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Show INLAND NORTHWEST Hay in the stack in the Lamoille valley, Nevada, is bringing from $1S to S2o per ton. The Montana Slate Council of Carpenters Car-penters is to be held at Lewistown, February 2 to 4. Pronounced a victim of wood alcohol, alco-hol, William (Juinn died in the railroad rail-road hospital at Las Vegas, Nevada. John L. Considine, a former Nevada newspaper man, lias been appointed director di-rector of prohibition, for southern California. Cali-fornia. Battle Mountain, Nevada, is to have a new bank, organization was perfected per-fected recently, the capitalization being be-ing placed at $25,000. The Nye county, Nevada, grand jury has returned indictments against Mickey Sullivan and Mike Moriarity on charges of syndicalism. It is expected that the Nevada legislature leg-islature will lie called into session on February 7 for one day to consider ratification of the federal suffrage amendment. The per capita cost of running the stute government of Nevada was $10.47 in 1919 as compared with $9.09 in 1918, according to the annual report of the state controller. Efforts to stage a fire prevention campaign of state-wide scope in an effort to cut down fire losses in Montana Mon-tana are being made by George 1'. Porter, state auditor. A four-year-old girl died at Elko, Nevada, as the result of swallowing chewing gum. Instead of chewijig gum and discarding it, she chewed it and swallowed it like candy. Yoluteer census takers, operating under the Commercial club, found in a few hours in only a portion of Helena, 306 persons whom the federal census workers are said to have missed. The alien report of the Anaconda Copper Mining company, received by the board, shows the company has in its employ 16G8 aliens, of which 946 have taken out first papers to become citizens. John G. Gardiner, an electrical operator, oper-ator, was electrocuted at Primrose, a Milwaukee railroad power sub-station, a few miles west of Missoula. His body was found about an hour after the accident. Candled eggs will be the rule in Montana if the state board of health at its next meeting adopts the tentative tenta-tive regulations compiled by H. M. Shea, director of the department of food and drugs for the board. The state of Nevada lias a per capita valuation of approximately $2000 and a surplus per capita of $50 in money, bonds and state property. No money is owing outside of the state, as state bonds are held by school funds. Government control and regulation of sugar is directly responsible for the addition of millions of dollars to the high cost of living, according to a bulletin, issued by the Montana De velopment association at Billings. On a charge of wife desertion and failure to provide, William Anderson, former United States collector of Internal In-ternal revenue at Portland, Ore., was arrested in Reno by the police at the reouest of the Portland authorities. Charles R. Lewers, formerly a prominent promi-nent lawyer of Reno, and for several years connected with the law department depart-ment of the Southern Pacific company in San Francisco, died at San Francisco Fran-cisco from an attack of pneumonia. Jones E. Moran, a car inspector, pleaded guilty at Winnemucca, New, to u charge of. "giving and furnishing intoxicating in-toxicating liquor to another" and was sentenced to serve three months in the county jail and pay a fine of $100. 'Although a number of iJluenza cases in the state of Montana have teen reported to the state health board, there is no cause for alarm, say officials of the board. The cases tints far reported are of a very mild character. char-acter. When a man was found on a train at Iteno, suffering from smallpox, all the passengers were compelled to leave the train and were taken to the pest house, where all the necessary precautions were taken to prevent the spread of the disease. Sugar beet growers, members of the National Sugar Beet Growers' association, asso-ciation, in convention at Denver, voted to demand more money for then-product. then-product. A sliding scale, based on the seaboard price of refined sugar, was adopted. Business interests of Goldfield, Ton-opah Ton-opah and other southern Nevada towns have lodged a .protest against the plan of the owners of the Bullfrog-Uoldtield Bullfrog-Uoldtield railway to junk the road. It connects Goldfield with the Tonopah and Tidewater line. Charles H. Behling, a brakeman. was instantly killed when the train of eight loaded cars got beyond control near Keystone, Nevada, dashed down the grade ano- piled up in a wreck. Other members of the crew escaped with only painful injuries. Schools of Great Falls. Mont., oon-lip.ue oon-lip.ue to increase in attendance, ar-ording ar-ording to the 'report of the superintendent, superin-tendent, for the school month in-r closed ami which shows an enrd!niei'; of 5205. This is an increase of aboit,. 50 per cent over the enrollment of January. Jan-uary. 1915. W. P. Alexander, chairman-director of the Nevada department of highways, has been removed by Governor Bovle as an "obstructionist" in the prosecution prosecu-tion of Nevada's good roads program, according to an announcement by the gevernor. |