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Show ; INLAND NORTHWEST I Charles Sales, of Manhattan, Mont., was walking home from Belgrade when he was struck by a train and killed. As a means of providing work for returned soldiers, a number of public improvements are to be begun at Salt Lake at once. Attorney General Ford has' announced an-nounced prosecution in 17 Montana cities of butchers who adulterate lard with beef suet and sell the compound as lard. The meeting of the Lemhi Wool-growers' Wool-growers' association, scheduled for January 0. at Salmon, Idaho, has been indefinitely postponed on account of the "flu" epidemic. Word has reached Whitefish, Mont., that J. W. Out, a former resident of that section, recently committed suicide sui-cide In a hunting cabin about 30 miles north of Calgary, Alberta. Catching his left eye on a hook on the bathroom door, 4-year-old Thomas Gourley, of Salt Lake, sustained a severe se-vere laceration immediately below tbe eye and narrowly escaped losing his sight. Pascual Garrza, a Mexican, swallowed a quantity of carbonic acid in bis room at a hotel iu Salt Lake by mistake. Garrza was ill and did not stop to turn on the light while reaching for his drink. Chief Moiese of the Flathead reservation reser-vation in Montana, the one remaining link on the reservation between the old invasion of Chief Joseph of Nez l'erce and the present, died of influenza influ-enza last week. It is probable that a test case will come up. at Kalispell, Mont., to determine deter-mine whether under the new "dry" law the manufacture and sale of beer containing con-taining less than 2 per cent of alcohol will be permitted. Max Schonberger, aged '59, was shot and fatally wounded by his son Henry during a quarrel at the family residence resi-dence iu Butte. According to the sou's version, his father was beating his wife when he shot him. Butte police and county authorities, in connection with local postal heads, are investigating alleged shortage of about $3000 in war savings and thrift stamps, said to have been found in the accounts of two booths at the Butte postoffice. Miss Alice Chisholm of Bozeman and Miss Gladys Olcott of Red Lodge are the two women chosen by the Women's Division War personel board of the Young Men's Christian association to represent Montana in the unit for overseas over-seas service. At a slate-wide convention, probably to be held during the month, the chambers cham-bers of commerce and commercial clubs of the state will take action on bringing to Montana a due percentage of returning soldiers who desire to settle oi) the soil. Sheepherders are trailing their flocks into Nevada, due to the scarcity of water holes on the desert in the western part of Utah. Very little snow has fallen in the western part of the state. Only a few bunclves of sheep are now on the Utah desert. The establishment of the Montana Flouring Mills company at Harlow-town, Harlow-town, Mont., will purchase practically 500,000 bushels of wheat direct from Wheatland county farmers. The estimated esti-mated wheat production of the entire county is 1,500,000 bushels. Increase in business of the state of Utah aud additional work placed upon the office of the attorney general by the various new commissions has made the present force entirely inadequate inade-quate for the proper performance of the duties of the office, it is asserted. Influenza caused 571 deaths in Seattle Se-attle during the first eleven months of 1918, according to the annual report of the city health commissioner. Since the epidemic started 200.000 doses of vaccine have been given out by the city health department, the report showed. Stocks and bonds held by the several sev-eral state banks of Utah at the close of business on October 5, 1918, 'amounted 'amount-ed to $15,017,633, according to the biennial bi-ennial report of B'ank Commissioner William E. Evans. Compared with his first call made June 20, 1917, tbe increase in-crease in the amount held is $8,500,-44S. $8,500,-44S. A report issued by the field agent for Utah and Nevnda shows farm wages averaging $04 a month, with board and '$S4 without board. Day wages in harvest averaged $3.1o with board and $3.S0 when board was not furnished. Most farmers report that sheepherders and cowmen received higher wages than farm labor and that in. consequence help was hard to get or keep. "The most important achievement of the fuel administration in Montana was to supply coal for the steady operation op-eration of every kind of industry engaged en-gaged directly and indirectly in war work." says State Fuel Administrator Gerry, in summing up the work of the federal fuel administration for this slate during 1918. |