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Show NORTHWEST NOTES I Colorado, Idaho, Montana and rtah 3 7(50 acres of land have been .vitlulrawu from all forms of entry jecause of prospective value for oower site purposes. The tax lew of Lander county, Nevada Ne-vada has been reduced by 24 cents thus far and a further reduction is expected. ex-pected. The assessed valuation has been raised to $4,500,000. Mrs Fox, wife of an Elko real estate es-tate man. was assaulted at her home near that place by a tramp who had -.topped at the house and asked for a drink or water. The tramp made his escape. That S to 10 per cent of the people from eastern states who have visited the west for the first time this year will return to the west to make their homes is the belief of J. Ross Clark, second vice president of the Salt Lake Route. A granite block weighing about 3,000 pounds has been procured by the committee of . arrangements for the Las Vegas Labor day drilling contest. con-test. The slab is five feet six inches in length and the cross section is 20x 24 inches. Reports given out at Salt Lake at the local agencies of the several transportation trans-portation companies doing business in the park, show that close to 25,000 tourists have entered the park this season through the western gateway ' at Yellowstone. Battle Mountain has joined the long list of progressive towns of Nevada by voting to issue $15,000 for the erection erec-tion of a high school building. A peculiar pe-culiar feature of the election is that out of the 105 votes cast there was not a single dissenter to the project. Colonel L. M. Brett, United States army, superintendent of Yellowstone park, has not, after a 30-day hunt for the bandits who held up and robbed five stage coaches near the Yellowstone Yellow-stone Montana entrance to the park, given up the hope of capturing the bandits. George Fronhofer, sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Peter Laux at Kennedy, in Humboldt county, coun-ty, Nevada, some time ago has been granted a new trial by the supreme court. Laux was shot from ambush and in his ante mortem statement named Fronhofer as his slayer. Two men were almost instantly killed when the west bound Overland Limited on the Union Pacific crashed into the Mill Creek stage at Millis crossing, about three miles east of Evanston. One of the men killed was William Carlson, a stage passenger. The other was the stage driver. The Greek who recently threw hi newly born hnhe froitt the yindow of a passenger coach while "tlie" tram was moving at a high rate of speed has been bound over to appear before the higher court of Elko county, Nevada, to answer to a charge of attempted murder. The babe is alive and well. From Carson City, Nevada, comef the report that an organized gang of auto thieves are operating in the valley val-ley section. Several of the residents of that region who have left their machines ma-chines standing in front of their residences resi-dences complain that they have mysteriously mys-teriously disappeared during the night Scarcity of men is a common complaint com-plaint among farmers throughout th Antelope, Mont., section. With one ol the biggest harvests in the history ol the country approaching, practically all the farmers are without sufficient help, and in many cases, it is said, the women will have to take to the fields. It is claimed that unless some devastating dev-astating disease or an exceptionally hard winter comes soon the ranchers in and about Eureka, Nevada, will have to abandon everything to the rabbits which have multiplied so rapidly rap-idly in the last few years that they are eating up practically all of the crops. Butte, Mont., has the distinction of being the first city to reply to the telegram tel-egram sent out by the Salt Lake Commercial Com-mercial club asking support of the cities and states west of the Mississippi Missis-sippi in the movement launched to , have the Panama-Pacili-c exposition and the Panama-California exposition kept open during 1916. Secretary Lane has just issued a statement announcing that during July there were restored to entry 120 acres of land in Montana and North Dakota previously withdrawn because be-cause believed to be underlain by coal deposits. About 470 acres in Wyoming, withdrawn because of their possible oil content, have also been ' restored to entry. Water was let in the spillway of the gigantic dam at the Big falls of the Missouri river, fourteen miles from Great Falls, Mont., on August 11. The dam cost $5,000,000 to construct, con-struct, and has been building nearly three years. The local officers are on a still hunt for a horsethief who succeeded in getting away with a valuable animal ani-mal belonging to a man named Gru-ver Gru-ver at Dayton, Nevada. As the result of a hav for t slipping from the stack in which it had been t lett and a prong piercing h,s eyeball. . James Cole was taken to Reno from Goose Lake to receive medical attention. at-tention. It Is possible the eyeball - maybe preserved, although he will lose the sight or the eye. " A landslide on the Denver & Rio Grande railroad about four miles south of Grand Junction. Colo., wrecked wreck-ed the special train of 11. F. Uush, prefude.it of the road. The engineer was fatally hurt, but none ot tha Dasseugers were Injured. |