report that there is a considerable slump ii , the market just at the present timi owing to the congestion of frelgh ' traffic. ' A typewriter agent named Pagi who had been soliciting in Tonopal ' is alleged to have left that t.ov.i without settling with his landlady fo ihr: food he eonsuirisd during his sta; tlx rr. H;s :i'ip was intercepted by ai u:fi::-r an. he was forced to settle. |