Show NORTH NORTHWEST WEST N OTES NOTES the cost of fighting fires now raging in idaho and western montana antana may total according to information received by gov D W davis harvey hardy 70 years of age formerly sheriff of salt lake county and in the early nineties identified wilb the real estate and mining bio business siness in salt lake died saturday at good springs nev according to word received ut at salt lake city in spite of hie file fact that june frosts find and summer droughts have made tremendous inroads on oil tile the wheat ubeart crops of cutali and southern idabo enough grain will be harvested to supply tile needs of the two states and make possible the exportation of it a large quantity the chamber of commerce coin merce of lewis town lonn montana has begun the work of making a complete business and professional dional surey suney of the city do bo that every business busine and pro profession fessl oil will be listed for future reference i efe rence this Is the first surn suney ey ut of the he kind ever taken here lire fire completely destroyed deb troyed the steamboat rambler a lake steamer CO 60 feet in length 11 14 1 1 toot foot beam at coeur d alone and but for the timely action of the fir alro a department and volunteers would have consumed the city dock and store and the entire frame nork of wharves the net receipts for the national forests in utah idalio idaho benada and western wyoming under ane supervision of the district di tract office located in ogdon ogden during tile the fiscal year ended june 30 amounted to according to a bulletin issued by tile forest service with a lew to drafting a resolution to congress favoring federal control of the national domain stockmen stoc kmen kinen front from arizona minnesota california colo rado utah idaho new mexico nevada oregon south dakota and met in fit convention at the hotel utah in salt lake three members of 0 a northern pacific cefic train crew john kilcoyne conductor clarence carence Lotzen helser brakeman and ami john chevalier engineer were injured in ili an accident at a tunnel near quartz and chevalier were injured seriously and are in fit the railroad hob hospital pital at missoula llis soula montana utana refutation of the wide pread rumors ot of total crop failures in montana tana Is contained lii in the lie weekly crop review by charles D greenfield state commissioner of agriculture and publicity good felds from the many anany irrigated regions of the state are predicted slid ami in the western vestern part of the sta state a fruit alfalfa and grain crops tire are iu 1 excellent condition conditi oly peter a retired grocer is hailed balled by women momen of tile the local red cross as champion knitter of the northern division mr lias has spent 2119 hours making sox and stockings kings for the red cross and in this period has knitted pairs an average 0 of one pair in 14 hours lie ile has been awarded a red cross serice sen ice button in recognition of hla his services G W merritt a section land hand employed by the southern pacific at newton 15 miles east of 0 billings billing montana was killed when tile the glendive endive GI stub struck him us as he f stopped from a side track to the main line directly in front of the passenger the mans neck was broken but bui otherwise other ilse ills body was not marked up although alt bough the stub was traveling at a high rate of speed the utah oil refilling Re fitting co a subsidiary of the midwest refining company of casper wyo recently purchased from J T hurst lind and sid ie keo glian ul 51 per cent of the capital stock of tile the carbon oil company which is drilling a test well tills this com company pilly has also alo leased eased acres from the lie tri trl state oil refining co nijib jas has 1100 acres on oil tile structure and of which former governor george A carbon of colorado Is president an agreement for a new dew wage inge scale providing tor for an all increase of sl 1 it a tin day for mine and smelter employees of tile hie anaconda copper company here bild at great fulls falls and anaconda mont was reached last week between C V p kelley president of tile the comp company lilly and representatives of the calling of oc a special session of the state legislature of montana to amend tile the laws I aws su so as to enable state and din main in highways already aheady planned or to to be planned to be constructed construct rd and thus afford employment immediately to many farmers Is urged in a 1 resolution adopted by a conference of rep depre enra ti lives of the good roads associations the first announcement of proposed new railroad construction in oregon once tile hie war was formally maile dade when J AV W foster faster of portland land construction I 1 st engineer stated that tile company which aich lie represents will build front froin mount angel on oil tile the west side of the cascades to to rend dead by wily way of SIs dislers lers for the newly incorporated portland kt southeastern hallway ay company A mo movement ement for a greater yell stone parl park by addition of the jackson lake and grand teton country coun iry 1111 would meat mean so much to lu a getting tourists to come this way wit was r given fin an added impetus by salt lake Rot Kotai allans laos A dynamite chingo charge chin go ted in the hopper of a brick augur at billing MO montana utana demolish demoll sheil dl tile I 1 iraln 11 alit 1 in machinery of tile the IV I 1 13 dovilla brickyard on april 27 a fire of unexplained origin destroyed tile the plant operations were resumed less than a 1 week I 1 ogo ago I 1 |