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Show NQRTHWESI NOTES A report compiled by the harbor master shows that Seattle's export trade to Vladivostok in 1915 was ?9,-312.S53, ?9,-312.S53, compared with $152,231 in 1914. The police at Spokane seized 50 bottles of beer, ten gallons of whiskey, a large amount of Chinese drinks and ten cans of opium in a raid on a Chinese Chi-nese lodging house. Theodore Engelskien, 14 years old, was killed and six other children were injured when a bobsled upon which they were coasting crashed into an automobile at Seattle. Two hundred and twenty-five chib dren. believing they were practicing fire drill, calmly marched to safetv from the schoolhouse at Ronald, Washington, while the building burned. The electors of Battle Mountain, Nevada; Ne-vada; recently assembled and voted unanimously on a proposal to bond the school district for $20,000 in order that a new school building may . be erected there. Seizure of liquor held in amounts in excess of two quarts of spirituous and-twelve and-twelve quarts of malt liquors permitted permit-ted by the state prohibition law has been extended to raids on private residences res-idences in Seattle. The business of farming will be discussed dis-cussed at the Utah Agricultural college col-lege in Logan, Utah, by 1,000 or more of the most prominent agriculturists of the state for two weeKS, January 24 to February 7. An unusually heavy snowfall took place at Ely, Nev., last week. About twenty-four inches of snow fell, and this exceeds all records since the establishment es-tablishment of an official weather bureau bu-reau in this section. George J. Dritchas has been held by Justice W. H. Edwards to answer in the district court to the charge of killing Louis Liaskcs in the boarding house conducted by Dritchas and others oth-ers at Ely, Nevada. Two miners were killed and the surface sur-face plant of the Gordon-Tiger mine at Twin Lakes, Colo., was destroyed by a snow-slide which tumbled six thousand feet down Mount Elbert. All the mine building were swept away. A convention will be held March 23 at Pocatello, Idaho, to considbr ways of improving the highways from Salt Lake to Yellowstone park if a suggestion sugges-tion made by the Salt Lake Commercial Commer-cial club is adopted by the Idaho city. Katherine Kelly, aged 10, and Gladys Edgerly, aged 9, were probably fatally fatal-ly injured at Seattle when they were thrown from their sled after coasting down a steep hill and crashed into a concrete wall. Both suffered fractures frac-tures of the skull. Forty-nine informations filed in the district court resulted in the arrest charges following raids by Sheriff of thirteen Butte men on gambling Charles Henderson and a force of twenty-five deputies on alleged book-making book-making establishments. Bert and George Simpson, brothers, are in jail at Red Lodge, Mont., in connection with the murder of Charles Steiner, the bachelor rancher whose frozen body was found a week previous pre-vious near his cabin twenty miles southeast of Red Lodge. It is reported that thousands of quail, rabbits and other small animals ani-mals have been found frozen to jeath in the Carson, Nevada, district, and that the severity of the winter will bring about a general scarcity of small game next season. Gillis, Nevada, which has the reputation reputa-tion of being one of the dryest communities com-munities in the state, received one foot of snow in the recent storm. This is an unusual event as, for thirty years, not more than four inches has been seen on the ground at one time. The citizens of Carson, Nevada, have recently given much thought to the establishment of a creamery at the capital city. The businessmen's association asso-ciation has recently taken the matter mat-ter under consideration and action on the project is expected in the near future. The board of county comm.jioners has passed a resolution requiring that all dogs permiited at large within the county and outside the corporate limits lim-its of the city of Ely, Nevada, b muzzled, and directing the peace officers offi-cers to destroy all such dogs found without muzzles on or after February Febru-ary 7. The charred remains of W. Maynard were found in a hunter's cabin four miles from. Carlin, Nevada. Officers who were summoned to the scene believe be-lieve that the report that the man had been murdered and the cabin burned to cover up the crime is unfounded and that he came to his death while in a drunken stupor. The first Democratic candidates for United States senator and representative representa-tive in the Wyoming election this year who have been suggested are Governor John B. Kendrick for the senate and former Governor Joseph M. Carey for the house. They have been put forward, by the Laramie Boomerang, Boome-rang, a Democratic paper close to the sinte administration. A few mornings ago an unusual sight greeted L. L. Tower of Carson City when he arose and looked out in his yard. His attention was attracted at-tracted by a fine, big specimen of a buck deer standing in his yard. He state that the animU's antlers had a ?rread of about three feet. Frank E. Allen, a farmer living- at Ten Mile. 'Wash., was killed and his two sons. Harley and Roy, were injured in-jured by dynamite which was being thawed out in a root house. The ex plosion set fire to the root house anC ome otlic-r ou:-buildings. |