Show TRUEST NORTHWEST NOTES four hundred and eighty five t tourist our parties registered in buhls ida hos thorist park during the month of cf july estimating each party to contain four per person som a total tota people have stopped in buhls tourist park three hundred fighters are arc fighting fires which are threatening the dea des deai I truc tion of those northern idaho forests in addition to these fires a dozen other blazes many of them out of olare reported raging in the priest river and st jo districts district priest river find and st joe districts fires oscar beek beck cattleman of big P piney n ey wyo and member of the live livestock i oc board says the industry is nearly normal and t that hat no particular complaint can be made at the present market conditions that the prices are holding up as well as could be expected considering the falling off in exports people using the lower road between opal and big piney wyo one of the principal thoroughfares of the county are much wrought up over the mysterious burning of a forty foot wooden bridge which crosses slate creek at a point where a ford is ii 1 impossible i m even at low water which occurred one night recently A corporation is being formed at oakley idaho to develop artesian water for irrigation irwill be known as the oakley land water development company and will be capitalized zed at the plans conf contemplate the sinking of a number 0 of wells to bring to the surface the water from the artesian basin which is now known to underlie the district south of oakley officers mooney and ross of dillon on returned from a trip through the centennial valley recently and report th that t the gras grasshopper pest is being combated by about gifty men now and are being rapidly killed off the contract for the new city hall at deer lodge mont was let at a meeting of the city council nelson of butte who are building the courthouse received the contract the bid being for increases in pay to railroad men employed in the livingston district will total nearly half a million a year local officers of the northern pacific estimated in discussing the award of the railroad labor board mountain lions are causing so much damage in herds grazing near the northern boundary of park stockmen stoc kmen will seek to have a bounty placed on them according to john a resident of garbella park county conty nearly all of the sixty men needed to reorganize the former billings unit of the montana national guard company K have been secured organization of the company will be completed within ten days according to capt william morse the street car fare at tacoma wash was increased to 10 cents last week when the state railroad commission granted the company permission to make the change the cash fare at present is 8 cents commutation books will be sold at 8 cents a ride oregon washington and idalio idaho public service commissioners will confer at seattle august 9 to consider plans for equalizing log and wood rates on the railroads rai roads in the three states at an earlier conference the oregon commission contended for a reduction of the rate for carrying wood home industries week featured by the exhibit of pro products ducis already manufactured in butte and those that could be profitably made there will mark the opening of the new chamber of commerce headquarters in the pallas building according to an announcement no mare by manager P L wills canadian government railroads will accept the schedule of wage increases granted railway men in the united states J D reid minister of railways announced at vancouver this would result lie he declared in an I 1 increase of from to in operating costs which would have to be met by increased passenger and freight rates giant hydraulic streams are slowly arving out of the university of washington campus at seattle the site for a stadium being built to stage the athletic contests and the cites big outdoor meetings washington field as the stadium has been named will seat between and people when completed the structure is being on strutted ted in units F B Tern berry state bee inspector has returned from a trip through heber valley there are now colonies of bees in the valley he said and those colonies will produce at least pounds of honey worth john ferguson a negro who jumped through a glass door of a local garage at spokane and escaped after his arrest by a federal officer on a charge ot of violating the mann act was captured near marshall by federal officers the woman ho he is alleged to lave lav e transported was taken in clu custody at coeur dalene dA lenc ida yesterday r the county commissioners htwe have voted 1000 to be used to provide a county 1 I exhibit for the state fair at helena helen next fall the exhibit will be a feature of the western montana fair hr ll |