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Show INLAND NORTHWEST More thun 3100 claims for benefits have been filed with the Industrial accident board of Idaho since it was organized January 1 of this year. The Northwestern Auto Supply company com-pany Is arranging for the third annual dealers' and sales convention, to be held at Billings, Mont., September 12 to 20 Inclusive. William J. Killeen, one of the old-time old-time plumbers of Btute, died in his room supposedly of heart failure, though he bad been injured a week before be-fore in a fall. Mr. Killeen had been a resident of Butte for more than 20 years. No felicitations or courtesies were exchanged between Governor Lynn J. Frazier of North Dakota and Governor Govern-or Alexander of Idaho last week when Governor Frazier was in Boise to speak in the interests of the Non-partisan league. Because of the prevalence of smallpox small-pox in Anaconda, the state board of health, at the request of Anaconda authorities, au-thorities, issued an order requiring all Anaconda school children to present certificates of vaccination before being be-ing admitted to school. A local store has on display several a'rtieles taken from the body of a German Ger-man soldier killed by a Livingston, Mont., boy. After killing the Hun, the young man took from him his watch, belt and pocketbook, and sent the articles ar-ticles home as souvenirs. Following the breaking off of negotiations negoti-ations between representatives of the Pacific Coast, Steel company and employes em-ployes of the company engaged on contracts con-tracts for the emergency fleet corporation, corpora-tion, a strike was declared at Seattle, over a thousand workers going out Harvesting in Montana is well advanced ad-vanced witli over 50 per cent of the crops secured. Heavy rains are reported re-ported in many localities which have hindered harvesting and postponed the cutting of hay. The pastures are the best at this season that they have been for a number of years. Adjutant General Greenan has been officially informed by the war department depart-ment that there is no foundation for the story printed in eastern Montana that a .Fallon county boy, captured in Germany, had been deprived of his sight and left to wander in Vo Man's land horribly wounded. The recent hailstorm in tne neighborhood neigh-borhood of Roundup, Mont., has proven the most damaging of any in the history of the county. Over 300 claims for hail damage have been filed with the county assessor for the state hail board, aggregating over $200,000, and more are yet to come. To prevent further violation of food regulations some Butte merchants have adopted a card index system. It has been reported to the local food administration that some women have systematically avoided conservation of sugar by purchasing the sugar limit in various places and resorting to various subterfuges. Large companies of volunteer harvest har-vest hands are leaving LewistOu, Mont., by auto every afternoon, returning return-ing at night, after working in the fields in that section, shocking grain. These workers are all business and professional men, but they have accomplished accom-plished wonder for the farmers, according ac-cording to all accounts. In the forthcoming "Y" drive, Idaho's quota will be in the neighborhood neighbor-hood of $350,000. This will include the subscriptions for the Y. M. C. A., the Y. W. C. A., the American Library association as-sociation and the commission of recreation recre-ation outside the cantonments under the Fosdick commission, the entire quota for the country being $135,000,-000. $135,000,-000. Jay H. Damascus, an operator at Whitefish, Mont., was formerly employed em-ployed as wireless operator in Villa's army. When he signified his intention of leaving Villa's service, the rebel chieftain asked him if he was going to join the German army. Young Damascus Da-mascus replied that if he joined any army it would be one to fight the Huns, and this seemed to satisfy the Mexican leader. Villa is said to be friendly to the allies and anti-German. Overcharges for fuel, totalling over $7300, are being gi'. en by the Washington Wash-ington suite fuel administration to the Red Cross and Washington coal consumer-. The admimsir.'ttion collected the money from coal dealers, who made the overcharges after the government set the coal prices. No more state banks will be organized or-ganized in Montana as long as the war continues, unless for some very exceptional excep-tional reasons which are not likely to arise, according to State Examiner H. S. Magraw. who stated last week that he will discourage the organization organiza-tion of such banks. A. D. Prouty is in Jail at Helena, charged with second degree assault, the crime being an assault on Miss Addie Debraugh of Helena. The girl is in a hospital and probably will not live, as her skull is fractured. Prouty Is a scion of a Montana family of the first prominence and a divorcee. He ! denies th? charge. ' |