The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-04-12
INLAND NORTHWEST

He WAS fined $25.
Oliver Cutler Is held at the Powell
county jail on the suspicion that he
was implicated In the rifiing Of mail
sack ~ Deer Lodge, Mont, about two
months ago The mail sack was found
beside the track cut open.
There are 700 Lewis and Clark coun-
ty (Montana) men serving In the army
at present, according to Secretary
Rhealn Of the Helena Commercial club,
who has undertaken census of the
soldier boys from that county.
During the month Of March 172 farm
loan applications were recommended
by field agents Of Montana for an ag-
gregate amount Of $410,S00, according
to State Land Agent G. S. WhippIe,
This breaks all previous records.
Names of six streets IN an addition
laid out at Portland by German prop
orty owner and bearing the I0mcncla-
ture Of famous Teuton characters and
places, win be changed, according to
plans Of city officials, announced last
week.
Winter wheat Is In unusually good
shape in Montana. Conditions have
been exceptionally favorable to 1t and
II Is absolutely all right. There is now
no question about there being a crop,
II the remaining portion of the season
proves favorable.
Within ten days new fifty-foot
hpf1Da urgngg ri fp1,Ir =, II os.t,,
Mont, win be completed and viii re-
place the ford that has been In use
since 1895, when the Mullan military
road was laid out from Walla Walla
to Fort Benton.
The hunt for the body of Augustus
Hagan, who Is believed to have been
drowned in the Beayerhead river, In
Montana, is stlll continued, but the Of
ficers have found no trace of the miss
ing man who has OF been seen since
early In January.
The latest development in the con
troyersy between the city Of Living
ston, Mont, and the Livingston Water
company Is the revocation by the city
council of the water company's fran
chase, the revocation to be effective six
months after the passage of the ordl-
nance.
Practically every boy in Dillon,
Mont, has secured job on one OF the |
numerous ranches of the county, and !
as soon MS school Is over will leave for |
the country to be gone all summer. Be
~ Of .
this year the ranchers have called on
the boys for help.
In January of this year the carriers
handled 3l,427 carloads of Montana
commodities, compared with $4,000 |
carloads in January of 1917, decrease
Of 10 per cent, according to the com
modify report of the railroad com
mission. The chief decreases were in
ore, coal and grain
One of the last cases that Judge
Charles T. Crum passed upon before
he was lmpeached and removed, was
suit from Musselshell county, Montana,
involving the validity OF the teachers
pension act. He held the law valid
and the transcript on appeal has been
filed In the supreme court.
The reclamation service Is hauling
tools, provisions and camping houses
to the big irrigation bitches it is run
ming along the foothills of the Mis-
sion valley In Montana, and in few
days will have steam shoyels and
blasting crews at work. The service
VIII have $1,000 acres under ditch this
summer.
Teaching German In the Helena
public schools has been ordered dis
continued by the school board. All
books dealing with the teaching of
German, whether in that language or
in English, are TO be withdrawn from
teachers and pupils and either de
stroyed or held for exchange with the
publishers.
While Allen Moe was building barn
near Klein, Mont, his little child came
near being crushed by u falling log.
The mother, in attempting to save the
child, interposed her body and re-
eeiyed the force of the blow, which
crushed her nose and face, and 1t is
believed injured her internally. The
child was not hurt,
A child was attacked by rabid
coyote near Dillon. Mont, one day last
week. The child was attacked by the
maddened animal while Il was playing
a short distance from the house. The
timely interference OF dog owned by
the family. which rushed to defend its
young charge, prevented the coyote
from injaripg the child.
The production of honey throughout
the intermountaln states during 1918
will amount TO from 1900 to 1900
tons, having value Of nearly $4,000
900. according TO estimates given by Il.
G. Bartholomew, bee specialist, WAC
has been sent out by the department
Of agriculture to assist in increasing
the honey production ia the United
States.