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Show INLAND NORTHWEST Hundreds of horses are dying in Beaverhead county, Montana, this winter win-ter from lack food and exposure, according ac-cording to reports. The city election at Carlin, Nevada, on the question of bonding the city for .s'( i.t H II.) to build a municipal electric elec-tric plant, carried by a majority of three to one. A man believed to be Harold Koth-well, Koth-well, charged with the murder of Andrew An-drew I'ren. aged oil station tender at . Seattle. February S. T.HS, has been arrested at Kvansion, YVyo. Idaho's Thunder Mountain area, comprising l.lili.iKio acres, lying approximately ap-proximately 10(1 miles northeast of l'..iie. the capital, by act of congress has been created a national forest reserve. re-serve. 1 'i nhiliii ion in Missoula county. Montana, Mon-tana, serins to have cut in two the number of arrests made. The sheriff's sher-iff's record for 1!HS, the last "wet" year, was 121'S. In 10K) the total was 022. .V new method for manufacturing gas which will produce a large quantity quan-tity of coke for commercial and domestic do-mestic consumption is being discussed by directors of the Billings, Mont., tias company. Montana's common school permanent perma-nent fund, which is administered by the state land office, is the larger of all the permanent state funds, according to the report of the net balances for for December. A fox farm is' to be in full operation opera-tion at Billings, Mont., within a few weeks if the plans of II. B. Green-leaf Green-leaf and J. L. Fox mature. The two plan to raise the fur-bearing animals on a large scale. The stale supreme court in a decision de-cision handed down at Salem. Ore., held that Coventor Ben W. Alcott retains re-tains his oflice throughout the entire unexpired term of the late Governor James Withycombe. Slate police raided a lioine-inaib.' still being conducted, it is alleged, at Dayton, Nevada, by A. Sidelio. The still is alleged to have been making live gallons of whisky per day at the time of Sidelio's arrest. Billie Lucas, well known in Nevada as a prize tighter, and who has been lately making his home in Fly, shot and killed a woman in the restricted district nt Elko, then turning the gun on himself, ended his life. The menace of Ihe jackrabbit In Bingham county, Idaho, is so great that "drives'" are almost daily affairs. In one locality, from wilhin a space of one square mile, 10.000 rabbits were driven into a corral and slaughtered. Walter S. Fvans. who had been connected con-nected with a number of mining enterprises en-terprises in southern Nevada, died in v a Goldfield hospital last week from, what physicians said was the result of drinking "whisky" containing wood alcohol. Ratification of the national equal SUIT rage amendment in Oregon was completed on January 14. when Ihe president of the senate and the speaker of tiie house in Ihe legislature aftixed Iheir signatures to the resolution of ratification. The ever increasing seriousness among the farmers and stockmen, of the rodent problem in, Nevada, is indicated in-dicated in the statement that ground squirrels and jtiekral'tbils are maintained main-tained in Nevada at an annual cost of between .f2,."(IO.O;K) and STi.OOO.OdO. Keorganizat ion of the Nevada stale police so as to meet new conditions imposed by the national prohibition amendment and so that the state will lie better aide to co-operate with the federal authorities' in ihe enforcement of prohibition laws is planned at once. Joseph Bogue of Billings, Mont., has applied for compensation to the state board on the claim Unit while employed as a tireniau for a bakiiig company he was bitten by a cat. His claim was disallowed because bis injury in-jury did not cause him to lose time. The still, several barrels of tiuisli, and a goodly quantity of moonshine whisky, taken in recent raids on the Lahey ranch, near Dillon, .Mont., are now held by officers pending the trial of Thomas I.ahey and wife, on a charge of illicit liquor maniifaet tiring. All persons who filed application for tracts of the 10,000 acres or government gov-ernment hind w'hioh was to have been disposed of by lottery at Cheyenne on December 2.'!, will be enabled lo liavo Just, what they wanted instead of "drawing straws" for the desi ruble portions, por-tions, this condition being due to the fact that there were not enough applications ap-plications bled to cause any contests. This has been a "freak" winter in Montana. L'lte November ami early December well1 almost the coldest ill the history of the state. During tbo coal strike when little fuel was to be had, the mercury hovered around 20 below and often reached "0. As soon as the miners resumed work the temperature tem-perature shot up and the latter part of December was balmy and grasshoppers grasshop-pers were seen in the fields. Miss Maud Tootuey, 2S, of Speii rlish. S. I)., was so seriously injured she died, and Lieutenant I'.ert Cole, pilot, was seriously injured as the result of a fall of ."00 feel in an airplane following follow-ing an exhibition flight at f'aspor. Wyn. The niaeliine was a ! tempt ing fo bind at the Casper hangar. Cyrus Capens. arrested recently at Sheridan, Wyn.. on a charge of attempting at-tempting to hold up two men by pointing point-ing bis linL'er in an e"ie:iyor to make llietu believe be held a revnlver, is an eseapei lurtatic from Warm Spring-. .Meat. |