The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-03-19
INLAND NORTHWEST

removal Of the Whitehall, Mont, SUI
gar beet factory at an early date.
september 70, 20 and 30 will be the
dates for the western Montana fair
TINS fall, according to announcement
just made at MissouIa. u...
The annual summer session ut the
college Of agriculture and mechanic
arts at Bozeman, Mont, will begin
June Il this year and end Sept. 3.
Losses of livestock from disease ON
the national forests of the intermoun-
tain district during 1919 amounted to
2o4 head of cattle, horses and 1884
sheep.
George Requa, the deputy sheriff of
Wells, New, who was shot in the head
while attempting the capture of Joe
Bell and Leonard Fristoe, died at Ely,
last week.
Joe Bell, one of the men charged
with implication i'll the killing of Ar
thur St Clair, a constable of Wells.
Nevada, has been held to the district
court for trial.
The broken truck of freight car
derailed eleven box cars and tore the
rails from the ties for distance of
about 800 feet at Beppo, New, eighty
five miles west of Ogden.
Gophers killed in Montana last year
through the efforts of the farm bureau
and cooperating agencies, totaled
more than 100000, according to a
statement from the farm bureau.
The Democratic state convention,
meeting ut Reno to elect delegates to
the San Francisco convention, turned
down the nomination of Senator Key
Pittman to be a delegate at large.
George II. Riggs has been convicted
at Billings, Mont, on his second trial
for the murder of his wife, but this
time sentenced to life Imprisonment
instead of to death as at the first
trial
A portable alfalfa mill is being in
stalled in the LOvelock valley in Ne
yada. About 300 tons of alfalfa have
been secured by the company INSTALL
ing the mill, and this will be convert
ed into alfalfa meal. "
An effort is being made to ascer-
tain if it is possible to organize Il
baseball circuit to include d number
Of Montana cities in league to main
Tain and support a team in u state
contest for premier honors.
The Oregon Short Line is One of
three railroads in the United States
when maintains sanitary inspector
This official travels constantly over
the line and in every way safeguards
the health of the railroad employees.
The report of the auditor shows that
the assessed valuation Of ElkO county,
Nevada. is SAC. 800, S35, and the taxes
collected amounted to $6Z40SS.S1. The
estimated population of the county is
14,76l, there being 4,O24 registered
voters.
Young men and boys, ranging from
Is to %, comprises the majority OF
offenders coming before the courts, is
the consensus of opinion expressed in
letters from mayors of various cities
in the west to Mayor Il. A. Book, of
Salt Lake.
Charles Stevens, 19-year-Old bank
messenger, convicted of the theft of
registered mail package containing
q 11S NnCADhpr n
was sentenced to the maximum penal
ty of seven to fourteen years in the
state penitentiary.
Mrs. Estelle V. Collier has been
nominated by President Wilson. as
customs collector for district forty
eight, comprising the states of Titan
and Nevada. 1t is believed Mrs. Col
lied is the first woman to be appoint
ed to such a position.
Oswald and Elmer Watkins, broth
ers, and Mrs. Agnes Watkins, wife OF
the latter, entered pleas of guilty at
Helena to grand larceny by hiding
$4,000 stolen by Charles Stevens,
bank messenger, who was last week
sentenced to term of seven years in
the state prison.
Announcement was made last week
by the Utah-Idaho Sugar company, OF
a distribution to its permanent EN-
ployees of a bonus of 10 per cent or
heir yearly salaries The distribution
was made last week, the amounts be-
ag paid in capital stock of the COM
pany at the par value of $40 per
share.
Exposure of an alleged conspiracy
to defraud the government of large
portion of lands under the Shoshone
project near Powell, Wyo.'
which are to be thrown open for set
dement, March 10, has followed an In
vestigation and arrests will take place
If an attempt is made to put the plan
in operation, 1t is announced.
Eight per cent of the 1919 Wash