The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-11-01
INLAND NORTHWEST


Mont, when he was struck by train.
In the standing of states listed ac-
cording TO number of war savings so
cieties organized In proportion to Che
number required, Montana has seventh
place
Montana soldiers and sailors do not
have to pay real or personal taxes UNI
til year after the close of the war,
the state attorney general announced
last week.
Some of the saloons at Lewiston,
Mont, failed to obey the order not to
permit any lettering in those places
Saturday and the city authorities or
dered them closed entirely
John Robertson Jr., of Bozeman,
Mont, was drowned in Madison lake
while duck hunting. Robertson went
out all alone in small boat, and the
capsized boat was found some hours
later
The census of Helena school children
just completed shows there are 3O36
children between the ages of q
and 81 in the district. In addition,
IutIe are 1sltD hlihNA " "a
Helena.
During the week of November IL to
II, a United War Work campaign for
funds is to be made in Montana and
Beaverhead county is allotted a sum of
$4,000 as it's share of the state ap-
portionment.
Every business house in Rawlins,
Wyo., closed for an hour, all bells were
tolled and flags at half-mast, during
the funeral of Private Glenn Tschudy,
whose body was brought for burial
from Camp Funston.
Lee Hun Poye, age 80, Chinaman,
was killed at Ogden by an automobile
driven by Andrew Read, II years of
age. Poye was crossing the street and
became confused by the lights and
stepped in front of the car.
Lying on the stomach, with bullet
hole through the brain and .3S-caliber
revolver beside it, the body OF Fred
erick Dean, SO years old, was found
near the road at Little Basin, Mont
The man is thought to have committed
suicide.
Operations of the first electric train
of the Milwaukee railroad into Seattle
July 1, 1919. is predicted by H. e. By
ram. federal director. Completion OF
the electrification work will give the
railroad $50 miles of electrified line tc
the coast.
Deliah and bessie Tyreville, twin
sisters, and Florence Halsted are EN-
ployed as engine wipers at the Burling
ton roundhouse at Gillette, Wyo They
have been on the job for more than
month. like it and are giving satisfac
ton. They receive $3.T0 for 1O-hou
shift
Fully so per cent of the men internet
at Fort Douglas are in sympathy will
the German government, according t
Herman Waldorf of Reno, New, WHIT
has Just been paroled from the prison
barracks. Waldorf declares the mos
dangerous men interned there are mem
bers of the /. w. w.
More than 800 contractors engaged
in hazardous work in Montana hav'
suspended business during the las
three months, and do not intend t
resume operations until after the war
This is shown by the cancellations o
insurance policies with the state in
dustrial accident board.
The senate has rejected an amend
ment by Senator Myers of Montana TO
an appropriation of $5,000,000 to pur
chase seed wheat for farmers il
drought-stricken regions. Senator
Myers said the presidents allotment
of funds for seed wheat will be ex
hausted in fall planting.
District No of the forest service
with headquarters ut MisSoula, Mont
has completed the sale of 15,000,00t
feet of timber in Beaver Greek in tn
Occur d'Alene forest and 100000 fee
in the Kaniksu forest, near Prizes
river. The greater amount brough
$3.50 a thousand feet and the smalle
$40.
After week in a Missoula hos
pitaI, Ralph Logan of Stevensville
Mont, died of broken back. Will
working on building in Stevensvill
he saw a wall starting to fall on littl
girl who lived nearby. He threw him
SelI DeHedtll the wall preventing III
jury to the child, but suffered broker
back himself.
Beet sugar manufacturers of Utal
and Idaho are facing the unusual SIT
uatiOn of having an abundance of su
gar on hand with no immediate mar
ket for it, according to Stephen Il
Love, sales manager of the Utah-Idah,
Sugar company, and member of tn
distributing committee of the western
sugar division, Chicago.
Mayor Lewis Clark of Lewiston
Mont, has just taken the physical ex
animation, passing, and he says he ha
waived all exemption claims and hope
to be called into the active servic
soon.
The Utah industrial commission
awarded $500 to Constancio Olaqu
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