Show INLAND NORTHWEST arata dispatchers of take exception to statements made before the railway wage commission that they are train delayers the state highway commission of montana has combined the highway department and the bridge department under n chief engineer A number of montana dairymen will attend the western dairy product show to be held in lallina laL liia wash february as to march 2 during the period from april to february 7 1918 there were 1100 montana bois enlisted at lake in the nav and eleven in the naval rescue lebond lieutenant charles D patterson a former butte boy who was reported among the missing in the Tuscan la disaster Is sate and quite well in angland Ln gland according to the word received at butte chauncey davedson Dav ldson who Is reported as being missing from the Tuscan la was one of anacondas favorite sons having been born and reared in that community lie comes from the good pioneer stock that bullied the west lift two of the seventy six babies born ii i i county outside of sacramento city in january were orientals orient als according to an announce b charles hoot county recorder rort seven of the babies were japanese five chinese and twenty four whites ielne persons were injured in the wreck near alko nevada when a caal train carrying dutch colonists crashed head on with an eastbound passenger train on the southern pacific railroad I 1 ive of the hollanders and four dining car employed were those hurt eliat lieutenant 0 K aged 25 son of a wealthy and prominent butts family was slugged robbed and the body thrown in the river ig alie latest theory advanced for alie mysterious disappearance of the popular young army officer from van couver barracks alie ranch home of jens a well known farmer living northeast of moat ft as destroyed by fire of unknown origin baving no means of extinguishing it mr nesheim was compelled to watch it completely tie the building poetically all of the contents being also burned the coroners jury after a two das session held at mont to inquire into the cause of the deatle of john A arson who was killed when he jumped from bis engine as it col elded with cars standing on the new main line of the great northern rail way in the essex ards failed to fix alie responsibility for tho severe treatment of alleged german sympathizers Is urged in a telegram received by gov arnor bamberger of utah from residents of granger W yo they ask eliat an es ample be made of the hev B irenr of ogden who Is charged with having attempted to communicate with alien enemies interned at fort douglas during the past week tho arms and ranchers of the beaverhead val icy in montana have started rations for the usual round ot spring work which will begin earlier this season on account of alie mild weather plows and tractors and other farming michl nery Is abeln ov and ev ermone Is busy making ready for a bumper crop this bear alie supreme court of montana ini a decision denying the application at william londos of billings tor a writ of habeas corpus holds that imprison jaent after the expiration of a sent ence in lieu of the payment 0 a fine Is not u part of the punishment but under the common law a method of executing the sentence or the payment of the fine american Ame citizens aro in no mood to licar liny slurs or reflections oa lied cross or any humanitarian work and because r P brown who claims he ins no home made the statement in one of tho garages at bly timber mont that the lied cross waa bialt graft lie Is boarding in the county jail and Is in bid in his own line 0 business in heweet grass count alie man alio goes into tho liviston mont united baates land office alth a contest on a claim hold la the name of a man who Is serving his government in the army 01 navy will get little satisfaction according to tho police outlined in a decision just handed down bi the local officials posing as a would be investor of oil stocks bbate auditor poland has returned from a over the state of montana checkl jog up various oil companies mat of which lie said aia doing business without a license aal a beiles of actions these Is expected to start ti few das two aw senators have mide bow from tho west at a time when tho nations nat lons affairs arc in a rough and tumble condition should please alie men from beyond the mississippi tha gilr anro charles B of alko ev alio succeeds the late sen aloi diw lands and john r nugent oj boise ail i who takes the froat undo vacant by i n death of senator brady moss which grows pio W in the puget sound country and alaska Is wanted tor use as an ali soi bent in the hospitals behind the battle lines in I 1 lance according to a bul letan issued by the botany of the of washington r T who was acting chief ot police at mont until he left there a few weeks ago was urr isted at portland and will be til on hack to face 0 assaulting a prominent physician and robbing the store by the imire 0 th |