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Show News Happenings of the Great Intermountain StatesJ Baker Baker 1 to have an overall Baker Bciker Is to have an overall factory, one of the largest In the northwest. north-west. The machinery for the factory has been installed for some time. Ely. -The temporary air mall service serv-ice which has been operated between Klko and Ely, Nevada, three times a week was d'scontinued a few days ago. This aciton was neccessary because of limited appropriation Tonopah, Nev. George Bruno, a range rider In the eastern end of Nye county, was surprised by receiving a check from the state treasurer for ?5O0 as a reward for his efforts in securing se-curing the conviction of Cooney Clifford' Clif-ford' for rustling stock. Nevada. Arrangments have "been pratically completed for the importation importa-tion into Nevada this month of five carloads of high grade pure bred Hoi-stein Hoi-stein and other good milking strains The work of selecting these cattle will be undertaken by the State Farm Bureau and the extention division ot th University of Nevada. Nevada That at least 15,000 automobile auto-mobile tourists are expected to pass through Iieno during the coming season sea-son is the statement of V. M. Davis, secretary of the Nevada Highway association, as-sociation, who has returned from San Francisco where he conferred with officials of-ficials of the California State Auto-mobite Auto-mobite association. Elko, Nev. Two more victims of the severe cold weather that lias prevailed pre-vailed in this section for the past month are at the court house, where they applied for a night's lodging after af-ter a hike over the Geiger grade from Reno looking for work in this city. Both men's feet were frozen. Central:a, Wash. Members of the American Legion are not to be solicited solicit-ed for contributions to the fund for the Centrali.a memorial building. This was decided at the first meeting of the executive committee of the Cen-tralia Cen-tralia Memorial association, held in Seattle ten days ago. Spokane, Wash. The route of the proposed irrigation canal which would carry the waters of the Pend d'Oreille river through Spokane county as .1 part of the Columbia basin irrigation project was inspected by Major-Gen-eral George W. Goethals, who hasi been retained by the state of Washington Wash-ington to make a survey of the project. iampa. With a self directed bullet from a high power sporting rifle, Albert Al-bert S. Clifton, 3G years old, snuffed out his life In Nampa recently. Clifton held the muzzle of the rifle, a short weapon of the carbine type, to his forehead and pulled the trigger. Mental Men-tal derangement brought on by ill health of many years duration is thought to have been the cause of the tragic act St. Helena, Ore. After being closed down for eight months, a logging company com-pany will resume operations. Tracli men have been making repairs to thu logging track and mechanics have the donkey engines and rigging in readiness. readi-ness. The camp, which is seven mlleu west of St. Helena, will employ 1315 men, with a daily output around 150,000 feet of logs. Heppner, Ore. Local ice men were hastening the Ice harvest because of the warm weather, which threatened to break the longest winter of record here. Stockmen have been feeding continuously since about November 115 and snow has covered the ground most of the time since that date. The cold has not been severe and stock Is wintering win-tering well, with plenty of hay yet on hand for several weeks' feeding. McDermitt, Nev. Diptlieria is epl demic among the Indians on the McDermitt Mc-Dermitt reservation about seven miles east of the town of McDermitt, in this northern part of the county, and word received in this city by coiinty officials conveys the inormation that two denths have occurred among Uncle Sam's wards during late days. Beno, Nev. John Gray, dope fiend, asked the Reno police to lock him up to keep him away from drugs. Seaside, Ore.- Plans are beinj launched to have a large sanitarium, with every modern convenience, erected erect-ed at Seaside. While it is a well-recognized fact tliut Seaside Is one of the l ejin.iest pl.ices in the Unite. 1 States cni Mat government sUtis e:s fl.ow infant mortality to be the very low-e low-e here, yet the fact is not s. v ell known that many remarkable cures have been effected on persons afflicted with diseases of long standing. Bnker J. S. Davis, n resident of North Powder fur the past forty-eight years, died nt his home here a few days ago. He was horn in Michigan in lS-I."i, moving to Oiegan when he was a young num. ile is survived ta'r his widow and six children, two of whom reside in North Powder. Nevada. Six thousand head of cat tie are now on fee.l in communltie!-In communltie!-In the western part of the Btate. These me he'ng made ready for the eons'-Markets. |