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Show INLAND NORTHWEST Montana's youngest and oldest veterans vet-erans will mingle at Livingston June 30 and July 1, when the G. A. R. and the American Legion will bold their conventions at the same time. Cities that have armories will get first consideration, it is announced, in organization of the Montana national guard, which now is proceeding under Adjutant General Phil Greenan. Neary tiOO head of horses and cattle were shipped out of Star valley, Wyoming, Wy-oming, to Nebraska during the past week for winter feeding. 011 account of the scarcity of hay in that vicinity. Cine hundred fifteen soldiers garrisoned garri-soned at Fort Mackenzie during the prevalence of the strike in Wyoming, have been sent back to their former barracks at Fort Wright, Washington. The barracks on the grounds of the Multnomah county hospital at Portland Port-land are to be immediately converted into an isolation hospital as a step toward combating the smallpox epidemic. epi-demic. A mountain lion that stands as high as a calf and is estimated to measure meas-ure 12 feet from tip to tip has been chasing woodcutters away from nearby near-by camps, according to reports from Helena. Police reserves were called to quell a riot at the Minnequa Steel works at Pueblo, Colo., when Austrian women wo-men pickets stoned steel workers who had returned to work in defiance of tbe union strike order. The unprecedented wave of crimo which Denver is combating, may be attributed to wholesale clean-nps in Chicago and" Los Angeles, where the police are routing all undesirables, according ac-cording to Denver police. authorities. Soon after a fire was made in the range at the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. V- Call at Afton, Wyo., an explosion explo-sion occurred, which blew nut window win-dow panes and shattered the stove beyond repair. Freezing of tbe water jacket was the cause. Mrs. Fern Draney of Afton, Wyo., has just received from Paris a citation cita-tion signed by Marshal Petain in honor hon-or of her husband, who died in action during the world war. Accompanying it was a croix de guerre and the soldier's sol-dier's personal effects. Two men were seriously wounded and over 100 persons, mostly Christmas Christ-mas shoppers, were held at bay, when a lone bandit, believed to be tbe man who, at Olympia, Wash.", shot and killed E. H. Schultz, attempted to hold up a stationery store in Seattle. Through co-operation of tbe state highway commission and the state university, uni-versity, efforts are being made to build up in Montana a special course of study which in time will produce a corps of highway engineers to assist in the problems of road building in this state. A stay of pleading until December 27 was granted by Superior Judge Wilson Wil-son of Olympia, sitting at Montesano, Wash., in the case of eleven alleged I. W. W.'s charged with murder in connection con-nection with the shooting of Warren O. Grimm, former lieutenant in the United States army, at Centralia, November No-vember 11. The governors of Colorado, Arizona, New Merico, Wyoming, Utah and Idaho wil, meet in Denver on January 10 to formulate a course of action to be taken by the states in the move to have turned over to the commonwealths common-wealths the public lands and also to make recommendations for a constructive construc-tive irrigation program. A bandit shot and killed E. H. Schultz, an Olympia. Wash., automobile automo-bile dealer, after robbing a department store of nearly $2000. Schultz. who bad been deputized during the I. W. W. trouble in Olympia. led the pursuers pur-suers of the bandit. He carried an automatic pistol, but it jammed when he attempted to shoot the bandit Poachers paid heavy tribute to the state of Montana during the past year, ending November. During the first six- months of the fiscal year 190 arrests ar-rests were made. They resulted in a total of IS! convictions, netting the state $5,281.50 in fines. Of an average of 2,712 employes in eight of nine coal mines operating in Montana, there are 1,328 aliens in the mines, of whom 502 have taken out first naturalization papers and 700 have none at all, according to official reports. The average pay of these employes is $2,320 a year. To save more than 10,000 elk reported re-ported to be starving in Jackson valley, val-ley, Wyoming, due to heavy snows, the advisory board of the Jackson Hole Cattle and Horse Growers' association asso-ciation will confer with the United States forestry service and offer bay and money to save the herd. I Sitting for twelve days, the special j session of-the Colorado legislature rat- ified the woman suffrage amendment ; to the federal constitution, passed the i anti-automobile theft measure and the : anti-sedition bill and placed before the voters a constitutional amendment calling for increases in the salaries of certain state officials. ! Lerov Jones, former fish and game warden and now United States mar- shal of Idaho, is being sued by the i state for the recovery of $24,000 said to be due from him on account of fish and game licenses sold by him and not accounted for in cash. Labor Commissioner Cole of Carson : City. Nov.. has submitted figures in I reply to an inquiry from the New I York Sun. showing that over $3.5(1(1 pot I was lost in production, etc., from strikes in Nevada during 1919. Over $l50,(io:l was lost in wages to the worU-ingmen. |