Show INLAND NORTHWEST butte had its first snowfall of the year october 0 but it was light and quickly melted crosby mas the alist town in viyo to go oer quota on the liberty loan the town Is almost ot cua the montana state council Q defense has gone oa decord a negotiated peace and declared ancon surrinder alone should be granted he central powers new orders issued b the maj department part ment state that all recruiting ata alons in the states with the exception of sat lake and poca fello ida will be closed at once montana lied cross nurses are to be organized to fight spanish influenza I 1 which continues to spread in the taic bunds from the national lied cross will be employed it Is announced leon F joanson of Ilie gate mont Is listed among the men killed in action in trance adding another to the men who have made the sac and who went from Mussels bell county the weekly payment of wages at the smelter and some other indus tries in anaconda has made its influence felt on the merchants of the city who hae in some instances placed their business on a cash basis merchants of anaconda must henceforth give and take pennies to make exact change on prices quoted by the price interpreting committee accord ing to a ruling made at a session of that committee meeting with the county food administrator while being brought to mont to to a charge of petty larceny in the theft of a saddle fen ton henry 19 years of age and standing G feet 2 inches escaped from a deputy sheriff by getting through a car window on a moving train Flock masters are receiving less for their 1918 wool crop than for that of 1917 according to returns now coming in from wyoming two large douglas sheep men whose clips are said to those of that section received but 50 and cents for their 1918 clips david sutherland n ranch hand was suffocated in his bed in a missoula soula hotel lie had been dead tor several hours when a companion tried to isaken him and found the room filled with smoke sutherland it appears had taken a lighted pipe to bed him and the mattress biad been set on fire granv ahle pioneer of mon died last weel sir stuart had been a resident of the state since 1857 and was among alie first to discover on gold creek lie was an author and historian of renown and was united states minister to paraguay and uruguay during president clove lands second administration that steve bannack lay dead la his oft a home for 15 hours before his death was reported and that his bride of a month was aware of his death throughout the entire time was charged by george car roll who has charge of the mysterious murder case the police at cheyenne have been unable to clear up the state council of defense of montana has announced an order that dances entertainments benefits etc may not be given for any war activity without the consent of the various county councils it was said that too small n per cent of the receipts of such affairs have in some instances found their wa to the beneficiaries the montana wholesale grocers as held a series of meetings at telena last for the purpose of at a regulation of wholesale grocery business in the state during the ar and for alie of cecur lag an agreement alth the state food administration respecting the observance of rules imposed affecting the grocery business a protracted fight growing out of his failure to prosecute of alio I 1 W W in montana B JY wheeler united states attorney tor that tate has resigned his office wheeler has been under fire from all parts of montina and especially the western end of the state because of his lick of vigor in prosecuting residents senator valabh of montana and seni ator II enderson of nevada were present when president wilson signed the mining promotion bill carrying an appropriation of ahe purpose of this measure Is to and encourage the mining of uncommon metals and walsh and II enderson took an active pirt in putting it through the saher bow county mont ministerial association sent to president rov allson a telegram reading in effect that this association la not in favor of peace w ath the cen bial powers at time and especially not until the enemy had made 11 full compliance with the conditions imposed on them by in als now world speeches since the office nas opened on july 17 persons have called and inquired for work or sought information of this number men registered and women of these men were placed at and 1918 women louis chirped with bed aton was found guilty and fined in the district court at souli mont the jury fixing the penalty who js well to do announced lie would kiy alie alne lie w as born in this coun try but his parents loth were born in germany v i |