The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-09-19
INLAND NORTHWEST

of former saloons, is to be destroyed
in Billings soon.
Matt Feldman, well known young
man of Lewistown, Mont, was killed
in an automobile accident between
Hilger and Lewistown.
Absolute necessity of a landing field |
to keep pace with the progress of avi- |
alton has been felt in Billings, Mont,
and steps are to be taken at once
for securing suitable site.
Members of the farm bureau In Ben |
ton county, Wash, who organized
bull club three years ago, have sold, |
for 1850, a bull which they purchased |
for $3.50 when they organized.
Mrs Mary F. Conkheit. aged 6s, said
to have been the first white girl in
Broadwater county, Montana, and
known to have been one of the first
white girls in Montana, died at Hell
ena last week from infirmities due to
old age.
Senator Myers has introduced bill
giving all American citizens who en-
| listed in any of the allied armies, in
| Guiding Canada, and left the United
States to serve abroad, the same home
| stead rights as those who enlisted in
the American army.
| A referendum vote taken by the Vir-
glnia City and Gold Hill, Nev., miners
on the question of continuing the
strike or accepting the So day wage
4 as caI NV thn
in the union members sustaining the
action to resume work at the So scale.
A survey TO check up the results of
the Standardization campaign CON
Quoted last spring in Colorado showed
that where such treatment was prac-
ticed there was very little smut, but
where the seed had not been treated as
high as % per cent infection was re-
corded.
Complaints are being made by Ely,
Nevada, merchants to the city author
flies against the practice of persons
who interfere by peddling without a
license, with the regular business Of
established houses that are regular
licensed business establishments and
tax payers.
The Farm Bureau of Willard county,
Utah, through its livestock project
committee and county agent, induced
81 farmers to cooperate in the mar
keting of the wool clip, with the result
that $500 pounds of wool were pool
ed and marketed at an average price
of so cents a pound.
, The search and seizure clause of
) the Wyoming prohibition law was held
unconstitutional by Judge J. H. Bur.
CESS in the district court at Sheridan
/ The court ordered the return to origi'
r nal owners of large quantities of Ii
quor seized and held as evidence
I against alleged violators of the dry
law.
9 Stockmen and farmers in the seri
e ously drougth-stricken area of Mon
e tana and adjoining states, where feet
crops and pastures have failed fol
, lack of rainfall, are being given some
!. relief through well-organized and co
), operative efforts of the United State:
I department of agriculture and STATE
4 officials
/ A significant step in the project o
o boring the Moffat tunnel through
James Peak was made at Denver las
y week when l.. D. Blauvelt of Denver
/ associated with the engineer eXecutiv,
r staff of the Denver s. Salt Lake rail
e road for sixteen years, was appointed
/. consulting engineer for the enterprise
;. by the state railroad commission.
g Senator John f. Nugent of Idaho, a
/, the request of the United Stockmen'
e association, has telegraphed Presiden
d Wilson asking that he grant an inter
v view while in Salt Lake, Septembe
IS %, to a delegation representing west
ern stockmen in order that they ma
q discuss with him the question of fed
d eral control of public grazing lands.
e A law under which the state of Ne
n yada is estimated to have collectet
IS 100000 annually and which wa
amended by the last legislature to pre-
vide for collection of a license fee 70
IS grazing on Nevada ranges at a highe
$ rate for nonresident stockmen thai
$ for residents has been declared uncor
l. stitutional by Judge E. J. L. Taber i
!, the district court at Elko, New.
0 The sum of S165,950 was distribute
TO persons in the city of Reno in 191
by the various life insurance con
panies of the country on account 0
death claims and matured policie:
e Winnemucca came second with claim
L aggregating $4,000, Goldtield mex
" with $4,000, Goodsprings $1,000
t Carson City $4,000, Tonopah S12, T5C
rs Virginia City $12,75O, Ely S11,5O0.
1t The first step toward reclamation
II of the famous big Bruneau projeC
and toward development of the powe