The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-11-14
INLAND NORTHWEST

to orders received by the local unions.
Coal in transit, consigned TO Butte
dealers, will be seized by the railroads,
according to instructions received by
superintendent of lines entering
Butte.
According to reports given out at
the Butte Water Company office the
water situation has improved so
greatly that fear of famine this
winter is no longer felt.
The schools at Billings, Mont, have
been closed because of the coal famine
due to the strike of miners. More
than 1000 pupils and 40 teachers are
affected by the closing order.
Base hospital No so, formed in Seat
tie and the only Washington hospital |
unit recruited during the war, will be /
! kept intact as an organization and |
ready for national emergency.
Destruction of practically the entire !
business district of Jarbridge, Nev.,
with a loss estimated at $4,000 was
the result of a fire last week, the fire
sweeping the entire business section.
News from the ranges surrounding
Austin, Nevada, is that all the fat cat
tie have been sold and shipped away.
There are quite a number of feeders
remaining at the ranches, but no beef.
The ranch home of Isaac Rosted
Howie, near Big Timber, Mont, was,
with all furniture, completely destroy
ed by fire last week. The fire started
from defective stove pipe in the
dining room.
Utah's cleanup campaign against
weeds, which was inauguarated this
year under the direction of the state
crop pest commission, has proved that
the people are anxious to rid the state
of the pests, according to the commits
sion.
The coal mines at Price and Helper,
Utah, where the states largest mines
are located, are working with nearly
normal forces and the situation is re-
ported quiet. It is not believed there
will be any further trouble in this sec
ton.
Two thousand elk are reported to be
in herd in the Jackson valley district,
Wyo., according to a report received
from the supervisor of that forest
area They We're driven to the valley
by the heavy snowfall in the noun
tains.
John McNair, IA, and Gail Steven
son, 10, stepped off the train at Salt
Lake to be greeted by the A1cNair boys
father, in company with a juvenile
court officers. The two boys ran away
from their homes in Colorado Springs
several days previous.
A People of the Rio Virgin Valley in
Nevada, are favoring the idea of form
: ing an irrigation district under the law
passed by the last session of the legis
lature, and issuing bonds for the pur
pose of carrying out TIE plans for q
z permanent irrigation system.
n A charge of giving whiszey to {
q minor has been filed in justice cour
VI at Billings, Mont, against Nelson w
Greer, who, as a special detective, ap
peared recently as witness for tn
" state in number of local cases involv
ing traffic in Intoxicating liquor.
Although he is still confined TO hi
4 bed in a Butte hospital recuperatini
from the effects of an operation 70
appendicitis, Gov S. V. Stewart i
) able to keep in touch with the Goa
crisis in Montana, it is asserted, an
4 is retaining active direction of affairs
Il George Desmond, accused with job
81 Laird and Claude Cosman of havin
NJ robbed bank ut Sultan, Wash, las
81 June, and stealing $4,000, chiefly i
# Liberty bonds, pleaded guilty at
81 hearing at Everett, and with his con
panions was bound over to superiC
court.
Ranchers and stockmen Of the Teto
~ basin section of the valley just owe
the range on the Idaho side from Jacl
son Hole, Wyo., reported last wee
III that great heards of elk had con
81 down from the mountains into the va
~ ley and were feeding on the hay on ii
% ranches.
81 The town of Wyola, Mont, is RAJ
ia idly growing and now a new additic
has been plated to the little villas
and lots are being rapidly sold Wyo
is the first place of any Important
after crossing the Wyoming line al
NC has very fine community from viii,
to draw its trade.
In a statement issued to the publ
the grade teachers of Roundup, Mon
set forth the fact that many of the
number go to school without brea
fast and spend the noon hour cookil
81 their own meals because the pay I
IA ceived by them is inadequate to su
IA port them properly.
At Midnight on October 81, all uni
W miners in the Kemmerer, Wyo,, co
E$ mining district, in obedience to orde
jE from their leaders, went on stril
# The district is adjacent and trih