The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-10-24
INLAND NORTHWEST

The state board Of pharmacy and
the state board of health are to unite
in campaign against the drug evil
in Montana.
Jealousy it is believed, prompted
Joseph Grandis, aged 30, to kill his
divorced wife, Mrs. Edith Grandis, and
then take his own life, at Butte.
The Oregon Federation of Labor,
which closed its state convention at
Bend on October 10, gave its approval
to the Plumb plan of railroad control.
Members of the Ninety-first division,
in which many Utahns fought, cap
tured 2412 prisoners during the war
or 3,s2 per cent of all the foes taken
captive.
In a campaign in Canyon county,
Idaho against blackleg, 116 calves
were vaccinated in one day in the Lone
Star community. The calves belonged
to 16 owners.
The Northwestern box apple crop
shows little change, the estimate
standing at 30,696.O00 boxes, compared
with u 100000 boxes in 1918, an in
crease of al per cent.
Salt Lakes building activities in
creased 81 per cent last September as
compared with the same month year
! before, the money involved being $685.
273, as compared with $1S3,750.
The Montana state poultry show is
to be held at Great Falls, January 10
to "a More than 400 pens are as
sured and it is expected the show will
be the largest ever held in the state.
Six thousand acres of flax en- the
| Fort Peck Indian reservation, which
| was put in by the Montana Farming
corporation, is now being harvested
and is expected to average eight husil-
els to the acre.
Ten days after the close Of the
miners strike ct Tonopah all of the
producing mines, many of the more
thoroughly developed properties and
a number of the smaller ones were
again being worked.
A carload of Idaho seed wheat VIII
be purchased next spring by farm bu-
reau members of Kittitas county,
Washington. who want to profit by the
fact that Idaho seed is certified by
law. Dicklow is the variety of wheat
decided upon
A beet top ensflage campaign is be-
Ing conducted in Oneida county, Idaho,
, this fall. Heretofore the beet tops
] have been fed off the fields In one
day of the campaign, four farmers
promised to act as demonstrators in
ensilage work.
oJr of the most unusual happenings
in railroad wrecks occurred at Rye
gate Mont, when an eytra engine and
caboose ran into and totally DESTROYED
a cottage belonging to Fred Wyman
of Ryegate, which was being moved
across the track.
Influenza is showing a slight in
: cPrase in Montana, according to re-
ports received by DR.. John j. Sppy
: state epidemiologist, nineteen new
cases coming to the attention of his
office during the past week, compared
with ten the week previous.
a No sheep will be admitted into Utah
. from Colorado unless they have a dip
A ping certificate. This decision was
3 made last week by the state livestock
board because a Utah inspector haf
! discovered that sheep from Montr0s,
II county, Colo, were afflicted will
l. scabies.
e Sensational stories of drought con
10 ditions in Montana have failed to in
% jure the states reputation with pros
W pective buyers of farm lands, accord
d ing to the number Of inquiries re
D. cefved at the office or Charles [
s Greenfield. state commissioner of ayr
At culture and publicity.
After just completing a fine res
dence on his ranch near Roundup
b. Mont, Barton Tucker, a well know
o. rancher of the Bull mountain distric
ID suffered the loss of the house an
r, contents by fire. Sparks from d'
as fectfve flue are believed TO have bee
st responsible for the disaster.
i Walter Reese, negro section han
at Garter Wyo., was fatally injure
as the result of a peculiar acciden
at While walking home from work b
~ reached under a ear to pick up a piec
Z of coal. An engine hit the string {
cars, a large car door fell on Rees
" pinning him to the ground, and th
cars wheels ran over his legs.
a. Mrs. Christine Hazelton of Forsyth
re- Mont, has been arrested on the charg
as of first degree murder, being accuse
of the killing of her newborn baby
Harlowton a few weeks ago. 1t
claimed that the deed was committt
~ in a hotel at Harlowton and the bal
II was disposed of by dropping the boz
- from car window near Gage, whe
- it was found.