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Show INLAND NORTHWEST Free water will be furnished for irrigation of gardens, the Butte Water company announced last week. The people of Montana bought $7-1.-15(1. U2 worth of war savings stamps through the postoffices of the state during the month of February. Twelve and one-half cents per head has been decided upon""as the sheep-shearing sheep-shearing price for !)10 by the wool growers' associations of Nevada, Utah and Idaho. Three dozen gamblers are at liberty under bail, bonds or consoling each other in the county jail as' the result of a series of raids pulled off at Red Lodge, Mont. More than 100 educators from all parts of Montana and from other states assembled at Missoula, March 10 to attend a two weeks' convention of the state school superintendents. Thereywas only one death by accident acci-dent on the Oregon Short Line rail way system during the month of February, Feb-ruary, accordiirg to a report just is-i is-i sued by J. C. Clark, safety first commissioner com-missioner of the railroad. . Within the past week the returned Dillon, Mont, soldiers and sailors have been organizing themselves into an association in order to obtain mutual benefits along various -lines, both in a social and business way. By a vote of eight to four the senate sen-ate of the Nevada legislature refused to pass a resolution indorsing a league of nations "of which the United States shall be a member." The resolution was passed by the assembly early In the session. The Loyal Legion of Loggers and Lumbermen' originated in the northwest north-west by Colonel Disque in June, 1917, as a war organization to counteract the I. W. W. and Bolshevist trouble makers, has been reorganized on a permanent peace basis. The residence of John Turner, at Butte, was dynamited. Mr. Turner and his family were sleeping on the north side of the house and escaped all injury. Neither Mr. Turner nor the police have any theory as to why the house was' dynamited. The act passed by the Nevada legislature legis-lature dividing the county of Humboldt Hum-boldt and creating the' new county of Pershing, must be referred to the people peo-ple of Humboldt county for decision at the next general election, if the people of that county demand it, according ac-cording to a general legislative act of 191S. Thirty minutes before he left- for California to recuperate from a recent illness, Mayor Ole Hanson removed F. M. Listman from the Seattle civil service commission. The mayor said his reason was the fact that Listman went on the bond of Walker Smith, recently charged with criminal anarchy. an-archy. The epidemic of influenza visiting Bozeman, Mont., and vicinity at- this time, the third wave of the disease, has been light in most instances, but the death toll is becoming more apparent ap-parent during the progress of the epidemic epi-demic and a number of severe cases have developed into pneumonia and have been fatal to the victims. Evidently being firm in the belief that Reno will be the scene of the Willard-Dempsey fight, and -recalling tlia aoHir ilnvc nf Tnlv t Q1 0 when if was impossible to get hotel accommodations accommo-dations in Reno at the time of fhe Jeffries-Johnson fight, four San Francisco Fran-cisco men have already reserved rooms at a Reno hotel for the day and jtight of July 4 next.' During January Vermont led in per capita sales of Wnr Savings Stamps, with $1.20 or a total of $438,000 ; Montana Mon-tana with a total of $519,000 and $1.05 per capita was second ; Utah with a total of $432,000 and .94 per capita was third. Idaho was fifth with a per 'capita of .81, while South Dakota, Oregon and Colorado ranked sixth, seventh and eighth with per capitas of .81, .75, and .72. The governor of Montana has announced an-nounced his veto of house bill No. 264, attempting to abolish the game wardens ward-ens and give their work over to the sheriffs. The- governor deprecated the proposed law as an extra burden on the taxpayers, a3 not being good government gov-ernment and as actuated by political considerations. That Salt Lake and Utah business men should raise $5,000,000 for the ! construction of a railroad line .into Uintah Basin and Millard county to develop those storehouses of Utah's wealth was' the statement made in the principal address before the members if the Commercial club of Salt Lake one day last week. Approximately 200 enemy aliens, inmates in-mates of the war prison barracks at Fort Douglas, will be released within the next ten days, it is announced by II. M. Price of the United States bureau bu-reau of investigation. George A. Crowell, sheriff of Lander Lan-der counly, Nevada, and well known in the eastern part of the state, passed away at Oakland, Cal.. after an illness r.f sewiv.l 1:1. nlhs from lung HM'.lble. |