The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-04-05
NORTHWEST NOTES

ellie, valued at $4,000, burned last
week, and the occupants VINO wers
asleep, were notified in time to dress
and get out.
The University Of Idaho teams won
frst and third places in the student
| stock-judging contest at the Pacific
| Northwest Livestock show in Port
land March 1920.
! According to the Oregon States.
man, the ministers of the state will
devote one sermon to the encourage.
| ment of industrial education among
the schools of Oregon
Madison county, Montana, Is to have
another bank, which will be located
at Jefferson Island. 1t is to be
capitalized at $4,000, and all the
stock has been subscribed.
That the roads throughout the
agricultural sections of Montana
should be reduced in width from 60
to 40 feet and graded from fence to
fence, is an argument advanced by
some of the leading citizens.
Pend d'Oreille wants a Chautauqua
this summer. The same course which
is going to Spirit Lake can be Sc
cured and Superintendent Menden.
hall of the Humbrid school is taking
the matter up with the citizens.
Resolutions protesting against de-
poration to Russia of Fetal Kagan
and tVasilia Lichatoff, held by the
government at Tacoma, charged with
/ hnir0 r0biptc al a
mass meeting of Socialists at Seattle.
Plans for launching a fax fiber
mill at Fromberg, Mont, have been
made by the gathering of a fund of
sufficient size to guarantee the en-
terprise 1t is understood that the
farmers are enthusiastic over the
proposition.
The experiment of shipping several
carloads of elk from the Yellowstone
park to western Washington was SO
successful that the interior depart
ment has decided to transport some
of the elk from the Yellowstone park
to the Glacier National park.
Hay is being shipped to the Little
Horn territory of Northern Wyoming
in order to save the lives of several
thousand head of cattle, said to be in
starving condition. The animals
were gathered up from the range,
which is covered with snow.
A fair, or exposition, which will
transcend in magnitude and impor-
lance anything ever attempted in
that section of Montana mas been
decided upon by the Billings. Cham
Der of Commerce. 1t will be held
the third week in September
Educational leaders and teachers
are manifesting great interest in the
fourteenth annual session of the In
land Empire Teachers association at
Spokane, April 3, 4, 5 and 6. Teach
ers in Washington, Idaho, Oregon and
Montana are members of the associa-
ton.
Illustrated with twenty-five half
tone views of state and sectional ex-
hibits at the land show of the North
west Development league, booklet
has just been issued telling about the
Northwestern Products exposition to
be held in Minneapolis November IL
to %.
The total value of Montana's mich
cows has increased nearly $100O,000
in two years. There now are 13,473
more milch cows in Montana than
there was in 1910, while the number
of range cattle has decreased from
$4,000 in 1910 to $4,000 in 1912.
Swine have increased 43,739 head In
two years, too.
M. A. Ellis, travelling salesman from
Salt Lake, was arrested at Butte on
complaint of Mrs. Eva Loco, who
claims that he attempted to attack
her while she was in his room at a
local hotel in answer to a want ad-
vertisement. In defense Ellis said
the woman tripped on rug and he
caught her as she started to fall.
Hugh Bryan, landscape artist of
Portland, has been engaged through
the efforts of the women's club to
prepare plans for the identifying of
Trevett park at Lewiston, Idaho. A
rest house will be built near the
walk at the top of the hill. The plans
and specifications will cost about 500
and their carrying out about $500
more.
The department of agriculture has
issued bulletin on some common
animals of western Montana in re-
lation to agriculture and spotted
fever" 1t is stated that there are
few localities in the west where the
common species of native animals
especially rodents, are so important
as in certain parts of western Mon
tana. ..a
Former Senator Henry NJ. Teller.
now nearly 50 years old, is confined
to his bed in his Deavor nome, from
the effect of a slight stroke of paraly.
sis and injuries to his foot suffered
recently.