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Show INLAND NORTHWEST ! I ! Clara Hamon Smith, featured in I moving pictures, will not he shown In the state of Idaho, according to the I moving picture operators of that state. I The first train of the season has i been run over the Truckee and hake ! Tahoe railroad, a freight train niakinc j the run to t lie lake in about two i hours. ' I A temporary injunction restraining ' the Republican stale central commit- ! tee from electing a national commit- tecinan to succeed U. H. P. Sliellev i was dismissed by District Judge A. J. 1 llorskey at Helena. i Gustavo Grossman, who, accordiii" 1 to bis business cards, is a geologist I and petroleum engineer, was arrest- ' ed at l'.alliinore for the Wyoming au- I thorities on the charge of onihezzlui" 1 $27,000. Grossman had been living m ' lialtiniore for nearly a year. j Methodist pastors of rural commit- i nities in Montana, novthern Wyoming, -") North and South Dakota will gather ; 1 at Wesleyan college at Helena Oeto- I her 3 for a two weeks' course of siudy ' on the rural church problem. hand that is assessed $140 per acre near Reno has recently been boosted to $1000 per acre when the Southern Pacific wanted it. The Reno papers are calling the attention of the assessor asses-sor to the valuation of the land. The closing of the mines and plants of the Nevada Consolidated means a large falling off in I lie payment of premiums to the Nevada industrial ' commission, which,- it is said, will amount lo about $50,000 annually. Establishment of a game preserve containing approximately COO square miles in the northern part of Utah is recommended by D. H. Madsen, state fish and game commissioner for Utah, " who has returned from an investiga. tion of the proposed site. Every newspaper at points in Ne- vada which will be visited by the excursion ex-cursion of members of the Salt Lake Commercial club and chamber of commerce during the week of May 8 is devoting much front-page space to comment on the proposed visit. Charges of dynamiting fish have landed Lyle Belden and H. R. Put- I nam, two Billings youths, in jail at Columbus, Mont. They are awaiting trial there for felony, and so far no one has furnished the $500 bonds' each necessary to obtain their release. The Nevada Northern' railroad will reduce its schedule to the towns of Ely, Cherry Creek and McGill, Nevada, Ne-vada, from a daily train service to a tri-weekly service. From May 1 the trains will be operated on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday of each week. A complete somersault was turned by a truck on the steep grade near Billings, Mont. E. Bull is, the driver, was not hurt, and the truck was not so badly damaged that it could not oontinue the trip. Bttllis lost control of the machine in descending the grade. The United States reclamation service serv-ice lias taken the first step to proceed pro-ceed with its plans in the construction construc-tion of the American Falls dam, the , water behind which will completely submerge the town of American Falls, Idaho, under from twenty-five to fifty feet of water. Denver S. Dickerson, former governor gov-ernor of Nevada, recently " resigned from the federal directorship of prisons, pris-ons, has been appointed managing director di-rector of the Prisoner's ReHef society, socie-ty, a welfare organization doing charitable char-itable work among the prison institutions institu-tions of the country. The 'seventh annual session of the Lincoln county field meet will be held in Libby, Mont., May 6. All the schools of the county, both rural and j town schools, will enter for the events of this tournament, which includes track work, contests in " cLphering, j spelling and declamatory work". j Experiments to determine whether a certain clay, found in large quantl- j ties in Wyoming and possibly in Utah j and other adjoining states, can be used successfully in a process for de- j inking news print, have begun in the laboratories of the United States for- I estry service at Madison, Wis. I Work will be resumed early this j spring by the forest service on the j construction of the Montpelier-Afton j highway through Montpelier canyon , in Idaho. The government wUl con- struct eight and one-half mile this season, thus completing the highway to the Bear Lake-Caribou county line. j The first step toward beautifying j the Portneuf river, which runs slug- ! gishly through the back alleys of the I western part of Pocntello, Idaho, acting act-ing somewhat as a sewer and otherwise other-wise as a menace to health and little children, was made by the Kiwanis club last week, when it unanimously j passed a resolution to support City Engineer John Neville in his pro- j posed plan to boulevard the entire , length of the river In the city limits. : Louis Tolegff, employed at the Con. j Imperial mine in Gold Hill, met his j death when be fell from a fagc, his j body falling probably a distance of at least 400 feet. Determined that while Salt Lake's J citizens are contributing to the relief ; of the sick and hungry of other lands, I Its own population of tender years i shall not be neglected, the city's Civic , Center has opened a "milk campaign" j ami will see that the poor children of j the city are properly supplied with ; the milk essential to their health and j development. |