The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-05-13
INLAND NORTHWEST

The war department records show
that Il Montanans who were with the
Seventy-seventh division were killed
/ in battle.
Olga Heare, aged 26, was instantly
! killed when a car he was driving
plunged over an embankment near
Red Lodge, Mont.
The town of Denton, Mont, is COM
pleting arrangements to put in mu
nicipal water works system, the esti-
mated cost being 100000.
On May 4; Oregon went over the top
in her, Victory loan campaign. Ore
CONS quota was $26,747,550, which has
been heavily over-subscribed.
Northwest dividends according to
careful estimates of Mining Truth, de-
clined from $2629,307 in the first quar-
ter of 1918, to $1,4S4,711 in 1919.
| Range conditions throughout the
state of Nevada are said by sheep and
cattle men to be in fine condition now,
! due to the heavy SHOWS of the winter
and recent rains.
| Estimates based on hurried fed
eral and state check-up of the damage
done to the Idaho fruit crop by the
heavy frosts of Sunday place the loss
at from % to so per cent of the crop.
! Animal tuberculosis still exists to
some extent in Montana, it is stated
/ by DR.. j. A. Herman, chief of the
tuberculosis eradication division of the
federal bureau of animal industry de-
partment of agriculture.
A new attempt is to be made to
reopen the old Keene coal mine, To-
Gated a short distance from Roundup,
Montana. This was formerly one of
the best mines in the district, but liti-
cation put it out of business.
1t is announced that Boy Scouts
sold $4,000 worth of Liberty bonds in
Missoula, Mont, during the recent
drive. This was the only solicitation
used in raising the county's quota Of
100000,
The plains Of eastern Montana are
being gradually planted to shade trees
and windbreaks, largely from the for
estry school of the University of Mon
tana at Missoula. More than 1900
young trees have been distributed by
the school during the last year.
Official statements of the labor
shortage and announcement Of the
great employers of the state that their
demand henceforth will either remain
stationary or increase, puts Montana
among the few states where unemploy-
ment practically does not exist.
The head of the employment office
at Elko, Nevada, reports that last
week he had calls for more than 90
men to work on ranches in this vicin-
ity at wages of from $50 to $65 per
month and board, but that he was I'M
able to secure sufficient workers to
fill the demand. .......
For probably the first time in the
history of labor movements the Loyal
Legion of Loggers met in open ses-
sion with the Salem, Oregon, Central
Labor Council to promote voluntary
mediation of all differences between
employers and employees without re-
sort to strikes.
A circular letter has been sent
to farmers and farmers organizations
over the state calling a meeting to be
held in Great Falls, Mont, May 10,
for the purpose of organizing "the
united farmers of Montana said to
be patterned after an organization OF
similar name in Canada.
Organization of second class IN
vocational training for miners is an
nounced by Frank H. Skeels, director
of the extension course OF the
University of Idaho school Of mines.
Actual mining work is to be performed
by members of the class in the Hecla
mine at Occur d'Alene.
The Montana branch of the Non
partisan league has begun fight
against the approval by the voters at
the special election Sept. on the
referendum amending the primary law
to provide for the nomination of state
and federal officers in state conven-
lions instead of by primary elections.
The epidemic of sickness raging in
Tonopah, Silver Peak and Blair Is said
by Goldfield physicians not to be In
fluenza, but plain grippe, and they
explain the number Of deaths recent
ly by stating that the number Is not
unusual for this season of the year
when the present large population Is
considered. ....
Jeff Hanna, 40 years old, an at
tendant at the state hospital at Salem,
Oregon, is dead with bullet wound
in his head and Mrs. Josie Stotler,
80, is in the city pail there with q
slight scalp wound as the result OF
trouble at Mrs. Stotler's home. The
woman contends that Hanna first shot
her and then turned the gun on him.
self.
The bed of Silver lake, eighty-five
miles south of Bend, Oregon, almost
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