Show NORTHWEST NORTH WEST E ST NOTES OTES N I IThe The Walsh bill providing for an additional ad- ad nd-j nd judge for the district of Montana Montana Mon Mon- tana was passed by the senate It will be passed by the house An extension of time to July 2 25 has I been granted by Adjutant Adjutant General General Greenan Greenaa for tor the formation of a national national national na na- na- na guard company at ut Roundup Montana I A A. school and Uld domestic science course for farmers farmers' wives wl was held at the high school recently In Lewistown Mont with with a very verj lar large je attendance Fire Insurance premiums collected in Montana in 1918 1913 totalled 4 of which was collected col- col collected collected col col- in cities and towns having or- or organized organized fire tire departments I Five lve hundred hundred saloons were saloons were forced out of business w when hen Wyoming entered the dry em column lumn on July Tuly 1 The stock of wet goods had been practically exhausted ex ex- hausted when closing time came The Sheridan Wyo Jockey club has abandoned Its horse race meet leaving about In unpaid bills W. W E E. Tobias tI the e manager has remained in hiding to avoid debtors among them 40 it Is charged While cutting alfalfa near Tallon Fallon F llon Nev Robert Colgan found the sKIn of what is supposed to be a a gila monster The skin when stretched out measured measured measured meas meas- three feet and one Inch which Is unusually long for these reptiles The report leport of the tile Chicago Milwaukee Milwaukee kee St. St Paul railway to the Montana Industrial accident board shows 4 I 8 aliens on the Rocky Hocky Mountain and Missoula Missoula Mis- Mis soula divisions mostly divisions mostly Gl Greeks eks Bulgarians Bulgarians Bul Bul- Italians and Japanese After serving with the Y M M. C. C A A. for a year most host of the time in the I recreation huts near the front lines of battle Rev Charles W. W Harris has returned and resumed his duties as pastor of the First Presbyterian terlan terian church at Bozeman Mont The Judith river has never been so so low at this season of the year jear before since Fergus county Montana 1 was settled according to the st statements ol 01 old timers This Is due to the light rainfall fall for one thing and more moie par par- particularly particularly to the absence of snow in the mountains Mrs H. H F F. F Gibson and a little child child had a narrow escape from death at a ranch near Roundup Mont 1 when a minature tornado visited that section the other day daj The twister lifted isbarn ia la labarn barn near where they were standing 20 feet in the air carrying it t over their heads and depositing the tube wreckage wreckage wreck wreck- age fields nearby A cow Ow standing in the barn was not touched Ac Actual ual haying has started near DilIon Dillon Dillon Dil Dil- lon Ion Mont many of the ranches lanches now nov being engaged in cutting the first crop of alfalfa The crop while not up to the av average either In tonnage or quality will be much better than leas has h s been anticipated and it it Is believed that the second cutting will produce about the usual amount of first class hay bay ha Haying In the wild hay sections leas has Ims not lot yet commenced On account of f the Montana drouth the railroad administration will grant half balf rates lates for incoming feed The Interior InterIor In In- department at Washington Is making a wide survey for possible pasture and half rates are assured for moving cattle c t to f feeding points I Is seeking an appropriation to begin ex e e work on Irrigation projects to ti furnish employment f for r men then and teams team and Is also seeking extension of time turn for foi pa paying ing Interest on federal loans The Nevada State Retail Merchants Merchant Association Is the name of a new organization organization or- or gani atlon which came Into existence In Reno teno a n few days ago Mrs Mis William lannery Flannery I wife of a farmer residing near Toluca Mont l was burned binned to death In a fire that destroyed detro de de- tro ed their ranch lanch home destroyed A IA A conflagration at tile the Catholic church chinch built more than 45 years jeans ears ago and several residences The loss Is stated slated to have been l George II Robinson of Laird indicted Indicted In In- dl ted by federal grand Jury at Helena Is In jail on charge of conspIring to defraud the the government out of public lands Crops are aie sufferIng from drought in Utah southern Idaho and eastern Washington to reports issued is- is sued by 7 J T Cecil Alter In charge of the United States Slates weather weather- bureau at Salt Lake Lale At Carson Carbon on City last lust week weel the act creating county count passed at atthe atthe atthe the last lust session of or the Nevada legisla tune tine was declared constitutional In Ina ina Ina a deci decision ion handed down by hy the su su- pi preme fine court George Georg railroad brak brakeman lUan who was shot In in- ina a Whitefish Mont rooming looming house by Steve Harris a n Une barber In altercation l over alleged alleged al al- Intimate relations which Hebein n IT n had had hind with will Harris Harris' wife Is lying In u a Condition at at the local ho hospital pl tal Chief Thomas Antiste sub chIef sub of the I Kootenai tribe died at Poison Polson Mont font last ln t week Chief during durIng dur dur- ing ng his lifetime took tool an active part In mutters matters pertaining to the welfare 1 of the tribe making a number of visits LO to Washington In connection with wW several Important t matters William Gibson Sharp for the past st thirteen years president of the United States hates Smelting Refining Mining formerly prominent In ill the ho business and social life of Salt Lake died tied July Jul 2 at his bis home near Boston Mass ass I r. 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