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Show INLAND NORTHWEST President Wilson has nominated Alexander Sweek of Portland. Ore., to be register of the land office at that citj. Measures regulating business methods meth-ods and eliminating possibility of exacting ex-acting exorbitant profits will lie enacted en-acted into law at this session of llu-Moniana llu-Moniana assembly, it was declared. Competition among the counties promises spirited rivalry in the argi-jultural argi-jultural division of ihe Montana slate fair to be held Sept. S-13. according to reports received at the office of Secretary Horace S. Ensign. Japan's first official copy of I he German, peace treaty left Seattle Tuesday for Tokio aboard Ihe Japanese Ja-panese liner Fushimi Maru, in care jf a special courier, Lieut. Col. II. Ninoniya, an officer of the Japanese army. Due to the heavy rains all fires in the Montana national forests are reported re-ported safe and the only trouble the foresters are experiencing now is with the blazes in the Idaho reserves, which have not been visited by showers. No reports of now fires were received at the district headquarters. Fire last week destroyed the mill of the Bissell Lumber Company, just south of Seattle city limits, and a large stock of lumber, the loss being estimated at $300,000. Only a change '.n the wind, it was said, could save 53,000,000 worth of supplies awaiting shipment to Russian ports. Governor D. W. Davis of Idaho has asked District Forester L. F. Kneipp to take immediate steps to aid in caring car-ing for the great herds of elk in northeastern north-eastern Idaho and Jackson hole. Because Be-cause of the shortage of hay and the poor range this year, the Idaho executive ex-ecutive says, it will be necessary to take steps now for the feeding of the elk. Orders for a supply of government foodstuff were wired to San Francisco army officials Tuesday by Acting Mayor W. D. Lane of Seattle. The food, if sold to the city, will be retailed re-tailed by the municipality to the public pub-lic at local public markets. The order or-der included 40,000 pounds of bacon, 3000 six-pound cans of corned beef and 1000 cases of tomatoes. William L. W'allen, champion swimmer swim-mer of the Illinois Athletic Club, Chi- -cago, successfully defended ins title at Portland by winning first place in the A. A. U. national one-mile swim in the Williamette river. His time for the mile, over a course of 16 laps, was 24 minutes, 37 3-5 seconds. Second Sec-ond place went to Harold Kruger of the Oakland Athletic Club, and George Schroeth, also of Oakland, captured third place from Mitrie Konowaloff of Seattle. Voicing their protests against profiteering prof-iteering in the necessities of life and asking that Deer Lodge county, Montana, Mon-tana, representatives co-operate with other members of the state legislature legisla-ture in alleviating existing conditions members of Anaconda Mill and Smel-termeu's Smel-termeu's Union, No. 117, passed resolutions, reso-lutions, forwarding copies to Senator J. B. Gnose and Representatives Chrystal, Johnson and Lemmon of Deer Lodge county, now attending the special session of the legislature. At the request of Secretary Lane, Senator Myers of Montana, Monday introduced in-troduced a bill providing an appropriation appropria-tion of $500,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary for the purpose of protecting timber on the public lands from forest fires, to be expended under the supervision of the secretary of the interior. Damage to crops has resulted in Elko county, Nevada, through rav- .. ,r,.m,r.,l c- 1 I I , t, fltd InCC llP- ing estimated at $30,000 in the Metropolis Me-tropolis and Lamoille farming districts alone. An organization has been formed form-ed at Metropolis to provide funds with which to conduct a campaign of destruction de-struction against the rodents. Notice of advances ranging from 10 to 25 per cent in the rent of apartments apart-ments at Spokane was served on tenants, ten-ants, and rents of business property and dwelling houses also were, raised somewhat. Landlords denied increases were the result of concerted action, but said they were demanded by the advances ad-vances in cost of upkeep of their property. State and federal law is to be Invoked In-voked against criminal food profiteering profiteer-ing in Montana. The county attorney of Silver Bow county at Butte is cooperating co-operating with the United States dis- . trict attorney, who will be asked to secure indictments by a federal grand ury against those persons who cannot be readied by state law. Notice has been served in the bouse Df representatives of Montana that when the measure to enforce prohibition prohi-bition comes up, an amendment making mak-ing it unlawful to possess liquor sloreil prior to July 1 would be offered. This has raised a question as to common law rights fit citizens, which have been observed for centuries. The measure was unexpected, but prohibitionists expect it will be passed. Electricians in the employ of the Montana Power company went on strike last week. Demands presented to the company are for an increase from S0..10 a day, the present wage, to $S a day. Twenty-four counties of Molilalia have filed petitions with the secretary Df stale against holding the special primary amendment election on Sept. .and five others are known lo be on the way to Ihe oapitol. If tltey reach Helena the election will lie automatically automat-ically held up, according lo a ruling nr Kli.mtui' Cuiiuml St ( V fiil'il |