The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-10-03
INLAND NORTHWEST

Is now well under way.
An irrigation congress for Montana
will be called to meet in Bozeman,
january II, Is and 10, 1920
Over 400 applications for relief in
the way OF seed grain and feed have
now been filed with the county COM
missioners at Lewistown, Mont.
4 religious census which has just been
closed by the church organizations OF
kalispell, Mont, shows that total of
q different creeds are represented.
An overload broke the shaft on the
big turbine at the generating plant Of
the Alton (Wyo.) Electric company
and the town was In darkness for sew
eral nights
Not later than October l the Mon
tana trade commission is expected to
begin. active work on it's statewide
inquiry into the high cost of living
and its cause.
Completion of the irrigation district
at Shelby, Mont, which will include
2S5,O00 acres, is reported. This Is
said to be one of the largest projects
in the northwest.
Assessment of the wire lines of the
Mountain States Telephone and Tele-
graph company in Montana has been
fixed by the state board of equaliza-
ton at $4,996,S5S.60.
Due to the new school house being
Incomplete, school was begun at Ring
ling, Mont, September s, in the Con-
gregational church, which has been
fitted up for that purpose.
Over $50 men are needed for jobs
in and about Salt Lake ut good pay,
according to the United States EN-
ployment service, and no relief from
the situation seems apparent.
Charged with having disposed of
mortgaged property ]. w. Holman, a
former Great Northern special agent,
has been arrested in Seattle and will
be brought back to Great Falls. Mont
II IS satisfactory building can be Sc
cured for exhibition purposes the an
nual winter show of the Montana
Poultry association, usually held in
Butte, may be conducted in Great
Falls next January.
Daniel Haughton, 16 years old, died
from injuries received ut Billings
when a bicycle on which he and an
other boy were riding was struck by a
hotel motor omnibus. The other boy
sustained broken leg.
A campaign of eradication Is to be
launched at once against the woolly
maple bark louise, which, according to
State Horticultumst A. l.. Strauss, has
been found to be working great harm
to Mlssoula, Mont, shade trees
A woman sanitary inspector, whose
special field will be soda fountains and
restaurants and other public eating
and drinking establishments, will prob
ably be appointed by J. X. White pub
lie welfare commissioner of Idaho
S. w. Young and, r. l., Standish of
New York are inspecting the old placer
mine on Snake river, north of Alton,
Wyo., with view to, financing renewed
operations under modern methods. The
old property has produced considerable
placer gold.
Property owners, OF Billings, Mont,
on whose premises Il fire starts, in ac-
cumulated rubbish are liable to a fine
of $50 an hour for each hour spent by
the fire department in eXtinguishing
the blaze, according to an ordinance
Just adopted.
The Mendenhall Construction COM
pany of Utah has begun work On the
Montpelier, Ida, highway into, Alton,
Wye, shipping large amount of road
building equipment from the neighbor
state. About thirty teams and approxi-
mately 100 men are employed.
II, III. Fendall is dead, Miss Marga-
ret Beattie is suffering from a broken
collarbone, and numerous others from
prostration as result of fatigue, eN-
element or overcrowding incident to
the meeting at the tabernacle ut Salt
Lake, where President Wilson adj
dressed the people-of Utah,
George Il. Riggs, HuntleSs Mont,
rancher, convicted OF wife-murder, SEN
fenced TO die and reprieved by appeal
TO the state supreme court. probably
will learn his fate within the next
few days. Riggs has been in Jail since
March, 1918, when the body of his wife
was found in the burning kitchen of
| their home.
Proposed extension of the boundar-
les of Yellowstone national park to
include the jackson hole country is
condemned in resolution adopted re-
Gently by residents of Cody, Wye, in
mass meeting. The resolution de
clares the plan is being furthered by
those who would serve personal ends
| rather than public good"
The Nevada State Fish commission
has planted 2sNOO0 rainbow trout In
the Truckee river and expects the frs
to flourish in the river because of i'm
proved water conditions. The FloEis-