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Show INLAND NORTHWEST J riato Brewer, who was employed in j the inillng plant in McGill, Nevada, met death by accident last week. Moving picture theaters come in for some attention in a measure before llie Nevada legislature to rate licenses on a seating capacity basis. Large delegations to the national Rotary Ro-tary convention to be held at Salt Lake In June have been promised by Rotar-ians Rotar-ians in eastern and southern states. The present Wyoming legislature, which lias just completed its session, created more offices than any oilier in the state's history except the first. A measure ' as appeared in the Nevada Ne-vada legislature providing for citizens or declarent citizens being the only ellglbles to locate or relocate mining claims. The fuel administration declares a decline in the price of coal to the consumer con-sumer in Montana may be expected soon. Prices at the mines are expected to decline and the consumer should benefit. Great Falls is going to send a special train and at least 100 stockmen and business men from that city to the annual meeting of the Montana Stockmen's Stock-men's association at Miles City, April 15 and 10. Martin Ferkovicli, convicted of sedition se-dition at Roundup, Mont., was sentenced sen-tenced to serve from 10 to 20 years in Deer Lodge, and Joseph Hocevar, convicted on the same charge, received a term of six to 12 years. Fewer than 2000 voters authorized a bond issue of $2,000,006 in- Salt Lake City on February 25. The special bond election carried by a ratio of three to one, but a corporal's guard in each polling place could have defeated it. Donald Smith Grant,- whose age is given as between 25 and 30 years, is being sought by the police of Ogden, and officers of near-by towns' as the assailant of Willard J. Sorensen, who was shot and probably fatally wounded wound-ed by Grj nt. Under S.he provisions' of an act passed by the Wyoming legislature, Governor Carey soon will issue a call for a special state election, at which there will be submitted to the people a proposal to issue $2,800,000 of state highway bonds'. All construction work on the three large mess, halls being added to the general hospital at Fort Douglas, Utah, was stopped last week on telegraphic instructions' received by Major A. J. McDonald from the surgeon general's office at Washington. Sixty men, thirty electrical workers, ffteen iron workers and fifteen pipefitters' pipe-fitters' employed at the Garfield, Utah, plant of the American Smelting & Refining Re-fining company, walked out as a protest pro-test against the recent reduction of 75 cents per day in their wages. The Flathead county (Montana) war congress, organized last April to handle as a central body all the war activities in this county, will disband on the anniversary of its organization with a celebration of the coming peace In which the public will be invited to Shipyard employees in the Tacific northwest cities who have been on a strike since January 21, are awaiting a reply from a representative of the emergency fleet corporation to the strikers' proposal that a conference to adjust wage demands be held in a Pacific coast city. Tl e state treasurer has purchased for thu state of Wyoming $250,000 worth, jf Liberty bonds of the fourth issue. He bought them on the open market In New York at approximately $94.50 per $100, with the result that the net interest return to the state will be about 4 per cent. That the unemployment situation in Salt Lake may not be intensified by discharged soldiers from other parts of the state and country obtaining work there, the borne service section of the Salt Lake county chapter of the Red Cross is doing its utmost to have the men tnk positions near their former , ... lllllllCS. Governor Boyle of Nevada vetoed the twenty-five-round boxing bill a few minutes after it reached his office. The bill passed both houses of the legislature, leg-islature, but (lid not have a two-thirds majority in either house, indicating that any attempt made to pass the bill over the governor's veto will not, be successful. Recommendation for a 50 per cent, increase in the salaries of teachers within the next five years and an equal added Increase within the following fol-lowing ten is made in a letter to Dr. E. G. Gowans, state superintendent of public instruction for Utah, from Dr. P. I'. Claxton, United States' commissioner commis-sioner of education. The federal herd of standard-bred horses maintained at the Colorado Agricultural Ag-ricultural college, and which Colorado is understood to desire to relinquish, will be taken over by the state of Wyoming, Wy-oming, under the provisions of an act just passed by the legislature and signed sign-ed by .Governor Carey. The herd will be maintained at the State Soldier's and Sailors' home at Buffalo. Reorganization of the Railroad commission, measures to prevent aliens from holding mining claims or secure employment on public works, memorial memor-ial buildings, new budgets, as well as bills that will take the "money from home," business away from the newspapers, news-papers, occupied the attention of the Nevada legislature last week. Five new normal schools must be established in Montana in order to provide pro-vide training for teachers required, according to the report of a special committee appointed to make disposition disposi-tion of such legislation. |