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Show INLAND NORTHWEST , Permanent organization of Utah men who fought with the Ninety-first division divi-sion in France is i templatod. Tonopab has wired Tex Richard an offer of S3U00 if he will stage' the big Willard-Dempscy fight at that place. Simplified spelling is the feature of handsomely printed programs for the 21st annual session of the Inland Kin-pi Kin-pi re Teachers association to be held in Spokane April 2, 3 anil 4. Reports from Deeth, Nevada, and the valleys adjacent to that town are that many cattle have died this winter from rallies. The Union Land and Cattle .company has lost more than SO head. Democrats of the Colorado state senate sen-ate defeated efforts of Republicans to invite United States Senator Charles S. Thomas, Democrat, to address the legislature on the subject of the league of nations. At a meeting of the Roundup, Montana, Mon-tana, commercial club, it was decided that an intensive advertising campaign should be started to induce residents of Roundup and vicinity to build their own homes. . For the second time in the history of Roundup, Mont., all of the clerks and judges of the city election, which will be held in April, will be ladies. This plan was followed last year-and was eminently successful. Every employment agent in Montana will have to procure a license at a cost of $5 and file a bond of $3,000 with the county treasurer, on which he may be sued by injured patrons under the provisions of a measure signed by the governor. D. M. Storrs, occupies a cell in the Okanogan (Washington) county jail charged with abducting Miss Ruth Garrison, IS, who confessed she poisoned pois-oned Mrs. Storrs. her rival for Slorr's love. Miss Garrison is in jail at Seattle, Se-attle, where the tragedy occurred. The revival of attempts to have the headquarters of the internal revenue offices removed to Salt Lake from Helena, Mont., has been seen through the receipt of notice by Salt Lake theatre managers of a penalty for failure fail-ure to submit war taxes for the month of January. The "influenza signal" in wild spots' is two rifle shots in quick succession, followed by a third at an interval. The signal saved W. L. Campbell, a rancher of the Craig district, in Montana. Mon-tana. He was in the last stages of the disease when his shots brought neighbors. Senator Wnls of Montana, ' speaking speak-ing at Washington under the auspices of the National American Woman's Suffrage association, declared that the proposed constitution for the league Of nations does not conflict with the Monroe doctrine, but makes possible universal application of its principles. Fred Craig and Isaac Grahaai, two hoys who were recently sent from Elko county, Nevada, to serve indeterminate inde-terminate terms of from one to fourteen four-teen years in the penitentiary for horse stealing, have been paroled to the superintendent of the Nevada School of Industry. Passage on second reading of the bill providing for state owaiership of intrastate railroads was effected in the Colorado bouse of representatives after one of the bitterest fights of the session, in which members from the .southern section of the state tried every parliamentary method for defeat de-feat of the measure. Wyoming may be the first sovereign sover-eign state to hold referendum on the proposal for a league of nations if present plans mature. The state holds a special election April 22, to vote on the issuance of $3,000,000 in highway bonds, and it is planned to have a separate ballot printed for electors at that time with which they can express ex-press their sentiments regarding the formation of a league of nations. Announcement is made at Ansonia, Conn., that Erhardt Schmitt of that city, a former army aviator, will leave soon for Hardin, Mont., where be will be employed as a flier on a wheat ranch owned by J. P. Morgan. One of his duties will be to pilot the ranch manager to distant parts of the property prop-erty in an airplane, which will be equipped with wireless for communicating communi-cating with the ranch headquarters. The Butte chamber of commerce has placed the stamp of its approval upon a movement launched for the purpose pur-pose of constructing a city auditorium in tribute to the memory of Butte men and women "?ho sacrificed their lives while fighting under American colors in the war against Germany. Within twenty-four hours after the Salt Lake Commercial club announced that it would promote a railroad into the Uintah basin, the Denver Chambers Cham-bers of Commerce announced a plan to build a road into the basin from the east. Fearing deportation or loss of employment em-ployment if unable to produce "first j. ape! . '-'-hundreds of P.ittte aliens have declared their intention of becoming American citizens. According to estimates recently coin-piled coin-piled regarding the street lighting and paving projects at Dillon. Mont., the cost will he in the neighborhood of SSO.OjO or around sgr.tj per lot on the main streets of iho town, where the improvements are intendeo. Several hundred thousand pounds of Bitter Root potatoes will be shipped from Missoula to eastern markets this week, the Northern Pacific having been asked to supply a large number of ct.rs for this shipment. The cars will go to Minneapolis and Kan-as City. |