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Show INLAND NORTHWEST Scarcity of labor at Tonopah, Nov., is making mining operations difficult. For the first time since the railroad entered Tonopah that city now has tralnless Sundays. S. P.. Perrin, a rancher, was brought into I.ewistown, Mont., last week to answer to a charge of killing cattle belonging to other people. The ranchers of Pumperiiickle valley, val-ley, in Nevada, have about finished putting up their second crop of alfalfa aud report a bumper crop this year. While fighting with the Canadian army. Private W. V. Oates. son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Oales of Butte, was killed in action some time last month. A marked increase in the utilization utiliza-tion of the forests of western Montana for grazing purposes is reveided in a report of grazing activities for district No. 1 of the forest service. Thursday, September 12, was a legal holiday and all business was suspended suspend-ed In Montana, to allow the registration registra-tion of all males who are between the ages of IS and 21, and 31 and 45. Winter rye was demonstrated this season as the surest crop in Montana. The acreage was not large, but it promises to lie especially so next year, it being probable that in Valley county alone 3000 acres of winter rye will be sown. Use of sugar beet tops for ensilage promises to become general among farmers of Nevada. Silage from beet tops last winter proved to be equal to the best alfalfa hay for cattle feeding, feed-ing, according to farmers who trted the experiment. The infant son of Mr. and .Mrs. Allen Landsherry, ranchers in the Fort Maginnis, Mont., section, was burned to death when the ranch house caught fire and burned. The mother had gone out into the field, leaving the child asleep in the house. In a letter received from one of the Dillon (Mont.) boys -in France, it was stated that Montana men were in evidence evi-dence all along the American line and were known by the familiar yell of "Powder River" as thty went over the top and at the Huns, Ranchers of the county who move to Dillon, Mont., for the winter so that, their children may attend school have found it very difficult to obtain houses or apartments there, as during the past, month nearly every available residence was rented for the winter. Agricultural exhibits at the Montana Mon-tana stale fair this year were on a par with those of previous years, despite drouth, and the cattle exposition was unusually impressive. Wild West events, horse races, auto races and many other features had been ar-ranged ar-ranged for entertainment. The one-year homestead bill, introduced intro-duced by Senator Meyers of Monran.i, was passed by. the senate last week. This bill, adopted as a war measure, modifies the requirements for taking over homestead tracts and will result in the opening up of large areas of homestead lands in the west. One of the most peculiar cases in the district court at Roundup, Mont., was begun a few days ago when Mrs. Eisie Hanson filed suit against Mr. and Mrs. Roger (irady for S2500 damages dam-ages for enticing her son away and inducing in-ducing him to work for them, thereby depriving her of his company. (iovernor Stewart of Montana has written a letter of appreciation to the parents of a Billings boy, who captured cap-tured thirty-five bodies single-handed in France. Private Klmer droves, a marine, son of Mr. aud Mrs. James Groves, accomplished this feat on the Villers-Cotterets sector recently. The ranch home of Mr, and Mrs. J. D. Stanley, two miles southeast of Cor-vallis, Cor-vallis, Mont., was destroyed by an early morning fire. A son of the family fam-ily was awakened by smoke and he barely had time to arouse the rest, of the family and get them to safety when the roof caved in. The house and all contents were a total loss. There is no suffering from hi'-k of farm help in Montana, wartime necessities neces-sities having taught fanners that boys of 10 years are more competent- Hum ever before imagined, at the same time the women of Montana have grappled effectively a situation Unit promised difficulty, many of them lending substantial aid in field work. After having made a tour of eight of the western states, for the purpose of getting In touch wi'h the dairy situation, B. H. Rawl, chief of the dairy division of the department of agriculture, declared that while there appeared to be considerable dissatisfaction dissatis-faction among the fanners and dairymen dairy-men because of the shortage of feed and labor, they are determined to keep up the supply of dairy products. J. C. Johnston and C. A. Wylgross of Anaconda pleaded guilty to selling liquor at a farmers' picnic without a license. The men were fined $100 and costs. The affair is the aftermath of an attempt to sell liquor in a secluded part of the picnic grounds. The I'.oy Scouts found the "blind pig" hidden among some bushes and notified the officers. The Polytechnic institute at Billings, Mont., has been designated for membership mem-bership in the students' army training corps. The war department has designated des-ignated more than -too colleges for this corps, which will be used for training train-ing the IS-yoar-old hoys. The fall run of sheep and cattle from the Nevada territory is now on. and according to officials of the stockyards at North Salt Lake, the movement is likely to he the heaviest in the history, his-tory, range and hay conditions making mak-ing it necessary for the flockinasters to cut down tlie'.r 'lords. |