The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-10-22
INLAND NORTHWEST

able property own automobiles.
Two-thirds of the people of Billings,
Mont, have library cards, a proper
ton considered remarkably good by
the librarian.
Practically every county in the Md
land Empire was represented at the
conference of county farm agents held
last week at Billings, Mont.
The commissioners of Esmeralda
county, Nevada, have authorized the
organization of school district at
Divide upon request of people of that
camp.
Edmond Graves, aged 3, was run
over by heavily loaded wagon at
Lewiston, Mont, and instantly killed
the wheel passing over the head and
crushing it,
The adjutant generals office at Car
son City will soon publish a book con-
tanning biographies and photographs of
all Nevada men who made the supreme
sacrifice during the world war.
The Rev. Guy E. Kagey, rector of
the Episcopal church at Evanston,
WyO., was painfully injured when an
automobile tire which he was filling,
blew up and hurled him against the
curb.
Caught in the middle of a large
sugar factory machine when a fellow
employe unwittingly turned on the
power, H. L. Van Pelt is suffering
from serious injuries at a Billings,
Mont, hospital.
Reports at the office of the state
superintendent of public instruction
show that the school census of Nevada
for the years in which the federal
census was taken, was as follows: In
1900, 9,O75; 1910, L, 433 1920, lass.
Because of the infatuation for Mrs.
Martha Levitt, and of her refusal to
marry him, Fred Stock shot and prob
ably fatally wounded the woman at
Wolf Point, Mont, and then killed
himself with bullet through the head.
Conscience Overcame Ham Hope,
Centralia, Ill, boy, who has been in
Reno short time, and he walked in
to the police station a few days ago
to tell the chief of police that he was
wanted in his old home town ,r for
gerry.
Entering vigorous protest, the
Montana railroad commission has
wired all coal producers in Montana,
calling upon them to give Montana
dealers preference in coal shipment,
instead of shipping the coal to eastern
states.
The air mail record between Salt
Lake and Reno was broken last week,
when Pilot Sharpnack Lrove his plane
from the landing-field at Salt Lake
to the Nevada city in three hours and
fOrty-five minutes. The distance is
$40 miles.
Following the recent adoption of
the county unit school system in
ChOuteau county, Montana, special
election was held for the purpose Of
passing upon an issue of 100000 in
bonds for school purposes, the issue
being defeated.
Ell. G. Meagher, mechanic employed
at the Puget Sound navy yard at
Bremerton, Wash, after sending his
daughter from the room, shot and
killed his wife and then shot himself,
the daughter told the police Meagher
started divorce proceedings against his
wife several weeks ago.
The wheat crop of Montana this
year is placed at 4634,0O bushels
from an average yield of IA bushels.
Last years crop was estimated at g.
O16y000 bushels. The five-year aver
age (1914-1S) is 12,41S,0OO bushels and
the average yield 1874 bushels.
Rudolph Matejka was killed at the
ranch of his brother, Joseph Matejka,
near Columbia Falls, Mont, when a
buyer at an auction sale held on the
place pointed a .22-calibre rifle into
the crowd and pulled the trigger. 1t
is claimed the man who fired the gun
did not know it was loaded.
The crop report for Montana indi-
Gates that the small grain crop will
be more than double that of last year,
with corresponding returns for the
hay, corn and potato crops. The pre-
liminary estimates show 1894 600
bushels of wheat, 166, 100000 bushels
of oats and 1,339,OOO bushels of bar
ley.
The judge who presided over the
recent trials of the five men convicted
for the murder Of Til Taylor, sheriff
of Umatilla county, Oregon, has Or
dered grand jury investigation into
the charges made by five men in testi-
mony during their trials that third
degree methods had been employed by
officers to get confessions from them.
Every city and town in Montana has
been asked in an official call sent out