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Show ! INLAND NORTHWEST Tii.f S;.ani.ii wnr -i-L..-:ans wiil hold 111 oln alnldiioiu at Gnat Killl.S, iloli!., : .May ai.d 7. 'l'he nost of the Nevada slate iirisou for tlie ;!.- imiirii v.as s.".V'. a'-'eurd- J iU t till.' i;.-t of i-ii.ilMS lili-d. Thf aora'i. niiioitii: u: p-mirrrt of I cn.'h of XcMi'la's t". i lil v-;!iri'e batiks I l- niola- ihnii a inililoii iioi!al'. j I'laua for hoMiii- Uu- rndi-n at Keiiu, NfV., Lhis year are In-in mad'1, the j daii-s ln-ijj lt aiiiiuiinei-d as July 1 to j. i ri:- liii-iiit-ii at Siokane are aariir khaki i.ii: !',!. Unit cost Ss. instoad of j tin rt--iilatitni hint' iiiiil'onn which costs ! Nilit-ly-ln o .l-i-tini-rs ut'fe roiihiii-d j in tlie slate iil'isun at Carsull, Neat.la, j April I. The daily average during the I month was i'2. j The land ou nci s oti the Newlatnls iroji'i't.- at Fallon, N't'vatla, have ait-Iiniveil ait-Iiniveil a (I ruinate Ix.nil issue of sTihi.-MX) sTihi.-MX) by a vole of 4 1 1 to 87. (iardnerville anil Miii'Ii'ii, Nevada, i residents, are ctnniilaiiiing bitterly i ajxainst the present iiassenger service between iliiiilen, Carson and lieno. 1 'The state grazing tax lias been levied ! against 2iKiu head of sheep .shipped from I'tah, because of lack of feed, into the Keil House section in Nevada. Ne-vada. Members of the Lincoln Highway as-Miciation as-Miciation of Nevada are charging that the Until members are not keepinl, their agreement regarding their share of work on the Lincoln highway. I Sheep shearers in Nevada this year ' are to receive seventeen cents per ! head, which will mean that a good shearer will average about $17 per day fn addition to his room and board. ! The report of the rangers on the ' Humboldt forest in Nevada, is to the ; effect that from all indications the deer on the forest wintered in line shape, and are fat and in good condition. condi-tion. Two school teachers, Jliss Cora Crosby, Bellingham and Miss Thomson, Thom-son, Everett, have been named to serve ; this summer at a lone fire lookout sta-i sta-i lion on Sourdough mountain, north of : Bellingham. Wash. j Elmer Kinney of Maple Falls, Wash., a school boy. was electrocuted on a pole of a power line. The boy had climbed the pole in a spirit of play. His body was balanced on the cross 1 arm for an hour before it was released by linemen. In order to combat the high cost of wearing apparel, ninny of the leading lead-ing business men of Roseburg, Ore., I have signed an agreement pledging themselves to wear blue overalls and 1 soft shirts until such time as the price )f clothing is reduced. ' There has been some big money n heaver trapping for Elko. New, men .his year. As quickly as the open season sea-son on these river fellows was declared, de-clared, local trappers began work and J catches of from one to ten tine furs 1 a day have been reported recently. ! Officials of the Southern racific have applied to the interstate commerce 1 commission for permission to reduce the present freight rates charged on ; shipments of canned goods, such as i condensed milk, from Modesto, Cal., to j Reno, Winnemucca and Elko in Ne-j Ne-j veda. Governor Pavis of Idaho, in a recent jddress- at Tocatello, declared that he favors a western man for president. The west, he said, would never get its just deserts in the matter of reclamations, reclama-tions, roads and waterways until a western man was at the head of the government. A reported sale of whisky which changed hands for n sum in excess of $33,000 is rumored at Elko, Nevada. It Is alleged that a western state association associa-tion of men went to Elko and sold 30 barrels of whisky, which was stored In cellars, to bootleggers who are said to be Basques. The attorney-general of Nevada has given an opinion to the effect that district dis-trict attorneys cannot be compelled to pass upon the form and sufficiency of the bonds required by the public service serv-ice commission in the case of persons licensed to carry on automobile common com-mon carrier business. Many state banks in various parts of Montana are taking steps to Join the national reserve bank system and to do so are increasing the capitalization capitaliza-tion from $-20,000 to S2o,X0, the minimum min-imum capitalization required by the federal system. I Word comes from Jackson Hole. Wvpminc that the long continued storms, which have extended far beyond be-yond the calculations of tlie ranchers, have created a critical situation among stockmen in that section, there I being a shortage of feed. ! In order to prove that "ship by truck" is a real possibility and can be aeeomp'lished in the inter-mountain country, a special train of thirty heav-j heav-j ily loaded trucks will leave Salt Lake i City on May 17, for Boise, Idaho, via : Idaho Falls, a trip of T.23 miles. I During tlie trapping season in Ne-' Ne-' vnda for the year just closed. 14$ permits per-mits were issued for shipment of pells : from the state, the total number of pelts shipped being 1"'7:',. The beaver was the animal most sought by the trappers. !'2S pelts hcirg Snipped. Covei tior Carey of Wyom'r.'-i has as-.-ured Coventor Pavis of Idaho t!:at ihe state of Wyoming will nor .b.'-et I ;,i ;bo proposed divers:"!, of Fail riv. r '; waters across part of Ycl!ov-one i : av'. for the purpose of irr'. r.'irig j ! ia'.w land of the Us 11 Hive. -!oa-iev.'s r.c.-ervo:r c-'iapa t |