The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-01-30
INLAND NORTHWEST


ers' strike was that IT forced the city
Of Helena into the retail coal business,
and the city is stiIl selling coal.
Among the big irrigation projects
now proposed in Montana is one
planned 70 reclaim 10000 acres OF
land in Hill and Choteau counties.
yerdicts acquitting Marie, Fay and
Ted Mcdonald Of the murder at Spo-
kane last June Of W a McNutt were
returned by jury in superior court.
Idaho has made good record In the
unemployment of former service men.
According 70 figures issued, Idaho has
given employment to greater number
of service men than any state In the
union in proportion TO population.
Ninety-four bills and miscellaneous
assortment of memorials and resOlu-
tons, some Of the latter being pro
nouneed more important than many of
the bills, were passed by the special
session Of the Oregon legislature.
Billings Shriners will ask the i'm
periaI council, which is to meet In
Portland, Ore, next June, for the nee
essary authorization for the establish
ment in that city of what would prove
to be Montana's third Shrine temple.
The Idaho Honey company, organ
lied at Idaho Falls, Idaho, last fall,
has made carload shipment direct to
Copenhagen, Denmark. The company
has 200 stands OF bees and operates
two trucks taking care Of the business.
General Pershing let it be known
during an address at Seattle, that he
does not want to talk about politics
while on his tour of the country.
Everybody should know where j
stand" he said. Il am not a candi-
date for president"
With every American Legion post
in Colorado pulling for Denver as the
convention city, concerted effort viii
be made to secure the first American
Olympic games of world war veDer-
ans, which will be held November IL,
II and ID of this year.
The Australian ballot. in use in
Oregon for more than thirty years,
has been discarded by a strong par1f-
san vote of the Oregon legislature in
special session. The straight party
voting system is provided for as the
official ballot Of the state.
That part OF the main state high
way running east and west across
Montana which crosses the Rocky
mountains near Glacier PARK has been
designated Roosevelt pass, and viii
be so designated on maps OF the state
highway commission in the near fu-
ture.
Adrfft in a rowboat without oars,
two small boys were rescued Just as
they We're about to be plunged over
the seething rapids in Rogue river
near billiard, Ore, by Bert Laurence.
a ranchman, who roped them with
Iariat from shore and hauled them to
safety.
The assessed valuation of livestock
in Montana increased from $40 2S5, 1913
in 1915 to S157, 501 $50 in 1919. The
total number of livestock in Montana
on March /. 1919, We're: Cattle, all
classes, 1.214, ia; horses, all classes,
591,S1T; sheep. all classes, 2,10T, T9T;
hogs, 76,SO5.
Mrs. Nevada ]. Haywood, wife of
William D. Haywood of Chicago, sec
rotary OF the Industrial Workers of
the World" died in Denver, January
2, after a long illness. Mrs. Hay
wood, who was born in Nevada fifty
years ago, has made Denver her home
for a number Of years "
Work of dismantling shipping board
wooden hulls left uncompleted on ways
in Seattle, Tacoma and other north
west cities will be begun within
week or two by George f. Rogers,
Astoria. Ore. shipbuilder. Mr.. :ROg-
ers has been given q contract for the
work by the emergency fleet corpora
ton
Representatives of the beet sugar
industry from all parts of the country
will gather in Salt Lake, January %
and q, for q series of meetings which
will deal with different phases of the
business. The United States Beet
Seed company win meet January Is
for consideration of problems OF beet
seed production.
The historic pilot schooner Joseph
Pulitzer, once in service on New York
harbor and later of the Columbia
river. has been placed in drydoek at
Portland for overhauIing. preparatory
to being sent TO Alaska, where she
IS to be used in interpret trade by
private parties. who have purchased
her. The Joseph Pulitzer was built
as sailing vessel in 1854.
Governor Emmett Boyle of Nevada
has agreed to call 4 special session OF
the state legislature on February I TO
act on the federal suffrage amend
ment, provided the suffrage leaders OF