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Show INLAND NORTHWEST The state board of pharmacy and the state board of health are to unite iu a campaign against the tinig evil in Montana. Jealousy it is believed, prompted Joseph Grandis. aged --, to kill his divorced wife, Mrs. Edith Grandis, and then take his own life, at Butte. The Oregon Federation of Labor, which closed its slate convention at Bend on October gave its approval to the Plumb plan of railroad control. Members of the Ninety-first division, in which many Claims fought, cap-lured cap-lured "41 prisoners during the war or o.Sg per cent of all the foes taken captive. In a campaign in Canyon county, Idaho, against blackleg, lid calves were vaccinated in one day in The Lone Star community. The calves belonged t'i Id owners. The Northwesiern box apple crop shows liltle change, the estimate standing at :!0,(iOfl,(l(KI boxes, compared with 21 ,;)!). 000 boxes in liHS, an increase in-crease of 44.1 per cent. Salt Lake's building activities increased in-creased S4 per cent last September as compared with the same month a year before, ibe money involved being $33S,-1!73, $33S,-1!73, as compared with $1S3,7oO. The Montana state poultry show is to be held at Great Falls, January l!) to 24. More than 400 pens are assured as-sured and it is expected the show will be the largest ever held In the state. Six thousand acres of flax on the Fort Peck Indian reservation, which was put in by the Montana Farming corporation, is now being harvested and is expected to average e!ght bushels bush-els to the acre. Ten days after the close of the miners' strike at Tonopah all of the producing mines, many of the more thoroughly developed properties anil a number of the smaller ones were again being worked. A carload of Idaho seed wheat will be purchased next spring by farm bureau bu-reau members of Kittitas county, Washington, who want to profit by the fact that Idaho seed is certified Inlaw. In-law. Dicklow is the variety of wheat decided upon. A beet top ensilage campaign is being be-ing aonducted in Oneida county, Idaho, this fall. Heretofore the beet tops have been fed off the fields. In one day of the campaign, four farmers promised to act as demonstrators in ensilage work. One of the most unusual happenings iu rail mart v? cks occurred at Bye-gale, Bye-gale, Mont., when Rh, eytra engine and caboose ran into and totally destroyed a cottage belonging to Fred Wyman of Ryegate, which was being moved across the track. Influenza is showing a slight in-c.erase in-c.erase in Montana, according to reports re-ports received by Dr. John J. ."-ppy. state epidemiologist, nineteen new cases coming to the attention of his office during the past week, compared with ten the week previous. No sheep will be admitted into Utah from Colorado unless tliey have a dipping dip-ping certificate. This decision was made last week by the state livestock hoard because a Utah inspector had discovered that sheep from Montrose eounty, Colo., were afflicted ' with scabies. Sensational stories of drought conditions con-ditions in Montana have failed to injure in-jure the state's reputation with prospective pros-pective buyers of farm lands, according accord-ing to the number of, inquiries received re-ceived at the office or Ovaries D. Greenfield, state commissioner of agriculture agri-culture and publicity. After just completing a Sue residence resi-dence on his ranch near Koundup. Mont.. Barton Tucker, a well known rancher of the .Tiull mountain district, suffered the loss of the house and contents by fire. Sparks from a defective de-fective flue are believed to have been responsible for the disaster. Walter Iteese, negro section hand at Carter, Wyo.. was fatally injured as the result of a peculiar accident. While walking home from work he reached under a car to pick up a piece of coal. An engine hit the string of cars, a large car door fell on llee.se, pinning him to the ground, and the cars wheels ran over his legs. Mrs. Christine Hazelton of Forsyth, Mont., has been arrested on the charge of first degree murder, being accused of the killing of her new-born baby at Harlowton a few weeks ago. It is claimed that the deed was committed in a hotel at Harlowton anil the baby was disposed of by dropping the body from a car window necr Gage, where it was found. To prevent grubs and larvae from finding winter quarters in the fields, Harold E. Iloggan. state crops' pests inspector for Utah, has urged all farmers farm-ers and gardeners to clean their premises prem-ises of weeds. The weeds, he says, should be spaded, plowed or pulled out. as the insects stay in the roots during the winter and attack the crops in the spring. In its report of crop conditions In Nevada for the week of October 7. the department of agriculture states that killing frosts ended the season for truck growers and slightly damaged dam-aged alfalfa except in the extreme south, where iu frost occurred. The Inland Empire Aerial associa tion of Billings will shortly establish a training sehocj for mechanics and pilots in Twin Bridges, Mont. Landing Land-ing fields and hangars will also he plar.ed there, as the best east to west jrotPe across the divide, via Dillon and |