The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-07-12
INLAND NORTHWEST

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automobiles being driven around Fer.
gus county, according 70 complaint
to Secretary Of State stewart from q
business house in Lewistown, Montana.
one hundred aud twenty-five men In
the United States army was Neyada's
offerings for the defense Of democracy
and humanity during the month Of
June, according 70 figures Just com
piled.
Orland Smith who Is alleged to have
III w. VI tendencies was given 80
days In the county JILL recently on a
charge OF trying 10 promote strike
on the John Peterson ranch near Grant,
Mont
A coroners jury which fully Inves-
tigated the death Of Thomas II. KEEP
ner. who shot himself IN his law office
ut Reno, returned verdict to the ef
feet thnt the shooting had been acct
dental.
Nearly $1,000 available TO Montana
high schools for the installation Of
| trade Industrial courses under the
Smith. Hughes act has been turned back
to the state and federal governments
for failure Of schools to establish sucn
courses
Albertlna Kraus, Of Wolf Point,
Mont, was held for trial in the fed
eral court on sedltion charge. She
pleaded not guilty. The woman. who
is 90 years old and servant, is said
TO have prophesied that the Germans
win win the war.
Experiments conducted at Huntley,
| Montana, with sunfiower as silage,
have proven so encouraging that they
| nre to be repeated In other sections Of
! the nation where the growing season
Is too cool for the production of large
| Yields of silage corn.
| The sheriff at Butte has gone to Ely
New, to get Harry Clarke, who is held
| there on charge of wife desertlon.
! Clarke, II IS alleged, deserted his wife
and four children in Butte u year ago
last November and the sheriff has been
! looking for him ever since.
In Wyoming 694 corporations with a
gross Income of $2,645.s99 paid tax
Of $1T0,StS. The coal mines alone,
with a gross income of S9,000000, paid
! $35,5SS income tax, and 175 stock
raisers, whose aggregate income was
$6,55S, 507, paid tax Of $4S,27S.
The largest income reported In Wyo-
ming Is less than 100000. In that
state are three citizens paying tax
on incomes ranging from $4,000 TO
100000. There are 673 citizens OF
Wyoming who paid income taxes last
year, the total tax amount being
S67510.
For the first time since America en-
tered the war a permanent recruiting
station for the regular army has been
opened in Butte. Authority has been
granted by the adjutant general. who
finally yielded to insistent appeals
made by military officials during the
past Is months.
John Duffey resident Of Camp
Three, Montana. has Just been grant
ed pension for his services during
the Civil war. Duffey was in the Sixth
infantry and served under General Gus
ter In the Indian wars He escaped
the massacre by having been sent as
messenger to distant fort.
b. Frederic, Westmore an instruc-
tor in the Spokane, Wash, high school,
! has learned through rather serious ex-
perience that signs around war
, prison camp mean just what they say
, when they warn to keep out" he
having been arrested at Fort Douglas
Utah aud held for examination
AS fuel distributor, Moroni Heiner
has big task before him. Within his
: Jurisdiction, which embraces all Of
, Utah and the counties of Lincoln
: Uinta. Sweetwater, Carbon, Albany
Laramie, Goshen and Platte, in south
: ern Wyoming, there are approximately
: sixty producing coal mines which ht
Q wiz have TO report to the government
5 Though believing the rates are dis
J crimlnatoIy against Montana the Mon
4 tana railroad commission has wiret
] G. A. Prouty, director of the account
ing division Of the federal railroad ad
, minlstration, that 1t viii accept ant
| approve of the Interstate zone system
| Of rates plus 10-per.cent increase
/ which Director General McAdoo ha'
L recommended,
II North Dakota lead I'LL other SKATES II
II livestock impor1ations into Montau;
II during June according to figures pre-
II pared IN the ollice Of State Neterina
rlan Butler There were IFS snip
ments mto Montana Of which - wer,
from North Dakota aud II from Mime
r sofa. Iowa was third The Shipment
{ Included ia22 head Of cattle, 2S2 horse
/ aud 1862 sheep
! There are many saloons In Nevada
$ which probably have not understoot
] that their sugar usage i limited
l. These Will not be allowed to purchas
any cane or beet sugar products ate
! july l without presenting the neees
9 sary certificates, ana they and tn
q dealers from whom they buy ar
! warned that no exceptions will b
. made. nor Will evasion be tolerated
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