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Show INLAND NORTHWEST The roundhouse and machine shop of the Nevada Copper Belt, rai.road at Mason, Nevada, were totally de-stroved de-stroved bv fire last week. For the first time in the history of the second judicial district ot Nevada a woman attorney appeared tad Reno courts last week, and to add interest in-terest to the innovation she won her CaBv a margin of IS votes the peo- pie of Churchill county in the recent r election voted to bond the county to the amount of $50,000 for the construe lion of a new high school at al.on, Nevada. A jurv at Waterville, Wash., brought in a verdict of first degree murder in the case of Walter lloldt. 19 years old, charged with the murder ot Mrs. Emma Em-ma J. Smith, an aged homesteader on Badger mountain. Official notification has reached Lovelock, Nevada, that the postoffice at Rye Patch has been discontinued, and that all mail for that camp in the future should be addressed to Ry Patch via Oceana. The convention of governors which was to have been held in Salt Lake and which was postponed on account of President Wilson calling troops to the Mexican border will be held at Washington, December 14 to Iti. The Union Pacific system will spend almost $5,000,000 in Improvements during dur-ing the coming year. The larger part of this money will be devoted to completing com-pleting the double track on the main line of the Union Pacific ill Wyoming. Wlille J. M. Knight, an undertaker, was seeking for what he believes was a false address in the outskirts of Spokane, where he had been summoned summon-ed to care for the body of a child, he was held up by two masked men and robbed.. Less than $20,000 was expended by tne two leading state organizations which conducted the campaign for prohibition pro-hibition in Montana to put the state in the dry ranks, according to campaign cam-paign expense reports filed with the secretary of state. Held at the point of a revolver by a woman who prevented him from encroaching en-croaching on her premises, G. E. Toy-rea Toy-rea was arrested at Salt Lake after he had failed in what is said to have been an attempt on his part to 'burglarize 'burg-larize the woman's home. 'More apples have been received in Salt Lake this year than ever before in the history of the city, according to the county horticultural inspector, who compiled a report last week showing show-ing that 141 cars have been shipped in for local consumption. A "defeated candidate's" celebration was held at Tonopah last week, The "also rans" marched and counter-! marched up and down Main street, headed by a band which inaugurated the solemn function by playing a funeral fun-eral dirge. Later the marchers were banqueted at a local cafe. Reports from Los Angeles are to the effect that Mrs. Gwendolyn Bon-giorno Bon-giorno of that city, a daughter of Sam Boston, mining man of Silver City, Nevada, committed suicide by taking poison upon the receipt of the news of the death of her husband in an automobile accident at Santa Monica. Mon-ica. Support by the supreme court of the United States of Colorado's irrigation law of 1881, limiting time for appeals from court decrees fixing water rights, is regarded with much interest by attorneys at-torneys and irrigation companies. The time limit was sustained in an opinion handed down .by the supreme court last week. A "booze fighter" was taken out of Goldfield and shot last week. Tb.3 boozer was a burro. He was addicted to the liquor habit and frequency walked through the swinging doers into Goldfield saloons, 'begged a drink of the bartender and helped himself to a meal from the free lunch counter before departing. One of the two men who located the famous Belmont mining claim, from which several fortunes have been lifted, is dead. Walter E. Hollis' lifeless life-less body was found in a pool of blood outside his cabin near Tonopah last week. There were no marks of violence vio-lence on the body, and it is inferred that death was due to hemorrhage. Since it became definitely known that Miss Jeanette Rankin has been elected to congress from Montana, speculation has been started in certain cer-tain quarters as to her eligibility to a seat, under the federal constitution. It is the best judgment of constitutional constitution-al lawyers that Miss Rankin will be seated when she -brings to Washing-on, Washing-on, at the proper time, her creden-tUls creden-tUls showing election by a majority of the voters of her state The aluminum Madison river power I.ne, which was installed sixteen years ago as an experiment, has been offi- min f JUKSed a failure 1 the alu- . m.num is being replaced with copper wire This power line of the Montana power company is about Mxt long, stretching from the, Madison river canyon to Butte. Madison Nick Rogers, a Manhattan Indian, has purchased an automobile in Tono-1 Tono-1 f,0gers c,ai the distinction of Nevf,, , St E "iS race in s"tl,om . Nevada to, pwn. an automobile. He so holds the'uitinctic: ..f being one t of the best fle shots in the stafe. vanevrraIWarren' ,he younS alley rancher, who met with a pain- fui experience in Reno, when an administrator ad-ministrator of first aid pour d a fet drops ot , ,nto hu ml). take to relieve the pain occasioned by a cinder, probably will retain - - MIt of one eye. |