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Show INLAND NORTHWEST Ten, thousand dollars worth of whisky, whis-ky, seized in recent raids on the sites of former saloons, is to be destroj-ed in Billings soou. Matt Feldnjau, a well known young man of Lewistowji. Mont., was killed in ;m automobile accident between Jlilger and Lewistowji. Absolute necessity id' a landing Held to keep pace with rlu' progress of aviation avi-ation has lieen felt in Billings, Mont., and stops are to lie taken at once for securing a suitable site. .Members of the farm bureau in Benton Ben-ton c. unity. Wash., who organized a hull cluli three years' ago, have sold, for SI. 050. a hull which lliev novel. used for $350 when they organized. .Mrs. Mary F. Conklieit, aged OS, said to have been the first white girl in Broadwater, county. Montana, and known to have been one of the first white girls in Montana, died at Helena Hel-ena last week from infirmities due to old age. .Senator Myers has introduced a bill giving all American citizens who enlisted en-listed in any of the allied armies, including in-cluding Canada, and left the United States to serve abroad, the same homestead home-stead rights as those who enlisted in the American army. A referendum vote taken by the Virginia Vir-ginia City and Gold Hill, New, miners on the question of continuing the strike or accepting the $5 a day wage as nronosed bv tin onerators. resulted in tli e union members sustaining the action to resume work at the $5 scale. A survey to check up the results of the smut-eradication campaign conducted con-ducted last spring in Colorado showed that where such treatment was practiced prac-ticed there was very little smut, hut where the seed had not been treated as high as 25 per cent infection was recorded. re-corded. Complaints are being made by Ely, Nevada, merchants to the city author-: ities against the practice of persons who interfere by peddling without a license, with the regular business of established houses that are regular licensed business establishments and tax payers. The Farm Bureau of Millard county. Utah, through its livestock project committee and county agent, induced 54 farmers to cooperate in the marketing mar-keting of the wool clip, with the result flint 32,500 pounds of wool were pooled pool-ed and marketed at an average price of 50 cents a pound. The search and seizure clause of the Wyoming prohibition law was held unconstitutional by Judge J. H. Burgess Bur-gess in the district court at Sheridan. The court ordered the return to original origi-nal owners of large quantities, of liquor li-quor seized and held as evidence against alleged violators of the dry law. Stockmen and farmers in the seriously seri-ously drougth-slricken area of Montana Mon-tana and adjoining states, where feed crops and pastures have failed for lack of rainfall, are being given some relief through well-organized and cooperative co-operative efforts of the United States department of agriculture and state officials. A significant step in the project of boring the Moffat tunnel through Jnmes Peak was made at Denver last week when L. D. Blauvelt of Denver, associated with the engineer executive staff of the Denver Salt Lake railroad rail-road for sixteen years, was appointed consulting engineer for the enterprise by the state railroad commission. Senator John F. Nugent of Idaho, at the reiiuest of the United Stockmen's association, has telegraphed President Wilson asking that he grant an interview inter-view while in Salt Lake, September 23. to a delegation representing western west-ern stockmen in order that they may discuss with him the question of federal fed-eral control of public grazing lands. A law under, which the state of Nevada Ne-vada is estimated to have collected .$300,000 annually and which was amended by the last legislature to provide pro-vide for collection o-f a license fee for grazing on Nevada ranges at a higher rate for nonresident stockmen than for residents has been declared unconstitutional uncon-stitutional by Judge E. J. L. Taber in the district court at Elko, New The sum of $105,050 was distributed to persons in the city of Reno in 1918 by the various life insurance companies com-panies of the country on account of death vlaims and matured policies. Winneniucca came second with claims aggregating $40,000. Goldlield next with $25,000. Goodsprings $22,000 Cars in City $10,000. Tonopah $12,750. Virginia City $12,750. Ely $11,500. The first step toward reclamation of the famous big Bruneau project and toward development of the power and irrigation resources of the Snake river in Idaho on a scale that will be one of the greatest in irrigation history his-tory was taken last week, when the Twin F'alls-Bruneau Land and Water company applied to the state land board to have 554.000 acres of the project segregated as the first unit of the scheme. |