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Show INLAND NORTHWEST ' l-.slimate.s of the potato crop in Nevada Ne-vada this year range close to 1,000,-OOO 1,000,-OOO bushels. Night school in Virginia City, Nov., will be organized September 20 in commercial, com-mercial, home economics anil regular academic courses. Conferences are to be resumed between be-tween opera torn anil minors on the proposal lo increase the pay scales of the -4.000 men employed in the ei.llcries of Molilalia. Work of grading the road between Minden and (ianlnerville. preparatory to building the new concrete highway is now under way and a large force of men are at work. The recent assessors' meeling in Carson City, New, brought out the fact that Japanese now own 4,'iaO acres of land in Nevada, the larger part being in Elko county. A co-operative store movement, sponsored by the railroad brotherhoods brother-hoods of the division, of whom there are sixteen different locals, is being launched in Missoula, Mont. About one-sixth of the 2000 sheep purchased at the ram sale held in Salt Lake under the auspices of the National Na-tional Woolgrowers' association were purchased by Nevada stockmen. Wisdom, Mont., one of the few frontier towns of the west remaining, was host to more than 2.000 people during the staging of their annual llarvot festival and wild west show last week. Actors, actresses, singers ami other talented Montanans are invited to compete com-pete in tlie Montana state fair vaudeville vaude-ville contest by the Helena Commercial Commer-cial club, in a special bulletin issued by the club. James F. Carter, who recently stale a horse, saddle, bridle and other riding rid-ing equipment from the Williams estate es-tate ranch at Alpine, Nov., has been sentenced to from one to fourteen years' imprisonment. With the idea of encouraging the planting of a large acreage to potatoes in Valley county next spring, a movement move-ment is under way in Glasgow. Mont., to bring about the erection of u potato po-tato warehouse there. Payette and Washington counties of Idaho, and Malheur county. Oregon, conducted a joint farm bureau excursion excur-sion for the study of livestock, paying visits to dairy and beef cattle herds and to sheep breeding farms. New launches, equipped with un-der-water exhausts, to still their engines, en-gines, have appeared among the boats used ou I'uget sound to smuggle liquor in from Canada, according to Donald McDonald, federal prohibition director for the state of Washington. Straight business with no banquets, dance-s motor rides or other amusements, amuse-ments, but all of the time devoted to bettering the businws makes the annual an-nual convention of the Launders' Association As-sociation of Montana, held at Butte last week, different from most conventions. con-ventions. Breeding of ewe lambs is inadvisable inadvis-able and the attempt usually results in partial failure, according to Ii. B. Millin. sheep specialist of the University Univer-sity of Idaho extension division. Not more than 30 per ecnt of such ewes get with lamb, and both ewe and lamb are stunted. A new world's champion Jersey cow has been developed in Oregon. This time It is Jean Marigold of St. Mawes, a registered Jersey cow on the farm of r.obert L. Burkbardt, Albany. Ore., that has just completed an official test of (160.25 pounds fat and over 12,000 pounds of milk. Suffering from a broken leg and from terrible cuts received when he was thrown in front of a mower when his team ran away, Knute Nomeland, 85. lay for twenty-four hours in a field on his ranch near Malta. Mont., until discovered by neighbors. He succumbed suc-cumbed to bis injuries three days later. The trial of eleven men prominent In northwest shipping circles who were indicted by a federal grand jury last January and March on charges of irregularities In accounts witli the government in connection with shipbuilding ship-building contracts with the shipping board during the war, will begin this week at Seattle. Notice has been served upon the governors of Nevada and Idaho that a new railroad line, to be known as the Idaho Central, will he constructed from Wells, New, to Iiogerson. Ida., connecting the Southern Pacific and Union Pacific lines. The new line will be built along the route via Contact, Nov.. covering a distance of ninety miles. Game is plentful throughout the state of Montana, except as to elk, which were slaughtered and died from severe winters, and grouse lost in those sections of the state, where I strychnine was used in gopher poison, I according to the state game and fish I warden. Cleveland Hunter, 10, liked watermelons water-melons fresh from the patch, without consent of the owner. Today he .3 in a hospital at Grand Junction, Colo., dangerously wounded by a charge ol bird shot from th' shotgun of B. B. Goddard, owner of a melon patch. With the favorable weather conditions condi-tions which are prevailing in the suirar beet sections of Utah and Idaho, this important money crop is progressing rapidly to the digging time and the manufacturers are completing their arrangements ar-rangements for the handling of a banner ban-ner product J |