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Show INLAND NORTHWEST Forty-three thousand, five hundred deer are ranging the forests of Uncle Sam in Montana, this being substantially substan-tially the same figure reported last year. Twenty-four government farms on the Newkmds project in Nevada, ranging rang-ing in size from -0 to lHj acres of irrigable land, will be opened to entry February 2G. j Mrs. Melvina Clark was killed at Salt Lake when an automobile in which she was riding to a cemetery to attend her daughter's burial was run down by another milchiue. Test is to lie made of the Nevada sheep law, passed at the hist sosmoii of the legislature, which requires the dipping of sheep within ten days after Uieir arrival in the state. Contractors on highway construction construc-tion work in Montana will attend in large numbers a general meeting with officials of the state highway commission commis-sion to be held in Helena, March 1. Total receipts from automobile licenses li-censes in Montana for 191!) are ?S(38,-127.33 ?S(38,-127.33 net. Of this amount 25 per cent or $02,031.83 will be appropriated to the various counties of the state. Convictions ou charges of permitting permit-ting gambling games in their cigar store in which cigars were the slakes, is upheld by Justice Murly, in a decision deci-sion of the supreme court of Montana. Mon-tana. Col. L. G. Cannon, for the past thirteen thir-teen years vice-president and general manager of the Nevada Northern railway, rail-way, and one of the oldest and best known railroad men in the west, died at Ely, Nevada. The entire estate left by the late Francis G. Newlands, former United States' senator from Nevada, is subject sub-ject to the state inheritance tax, according ac-cording to an opinion filed in the district dis-trict court at Reno. The first informations brought in Montana, charging violation of the federal fed-eral prohibition law, were filed last week against John Kui'kland and Hugh McGuire of Butte, each said to be operating op-erating a driuk parlor. According to an annual live stock report just issued by the state field agent, the total value of all live stock ou Idaho farms and ranges has depreciated de-preciated from $100,140,000 In January, 1919, to $93,357,900 in January, 1920. The lack of snow at the head of the Carson aud Walker rivers is causing considerable anxiety among Nevada ranchers and farmers residing in the districts which depend on the water of the two rivers for irrigation purposes. pur-poses. . In the past ten days, Pave Rose has caught nine beaver near Winne-mucca, Winne-mucca, Nevada. His trapping territory is confined to the O'Donnell ranch on the river below town, and he is averaging aver-aging 11 beaver a day, a very profitable business. Commissioners of Valley county, Montana, have just passed a resolution resolu-tion providing for tile submission to the voters at the time of the primary election, April 23, of the question ot issuance of .highway bonds in the sum - of $200,000. Itesurveys of lands, whether the title has passed wholly or in part from the federal government, in townships where fraudulent surveys have caused great confusion for years, will be made on a big scale in Montana during the summer of 1920. The state road commission of Utah has decided on the policy of shutting down on all construction work not now contracted for or uiiiMr way until either costs uf operation are reduced, or state road bonds are legally marketable, mar-ketable, or both. Following the passage of the $200,-000 $200,-000 seed grain bonds, the county -commissioners in session at Roundup, Mont., contracted for lfi.OOO bushels of Marquis wheat at $3.80 per bushel, 15,-000 15,-000 bushels of durum or macaroni wheat at $3.30 and 40,000 bushels of oats at $1.00. The Nevada insurance law passed by the 1919 legislature requiring the filing of special specific and tariff rates by fire insurance companies wilh the state controller, who is ex-ol'licio insurance in-surance commissioner, and prohibiting deviation from those rates, has been declared constitutional. Tim Til 1 ermoll 11 ! 11 ill A 11 lolliot i vti rienl- ers' association was organized at a meeting of delegates from Utah, Idaho, Wyoming and Nevada held at Sail Lake. The organization will be composed com-posed of automobile dealers, 11 nil lis purpose is to affiliate with the National Na-tional Automobile Dealers' association as soon as permanent officers are elected. The president has issued an executive execu-tive order that all the lands included within the boundaries of the Sioux national na-tional forests, Moinana and South Dakota, Da-kota, as fixed and defined by the proclamation proc-lamation of September 3. 1919. be transferred to the Custer national forest for-est of Montana and that horeafler it shall be administered ns a part of ilie Custer national forest. Irrigation and good roads were subjects sub-jects which consumed considerable time In the annual convention of the Montana Association of Coiiinicrcv Club Secretaries, which met at Great Falls. Mont.. February 10 and continued contin-ued for two days. License fees paid to the defunct Montana trade commission which were received when the eoniiiiNion wus under a temporary reslrainiu.; order by Federal Judge Bourquiii. w ill be returned re-turned to be merchants under a ruling made In the opinion of the attorney j general. |