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Show INLAND NORTHWEST j Twenty-one members of the house and four senators of the Montana legislature leg-islature were elected on the Nonpartisan Non-partisan ticket. News has been received lhat Fred Lundgren, formerly of - Hamilton, Nevada, was killed in battle while serving with the American forces in France. John .T. Suliviin, a miner, must spend from Mo to 70 years in the state penitentiary for having shot to death Emery I. t'upples, shift boss at the Original mine at Butte. Dominick Dehmar, aged 4, single and a native of Germany, was killed by a fall of rock in the Nettie mine at Butte. He had been a resident of Montana Mon-tana for more than -0 years. The quota for Nevada in the campaign cam-paign to raise funds for the starving people of Greece, Syria and Armenia is $24,000, which the campaign .managers .mana-gers believe will be easy to raise. Sale of near beer containing any quantity of alcohol whatever, even below be-low two per cent, is in violation of the state prohibition law, according to a decision handed down at Butte last week. Demands imposed upon stenographers stenograph-ers by a nation at war, and a consequent conse-quent increase in wages, has decreased the usual number of applications for stenographic positions in the Montana legislature. It is possible that the Montana legislature leg-islature may enact a bill providing for the creation of new normal schools by petition, thus leaving the matters in the hands of the people and the state board of education. Of the l.liSS Xevadans who registered regis-tered for selective draft oa June 5, the number of inductions into the service ser-vice was 2S71 whites and 21 colored. The total number of men of the first registration to enlist was !)G3. The adjutant general's record shows that of the toniJ number of registrants in Nevada available toe service there remain 58 of the 1017 class; 87 of the June, 101S class; 1G05 from 10 to 30, and 114 of the IS year old class. Washakie county, Wyo.. claims the distinction of furnishing to the war a larger percentage of its population than any other county in the nation, 10 per cent of the county's population either volunteering or having been drafted. The Montana Live Stock Sanitary board has issued orders pertaining to the shipment of sheep into Montana from Idaho, which orders, if adhered to, will greatly reduce the danger of spreading infectious or contagious diseases. ' Montana is now a part of the Tenth district of the federal board for vocational vo-cational education. This means that all disabled soldiers in the state will be under the care of headquarters at Minneapolis, instead of at Seattle, as previously announced. V. C. Graham, a miner employed at Ruth, Nevada, shot and mortally wounded two assailiants after being knocked down and beaten about the ' head as he was going home at night. Both of the men, Joe Rubic and Eli Ivrmptoich, died after beiug taken to the hospital. Reports from corn growers show that between three nnd four thousand acres of corn were harvested in Musselshell county, Montana, last year and that the average yield was 10 to 12 bushels, including hailed and poor crops. In oiiib instances yields of 30 to 35 bushels bush-els per acre were had. Thrusting aside some slight difference differ-ence a.s to methods of caring for returned re-turned soldiers, Butte business men and leaders in city industry promised to throw their full strength behind the employment and relief committee of the Butte Army and Navy league at meetings heil last week. Resolutions prolesting to the interstate inter-state commerce commission against the recent arbitrary raise of express rates and further consideration of the coal, class and trans-continental graded rates were the outstanding features in the. meeting of- the executive committee commit-tee of the Montana Freight Kate association asso-ciation held at Helena. Five of the seven slates interested in the Colorado river reclamation project, proj-ect, in which C10.000 acres of land in Utah are Involved, have notified Governor Gov-ernor Bamberger that delegates have been appointed to atlend the conference confer-ence of governors called at Salt Lake for January 18. A petition for a rehearing before the Nevada Supreme Court will be filed by the appellants in the Henry Miller inheritance in-heritance tax suits, according to attorneys at-torneys for the Miller eslate. If this denied it is understood that an ap-eal ap-eal will be taken to the supreme court of the United Stales. The Helena Light and Railway company's com-pany's directors has decider! ; first, to invite the city of Helena to lake fiver and operate the lines in su-b a way as to eliminate the deficit ; second, to apply to the state railway commission for an increase in fares, or third, to discontinue operations. The company claims to have been operating at a loss for some time. The body of 1 1. T. Ellis of Kellogg. Idaho, traveling from Mullan, Idaho, to Weiser, was found by the railroad track at Scott station near Sl:n'buck, e having fallen from the lr:iin on .vhich he was a passenger. The intensely cold nighls of the past few weeks at Salt Lake have resulted J in the freezing of hundreds of water j service pipes leading from the mains into private residences and have created cre-ated a situation which h:is kept the water department on the jump sixteen j hours a day in thawing out the frozen i pipes. |