The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-04-25
INLAND NORTHWEST

hAnus AT wages ranging from 500 tC
S7o per month in the Kalispell, Mont.
section.
! The new Roundup, Mont, creamery
will start operations May Is, and will
commence buying cream and. Liakins
butter on that date.
Police asserted they believe that
when they arrested John Field, a
miner, at Seattle they stopped an In
dustrial Workers of the World plot to
kill Chief of Police ]. F. Warren.
mo Agents Wanted" signs are seen
on the front pOrches of a great many
Dillon, Mont, residences lately as the
annual spring visit of house-to-house
peddlers to the city has proved some
what annoying.
| Contest proceedings have been
brought by w. F. Dunn and James ].
Mccarthy against Capt. William Cults
and Charles H. Treacy, declared by
the official count to be the Democrat
nominees for mayor and city treasurer,
respectively, at Butte.
The U. S. employment bureau in
Havre, Mont, reports that there is a
great demand for farm laborers, es-
pec:ally in and around Hill county.
There is a great necessity for supply
ing the farmers with labor for the
spring blowing and seeding.
The state game warden is now gath
ering rifles and shotguns confiscated
from aliens in various parts of Mon.
tana who had no alien gun licenses,
and shortly before the hunting season
opens the weapons. numbering several
hundred, will be sold at public auction.
Assistant Attorney General Choate
has been appointed state code COM
missioner by the Montana supreme
court. The position pays $1,000 year
and the duties include recOdification
Of the laws. 1t is thought it will re-
quire two years to complete the work.
1t is anticipated that as soon as Gov
ernor Steward appoints the board Of
managers for the vocational schools
for girls, whose establishment was pro-
vided for by the sixteenth assembly,
that there will be a lively scramble on
the part of Montana towns to secure
the institution.
The mayor of Salem, Oregon, will
appoint special committee to con-
slider ways and means of establishing
a municipal telephone system, If the
Oregon public service commission is
sues an order allowing the Pacific
Telephone & Telegraph company to in
crease it's rates, it is announced.
Announcement is by the West Coast
Lumbermen's association that the
United States Railroad administration
has ordered Of Oregon and Washing,
ton mills 175,0O0,O0O feet Of Douglas
fir ties for Atlantic coast railroads. In
10000 feet Of ties have been
ordered of northwestern mills for
French and English railroads.
Capital punishment was restored in
Nevada when Governor Boyle allowed
an amendment to the present murder
act to become law without his sigma
ture. The law makes "any kind Of
willful, deliberate and premeditated
murder of the first degree,
punishable by death or life imprlson.
ment, in the discretion of the jury.
Use of captive balloons, as well as
airplanes in patrolling the forests Of
the west, to locate fires, and for fight
ing fires from the air, was predicted
by Henry S. Graves, chief Of the
United States forest service, who at
tended a five-day conference at Spo-
Kane with district foresters from Mis- !
soula, Portland, Denver, San Francis
20, Ogden and Albuquerque.
Announcement comes from Tacoma
oy heads of the local BARRIERS, cooks
and walters unions Of formation of a
of. thirty-one labor unions
under the card and label section of the
American Federation Of Labor. Con-
labor leaders have been
on the plan since the strike
n February, when radicals were able
o dominate the labor situation.
Advocates of the house bill for the
of the Denver 4 Salt
AXE railroad through state ownership
md the boring of the James peak t,r-
lei blocked the opposition's attemp.
to postpone action on the
Measure in the Colorado senate, when
he upper house adopted majority re-
,ort of the committee on state affairs,
which has recommended immediate
The Montana railway commission
las instituted proceedings to secure
or Montana a rate equal to the Maine
ate on green coffee out Of San Fran
isco. The commission is also ask
ng a through rate Of A cents on po-
atoes from Kalispell to the Yakima
alley in Washington. The present rate
) ssh cents.