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Show INLAND NORTHWEST In Wyoming the average monthly farm wage is JG0.50 with Hoard und I SH0.10 without board. The annual meeting of the Nevada liar association will be held at Reno on January 1G and 17. The Associated Industries of Montana Mon-tana will hold its annual meeting January Jan-uary 21 at Lewistown. At a meeting of county assessors of Montana, held at Helena, a much simpler sim-pler and shorter system for assessments assess-ments was adopted. Lillian Grey, aged 25 years, died at a hospital in Ely, Nov., as the result of poison which she took with suicidal intent a few days before. Plans for a special session of the Nevada legislature in the Immediate future have been abandoned, according to a statement made by Governor Boyle. Through the co-operation of the larger employers of Butte and the Americanization school, vast strides are being made in the naturalization of aliens. The Commercial club at Las Vegas, Nevada, is planning tue establishment of free camping grounds for nutoists at that place, in an effort to induce auto parties to stop in the city over night. The Western Meat company's alfalfa meal mill at Fallon, Nev was set in motion last week after a shutdown of many weeks' during which effective dust retaining machinery was installed. in-stalled. At Reno last week, Mrs. Helen Draper Taft, daughter of former Governor Gov-ernor Draper of Massachusetts, was given a divorce from Walbridge Smith Taft, nephew of former President Presi-dent Taft. Sale of thrift and war savings stamps continues heavy, despite the high cost of living and other obstacles, according to au associate director of the war loan organization of the Twelfth federal reserve district. Egisto Ceragioli of Reno has reported re-ported to the police that two barrels of wine were stolen from his cellar almost immediately after he had paid Federal tax on the wine, which was manufactured for home consumption. It is announced that the secretary of the interior has given assent to the plan for adding the Thunder Mountain area to the Payette und Idaho forests. The act which provided for the addition addi-tion called for the approval of the secretary. sec-retary. After twelve years of effort upon the part of W. B. Graham and his friends, the relief bill carrying $33ri3 for ex penditures made by Mr. Graham to maintain the post office in Ely, Nevada, Ne-vada, during the early boom, has been passed by congress and allowed. Fires caused by man have become such a menace to the forests of western west-ern Montana and northern Idaho that a vigorous campaign to eradicate incendiary in-cendiary blazes, as well as those originating origi-nating in a manner contrary to special laws, will be initiated next year. Farm labor in Utah and Idaho, when paid on a monthly basis, that is, permanent per-manent labor and not labor employed Just for the harvest, gets higher wages than is paid in any other state In the union, and not far from double the wage paid in those states in 1910. Reports received at the office of the Nevada Public Health association .at Reno from Red Cross Christmas seal workers indicate that almost a quarter quar-ter of a million Red Cross Christmas seals have been disposed of since the 1!)'20 campaign began, December 1. According to the annual report of police activities, there were 630 more arrests in Salt Lake in 1919 than in 1918. Of these, 402 were for drunkenness drunken-ness and 315 for liquor violations. There were 348 taken into custody for gambling last year, as against 30G in 1918. The report of the city fuel administrator adminis-trator shows that It cost Livingston, Mont., $3863 to obtain and distribute fuel during the recent coal strike. Fifty-two carloads of coal and fourteen carloads of wood were distributed under the direction of the fuel administrator. admin-istrator. F. S. Peabody, president of the P-ea-hndy Coal company of Chicago, has closed a deal whereby the company, for a consideration of ?7,000,000, acquires ac-quires eight commercial bituminous mines in Sheridan county, Wyoming, with an output heretofore of 1,500,000 tons annually. A report issued by the Oregon Short Line shows that seventy-one accidents occurred at railroad crossings during 1910. which resulted in six deaths and forty-one injuries: iil'ty-eight of the to- j tal number involved automobiles, one I a motorcycle, and twelve were aeci-! dents to horse-driven vehicles and to j I pedestrians. I j Twenty-live tons of stoel rail have j i been received at Palisade, Nevada, to ho used in constructing an extension I from the Eureka-Nevada railway to i the mines of the Euroka-Croesus com- j pay on Prospect mountain. j Oscar 11. Grey, former secretary of I stale of Nevada, pioneer of Virginia ' City and the tirst man in the United j States to advocate equal suffrage in a bill before a state legislature, is tlead ; in Washington, where" ho was employed em-ployed in the treasury department. Mounted oik heads, of animals killed in season, are classified as game and I permits for (heir shipment out of the stale to hunters bo killed the. elk in S Momana and left the heads for mo'int-' mo'int-' ing witli local taxidermists ha' e Icon I refused under a ruling innrid by the J : iaie game warden. |