The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1921-04-01
INLAND NORTHWEST

ecutlon Of condemned persons BY use
of lethal gas.
FIVE men We're injured, two 50 badly
that their recovery was considered
doubtful, when steam crane fell
from a railroad trestle at Portland.
A considerable sum was raised at
Lewistown, Mont, for the fund in aid
Of the destitute in Ireland through
tagging, a card party and CONCERT.
Miss Catherine Wagner, aged rs,
was seriously wounded when She ar
tempted to take 4 rifle from the shelf
at her home in Anaconda, Mont, The
weapon being accidentally discharged.
The Yellowstone SpeciaT train will
start on its daily schedule between
Salt Lake and Yellowstone on June
70 and the season will last to Sep
tember 10, according to announcement
made by the railroad officials.
The largest profits realized by
manufacturers and sellers of moon
shine" whisky was revealed officially
when Louis PrlInorch confessed to the
federal authorities at Tacoma that his
profits were $4,000 last year.
During the session of the Nevada
legislature 1870 sena4e bills were in
tr0duced, of which eighty-nine were
passed. In the assembly 30 bills
reached the chief clerks desk ana
about 200 of Them were enacted
Sheepherders viii receive $50
month this year and ranch hands $40.
according to wage scales agreed upon.
in Helena by the National Woolgrow-
ers' association, which met to con
slider wage problems, financing and
warehousing.
Latest report received from the
field of operation Indicate that the
campaign now on to make of Fort
Missoula, Mont, an educational or
health center for former service men
IS making progress toward success
full conclusion.
Northern Idaho residents, fostering
formation of the new state of Lincoln,
which would comprise ten counties in
north Idaho, q part of western Mon
tana and eastern Washington, are to
raise a fund to be used for propa-
ganda purposes.
Con J. Kelly, member of the Butte
police department, was given judg-
ment for S1,JS5 representing wages
alleged to be due him when he was
laid off the force from June !, 1919,
TO April %, 1920, in a decision rem
dered last week.
Mrs. Barbara Ross, of Miles City,
Mont, shot in the stomach during an
enforcement raid, died at Il local hos
pital. and Constable William NJ. Bay,
alleged to have done the shooting. was
placed under arrest on the charge Of
involuntary manslaughter
Farmers in the drouth areas of Mon
tana may borrow up to 5000 from the
federal government in order to plant
1921 crops, says a statement from the
office of NJ. l.. Wilson, county
agricultural leader at the state col
lege at Bozeman. The loan is limited
TO 81 per acre.
One young woman. identified as
Miss Sophie Losh, IS, of Priest River,
Idaho, was killed, two women and
man perhaps fatally injured, and one
man and one woman slightly injured
when speedy automobile in which
they were riding collided with a, street
car at Spokane
Engineers and firemen on the Los
Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad are not
entitled to increases in pay over rates
established by the Lane commissions
general order No. %, under the
United States railroad administration,
according to ruling handed down by
the railroad labor board in Chicago.
Butte was unanimously selected as
the home for the 1922 state bowling
tournament at the business meeting
winding up the official end of the 1921
play at the Y. NJ. C. A. at Butte. After
the business meeting go bowlers who
participated in the contests of the
past week We're guests at an elaborate
banquet.
Terms of the Yolstead federal pro-
hibition enforcement act were Substi-
tuted for the present ''bone dry" pro-
hibition law in Montana with the
passage by the state house of repre-
sentatives of bill which had already
passed the senate and goes TO the gov
ernor. The bill permits the manufac-
ture of near beer"
The. last acts OF the Nevada legis-
lature before the closing of the thir-
tie9h session We're 70 pass the gen
eral appropriation bill, carrying APP
amounting to S1,37l,0Qo
and to fix the state tax levy for the
years 1921 and 1922. For the current
year the levy was fixed at 60 cents
and for 1922 it will be g. cents.