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Show INLAND NORTHWEST j Ex-service men put on a very sue- cvssful circus at Lewistovn. Mont., last week, clearing a substantial sum J as a result of their efforts. A hill providing for the addition of a thirteenth member to juries in emergency emer-gency or important cases lias beea introduced in-troduced in the Nevada assembly. The American Legion post at Dillon, Mont., will realize about ?7Ut) as the result of a minstrel and vaudeville siiow given by the ex-service men recently. re-cently. George Domino, aged 3f, was instantly instant-ly killed by a fall of rock in a coal mine near Roundup, Mont. He was removing re-moving props when the accident occurred. oc-curred. Humors are being circulated that Governor l'.oyie will call a special session ses-sion of the Nevada legislative immediately imme-diately upon adjournment of the regular regu-lar session. It is believed that the extra session of the Montana legislature will last thirty days, or until some time m April. Only a few bills have been advanced since the special session began. be-gan. Sheep shearers meeting at YVinne-muceii, YVinne-muceii, Nov., decided that the rate for shearing this year sliall be tne same as last year, claiming that there has been no reduction in the price of living. Governors of Idaho, Oregon, Montana Mon-tana and Washington are expected to be in Spokane during the sportsmen's and tourist s lair, April i to io, invitations invita-tions having been extended to the chief executives. A vigorous campaign against the rodent ro-dent pest as to be inaugurated in the Elko, Xev., section, a large shipment of poisoned grain 'haying been received for distribution among the ranchers oi that section. The Denver & Kio 'Grande "back" shops at Denver, where all heavy locomotive loco-motive repairs are made, were closed March 16 for an indefinite period and 700 men employed there were laid off indefinitely. American war mothers of Salmon, Idaho, are giving their time and best efforts to the task of securing a much needed hospital as a memorial for the Lemhi county heroes, who gave their lives for America in the world war. Frank M. Atchison, a' braketnan, suicided sui-cided at YVhitelish, Mont, shooting himself after he had failed to effect a reconciliation with his wife, against whom he had brought suit for divorce, the shooting occurring in her presence. Deputy sheriffs, after an exciting chase west of Green Hiver, arrested H. H. Johnson, who was making his way west in a stolen Ford "bug." Johnson admitted stealing die car and that he had been working in a garage in Montrose, Mont-rose, Colo. An amendment requiring dentists to obtain doctor's prescriptions before they would be allowed to secure liquor for medical purposes was voted to the prohibition bill when that measure was passed in the lower house of the Nevada legislature last week. The concurrent resolution for the removal of Frank Langan as judge of the first judicial district of Nevada failed to receive the necessary two-thirds two-thirds vote in the senate. Judge Lan-gan Lan-gan will continue to hold office for the term to which he was elected, in November, 1919. Bankruptcy of k&th city and county governments will ensue unless the operating expenses and cost of government gov-ernment is reduced approximately $500,000 a year, according to a report of an investigating committee of fifteen fif-teen made public by the Butte Chamber Cham-ber of Commerce. Due to the utilization of forest lands for grazing ranges, Montana is holding its own in the sheep industry, figures issued by the district forester shows. Montana is one of the three states that shows an increase in the number of sheep recorded this season, the others being Texas and New Mexico. A new wage scale of .$3 a day for common labor In building construction work, and ?(3 a day for hod carriers has been voluntarily adopted by those two unions at Spokane. 'Phe voluntary reduction re-duction of a dollar a day in their pay, it was announced, was made for the. purpose of stimulating building activity activi-ty in Spokane. A cliff which was evidently blown down as the result of water seepage j coming into contact with the limestone, causing gas, and the resultant explosion, explo-sion, blocked the stream just below Lee, Nevada, one day last week. The fall of the clilT formed a dam which caused the water to back up a con- ' siderable distance. Following the report of the laying off of a number of shopmen at Sparks, New, and the suggestion that the town might be hard hit by the move, the Sparks Tribune declares that "the city is growing daily, one might say almost al-most hourly, and a survey of conditions condi-tions should convince the most skeptical skep-tical that Sparks is destined to be the biggest bet in the state of Nevada." The managers of the movement for the creation of the proposed Banner county out of Fergus and Choteau counties, in Montana, undeterred by the failure of the county division schemes in the legislature, have' renewed re-newed their campaign. Kecent results obtained in prospecting prospect-ing wor. in the Comstock mines in Nevada Ne-vada strongly indicate that the old-timers old-timers paid little attention to geolog-1 geolog-1 conditions and principles, for the ' leads are brluj- parked up aiain j re abandoned and new ore lenses now being uncovered. |