The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-10-17
INLAND NORTHW WEST

districts classes are maintained with
difficulty.
A large reservoir liz to be built in
Fall River meadow, 30 miles east Of
Ashton. Idaho, for the purpose Of ir-
rigating two million acres Of land.
Seventy-nine farms, comprising $500
acres, We're disposed of by drawing
at Powell, Wyo., the headquarters of
the Shoshone reclamation project in
Wyoming.
Alice Duffy, aged Is years, died in
a Helena hospital from shock and Sc
rious burns received while assisting in
starting fire in the kitchen Of st.
Joseph's Orphans home.
Herbert G.. Thompson, superintend-
ent of the Nevada Packard mine at
Packard, Nevada, was killed when he
| to the bottom, log feet.
The leaders In the movement to
/ create judith Basin county out Of the
west side Of Fergus and the east end
of Cascade, In Montana, have begun
the circulation of new petitions.
A rural life institute, gotten up along
the lines of the oId-fashioned farm
ers' Institute with many additional
features, Is scheduled to take place at
Twin Bridges, Mont, October 1920.
A Lewiston, Mont, elevator company
has begun an action against the Great
Northern to recover $500, represent
Ing the value of wheat alleged to have
l ~, ,,fe
Secretary Franklin K. Lane of the
interior department has announced
that $1,000,000 will be expended in
reclaiming Utah Lake bottom land by
diking the shores of the lake and
draining the water-soaked land.
A Lewistown, Mont, correspondent
says the first Lewistown woman to kill
Il deer this season is Mrs John Brooks,
who has just returned from the Little
Belt mountains with Mr.. Brooks The
latter brought down black bear.
According to the report just issued
by the government of the production Of
gold and silver in the United States
for the calendar year 1913 Nevada is
fourth in the list in the production of
gold and third in the production of
silver.
Montana merchants who fail to APP
ply for licenses under the state PRO
fiteer" bill before November / face
fines of 800 to $1,000, according to a
resolution adopted by the Montana
trade commission, which administers
the law.
Several hundred men will be en-
ployed this fall by the national govern
ment improving the highways in Vel
lowstone National park. Already a
large force has been started at work
and will be augmented as rapidly as
possible.
The story is going the rounds about
a bootlegger who sampled his own
goods so freely that he was found by
the roadside near Winnemucca, New,
by three of that towns residents, who
conflseated the greater portion of the
bootlegger's stock.
After being at liberty for nearly
seven years following the fatal stab
: bling of James Ferry at Butte on the
! night of November 81, 1912, Dan Mer-
rigan has been taken to the state
prison to start in on his long term of
from 40 to so years at hard labor.
Under the law regulating the fixing
of the true value of property and the
levying of taxes upon certain fixed
percentages, the assessed valuation of
Cascade county, Montana, this year
,, is smaller by $1,512,940 than in 1918
when the taxable valuation was $42,-
, 174,965.
Reports from eight counties In Mon
} tana show that the situation in regard
to the shortage of hay is not so acute
as it was thought to be about six
!, weeks ago. several counties reporting
, that the market is slow, the third cut
ting yielding well and that the demand
is not so acute as 1t has been.
A maximum grade of per cent from
Salt Lake over the Lincoln highway
, to Carson City, New, will be possible
t soon, members of the highway asso
I citation announce. The association will
i subscribe $125000 and the remainder
I necessary to construct the highway
> S425, 000 will come from federal, state
3 and local funds.
: Not having the heart to shoot an ole
3 horse belonging to them, Erick anC
8 Herbert Hoare of Eureka, Utah
' humanely as they thought, put sticl
of dynamite in each ear of the horse
and, turning their faces away, touched
match to the fuse and ran. There
is no more horse and Erick and Her
bert feel easy in conscience.
A Tonopah dispatch says that
standing behind the curtains OF darl
room leading into the office of he
: boarding house, Mrs. Mary Harring
!, ton, according to her report to the of
: hrel.s Nrntchad Fred Rowe driver fn