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Show NORTHWEST NOTES Through the resources committee of the war lnduti'lcM hoard, It In expected ex-pected Unit government contract!) for trench mortar breech sticks will go to western Montana lumbermen. .Maximum fata prices on bread of 1) cents wholesale and 10 cents retail for the 1(V(miiicc loaf unwrapped and proportionate pro-portionate prices on other sizes became be-came effective In Idaho October1 15. Andrew Taylor Ilainllton, n Mon-tana Mon-tana pioneer who crossed the plains from Ohio In ISO,-, with his parents, Is dead at his ranch' homo on Hast Gallatin, Galla-tin, near Belgrade, after a brief Illness. Beports which were circulated to the effect that an embargo had been declared de-clared by Oregon against the shipment of Idaho alfalfa through that stato to California, Washington ntfd northern Idaho, have been found untrue. Appreciation for the prompt and thorough manner In which tho September Sep-tember 12 draft registration wns carried car-ried out in Idaho Is expressed by Provost Marshal General Crowdor In it letter to Governor Alexander. The Lao Vegas St Tnnnpnh railroad may not he abandoned and Its trackage and equipment sent to the Junk pile. The Novndu state railroad commission has denied the request of the company to tear up Its tracks and suspend operations. oper-ations. Benjamin Salmon, a Denver socialist, social-ist, has been convicted by a general courtinnrtlal at Camp Podge, Iowa, on charges of desertion and distributing pacifist propaganda, and sentenced to 2.1 years at hard labor at Fort Leavenworth, Leaven-worth, Kan. Yitclay Salamoun has brought suit against Marlon Hnury to recover SIHMHJ for the death or Ids son, Otto Salamoun, l,'l years of age, who was ran over and killed nt Lcwistown, Mont., last July by a big auto driven uy the defendant. Four district superintendents of schools- In Nevada have failed to file exemption claims since reglHterlng..for the draft, and as a result thu state hoard of education may be deprived of the school organization as far us these men arc concerned. i:. P. Iloelmer, n civil engineer, IWI years of age, of Bvnnstoii, Wyo who was accidentally shot while Interfer ing In a quarrel between two employes ou the United States government tun-el tun-el near that city on October 4, died it n Salt Lake hospital October 111, is a result of the wound. There'll bo no more road building in Idaho until 'labor conditions nro bet. ter, Judging from bids submitted to tho I tnte highway commission oh 22 miles of highway between Whltehlrd and ('rougevlllo. The lowest bid was ?(K),-000 ?(K),-000 more thai) the estimate of ?2S:l,000 madoliy thu commission. Fred IliiWhe, n miner, was found dead In hs cabin at Tonopah, Nov., with n bullet wound In his head and u revolver grasped In hi hand. No rea-'sou rea-'sou for tho suicide Is known. Ilnsehe was Kl years of age and had no known relatives. Two imeashed pay 'hecks Wcro found on his person. "Tho University of Idaho has assumed as-sumed tho Importance It should to meet thu Ideals of tho people of this state," declared Governor Alexander, after In-fspectlng In-fspectlng the university grounds, the new buildings and Hie hundreds of new student's, Including moro than ftOO who nro enrolled In th? S. A. T. O. . Tho first military funeral In the history his-tory of Tonopah was held October 1M ver the remains of Klmer Bell, youngest son of Senntor T. J. Bell of Beese river, who died recently In tho marine corps barracks In Philadelphia, supposedly of Influenza. Klmer Bell enlisted In tho marines last April. Cecil Baric, aged 4, met with u fatal accident near Bed Lodge, Mont. The llttlo fellow was riding on the front of a loaded wagon with n farm hand. A sudden lurch threw him forward onto tho double-trees, where he clung for un Instant before passing under the wheels of Hie heavily loaded wagon, Tho 'Southern Oregon company, recently re-cently restrained from disposing of timber from land claimed by the government gov-ernment until congress enacts legislation legisla-tion providing for Its disposal, has been permitted by tho supremo court to mako sales to meet the pressing demand de-mand forIulnber for manufacture of airplanes. County food administrators from all ports of tho stato held n three days' session at Bozemnn, Mont., lust week. The purpose of the meet was to secure moro concorted action and effective eo-npemtinn on thu pnrt of the county officials and to thresh ouf plans for moro uniform regulations In the use of j alt food products. Inspired by a lurid moving picture serial, which has been showing at n local theater, young' men with heads .ind'bodles swathed In black and calling Ihomsclves the "Hooded Terrors," hnve for tho past two weeks been terrorizing, terroriz-ing, boys and girls In Anaconda, Mont. In some Instances llttlo boys have been assaulted and their clothing torn by tho young men who nre about 10 years of aire. |