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Show INLAND NORTHWEST A smallpox epidemic among the Indians In-dians in the vicinity of Austin, Nevis Nev-is reported. (if 10 elective state offices of Montana, Mon-tana, eight will be administered during dur-ing the next four years by incoming officials anil eight will continue in office. of-fice. Sugar beets grown in the Yakima valley in Washington during I'.VJO produced pro-duced approximately one million twe hundred ninety thousand pounds ol suga1, or Ulo carloads. A survey of the crops of Lyon county, Nevada, shows approximately ?J,(HKJ,II0 worth of farm produce raised during the year of 1920. This includes hay, grain and potatoes. Imperative need of the strictest economy and of additional sources ol taxation was emphasized by (.!overno( Joseph M. Dixon In his first biennial message to the Montana legislature. There were 2o,(iG2 farms found in Utah in 1919 by the United Slates census takers, according to figures received re-ceived at tli e state capitol, although the reports of the assessors indicated that they had found only 13,.rv'T. Residents of an outlying residence district of Hillings have been advised by Chief of Police Talgo to organze a "shotgun brigade" against two "peeping Toms" who for more than a week have been alarming women. S. Joseph, a merchant of Willow Creek, Mont., was killed when his auto went into a ditch while he was driving at night without lights, the unfortunate man being caught under the machine and crushed to death. Emmett Herberth, a carpenter of Sparks, Nev., caught in the act of roboing the postoff'ce at that place, is believed to be temporarily ins. me. His wife died recently and it ?s 'bought grief has unbalanced his mind. Nick Yakor, a section hand, was fatally injured by a train at Roundup, Round-up, Mont. Crossing the track, he either attempted to crawl over or under un-der a slowly moving freight and was caught, the wheels cutting off both legs. Jack E. O' Henrne, B troop, First cavalry, of Cheyenne, has been appointed ap-pointed by the president as cadet at the West Point military academy, to enter next summer; He was one of six appointments from the national guard. While the federal bureau of public roads at Washington has offered several sev-eral big limousines to state highway commissions to be turned over to gov-?rnors gov-?rnors for their official duties, none 3f these cars will be secured for Montana's Mon-tana's new executive. Utah's sugar beet payrolls, together with the other pay rolls of the sugar factor of Utah, are declared by bankers bank-ers and business men of the state to ie responsible for the excellent financial finan-cial condition in which Utah is situated situ-ated at the present time. Francis A. Garrecht. United States attorney for the eastern district of Washington, has been adopted into the i'akima Indian tribe at the tribal council, it was announced last week, mil has been given the name of Chil-.vit-Woh-Souk, which signifies "The Dawn." George E. Archulta and Frank Tays, after spending two months in :he county jail at Billings. Mont., on l charge of holding up the grocery of Harry Dynient, have been discharged it the instance of the county attorney, .vl.o said the case against them was extremely weak. Wilmer Thompson, for two years a fugitive from justice and charged .vith the theft of money from the mails .vhile he was a rural mail carrier in L'lah, has been arrested at Tacoma. Me was located at Camp Lewis, after in extensive search. He was a private pri-vate in an artillery regiment when ap-M-eliended. The census of the government shows that Utah has lost the taxes on 14.G40 horses and mules, the census .-bowing 12S.2G4 such animals and the ounty assessors only 93.624. Accord-ng Accord-ng to the census takers there are ")05,-!TG ")05,-!TG cattle in Utah, but the assessors )f the various counties show only 377,-54 377,-54 6. a difference of 128,030. An exposition will be held In I'ort-and I'ort-and in 1925 to commemorate the link-ug link-ug of the east with the west and the lorth with the south by means of laved highways from New York to Portland, and from the Mexican line :o British Columbia, according to announcement an-nouncement of plans formed by committees com-mittees of business men. Nevada is one of the states in the anion where the statute provides that ach county may pension worthy moth-?rs, moth-?rs, on the ground that it Is better to ceep the family intact than to send the .'hildren to an orphans' home. Diphtheria, of which there are piite a number of cases in Harlem, Mont., and from which two deaths lave occurred, has practically ended ill doings in the town with the exception ex-ception of the regular transaction of msiness. A memorial addressed to the presl-ient. presl-ient. the secretary of the interior and lie director of national parks, asking hat the Gate of the Mountains, north f Helena, be made a national monu-nent, monu-nent, will he introduced in the Mon-ina Mon-ina state assembly. Mrs. Josephine Nevins returned to icr home in Seattle from a shopping rip downtown to find the body of her ltisband, Frank Nevins, and her 9-fear-old daughter, Dorothy, in the lasement, Mrs. Nevins said her hus-land. hus-land. who was a barber, had threat- I ned several times to commit suicide, I |