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Show inland northwest W. 1. Lane, a postal clerk, whose run is between Missoula and Wallace, carries with him a stock of war savings sav-ings and thrift stamps and sells to the people along his line. Not only is "Pershing" not available as the name of a postoffice in Montana, Mon-tana, but there are already two communities com-munities in the state claiming his designation, and one raust give way. Boise city schools will remain open until ordered closed by the state board of health. This was the unanimous unani-mous verdict of the board members, stated at the regular meeting last week. One hundred and one new cases of Spanish influenza were reported to the Salt Lake board of health on October 17. Influenza is interfering with the efficiency of many lines of business and industry in Salt Lake and Utah. An unique and unprecedented religious re-ligious service was held Sunday morning morn-ing in Anaconda, Mont., when, with the Rev. Father- Coopman officiating, solemn high mass took place at 10 o'clock a. m., at Mt. Carmel cemetery. Markers will be placed by the Utah Automobile association at various places along the roads of the state to guide motorists. The offer of the association as-sociation to place the signs has been accepted by the state road cofnmis-sion. cofnmis-sion. . Officials declare that the uninhabited uninhabit-ed country south of Grant. Mont., is a veritable paradise for bootleggers and in spite of the vigilance of the Idaho authorities, the contraband booze is smuggled into the dry territory frequently. fre-quently. In a revolver duel between three policemen po-licemen and three youths at Salt Lake, one young man was wounded severely and captured, another was arrested, while a third is believed to have been seriously cut by a flying leap through a garage window. Official information obtained from Washington indicates that thousands of bushels of grain were saved' in the Montana this year, through the gopher extermination crusade. A state-wide plan, v which provided for county cooperation, co-operation, waged war tin the costly pests. Ministers of Butte are up in arras over the action of the Silver Bow county health authorities in permitting tiie saloons and poolrooms to operate, yet closing the churches, theatres, dance halls, etc., as a measure calculated calcu-lated to prevent the spread of the Spanish "flu." Half a million dollars is the estimated esti-mated value of the Utah peach crop this season, according to J. Basil Walker, state crop pest inspector. Against the 1156 carloads of peaches shipped out of the state last year, this year's records show that only S50 cars were shipped. To determine the feasibility and approximate ap-proximate cost of the long mooted Skalkaho project, for the building of a highway across the mountains west of Anaconda direct to Hamilton, Mont., the state highway commission has put a party in the field to make a reconnaissance recon-naissance survey. In subscribing a total of $1,282,150 to the fourth Liberty loan on the opening day. of the campaign, the people of Great Falls, Mont., not only oversubscribed oversub-scribed the quota allotted to them, but Also believe they reached their goal in less time titan in any other city in the country 30 minutes. Returns from the national headquarters head-quarters of Boy Scouts of America, show that (he Montana Boy Scouts have taken 5,530 orders for war savings sav-ings stamps on the red post card and that the scouts have received for this work, 54 achievement buttons, 26 ace medals and 21. palmi : . Mrs. W. K. Smith, convicted at Miles City, Mont., on a charge of sedition, was sentenced to serve ao indeterminate indetermin-ate sentence of from five to ten years at hard labor. This is the first woman to be on trial on a sedition charge, and the first to receive a penitentiary sentence from that section in many years. In addition to the calls for labor for the Nitro, W. Ya., munitions plant, a request lias been received by E. A. Whalen of the employment bureau at Salt Lake for twenty carpenters to be sent at once. These men will be paid at the rate of 62 cents an hour with double time for all overtime and Sunday Sun-day work. A dispatch from Nyssa, Ore. says the body of Raymond Simpson, the Oregon Short Line fireman who disappeared dis-appeared by falling from his engine was found by the railroad track on the Idaho side of the Snake river bridge. The skull was crushed and there was every indication that death was instantaneous. in-stantaneous. Maximum fair prices on bread of 9 cents wholesale and 10 cents retail for the 16-ounce loaf .unwrapped and proportionate pro-portionate prices on other sizes became be-came effective in Idaho October .15. Andrew Taylor Hamilton, a Montana Mon-tana pioneer who crossed the plains from Ohio in 18G5 with his parents, is dead at his ranch home on East Gallatin, Galla-tin, near Belgrade, after a brief illness. Four district superintendents of schools in Nevada have failed to file exemption claims since registering for the draft, and as a result the slate board of education may be deprived of the school organization as far as tlu-se men are concerned E. P. Hoehuer. a civil engineer. "'! vears of age. of Evanston. Wyo., whn vas accidentally shot while interfering interfer-ing in a quarrel between two etnp'oves rm the United Starts government funnel fun-nel near that city on Oenlier 4. died at a Salt Lake hus-pit,.! -'oher 13 -is a resttlt of the wound. |