The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-08-09
INLAND NORTHWEST

and southern Idaho were never better
than at present.
Liberty crops Of wheat, oats barley
and rye this year in the Snake river
valley, Idaho, are in the most crafty
ing condition.
Farmers of Utah and Idaho will re-
eeive 81 bushel for their wheat this
fall should they desire to sell to the
United States Grain corporation.
Mary Kagin, aged 3, while playing
around a hay derrick at her home
near Dillon, Mont, caught her right
hand in pully and CRUSHING 1t 80
badly thar three fingers had to be am
putated.
Special passenger rates over Utah
roads for the state fair and fall con-
ference his year win be authorized
by the federal railroad administration,
according to information received from
Washington.
The mountain division OF the Red
Cross, comprised of Utah, Colorado,
Wyoming and New Mexico, has fur
nished eleven workers for the Red
Cross service overseas within the
past month.
Fine rains on all the forest fires in
the Clearwater country continue to \
keep the fire situation under good con- |
troll This is the good news brought to |
| Spokane by forestry officials in return |
| ing from the fire fronts.
Harry Lane was killed in an auto
accident near Deer Lodge, Mont. Lane
was driving a Ford and steered too
/ near the edge of an embankment in
| order to allow a buggy to pass. The
car overturned, pinning Lane under
meath.
Senator w. H. King Of Utah, now in
| Washington, is considering the matter
| of making a trip to Russia to study
conditions there instead of coming to
his home in Utah during the summer
recess of congress, according to infor-
nation received from the national cap
itaI.
Montana's cattle herds will be cut to
the bone this season, in the opinion OF
D. w. Raymond secretary Of the
state livestock commission. He esti-
mates the shipments this fall will be
larger than those of last year when
$4,000 head left Montana, being the
biggest record in the states history.
The great summer school of Chour-
eau, Wheatland, Meagher and Fergus
counties. Montana, continues to grow,
and, according to all the school men,
is accomplishing more in the way OF
results than the four county superin-
, tendents hoped for when they planned
it. The attendance is now around 200.
: Stranded on the Nevada desert for
n thirty hours with a broken axle was
4 the discouraging experience of w. j
:. Scott and party who are en- route from
Imperial valley, Cal, TO New Yori
n ! state by automobile The only relic
y from thirst was from water shares
q with them by other tourists passinl
D by.
r The Montana commission has asked
v Director General McAdoo of the rail
e roads to grant free hauling of livestock
Il feed TO the drought-stricken counties
Q of Montana from Idaho, Wyoming
n Colorado and Minnesota points, Other
, wise the commission says, 40 per cent
# of the livestock in the state will be
= shipped out.
d Selective draft men, who not know
n ing their exact age, register are draft
e ed. sent there and endeavor to obtain
y exemption on the grounds that the!
D are over age after being indicted, VII
be obliged to remain in the army. ae
cording to a ruling received at Cam
n Lewis. Wash, for the guidance of tn
=, camp exemption.
G The Moapa valley, near Las Vegas
IS in the southern part of Nevada, loni
+ famous for its canteloupes and aspara
a. gus. as well as fruit of all kinds, ha
achieved distinction as 4 wheat grow
D. ing locality. The crop now threshin
n amounts to $4,000 bushels, and tn
+ wheat is of very high quality beIn
< graded as No. 1.
&c The summer school session at Mon
= tana state college at Bozeman ha
y closed after most successful teri
= in point of attendance, instruction an
general interest. There were NOR
1e than 200 students enrolled for the sun
!" mer term. exclusive of the detachmer
of 1903 soldier recruits studying mt
chanics and who complete their wor
- in about two weeks.
Mrs Mabel Schlamann seeks d
= vorce at Ellensburg, Wash, becaus
:, she says, she would rather be sing
u than the wife Of German. She con
plains that her husband, when the
{. were married in 1915, told her he VIZ
~ a naturalized American, but since thi
ut he insists on calling her frau.
~ Apple growers of Utah who expe
- to ship any or all of their crop tn
- fall have been warned by the FEEDER
- food administration to secure the
- supply of boxes at once. 1t is pointt
out that many of the growers were II
able to make proper shipments la
fall owing to shortage of boxes.
"a wyoming has its first women ms
~ carrier. Miss Elizabeth Rutledge !
- Pine Bluffs is in charge of the rur