The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-11-29
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Of execution, If present plans are car
ried out.
Plans for the planting of oyster beds
In Utah and the growing of the sue
culent bivalves are nearing compile
ton, according to statements made
last week by r. Fl. Siddoway, state
fish and game commissioner.
The Seattle Metal Trades council,
representing approximately $4,000
workers, voted to strike to bring about
the release of Thomas j. Mooney and
his co-defendants convicted in the San
Francisco preparedness day bombing
case.
Every soldier discharged at Camp
Lewis will be asked if the position he
left to enter the army is awaiting his
return. If he has no employment to
return to, every effort will be made to
furnish him work in the class for
which he is most fitted.
Because the commissioners of Blaine
county, Montana, neglected to re-class-
ify it to the fifth from the sixth class
as the valuation of property demanded,
county auditor elected there could
not qualify. The position therefore
will be vacant until the next general
election.
The Montana railroad commission
has completed tables showing increases
alleged to be tremendous" in freight
rates contemplated by the federal rail-
way administration as they affect this
territory and it is announced that an
emphatic protest" is to be lodged in
Washington.
Frank Twombley, a motorcycle Of
ficer attached to the sheriffs office,
died in the emergency hospital at
Portland, following a duel in which he
was shot by man in an automobile
who had just held up and robbed Jack
Leonard, tender on the Columbia
interstate bridge.
His steel helmet saved Lieut.. Thomas
9. Busha of Big Timber, Mont
Busha was leading his company in
an offensive when a German bullet
struck his "tin hal" squarely in front.
He was not injured at this time, but il
little later sustained a slight shrapnel
wound in the hand
Lewis -Lund has been awarded
S1472.30 by the Nevada industrial com
mission for permanent partial disabil-
ity resulting from injuries sustained
on February 6, 1918. Lund was fore
man of the Rochester Mines company
and was caved on, suffering a frac-
tured leg and injury to the spine.
The sum of $103,510 will be expend.
ed during the present fiscal year by
the forest service in the maintenance
! OF the district headquarters OF district
No. 1 in MissouIa Mont, from which
are administered the affairs of the ma.
tional forests in Montana, northern
Idaho and eastern Washington.
Plans for the irrigation of 5000 acres
of logged-off land located near Trout
Creek, Mont, the property of the Ana
conda Copper Mining company, are
well along, agents for the corporation
having acquired preliminary water
rights for furnishing the necessary ir-
rigation. Work on the project will be
gin soon.
Mrs. w. J. Beall, a pioneer resident
of Bozeman, Mont, last week cele-
brated the event of her locating as a
bride 80 years ago in the house that
is still her home in BoZeman. She en-
joys the distinction, also, of having
lived in B0zeman "a years, which is be-
lieved longer than any other man or
woman living today.
The Great Western Sugar company
has just made the initial payment to
farmers of the. Yellowstone valley,
Carbon county, Montana, and other
nearby sections on this years crop.
1t amounted to between 100000 and
$4,000. The next payment will be
made Dec. 10, and the final one at the
close of the cutting season.
To slaughter the small range horses
of Montana and other western states
and ship the meat to the starving peo-
pie of Europe, is the suggestion made
by Richard Ingersoll a veteran stock
man of Montana. In this manner need
ed range for cattle will be available
and profitable disposition made of
thousands Of animals too small for
ranch work.
Within forty-eight hours after reach
ing the Key West mine, seventeen
miles from st. Thomas, New, E, p.
Stinson, state mine inspector for Ne
vada, was able to recover the body of
Charles A. Peet, well-known mining
engineer of Salt Lake, who was
drowned in the shaft November Z. Mr..
Stinson recovered the body after the
United States bureau of mines and
many others had given up hope.
When the 800 members of the Army
Training corps unit stationed at Mis-
soula were granted four hours of lib
erty, they invaded the business dis
trict as a unit and long before it was
time for them to return, the student
soldiers had eaten every pie and every
cake in every restaurant in Missoula,
had bought out most of the candy
stores and had swamped every barber
shop. They had been quarantined for
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