The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-09-26
INLAND NORTHWEST

death occurred at his store In Phillips.
burg, Mont, May 10, was acquitted by
jury.
The need for residences in Libby,
Mont, was the chief topic discussed
at meeting of the directors and men,
bers Of the recently organized Libby
Commercial club.
| With the members Of the Elks lodge
in every county in charge, a campaign
to secure $4,000 for use Of the Saliva
ton Army in home service work will
be started in Nevada.
With the forest fire season over, the
most disastrous in the history of the
Helena national forest reserve, all but
the regular rangers and a few guards
have been withdrawn.
At Harlem, in Montana, has just
been completed most novel athletic
tournament in the nature of horse
shoe-pitching contest in which a num-
Der of experts from various points
participated.
Michael O'Neill, aged %, was burned
to death in his room at Butte. He was
smoking a cigar, and 1t is believed he
fell asleep while smoking, and that the
bed clothing took fire, the smoke suf-
locating him.
The winter apple harvest In the
Walla Walla valley has commenced.
The crop is valued at $75O,OOO, includ-
ing several good-sized orchards which
are coming into bearing in paying
quantities for the first time.
AS reward for it's loyalty in meet
ing every Liberty loan with an over
subscription, the state Of Montana has
been given a German artillery field
piece and it's carriage, captured BY
American forces during the war.
Ole Hanson, former mayor of Sc
attic, leaves Seattle September 20 to
deliver several speeches on American
ism under the auspices of the lyceum
bureau. He will speak in Texas, Okla
homa, Ohio, Iowa, Georgia and other
states.
Gas masks have been used with
great success by some of the crews
fighting fires in the forests OF Mon
tana. They were sent from the east
by the forest service headquarters,
which obtained them from the war de-
partment.
Although he faced death almost daily
for five months while in France at.
tached to a supply train of the Ninety
first division Of the American army
and escaped without scratch, Walter
D. Hay returned home only to be kill
ed in an automobile wreck near Great
Falls, Mont.
Mrs. Bessie Clark, held in the county
Jail at Butte. on charge Of the MUIR
der of Grover G. Burns, denies that
she told Officers Rodda and Gilbert
that she killed Burns. Mrs. Clark re-
marked that she had killed Burns, and
was willing to give herself up, accord
ing to the officers.
Stock ranges have been benefited
throughout the intermountain region
by the rains of the early part of the
month. This relief to the ranges NIT
igates condition which has been
serious setback to the st0ckmen of
the west, particularly those in Mon
tana, Wyoming and Idaho.
Frank and Robert Mcdonald, who
escaped from the jail at Ely, New,
where they were arrested two weeks
ago for the alleged abduction of Louise
Snelgrove, 14-year-Old Salt Lake girl,
and who are also wanted in New York |
on charge Of grand larceny, were re-
captured at Atlanta, New.
Eleven silos are being constructed In
Washington county, Idaho, as result
of two silo excursions held In April,
supplemented by the individual efforts
of the dairy and livestock committee.
men of the county farm bureau, and
the county agent.
If suggestion made to the city
council and now being considered by
the ways and means committee should
be adopted the city of Great Falls next
winter will engage in the retail coal
business, disposing Of fuel to the peo-
pie of the city at actual cost.
d. M. Defines, Victoria cross winner,
held at Aberdeen, Wash, for crime
Of forgery committed in 1914, said
that he had hoped through his war
record In France to wipe out his past. |
He said he had hoped to die in France,
but he came out only wounded.
A disastrous fire occurred at Re
lance, Wyo., when the warehouse Of
the Union Pacific Coal company was
destroyed. The loss is approximately
$4,000. The origin Of the fire Is not
Known. The structure will be rebuilt
ut once.
It's worth $4,000 to be called an
|. w. w., believes Arthur A. Peter
son of Billings. He has filed suit
'or that amount against Joseph Bene-
lict, also Of that place, claiming that
he latter circulated malicious reports
him.