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Show INLAND NORTHWEST A delegation of representatives of the American legion in Montana is in Washington to lay before the war risk Insurance bureau complaint of alleged neglect to Monnua veterans. Philip Leftliand, au Indian living near Oak Creek, Colo., reputed to be 13S years old, died from burns received when his clothing caught fire from sparks from a pipe lie was smoking. A coroner's jury will investigate the shooting at Las Animas, Colo., of Floyd Ham, 25, wealthy rancher, slain by J. B. Barrett, a homesteader, following fol-lowing a quarrel over cattle grazing laud. The Geyser Mercantile company of Geyser, Mont., was destroyed, together to-gether with warehouse, as the result of a fire. The loss was a total one and is estimated at 505,000 with insurance insur-ance of $39,000. A campaign to raise $350,000 in Washington as the state's quota in Hie national drive to be conducted by Herbert Hoover to provide $33,000,000 for starving children in Europe, has been inaugurated. Two men were killed, literally blown to pieces, and three others were seriously injured by an explosion of coal gases in the bunkers of the steamship Victoria of the Alaska Steamship line at Seattle. W. R. McDonald, a special policeman, police-man, who rescued 5-year-old Hazel Simmons from in front of an oncoming oncom-ing electric train on a downtown street at Portland, was given a $250 reward by a relative of the girl. Western beet growers want half the sugar produced from their beets or there wou't be any beets next year. This was the decision at the annual meeting at Denver of the Mountain State Beet Growers' association. A 20 per cent reduction in the retail price of lumber was announced last week by dealers of Spokane. An over-supply over-supply was declared to be the reason for the cut. It is the sixth price reduction re-duction in lumber since last February. The scout cruiser, Omaha, whose 105 horsepower engines are expected to carry her through the seas at a thirty-five knot speed, was launched at Tacoma last week. Miss Louise B. White of Omaha, Neb., christened the vessel. Alex McGibben, 47, a wood contractor, con-tractor, was shot and instantly killed at Seattle in a quarrel over a theft of chickens, according to police, and Pete Colaghino, 4S, section hand, is in the county jail charged with the shooting. Efforts are being made by the Greeters of Oregon to have the National Greeters' association set aside December 7 as a memorial day in honor of the late Fisher Harris of Salt Lake, author of the slogan, "See America First." It is said that clews have been secured se-cured as to the identity of the three men who rode up alongside an auto in which Jack Harden of Lewistown, Mont., was riding last week, presumably presum-ably on a return trip from Canada, murdered him and looted his car. Plans are being made for construction construc-tion at Centralia, Wash., of what is expected to become an American Legion shrine a building dedicated to the memory of four legion men killed by alleged Industrial Workers of the World during an Armistice day parade last year. The Central Montana Wheat Growers' Grow-ers' association has planned a number of meetings to be held immediately in the central part of the state for the purpose of considering in detail the form of contract adopted for the control con-trol of crops for a .term of years by the association. Robert A. Jones, secretary of state for Idaho, has written Sam A. Kozer. secretary of state for Oregon, suggesting sug-gesting that the secretaries of state of Oregon, Idaho, Washington and California Cali-fornia meet in Portland December 20 and 21 to consider Interstate automobile auto-mobile regulations. Fighters and followers of the prize' ring will not be allowed to remain in Portland unless they go to work and behave themselves. Chief of Police L. V. Jenkins announced after information informa-tion had reached police headquarters that the boxing world habitues were flocking Into Portland. Revision of the tariff to "protect American Agriculture," and Immediate rearrangement of foreign credits "to encourage and reestablish trade with Europe," was demanded in resolutions adopted at Spokane at a joint meeting meet-ing of the Washington and Idaho Wheat Growers' associations. The plans for roads In Montana include in-clude linking up (50,000 miles of highways high-ways and byways and in developing 7,700 miles of well defined arteries of travel throughout the state to afford af-ford better facilities for farmers to market their crops, to Induce more tourists to settle In a state where they may skim over the roads and to encourage en-courage greater development of Montana Mon-tana resources. Warrants for the arrest of Carl Relber, Peter Yuckert, Theodore Yuckert und Carl Muntz, members of the German Lutheran church at Tacoma, on the charge of nllm-kln (lie Rev. 11. A. Schmidt, pastor of the church, have been Issued. Shccpberilcrs will hereafter receive wages of $50 a month, following action ac-tion of Ibe woolmen of the slate, who met ill Helena, Mont., and decided on the lower scale. Last year sheeplierd-prs sheeplierd-prs were paid $100 n month and In the summer wages were reduced 10 $50. |
