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Show INLAND NORTHWEST Good roads from Lovelock to Wads, worth have practically been assured as the result of a recent inspection trip over the. worst parts of the roads by county officials. Pire supposed to have originated from a cigar dropped in a sawdust box in a pool hall, caused the destruction destruc-tion of live of the eight business 'buildings in TJkiah, Oregon. With the exception of the season of 1JU5, travel during the past season through tfie Yellowstone National park was larger than during any season sea-son for the past nineteen years. E. R. Sans, in charge of the campaign cam-paign against rabid coyotes in Nevada Ne-vada for the biological survey, states that the work may be abandoned during dur-ing the present month for lack of funds. According to the Elko Egents of the White Chemical Engine company, th6 fire engine ordered several months ago for Elko has passed the test of the fire underwriters and is on the road to Elko. Elwood Luce and Carl Schoegren., two Reno youths, were arrested a Santa Barbara, Cal., charged with the theft of a large Buick touring car. which they were driving. The boys confessed to the theft. In celebration of the completion of the new line from Ontario to crane, Ore., a feeder of the Oregon Short Line, the citizens of Ontario, Ore., promoted an excursion over the new line, a distance of 130 miles. A contract has been let by tne Rochester Ro-chester Mines company to the Lescher Wire Rope and Tramway company of St. Louis for the construction of an aerial tramway, two miles long to convey con-vey ore from the mines to tne mill. Arthur B. Wjinning is being held at Winnemucca, Nevada, under $750 bonds, accused of stealing a horse from the livery -stables of George D. Olson in Lovelock. Winning, it is stated, hired the horse but failed to re-. turn it. Irving N. Clark, in charge of the federal fed-eral campaign against coyotes in Lander and Eureka counties, Nevada, states that with a force of 18 men, 365 coyotes and bobcats were killed in August and 422 in September in the two counties. Joseph E. Robinson, head of the Mormon church in California, was in Las Vegas, Nevada, last week and looked over what is known as the Winterwood tract, with a view to starting a colony composed of Mor-mon.s Mor-mon.s driven out of Mexico. Bticken with appendicitis on the day she was to have been married to Walter Cummings, an employee o boiler shop at MGill, Nevada, Miss Hazel Cranney died at Preston, Idaho. The groom had just completed all arrangements ar-rangements for the wedding. Carl Reich, proprietor of a road house near Coaldale, Nevada, was badly injured while spotting railroad cars in the vicinity of his home. While trying to turn a brake wheel on top of a moving box car with an iron bar, the bar slipped, throwing him to the ground. At the Los Angeles Sulphur company's com-pany's property near Cuprite, Nevada, a fire has been burning in the mine for about u. week. The fire is not serious, ser-ious, but on account of the fumes employees em-ployees of the mine are not able to approach ap-proach nesr enough to get water on the smouldering sulphur. Reports from various parts of Nevada Ne-vada indicate thsf hay will be scarce this year, as the crop is below the average. Hay is a present selling at different sections of the state at from $12 to ?15 per ton in the stack. Practically Prac-tically all the hay in Star valley has been sold at these figures. Sheriff Ingalls of Esmeralda county, coun-ty, Nevada, arrested sighteen youths who celebrated Hallowe'en by attempting attempt-ing to demolish the school house and residences of Columbia. The boys had made a raid on Columbia, but were rounded up by the citizens, who telephoned to Goldiield for the sheriff. Since a letter was sent our early last summer by the Jarbidge Commercial Commer-cial club, telling of the loneliness of Jarbidge bachelors, over 1,000 letters have been received by members of the club from damsels who would cast their lot with the camp and 'become helpmates to the men of the community. commu-nity. Mrs. Eliza Jane Harmon, better known as "Grandma" Harmon, died in Fallon, Nevada, at the age of 80, following a paralytic stroke, aggre-vated aggre-vated by a recent accident in which she fell and broke her hip. Mrs. Har. mon was one of the pioneers of Churchill county, coming to Nevada in 1862. Reginald F. Travers of Elko niada out a check for $100 on the Henderson Hender-son bank and signed the name of Wlilliam Parker. A train was due to leave shortly, and when he told the teller he was in a hurry to catch if the money was paid him. But he did not take the train, and when he presented pre-sented another check the foUowinj morning lie was arrested. The night school system of teaching teach-ing foreigners English in Denver is meeting with much success. The operation op-eration of a smaller system in Salt Lake and mining communities in Utah and Wyoming also is reported to be successful. The prosecuting attorney's office at Seattle has refused to permit the rabbi rab-bi of an orthodox Jewish congregation in Seattle to import 62 gallons of brandy each 60 days for sacramental purposes, holding that the amount asked for was far In excess of actual needs. |