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Show HORliWKT NOTES The cost of fighting fires now raging In Idaho and western Montana may total ?1,000,000, according to Information Informa-tion received by tov. D. W. Davis. , Harvey Hardy, 70 years of age, formerly for-merly sheriff of Salt Lake county and In tho early nineties Identified wlM the real citato and mining business in Snlt Iike, died Saturday at Good-springs, Good-springs, Nov., according to word ru-cclved ru-cclved at Suit liko City. Ill spite of the fact that June frosts mid summer droughts have made tie-liieiuloiiH' tie-liieiuloiiH' Inroads on the wheat crops (if Utah and ijoiilhcru Idaho, enough grain will bo harvested to supply the needs of tho two states and mako possible pos-sible tho exportation of a large quantity. quan-tity. Thu chamber of commerce of Lewis-town, Lewis-town, Montana, has begun thu work of making a complete business mid professional survey of thu city, so that every business and profession will ha listed for future reference. This Is thu first survey of the kind ever taken here. Fire completely destroyed thu steam-boat steam-boat Humbler, n hike steamer 00 feet In length, 11 fool beam, ut Coeur d' Menu and hut fur thu timely action of the flro department and volunteers would have consumed the city dock and store and tho entire frame work of wharves. The net receipts for tho national forests In Utah, Idaho, Nevada and western Wyoming, under the supervision super-vision of tho district office located In Ogden, during the fiscal year, ended .luno 110, iimouuted to ?7a),:iM).:tl, nccordlng nc-cordlng to n bulletin Issued hy the forest for-est service. With a view to drafting n resolution to congress favoring federal control of the national domain, stockmen from Arizona, Minnesota, California, Colorado, Colo-rado, Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, New Mexico, Nevada, Oregon, South Dakota Da-kota and Washington met In convention conven-tion nt the Hotel Utah In Suit Luke. Three members of a Northern Pacific Pa-cific train crew, John Kllcoyne, conductor, con-ductor, Clnreneo Lotzenbelser, brake-man, brake-man, and John Chevalier, engineer, were Injured In an accident nt u tunnel tun-nel near Quartz, Lotz.cnhccr mid Chovnller weru Injured seriously and are In tho railroad hospital ut Missoula Montana. Itefutntlon of thu ' widespread rumors ru-mors of total crop failures In Mjuitaua Is contained In the weekly crop review hy Charles D. Oreeiifleld, statu commissioner com-missioner of agriculture and publicity Ooud y.elds from the many Irrigated regions of tho state are predicted and In tho western part of tho state fruit, alfalfa and grain crops are In excellent excel-lent condition. I'cter Teroo, a retired grocer Is balled by women of thu local Ited Cross ns champion knitter of the nor. tlicrn division. Mr. I'eroo has spent 12,110 hours limiting sox and stlcklngn for tho Ited. Cross and In this period has knitted 101 pairs ,nu average of ono pair In 1-1- hours. He has been awarded a Ited Cross scrvlco button In recognition of his services. 0. W. Mcrrltt, a section Iiiind cm-ployed cm-ployed by tho Southern 1'nelflc at Newton, 15 miles cast of Hilling, Montana, was killed when Uiu (Ikndlvc stub struck him ns he stepped from a side track to the main Hue, directly In front of tho passenger. Tho man's neck was broken, but otherwise his body was not marked up, although thu stub was traveling at u high rate of speed. Tho Utah Oil & Heflnlng Co., a subsidiary sub-sidiary of tho Midwest Heflnlng company, com-pany, of Casper, Wyo., recently purchased pur-chased from J. T. Hurst and Sid ICeo-glum ICeo-glum fit per cent of llio capital slock of tho Carbon Oil company, which Is drilling a test well. This conipany hns also leased -100 acres front the Trl-stnto Oil & Heflnlng Co., which has 1100 acres on tho structure and of which former fiovernor George A. Carlson of Colorado, Is president. An .agreement for a new wage scale providing for an inercusu of $1 a day for inlno and smelter employees of .Hie Anaconda Copper coinpnny hern nnd at Great Falls and Anaconda, Mont., was readied last week between C F. Keliey, president of the company, and representatives of the employees. Culling of a speciul session of the state legislature of Montana to amend tho laws, so us to enable state and main highways already planned or to bo planned to be constructed and Hum nfford employment Immediately to many fannerH Is urged In n ret.oltitlon adopted by a conference pf representatives representa-tives of tho Good Houds associations Tho ffrst announcement of proposed new rnllrond construction In Oregon slnco the war was formally mndo when J. W. Foster of Portland, construction con-struction engineer, stated that the company which ho represents will build front Mount Angel, on tho west i side of tho Cascades, to IJend, hy way ! of Sisters, for the newly Incorporated Portland &, Southeastern Itallwoy compnny. A movement fcr n greater Yellowstone Yellow-stone park by addition of the Jackson Lake and Grand Teton country, which would iiieau so much to Utah' In get ting tourists to come, tills, way, was given nn added. Impetus by Suit Lako 'TtoTTnTmis-. A dynnmlto elinrgo planted In the' hopper of a brick: nugur ut Billings, Montana, demolished tho main ran-chlncry ran-chlncry of tho W, U. Dowlln brickyard. brick-yard. On April 27 a flro of unexplained unexplain-ed origin destroyed tho plant. Opcru-1 Hons were resumed less than a week ago. |
