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Show INLAND NORTHWEST Final arrangements for the tenth annual an-nual convention of the International Association of liotary Clubs, to be held in Salt Lake, June 10 to -0, have been completed. Slight damage was done to the roadbed road-bed of the Southern Pacific near Lovelocks, Love-locks, New, a few days ago by the bursting of a dam of a reservoir in Ihe nioiuiiains. The memory of the hue Colonel Koosevelt will be perpetuated in Yellowstone Yel-lowstone National park by having the region in the vicinity of Tower Falls camp named for him. Tlie total money spent in construction construc-tion and maintenance of public roads and bridges in Wyoming the past year was !fS02.57S.:!T, or an average of $'.iS,-1 $'.iS,-1 18.02 for each county. The Keinmerer, Wyo., chamber of commerce has decided in favor of holding hold-ing a two-day Fourth of July celebration. celebra-tion. Unusual interest in this event is being shown by everyone. Arid lands which have been allotted to Indians, and which are irrigable but not irrigated may be leased for a term not exceeding 10 years, under the provisions pro-visions of a bill introduced by Senator inooi ol Li.ui. Two ministers were among the enemy aliens released last week from the Fort Douglas war prison camp. The men were Paul Hempel, arrested in South Dakota, and William G. Krau-terdis, Krau-terdis, of Nebraska. Two men were killed by an explosion explo-sion at the Dietz No. 8 coal mine of the Sheridan Coal company, five miles liorth of Sheridan, Wyo. Seven men were in the mine when the explosion occurred, but five escaped. Senator Walsh of Montana has reintroduced re-introduced his bill of last congress granting additional rights to settlers on government reclamation projects. This bill is designed primarily to allow settlers to enter additional lands. The ladies of Diamondville, Wyo., entertained one night last week in honor of the returned soldiers. The event consisted mainly of dancing and interesting and thrilling accounts of the experiences of the returned heroes. The protracted season of drouth has practically put the dry farmers of the Sheridan, Wyo.. section out of the running run-ning for this year. Their crops for the most part are a total failure. Already Al-ready the open range is almost depleted deplet-ed of forage. Extensive preparations are being made for the annual encampment of the United Spanish War Veterans to be held at Deer Lodge, Mont., June 12 to 14, The place and dates coincide coin-cide with those of the meeting of the Grand Army of the Republic. The remains of Mack McCos, an old-time old-time well driller, who was killed in an explosion of nitroglycerin at Casper, Cas-per, Wyo., were buried in the Billings cemetery last week. The remains, less than a bucketfull of bone and flesh, were incased in a baby casket. "Undeveloped resources of the Big Horn basin and the northern part of Wyoming hold greater prospective oil possibilities than the untested structures struc-tures in any other part of the state," declares Frank B. Taylor, a local oil scout, after a tour of the section mentioned. men-tioned. Azaboria, or blackleg disease, may be entirely eliminated among horses, according to Dr. J. It. Ward, a veterinarian veter-inarian of Sheridan, Wyo., if the following fol-lowing instructions are carried into effect : During the absence from work, turn the animals out for exercise, always al-ways bearing in mind to curtail the food, and especially grain. In answer to a protest by the Montana Mon-tana Merchants' association, with headquarters in Great Falls, over a raise in the telephone rates, the Mon tana public utilities commission has informed that body that it has declined de-clined to act in the matter until such time as the United States supreme court hands down a decision on the subject, which is at present pending in the court. Jim Speros, Greek, was found not guilty of murder in the district court at Kemmerer, Wyo., after a fiercely-fought fiercely-fought legal battle. The case grew out of a row in the coal mining district, dis-trict, ending in a shooting in a pool hall, in which James Gravilos, also a Greek, was killed. Horsedrawn fire apparatus will make its last parade in Portland in connection with the forthcoming Hose festival, it is announced by the fire bureau. Completion of the process of motorizing the entire department equipment is at hand. Most of the horses have already been sold, and the few remaining will be disposed of soon. Enclosing an iron cross which he stated he received from a German soldier sol-dier in exchange for a sack of tobacco, A. M. Dawley of the 30Sth field signal battalion, who lives at Dietrich. Idaho, has written to A. V. Peterson, director of the Oregon Short Line war service club suggesting that the trophy be ad-i ad-i ded to the souvenir collection main- taiued by the club. |