The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-03-15
INLAND NORTHWEST

officers in charge of the registration
Of firearms, that there are at least TO-
600 guns in Beaverhead county, Mon
| tana.
The Great Northern started cutting
Ice Mt Bitterroot lake last week to fill
the ice houses at Whitefish, Troy, Cut
Bank and Kalispell, Mont, as speedily
as possible.
Whether or not Butte shall have a
| public comfort station viii be decided |
April 2, when the electors Of the city /
cast ballots for or against $4,000 |
bond issue.
Miss Anne Fl. Martin of Nevada, vice
chairman of the National Woman's |
party, has announced her candidacy to
fill the unexpired term Of the late
Senator Newlands of Nevada.
The sale Of thrift and savings
stamps progressed very favorably at
Anaconda, Mont during the month Of
February, with the general sales be.
ing little over $1,000 per day.
Constitutionality of the Mason bill
| appropriating half million dollars to
be used for increased crop production
in Montana by the state council Of de-
Tense may be tested in the courts.
Ole Hanson, former member of the
Washington state legislature, was
chosen mayor of Seattle by majority
of more than $500 votes over James
+. Bradford, former corporation coun-
sell
| Attnpp9au CtannraI of Montana
has ruled that the law enacted by the
Fifteenth assembly prohibiting the
running at large of livestock in ihcor-
porated cities and towns applies with
equal force to range livestock.
: A coroner's jury at Dillon, Mont, de-
cided that Herbert Anderson, of Idaho
Falls, Idaho, came to death by his own
automatic into his body just above the
heart and also through his temple.
George Sample, an old time resi-
, dent of Fergus, Mont, for whom Sam
pies Crossing was named, was taken
to the insane asylum last week, rela-
tives Of the aged man finding it diff
! ! cult to longer take care of him and
protect him.
/ The Great Northern will put between
200 and 300 men to work within the
next two weeks on new construction
work at points between Cutbank and
Blackfoot, Mont, east of Glacier park.
The line over this territory will be
double-tracked.
The body of Simon 'Shaughnessy, a
pioneer prospector of the Blackfoot
+ country, was found lifeless in a pros.
y pect tunnel in which he had beer
working, five miles south of Potomac
Mont, by a searching party. 1t is be
Iieved foul air caused his death.
' The trial judge at Billings Mont.
i, imposed a fine of $500 on Lewis Downs
q and ordered his Incarceration in the
= county Jail for ninety days upon his
q second conviction On a charge of prac
n ticing chiropracty without having OBJ
t tanned a license from the state board
= Workmen in the forests of the Pa
cific northwest for the government are
to receive pay for eight hours at tht
v same rate as the ten hours pay here
tofore in effect, and for all timt
- worked above eight hours in any da!
they will be paid at the rate of time
r and a half.
+ Replies from 1879 farmers of Fergus
county, Montana, out of 5000 inquiries
- sent out showed 1913 farmers who neeC
aid to secure seed and 661 who wan
assistance in securing feed. There ar
91S bushels of oats Cor sale in Fergus
and 2515 bushels of barley, while TIN
farmers there are in the market TO
5,542 bushels of spring wheat, 60,71
bushels of oats, 1852 bushels of barle,
and 1915 bushels of flax.
Becoming alarmed because Herr
Anderson, a well known resident o
Dillon, Mont, had not appeared in an,
of his usual haunts for two days, hi
friends started investigating with tn
result that he was found dead in hi
room.
Industrial Workers of the World ar
active in northern Idaho, according +
I. A. Walters, attorney general o
Idaho. The organization is getting es
tablished in the mining districts of tn
n Occur d'Alenes, Attorney Genera
= Walters said.
Re A drive is being started at Round
is up, Mont, by Chairman Renshtw o
I. the Thrift Stamp committee to Undue
j every salaried man in Roundup t
u agree to take 10 per cent of his month
y ly salary in Thrift Stamps for the bal
y ance of the year.
: Approval by both state and nation
r. al councils of defense, the work of OF
"a tanning Utah's quota of the 100000
= now being raised by the Salvatioi
" Army for war work among the Ameri
os can soldiers and sailors is drawing I
o. a successful termination.
Reno police have started roundup
Of all men within the draft age VIII
| have failed to return their question