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Show 1 NORTHWEST NOTES Nineteen young men left Butte last week to enter the training school nt Boulder, Colo. More thnn 1,000,000 cases of tomatoes, to-matoes, twlco the canned output of any previous year, will bo tho Utah canneries' product for 1018. The Democratic state platform convention con-vention nt Helena, Mont, elected Hugh It. Wells of -Allies City to succeed suc-ceed himself as chairman of the slate central committee. Chief of City Detectives John Bow-an Bow-an was killed and John D. Itlley, a city detective, probably fatally wounded In a battle with robbers in the downtown district of Colorado Springs. ' To stlmulfata Interest In food conservation con-servation and nil war activities, sonic Butte merchants have resolved to use a largo proiHirtlon of their advertising advertis-ing spacu and appropriations for i.ils purpose. At the sheep auction held at Helena lust week, a prominent sheepman Bold n two-year-old Ilampsblru rum, born and raised lu Montana, to a Bozcmau grower for $1500, the record price In tliu Mate. A contingent of-young women from Lewlstnwn, Mont, went out .one day ,'nst week and assisted In threshing operations, doing excellent work. Heretofore Here-tofore tho women Imvo assisted only In shocking tho grain. Despite wnr conditions, building operations op-erations In Salt Lake during iigust, 1018, showed nn Increase of 02 per cent In volume over the showing for August, 1017, according to a report Issued Is-sued In Chicago, covering Pacific coast cities. Captain Beverly C. Duly, retired, has been relieved from duty as professor profes-sor of military sclenco at tho University Univer-sity of Wyoming and has been restored re-stored to active duty and assigned as commanding officer of tho students' army training camp unit fit that Institution. Insti-tution. The sugar Industry contributes more In the wealth of tho state of Utah than any other, except that of mining mid smelting. Tho Importance of thin activity ac-tivity Is' further Indicated by the fact that It puts Utah among tho first four states lu the union In point of beet sugar production. Messages havo been received an-nounclng an-nounclng (ho death at Puvnllui). Wash., of A. D. Myers, a well-known 1OU'lstown, Mont, business man, 02 years of age. The deceased left Isw-Istown Isw-Istown with Mrs. Myers several weeks ago, hoping that a chnngo of climate might prove beucflcHil. Striking Industrial workers and labor la-bor agitator of Jlutte may face tho samo ultimatum which President Wilson Wil-son Issued to strikers nt Bridgeport, Conn., and may be compelled to find work with an essential war Industry fir ba barred from employment for one year, according to federal agents. Four thousand and ninety-eight recruits re-cruits Interviewed at Camp Kearny last week applied for fl0,220,000 worth of government Insurance, according ac-cording to official figures given out Only thirty-one refused to apply for Insurance. In-surance. Thlrty-Blx of them asked for less than tho $10,000 maximum allowed. al-lowed. Wllllo Jack, a l.l car-old Indian boy and tho self-confessed murderer of Mrs. Charles Williams at Hick's sta-tlon sta-tlon In Nevada, has been sentenced to life Imprisonment It Is tho Intention of the court to refer tho matter to tho state board of pardons with a recommendation recom-mendation that the boy bo scut to tho stato Industrial school. There Is one mother In Wlnncmucdi, Ncv., who Is happier thnn other mothers, moth-ers, and she is Mrs. S. A. Dedmau. A few -days ago sho received n letter from her son announcing his arrival at Camp Dlx, -N. J., on a four months' furlough after receiving seven wounds and being severely gassed In tho American service. Propaganda relative to tho effect that the United States government In not properly taking care of Its lighting light-ing men, has been circulated recently la Salt Inko to a great extent. Colonel George I llyrum, In charge of tnu wur prison' ut Fort Douglas, declared last week, and that drastic steps wero being be-ing taken to suppress all such stories. Stuart Itonuld Thompson, a district oigunlAT for tho Woodmen of the World, was Instantly killed und Ilobert Jackson was seriously Injured near Great Falls, Mont, when the car In which they wero rhiliik and which was being driven nt a high rate of speed, crashed Into u bridge, broke through tho rolling and Jumped to the g'round 20 feet below. Ben Kuhl must dlo for the brutal and premeditated killing of the driver of the Jiirhlilgc-Twln Falls stage nt Jar-bldge Jar-bldge ubout two years ago. His companion com-panion In the crime, Ed. Beck, 'must . serve n term of life Imprisonment The 'state supreme court has swept asldo all contentious raised by attorneys attor-neys for the condemned man und tho Elko comity district court has been directed di-rected lo fix a dale for tho execution of Kuhl In the state prison, Because ho tried to bribe, n waiter on a dining car to "slip him n llttlo moro sugar," a traveler on an east-bound east-bound Southern Pucuic train recently. 'was given a blocf eyo by au urpiy officer, of-ficer, who was sitting at nearliy tuble, the Incident occurring rltcno. Tho Ilev. Father Cronln, jstor of Sacred Heart church, Gold! ,1(1, who left last week to. enter the army as a chtiplajn et Fort Itlley, Kan., was escorted es-corted to tlio train by n largo cro-A-d, which gavo three big rheers for tho clergyman ns the train left the station. |
