The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-06-07
INLAND NORTHWEST


dividual subscriber need not pay up.
General livestock problems and the
program for this season were dis
cussed at the annual conference at
Helena of state stock inspectors with
deputy state veterinarians.
1t is announced that Nevadans will
ing and capable of working on farms
during the summer months are asked
to enroll as emergency farm laborers
in the public service reserve.
About $4,000 acres of land in the
Helena forest, but practically all pri-
vately owned, situated in various parts
| of the Helena reserve, have been elm
mated from federal control.
1t is estimated that in Fergus coun-
| ty, Montana, this season crop val
ued at $30,000,0O0 viii be garnered.
There is a total acreage of about 500,-
GOO acres of winter and spring wheat.
There are more new residences and
business houses being built this sum
mer in Dillon, Mont, than at any time
since the early days of the railroad.
| At the present time there are 10 new
/ houses under construction.
June will witness the dedication of
| the Bonner monument at Bonner lake,
one of the principal speakers being
Governor Boyle of Nevada, who will
address the gathering by invitation of
the Native Sons of California.
After a hopeless fight for her life
| covering a period of 10 days, Mrs.
Gladys Aston Bray succumbed to the
bullet wounds inflicted by her husband,
Martin Bray, at Butte, K. S. Showers
was instantly killed by Bray while
| walking with Mrs. Bray.
Warrants totaling S65,207 have been
distributed among Montana counties by
State Auditor c. G. Poland, being their
share of the receipts from automobile
licenses in 1917. The money will be
expended on road work under the sup
ervision of the state highway commits
sion.
Eight hundred and twenty-four dol
lars and eighty cents was the spien-
did sum raised for the Red Cross by
the Italian men and women of Reno
who prepared and served most pal.
atable dinner on the evening of Italian
Day. the third anniversary of Italy's
entry into the war.
The interior department has ap,
proved regulations opening to entry
under the homestead laws about 49,
600 acres of agricultural land in the
Portland land district, Oregon. The
lands are a portion of what are com
monty known as the Oregon and Cali
fornia railroad grant lands.
Mrs. Axel Anderson is at the hos
pital at Lewiston, Mont, as result o
an attempt at suicide by taking bella
donna while temporarily demented, thi
being due to worry because of base
less reports circulated to the effec
hat the family was pro-German, which
preyed upon the woman's mind.
Manuel Perry, of Butte, was digging
a ditch in the front yard of his home
and dug the hole about eight feet deeI
when suddenly the ground caved in
burying him under several tons o.
earth. He was removed from the holt
by neighbors and rushed to the hos
pital, where his condition was pro
!. nounced serious.
Seventeen hundred needy farmers il
Montana have been loaned approx
mately 5000 each this spring by thu
state council of defense from its hal
million dollar defense fund, for tht
purpose of buying seed grain and il
|. some instances horse feed.
The Pacific Coast Internationa
league was cut to four clubs at a spe
cial meeting of the league directors
held at Portland last week. Tocam;
and Spokane were the clubs dropped
The situation in the two cities ha
been hopeless from the start.
Joint committees appointed by tn,
farmers and stoekgrowers' section o
the war conference recently held il
Reno and the union labor section hav,
decided it inadvisable, at this time, Il
make any wage schedule for farm la
Dor in Nevada and do not conside
that the liquor question should b.
taken up at this time
The threatened strike of Virgins
City, Nevada, miners will not mate
rtalfze as a committee of miners, Op
orators and state officials agreed Il
arDitrate differences between men ant
owners with the result that fiat seal
of five dollars day for all under
ground workers and for top carmen ha
been agreed upon for the duration 0
the war.
The first injury to a woman workin;
in the Northern Pacific shops at Liy
ington, Mont, since women have beer
employed, occurred last week, whel
Miss Frances Sheplak, an engin
wiper, was crushed between an en-
CINE and post. She was taken to
hospital where it was reported thre
ribs were broken, but she is expectet
to recover.
The committee in charge of tn
, Beayerhead (Montana) Lamb Raising
/. club is very enthusiastic over the re
: Spouse which it has received in TIL
movement. Already about 80 children
of Dillon have made application tt
take one or more lambs TO raise Will
the stockmen of the county have agree
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