The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-03-01
INLAND NORTHWEST

Thirteen persons were injured In /
wreck of a Northern Pacific passenge
train near Miles City, Mont.
The new school building at Sparks
(Ney) erected at a cost Of $1,000, wat
formally dedicated last week.
Not a single case of smallpox has
been reported among the children Of
Silver Bow county, Mont, who have
been yaccinated.
The Great Northern Is installing the
block system between Summit and
Columbia Falls and also between Stry
ker, and Rcxburg, Mont
Rotarlans from every principal city
In Montana, en- ronte to the district
convention in Salt Lake, were enter
tanned at luncheon at Butte, by the
Butte Rotary club.
At least 200 people packed theatre
at Reno, and large number were
turned away from the patriotic rally
held to aid recruiting and the sale of
war savings stamps.
Under the direction of the Reno
! Commercial club, moving pictures of
| local industries and various points of
scenic and historical interest in the
state are being taken.
| AT the meeting Of the Anaconda,
(Mont.) city council last week the
appropriation ordinance for the year
had its first reading, it calling for an
| expenditure of $75,296 for the coming
/ year
The supreme court of Montana has
held that state school lands, lying
within three miles of town, whether
incorporated or unincorporated, cam
not be sold in larger than five-acres
tracts.
At Billings, (Mont.) last week the
district court fixed the date of April u
for the hanging of Juan Cuellae, a
Mexican, who shot and killed PATROL
man Enos Nelson on the night of Dec.
10 last.
Resignation because of the i'll health
of Nevada State Food Administrators
Henry M. Hoyt was announced last
week. The food administration in Ne
vada will be under direction of Deputy
Administrator Wood for the present.
George Desmond, who robbed the
postoffice at ST. Ignatius, Mont, of
Sl55 in stamps and was brought back
from Long Beach, Cal, must serve
one year and day at Leavenworth.
Desmond had $119 of the stamps on
him when caught.
Reno will have but 100000 for the
various new street improvements in
its six wards for the entire year of
1918. Half of the $4,000 item in the
new city budget for street improve
ments has already been allotted for
regular expenditures.
The Montana house or representa-
tives adopted without discussion
committee report in favor of ratifi-
cation of the federal prohibition
amendment, and in the senate SINH
lar resolution was adopted by the com
mittee in charge with but one dissent
ing vote.
In the case at Deer Lodge, Mont, |
of A. G. Schilling against John NJ |
Gregory, wherein the plaintiff sued for
$4,000 for defamation of character,
the jury brought in its verdict for the |
defendant. The defendants costs,
amounting to S137, will also be taxed |
against the plaintiff.
Mary Wilson, living at Ogden, has
been arrested on complaint of Amer
Singh, Hindu farmer of Corinne,
twenty miles north of Ogden. He al
leges in the complaint that the girl
secured $500 from him upon her prom
Use to marry him, and that she failed
to make good this agreement.
At no time during the last six
months have so many new industries
been started in Dillon, (NTont) and
so many of the natural resources of
the county been developed. Everyone
seems to be Interested in the various
new enterprises and the merchants and
professional men of the city are pre-
pairing for big season this spring.
Judge John G. Bell chairman of the
commission appointed by the federal
food administration to investigate sug-
ar beet production costs, said at I
hearing of the commission Mt Sterling, i
Colo, that "other measures failing, the /
government win be asked to provide /
enlisted men, of the army to work in
the beet fields, because Of the labor /
shortage in northern Colorado beet
sections.
Convicted of a murder which it is
he did not commit but to
which his partner in crime has CON |
fessed, Frank De Pretto, accompilce of
Harry Brewer in the murder of Frank
Harris, is seeking liberty from the
state prison at Salt Lake.
Sergeant Major Thomas Helmuth |
Ritter, now in the Camp Lewis (Wash.) |
guardhouse, will be sent to Fort /
Douglas and interned for the duration
VI the war. He is charged with steal