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Show WANT ROADS TO CONNECT CAPITALS VfK'ATKUJ.O. Ida.. Mav Inierstate roe da. connecting the capitals of aJl the western eta tea. will h om f th Important Im-portant matters to come before iho second sec-ond annual convention of the tntermoun-1 tain rood roads convention to hV h)d In this citv June 22 to 24. Delegates from the Li ntrmoiin'ain states of Id alio. Ttah. Montana. Colorado, Nevada and WvnmlHs will be In attendance, and a movmfnt will be 1nauanjratd for lntr-capltal lntr-capltal hlbwav that will In tlmn be-eome. be-eome. It is believed, links In a chain of transcontinental roads in the form of a (treat national biftThway from the Atlantic Atlan-tic to the Pacific. The matter of memorialising conitresa to jrrant a million acres of public landa to the lntermountaln atatea for ood roais nurpoaera will alao be dtacuaad at the Po-atellt ron vent Ion. which prom-laea prom-laea to he one of the largest and moat important aaihennxs of Its kind ever held In the northwest. NX AJL TO WILDERNESS This 4s still a new country. Kverr little while some novel happening bears witness to the fact. Not long ago a Massachusetts Mass-achusetts man asked for protection againat the deer that Invaded and de-s' de-s' roved hla gardens. The law protected the deer, but not the garden j More recently re-cently a Michigan man. a reaident of the ITper Peninsula, appealed to a judge of the municipal court for advice of a very unuaual character. He lives at eome distance dis-tance from the district schoolhouae and a atate law makes education compulsory. But aa his children had been chased by bears and wotves while rm their way to school, and he himself had barely escaped es-caped the claws of a big black member of the bear family, he hesitated about sending the voungsters. While a Michl gan law makea education compulsorv. another an-other law makes it a serious offense te shoot bears out of season- And that waa the dilemma which confused the homesteader. home-steader. Should he ehoot tho bear and send the children to. school, or should be keep the children at home in eafety and. he prepared pre-pared to pay the penalty for violating the school law? In short. It was a case of go It bear, or go It children. We know nothing about the celerity of Michigan court declalona. but the ban against shooting bears was raised early In the preaent month, and now the homesteader home-steader can ehoot all the bears and the wolves he considers it necessary to ehoot In a conscientious effort to keep bis children chil-dren In school. With deer running wild In Massachusetts Massachu-setts and bears chasing school children In Michigan the margin between the wilderness wil-derness and civilisation would seem to be narrow indeed. Cleveland Plain Dealer. |