Show INLAND NORTHWEST only cases of illiteracy in hie state ot montana are reported out ot an estimated population of resolutions asking congress to declare inavon of independence for ireland were adopted at blutte attended principally by residents of irish descent the montana public service commis slon luis denied the petition of the butte electric hallway company ask ing for n cash fare of seven cents for street car sen ice one wai eliat women workers on the farm aie a success is shown by the fact that a japanese bomin at lakama ft ash Is believed to have set a record by picking up of potatoes in one dav through operation cooperation co with the state council of defense and through it with the county councils of defense the military authorities at camp I 1 awls ex hect to find jobs in montana for many hundreds of disch arged soldiers reruns to have been one of the oldest living twins in the united states died nt the home of his son at spokane last weeke at the age of 88 years ills twin brother resides in midi the management of the utah idaho sugar company has formally an bounced that the company has adopted a plan of insurance for ull employed emp loyes who have served it continuously for two vears the plan becomes effective january 1 1919 historic relics left la a strongbox of the bank saloon at ileno forty sears ago by one jacob chamberlain have been unearthed with the cleaning up of the saloon to closing un der the state prohibition amendment chamberlain Is now being sought ben prohibition becomes affective 1 butte will rose annual revenue of about derived from saloon licenses to consider proposal methods of raising an equal sum from othel bounces the committee on ways aid means will hold a meeting in the near future ten thousand soldiers gathered at a groat living christmas tree at camp lewis christmas e e and sing christ mas songs in the opening event of christmas festivities in camp the tree had been decorated and lighted with of electric lights bv the war service societies of this camp john S lewis who has lived at bozerman Boz ernan for the past seven years died last week from paralysis after an ness of a few days he was born in kentucky and was ag years old ills w ite to whom lie and been 65 vears Is now 88 sears old they had 11 children all of whom are living montanans Monta nans are storing away large quantities of hard lecler the coining long drouth according to F L mann deputy collector of internal rev denue and that same liquor Is going to be confiscated if the bbate anti saloon league succeeds in getting the state legislature to place this state among the really bone dry states failure of the legislature to provide for a reserve fund to meet losses in bad v ears upset the hopes of the state hall baird this year when there were he ivy damages by hill the result being that the losers will receive a little less than G an acre 11 here there Is total loss the ansur ance being at an acre it Is an bounced hen mrs aline mathilda julia cardoner of barcelona spain died a few bivs ago in albuquerque M her friends believed she was compora poor but when liei attorney joseph II 11 allson of albuquerque went to denver and opened her deposit boxes in local b inks he foun 3 worth of liberty bonds and thousands of dollars worth of other securities curi ties searchers found nt the bottom of the 1200 foot shaft of the tonopah buck a mine tonopah the bod of alex McKe nyle chilom in of the ie county I republican cen aral committee who and been missing for three dae he failed to ap pear in court for on a charge of preferred aft er the shooting on ber 8 of james cusack superintendent of the halifax mining company frank diamond a lumberjack lumber jick was struck bv a street car at missoula mont and suffered a fractured skull from the affects of he died thornly ly after at a local hospital diamond was the man who years ago caused a sensation in the north by claiming that he was flie man who had killed former governor meagher who disappeared while territorial governor as lie was sleeping on a boat nt fort benton in 1867 word lias been received ot the appointment by general pershing of dr james graves of seattle a major in the medical corps of the united states army in france as one of the ten physicians and surgeons to represent this country at an conference upon the problem of the disabled soldier graft an orchard on the old apple tree this advice Is given by utah agricultural college experts at logan utah who have been studying prodoc aton for the state council of defense all that Is needed Is an old apple tree n ath a sound trunk an indictment charging william rouck president of the washington state grange with making utterances te rances was dismissed at seattle by the united states district court at the request of clarence J reames specia united states attorney gen eral |