The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-01-07
INLAND NORTHWEST


was walking home from Belgrade
when he was struck by train and
killed.
As a means Of providing work for
returned soldiers, number Of public
improvements are to be begun at Salt
Lake at once.
Attorney General Ford has an.
nounced prosecution in II Montana
cities of butchers who adulterate lard
with beef suet and sell the compound
as lard.
The meeting of the Lemhi Wool
growers association, scheduled for
January 6, at Salmon, Idaho, has been
indefinitely postponed on account Of
the FLU" epidemic.
Word has reached Whitefish, Mont,
that ]. w. Cars, a former resident Of
that section. recently committed sui
eide in hunting cabin about 30 miles
north of Calgary, Alberta.
Catching his left eye on a hook on
the bathroom door, 4-year-old Thomas
Gourley, of Salt Lake, sustained Sc
we're laceratien Immediately below the
eye and narrowly escaped losing his
sight.
Pascual Garrza, Mexican, swallowed
quantity of carbOnic acid in his room
at a hotel In Salt Lake by mistake.
Garrza was i'll and did not stop to turn
on the light while reaching for his
drink.
Chief Moiese of the Flathead reser-
walton in Montana, the one remaining
link on the reservation between the
old invasion of Chief Joseph of Nez
Perez and the present, died of influ-
enza last week.
1t is probable that test case will
come up at Kalispell, Mont, to deter.
mine whether under the new "dry" law
the manufacture and sale Of beer con-
tanning less than 2 per cent Of alcohol
will be permitted.
Max Schonberger, aged SO, was shot
and fatally wounded by his son Henry
during quarrel at the family resi-
dence in Butte. According to the sons
version, his father was beating MS
wife when he shot him.
Butte police and county authorities
in connection with local postal heads,
are investigating alleged shortage OF
about $4,000 in war savings and thrift
stamps, said to have been found In the
accounts of two booths at the Butte
postoffice.
Miss Alice Chisholm of Bozeman and
Miss Gladys Olcott of Red Lodge are
the two women chosen by the Womens
Division War personel board OF the
Young Mems Christian association to
represent Montana in the unit for over
seas service.
At statewide convention, probably
TO be held during the month, the cham
bers of commerce and commercial
clubs of the state will take action on
bringing to Montana due percentage
of returning soldiers who desire to
settle On the soil.
Sheepherders are trailing their
flocks into Nevada, due to the scarcity
Of water holes on the desert in the
western part of Utah. Very little snow
has fallen in the western part OF the
state. Only a few punches OF sheep
are now on the Utah desert.
The establishment of the Montana
FIGURING Mills company at Harlow
town, Mont, will purchase practically
100000 bushels of wheat direct from
Wheatland county farmers. The esti'
mated wheat production OF the entire
county is 100000 bushels.
Increase in business Of the state OF
Hkah and additional work placed upon
the office of the attorney general by
the various new commissions has
made the present force entirely made
quate for the proper performance OF
the duties of the office, it is asserted.
Influenza caused 571 deaths In Sc
attic during the first eleven months OF
1918, according to the annual report
of the city health commissioner. Since
the epidemic started 100000 doses OF
vaccine have been given out by the
city health department, the report
showed.
Stocks and bonds held by the sew
eral state banks of Utah at the close
of business on October s, 1918, amount
ed to $15,O17, 1888, according to the b.
ennial report of Bank Commissioner
william e. Evans. Compared with his
first call made June 20, 1917, the In
crease in the amount held is $780,
448.
A report issued by the field agent
for Utah and Nevada shows farm
wages averaging $64 month with
board and $84 without board. Day
wages in harvest averaged $3.1t with
board and $3.50 when board was not
furnished. Most farmers report that
sheepherders and cowmen received
higher wages than farm labor and that
in consequence help was hard to get
or keep.
"The most important achievement OF