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Show INLAND NORTHWEST Shower baths for automobile tourists tour-ists and a cement platform for them to wash their cars upon are to be installed in-stalled at once at the city camping grounds at Ogden, Utah. W. S. Jiellis, a Northern Pacific conductor, committed suicide at Billings, Bill-ings, Mont., by shooting. Before aiming aim-ing .at Muiseh", he fired one shot at his wife, but missed. He was 41 years old. Martin lfanrahan is held at Helena, on a charge of evading the draft. He is said to own a farm near Belt, lie surrendered himself, declaring that he had deserted from the army in 1014. Plans have been announced by the committee in charge of the peace jubilee ju-bilee the week of July 4 for a Pacific northwest amateur boxing tournament, to be held in the stadium at Tacoma. Unless cattle owners, residing in the immediate vicinity of Butte, make provision for the herding of their stock they will be prosecuted under the provisions pro-visions of the recently enacted herd law. Wooden shingles are charged by Fire Chief William H. Bywater in Ills annual report for 1018 with having been responsible for 17 per cent of the fires in buildings of Salt Lake during dur-ing the year. Petitions are being circulated in the west end of the county for the formation forma-tion of a new county which will divide Musselshell county, Montana, in a straight line north and south one mile east of Musselshell. Union bakers in several large plants at Tacoma, struck in support of their demands for $4 weekly wage increase. Managers' of the bakeries announced they would continue to operate on the "open shop" basis. The first fatality to occur in the Independent coal mine, near Roundup, Montana, happened last week when Joe Ussin, a miner employed by the company, was instantly killed by a fall of rock while working. By order of the commander of the Western department, the post of Fort Douglas has been abolished, and the military reservation will be.divlded between be-tween the United States army general hospital No. 27 and the Third war prison barracks. Refusal of a Cheyenne resident to subscribe to the Victory Liberty loan has led to his public newspaper exposure ex-posure by John D. Clark, chairman of the Victory Liberty loan committee of Cheyenne. The resident is reputed to be worth $100,000. Knowledge of the existence of an alleged plot among persons of suspected suspect-ed anarchistic tendencies "to get" Mayor Ole Hanson before he left on his Victory Loan speaking tour, was admitted by Police Inspector Claude G. Bannick, of Seattle. An unidentified man was killed by a Union Pacific train near Hadsell, Wyo. It is stated that the man was walking along track No. 2 and stepped upon track No. 1 to allow an east-bound east-bound train to pass, and was killed by a westbound train, . Twenty-six Montana towns were represented rep-resented at the meeting of state commercial com-mercial club secretaries at Butte for the purpose of discussing re-adjustment problems created by cessation of hostilities, cancellation of war contracts con-tracts and discharging of thousands of soldiers. - Although the representatives of the soldiers and sailors' council conducted a tag sale at Tacoma on May 1, in an orderly manner,. Mayor Forrest II. Sweet and the city commissioners, after reading the constitution of the organization, ordered them to cease 1 solicitation. Four courses of athletic instruction in Spokane schools are to be submitted to the state board of education at its annual spring meeting, with a view to obtaining an indorsement which will inaugurate a state-wide system of physical training for students in the grade and high schools. Last week 'the Nevada Consolidated , - t,i tl.u semi-monthly pay-day system at Ely, Nevada, as provided by the law to that effect enacted by the last session of the Nevada legislature.- This is. the irst instance in the history of the camp that employes have received their pay checks on a twice-a-month basis. "Powder River. Let 'or Buck." battle bat-tle cry of the ninety-first, wild west d'ivision, composed of Montana. Washington. Wash-ington. Oregon and California tr ops. is the old war cry of the Montana s ow-boy. ow-boy. Before it rang on the Argoane. it had been heard for more than 50 years from the Rio Grande to the Canadian line, in many a hard fought battle. There threatens to be a plague of grasshoppers throughout the Moapa and Virgin Valleys in Nevada this year. They are beginning to make their appearance on the Indian reservation reser-vation now. An outbreak of them at j the Moapa Indian reservation during the summer of 191S practically de- I stroyed all crops, including gardens. j corn, alfalfa, foliage on trees, etc. |