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Show INLAND NORTHWEST An effort is being made to Increase the fire department facilities at Dayton, Day-ton, Nevada. The state game warden of Nevada reports heavy fur shipments throughout through-out the slate. During the month of January, 445 cars loaded with home products were shipped out from Fallon, Nevada. Eight Chinese were burned to death at Walla Walla when a house was destroyed de-stroyed by fire following the use of firecrackers in celebrating the Chinese New Year. Masked bandits held up the clerk at a hotel in Lewiston. Mont., forcing him to face the wall while they rifled the cash register, securing $250 In cash and checks. During January. 4(iO0 automobile licenses were t-ld in the state of Nevada, Ne-vada, the auto owners paying $4S,97G for the privilege of operating their machines during 1020. A stock growers' association has been organized at Gold Beach, Oregon, Ore-gon, for the protection of farm animals from predatory animals and to secure better prices for stock. What is believed to be the last sale of wild horse hides In the United States was made receutly In Nevada. The sale was made in Winneniucca and included in-cluded nbout 900 hides of wild horses. Clarence Jones, nged 27, was killed when he fell Into an ore bin at the Butte & Superior Mining company mill at Butte, the ore running into the bin after he fell, smothering him to death. Leaving his brother $20,000 more by the terms of his will than he did his wife, Is the unique record established by William T. O'Neil, wealthy stockman stock-man of Nevada, who died receutly at Oakland. For several years coyotes' have menaced the sheep business in Curry county, Oregon. Petitions are now being circulated to Induce the county court to offer $100 bounty for coyotes nnd $10 for wild cats. Plans to close up the estate of Jens P. Nlelson, Alaska miner, believed to be dead, was stopped recently at Seattle Se-attle when a letter was received from Nielsen stating that he was well and expected to arrive in Seattle soon. Two trappers who have been operating oper-ating west of Winneniucca, Nevada, report having had fine luck so far this season, and up to the present time have captured 820 muskrats,' 8 beaver, 4 otter, 16 coyotes and 6 wildcats. At the recent convention at Astoria, Ore., of the State Retailers' association associa-tion and the Oregon Retail Merchants' association, the two associations were merged under the name of the Oregon Ore-gon State Retail Merchants' association. associa-tion. The Fourth regiment of field artillery artil-lery has been allocated to Utah, Wyoming, Wyo-ming, Idaho and Colorado, in accordance accord-ance with the new policy of the war department to enlist men from various var-ious sections of the country for certain regiments. Charges of violating the state criminal crim-inal syndicalism law against Sam T. Crane, formerly an attorney of Spokane, Spo-kane, have been dismissed, but Crane is being held for deportation. He has been an active I. W. W. worker, and is said to be a Canadian citizen. Governor Hart has called the Washington Wash-ington legislature- to meet in special session at Olympia, March 22, to consider con-sider action on the federal suffrage amendment and to provide funds' for the University 'of Washington, the Washington State college and three state normal schools. Snow reserves in the watersheds of the Deschutes and other central Oregon Ore-gon streams are lower than at any time in the memory of the oldest settlers, set-tlers, and unless heavy precipitation comes by early spring, ranchers" are threatened with an insufficient supply of water for Irrigation. Mrs. Toby Riddle, descendant of a long line of Modoc chieftains, is dead at the Klaniaith reservation, in Oregon. She was official interpreter for the government during the Modoc rebellion rebel-lion and was at the conference on April 11, 1S73, when General E. R. S. Canby and Dr. Thomas were treacherously treacher-ously slain by Captain Jack, the Modoc Mo-doc leader. A pair of snowshoes, a bob-sled, a saddle horse, an automobile and a railroad train are the five means of transportation adopted by the l!ev. D. D. Reese of Pinedale, Wyo., in a recent trip to Douglas, Wyo., to attend at-tend a pastor's conference. He traveled trav-eled 002 miles to meet the ministers of the state. After searching for more than a week in the forests south of Loon lake, 40 miles south of Llbby, Mont., the friends of William Rodden, a Manicke rancher, reluctantly gave up hope that he Is still alive and returned to Libby. No trace of the missing man could bo found beyond locating a campfire where he spent the first night of his absence. A sheriff who sells real estate at a foreclosure sale is not entitled to receive re-ceive a commission on the amount of the sale price In addition to fees and other expenses allowed by law. according accord-ing to a majority opinion handed down by the Nevada supreme court. "Raise more corn" has come to be the slogan for the ranchers and farmers farm-ers of eastern Montana. Larger corn crops and diversified farming a:v .-iii-l to be ihe iwo big factors which in lie opinion of prominent agriciti; arai isi s will prove to lie the salvation of all of |
