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Show INLAND NORTHWEST Work at the Anaconda, Mont., smel- :ers was resumed with n force of 700 neii. It was stated that eventuallj IS00 men will be employed there. In-:rease In-:rease of employment nt die Great Falls smelter Is expected to begin at the end of the week. Wom-en identified with the SS club organizations of the city have arranged ar-ranged to co-operate through the Clubs In making a sucess of Oreguu Industries week, which was held In Portland January 23 to 28. Heports that the Washington State Fish commission had closed the Washington Wash-ington side of the Columbia river to commercial fishing were entirety groundless, according to announce, ment by Carl D. Shoemaker, master fish warlen for Oregon. a A county wide campaign against tha coyote, which during the fall and winter win-ter seasons lias caused considerable loss to central Oregon sheepmen, la to be undertaken In the near future under the direction of County Agent Jamison. Tasteless strychnine in a beef blood will be used. m m Rock crushing will be started nf Mahben Butte, one and a quarter miles north of Bowmont, and the rocks will be used to surflce the Happy valley district roads. There Is a stretch of about 12 miles and will give employment employ-ment to IS men, six trucks and six teams. The first haul will be for a distance of four miles. Negotiations with General George W. Goethais, builder of the Panama canal, to undertake a survey of the Columbia basin irrigation project for the purpose of determining the feasibility feasi-bility of the two proposed river dl. versions, will be closed Immediately at a contract price of $20,000, the Ore-gan Ore-gan state department of conservation and development annbunces. The men's chic organizations, the women's clubs and the school children of Butte, Mont., will vote for a community com-munity flower, one which should be characteristic of Butte, and which can he grown by everyone. At the present time the pansy has received the unaimous vote of the Rocky Moun tain Garden club and the West Side Shakespeare club, and has the endorsement endorse-ment of many garden lovers. Friday of a re-cent date was a day for house cleaning of the stong vault-) at the courthouse at St. Helens, Ore., when the .sheriff poured an accumulation accumula-tion of wines, moonshine whisky and other intoxicating liquors into the Columbia river. It is estimated that about 1500 gallons were destroyer!, which at the prevailing rorail prices would bring $1S,CXX to ?20,000. Ezeklel MoCauslnnd, pioneer Indian fighter and driver of -the first stugci between Olympla, Wash., and Portland, Port-land, Ore., died In Seattle a few days ago. Ho was SO years old. McCatis-land McCatis-land usi-d to relate how once, while driving his stage to Portland, he halted halt-ed at the request of six settlers who were menaced by Indians. After throd weeks of skirmishing the marauders were vanquished nnd the stage resumed resum-ed its Journey. The kindest landlord has been found again, tills time In Walla Walla. Ha Is F. W. Dudgeon, who advortLvd, d-Kpite d-Kpite a local shortage of housing facilities fa-cilities und the frequent reluctamu of landlords here t admit ohildren to their homes, as follows: "Hoii-itf for rent, with hnth and electric lights. Couple in order to be considered for this house must have children. I! rhild is lorn In house, a month's rent will he given for each child." Dudgeon Dud-geon Is swamped with replies. Sianhoix- Belle Johanna owned by It G. Mullenhoff ,f Pleasant Dome, Ore., ls.no ordinary Holsteln. In fact, at the end of the month, If her present average Is maintained, she will stann third or fourth nnuuig Hie heavy producers pro-ducers of the world. In !oiii the se, ven-day nnd ,10-day tests during the fiscal year eml!ng June ,10, 1921, she won second place. This Is a remark, able rocord for a cow (hat has boon given wry little extra attention. The Fnnounc(menit recently mado by the reclamation service thnt the Tule lake hinds, comprising about. .S,0(VI ncei-s. were to be offered for hriso 1ms Rtlrred up n hornet's nest In the Klamath Fall, Ore. community. communi-ty. the proposed leasing project being oVI'O-ed by the chamber of eonimerco and the Atnerican IogInn po.it. As a ro-ml,t a protest was foniiuln-led and forwarded to Seeroftiry of the Inter, lor Fall. A Hpurt In the steady Incnnso In crime In Multnomah county Ore., wns shown by the annual rcrx-vrt, on the number of prisoners trindled In thn romvty Jii'.l. During 1021 there worn (tin more persons housed In the eoun. ty bnwllle (ban thero wore, in 1P21. Tho American Loglon, department of Onvn, plans to back to tho limit the fight of Crook county post at IWnovlllo) tn H'roveiit tonnlinj of choice fnnn laud In ttiM wvtino t' Japanese, |