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Show INLAND NORTHWEST The war department records show that 71 Montanans who were with the Seventy-seventh division were killed In battle. Olga Heare, aged 2G, was instantly killed when a car he was driving plunged over an embankment near Red Lodge, Mont. The town of Denton, Mont., is completing com-pleting arrangements to put in a municipal mu-nicipal water works system, the estimated esti-mated cost being 800,000. On May 4, Oregon went over the top in her Victory loan campaign. Oregon's Ore-gon's quota was $2(i,7 17,5o0, which has been heavily over-subscribed. Northwest dividends according to careful estimates of Mining Truth, declined de-clined from ,f2,G29,307 in the first quar- ter of 1018. to $1,4S4,711 in 1019. Range conditions throughout the state of Nevada are said by sheep and cattle men to he in fine condition now, title to the heavy snows of the winter and recent rains. Estimates based on a hurried federal fed-eral and state check-up of the damage done to the Idaho fruit crop by the heavy frosts of Sunday place the loss at from 25 to 50 per cent of the crop. Animal tuberculosis still exists to some extent in Montana, it is stated hy Dr. J. A. Kierman, chief of the tuberculosis eradication division of the federal bureau of animal industry department de-partment of agriculture. A new attempt is to be made to re-open the old Keene coal mine, located lo-cated a short distance from Roundup, Montana. This was formerly one of the best mines in the district, but litigation liti-gation put it out of business. It ,1s announced that Boy Scouts sold $23,000 worth of Liberty bonds in Missoula, Mont., during ' the recent drive; This was the only solicitation used in raising the county's quota of $400,000. The plains of eastern Montana are being gradually planted to shade trees and' windbreaks, largely from the forestry for-estry school of the University of Montana Mon-tana at Missoula. More than 3,000 young trees have been distributed by the school during the last year. Official statements of the labor shortage and announcement of the great employers of the state that their demand henceforth will either remain stationary or increase, puts Montana among the few states where unemployment unemploy-ment practically does not exist. The head of the employment office at Elko, Nevada, reports that last week he had calls for more than 50 men to work on. ranches in tins vicinity vicin-ity at. wages' of from $00 to $65 per month and board, but that he was unable un-able to secure sufficient workers to fill the demand. For probably the first time in the history of labor movements the Loyal Legion of Loggers met in open session ses-sion with the Salem, Oregon, Central Labor Council to promote voluntary mediation of all differences between employers and employes without resort re-sort to strikes. A circular letter has been ; sent to farmers and farmers organizations over the state calling a meeting to be held in Great Falls, Mont., May 15, for the purpose of organizing "the united farmers of Montana,", said to be patterned after an organization of similar name in Canada. Organization of a second class in vocational training for miners is announced an-nounced by Frank H. Skeels, director of the extension course of . the University of Idaho school of mines. Actual mining work is to be performed hy members of the class in the Hecla mine at Coeur d'Alene.- The Montana branch of the Nonpartisan Non-partisan league has begun a fight against the approval by the voters at the special election Sept. 2 on the referendum amending the primary law to provide for the nomination of state and federal officers in state conventions conven-tions instead of by primary elections.. The epidemic of sickness raging in Tonopah. Silver Peak and Blair is said by Goldfield physicians not to be Influenza, In-fluenza, but plain grippe, and they explain the number of deaths recently recent-ly by stating that the number is not unusual for this season of the year when the present large population is considered. Jeff Hanna, 40 years old. an attendant at-tendant at the state hospital at Salem, Oregon, is dead with a bullet wound in his head, and Mrs. Josie Stotler, "0, is in the city pail there with a slight scalp wound as the result of trouble at Mrs. Stotler's home. The voman contends that Hanna first shot .er and then turned the gun on himself. him-self. The bed of Silver lake, eighty-five miles south of Bend. Oregon, almost i dry during the last year, has been oc-! oc-! cupied by squatters, who hoped to take homesteads as soon as govern-j govern-j meat regulations could be secured. The bed of the lake is now rapidly filling vith water, however, cabins of settlers set-tlers are surrounded by the flood waters wat-ers and the families have been forced 'o seek higher c round. |