The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-07-09
INLAND NORTHWEST

A86xtantiy killed at otoChIOiJH Ololt WHICH,
il was struck by bolt of lightning
.iuring thunderstorm.
Women Of Billings, Mont, will at
tempt to raise $4,000 for the build
me and equipping of maternity ward
for the new Deaconess hospital.
Losses estimated at between $780,
Zoo and $4,000 resulted from fire
N ELY, New, which was gotten under
control in time to prevent more ex.
tepded loss az
& Alex Barge, alleged to have killed
Ioseph Yea with an axe on May 16 at
Dividend, Utah, as he was returning
at midnight from the Standard mine,
4 faces trial at Provo, Utah.
81 Grasshoppers are again swarming in
the Centennial valley in Montana, and
fear has been expressed by ranchers
Of that section that the hay crop will
4 suffer this year as it did last.
At no time during the recent years,
Z it is said, have conditions on the
J farms of Montana been so favorable
at the same time in the growing sea-
son as they are shown to be now.
Detroit Rotarians have challenged
ogden Rotarians to fifty target trap
shoot, the match to be staged by wire.
The Ogden team will shoot off their
match during the present week.
The four-year-old daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Joseph Gagnon of Lolo, died
of burns suffered when her clothing
caught fire while she played near a
pile of burning rubbish at her home.
The school census of Elko county,
Nevada, which has just been finished
for the present year, shows that there
are 1870 school children between the
ages of six and eighteen years of age.
Establishment of federal voca-
tional training school in Salt Lake
to provide educational facilities for
disabled service men who are in var
iOus hospitals, is planned for the near
future.
Work Of remodeling the building
/ recently purchased by the aerie of
Eagles at Carson, New, has been
started. Plans for one of the finest
halls in Nevada have been accepted
by the lodge.
Wheat, wool and cattle are await
ing shipment from many Utah and
Idaho points and the producers are
unable to get prices, according to
Willard Hansen, Jr.. secretary of the
Utah Wool Growers association.
Deputy Sheriff Phelps of Battle
Mountain, Nevada, was shot five times
by two men in pistol duel, one of
the men being shot through the
stomach. From what can be learned,
both the officer and man will die.
The livestock market in Nevada is
reported by cattlemen to be so utterly
dead that not steer has been sold
in White Pine county in more than
sixty days, and it is stated that the
same is true generally throughout the
state.
All work has been completed on
new tourist camping ground north
west of the city limits at Missoula,
Mont. A police patrolman is stationed
there at all times and the park is
equipped with city water and other
conVeniences.
Fields of winter wheat in the neigh
borhood of Billings, Mont, are occas-
ioning a large amount of comment
among both agriculturists and city
residents, who say they have never
seen the equal of crops now approach.
Ing maturity. ... ...
The farmers of Elko county, Nevada,
are getting worried over the shortage
Oh nay men for the coming harvest.
There are but few idle men about
town and those who say they want to
work are asking for higher wages
than the farmers declare they can
pay.
An eight-hour day for a domestic
servant was the bait offered by
seattle woman who sought help in her
mouse recently. The woman also
promised 81 day and board and room,
YET women who were registered at, the
employment bureau as desiring work,
looked with suspicion on the applica-
ton.
experiencing the most intense
shortage Of water yet known, the
fanchmen of the lower Humboldt, In
and about Lovelock, Nevada, have
oeen contemplating the filing of an
extensive lawsuit against the users
higher up on the river for the purpose
OF redistributing the waters of the
humboldt river.
Aside from the favorable prospect
OF bumper hay crop in the Big Hole
oasin in Montana this summer, resi-
aents Of that valley report an excel
TENT crop of husky mosquitoes of the
iong-billed variety that are making life