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Show INLAND NORTHWEST: One of the greatest events in the' history of the Knights of Columbus n Montana was the initiation of nearly near-ly 100 candidates recently. Final conditions have been formulated formulat-ed for the sale contest of war savings stamps, which will be held under the mspices of the Montant State Fair. Lloyd Y. Robinson, Jr., of Forsyth, Mont., has been commissioned a captain cap-tain in the chemical warfare service, nccording to a Washington dispatch to the Pioneer Press. The direct primary law in Montana came in for severe scoring at (he hands nf the large majority of the speakers at the Montana State liar association convention con-vention at Kozenian. I!esides the regular premiums offered of-fered by the management of the Montana Mon-tana State Fair there will be a large number of special premiums offered by various organizations and individuals. indi-viduals. Mrs. Annie Perkins and daughter Helen, aged 10, were killed at Helena by two holts of lightning, which struck them simultaneously as they were crossing cross-ing the railway tracks at the Great Northern depot, in a buggy. The horse also was killed. An eight-foot flywheel on a new generator gen-erator in the electric light plant at New Rockford, N. D., burst, demolishing demolish-ing the roof and one side of the engine en-gine room and scattering heavy pieces of the metal a distance of two blocks. No person was injured. The coroner's jury at Anaconda, Mont., investigating the death of Hugh Travers, whose skull was fractured when he was thrown to the pavement, after an attempted, assault on Harry Stewart, colored, exonerated Stewart or all blame for the death. Five days after he was wounded while on the firing line in France, Rad Ilich was able to write to his friends in Anaconda, Mont., to report that his injuries in-juries were not serious, and that he was anxious to get back to his work with the machine gun battalion. When the 1650 men comprising this month's quota shall have left the state, Adjutant General Phil Greenan announced, an-nounced, there will remain in Class 1 in Montana only 2321 men, icludning Cue classes of 1917 and 191S. All these have been examined and qualified for service. George Kirby, a rancher living near Great Falls, Mont., was instantly killed by lightning during an electrical storm. He had gone into his barn lot to look after conditions at his barn when he was hit. A pitchfork he had been car-ring car-ring was found melted on the roof of a shed. Mrs. Melinda Stanton of Rosemount, Mont., pleaded guilty to bigamy in district dis-trict court at St. Paul, which imposed an indeterminate sentence to .Stillwater upon her and then suspended it for five years when her husband and she agreed to go back to Montana and forget for-get the past The tuberculosis survey now being conducted under auspices of the Utah Public Health association and the state board of health 'has now been completed com-pleted in half of Utah county, with gratifying results, according to announcement an-nouncement issued by Frank W. Mc-Clere, Mc-Clere, secretary of the association. The capacity of the state fish hatchery hatch-ery at Anaconda. Montana, will be doubled, if the plans of State GaDie Warden Jake De Hart materialize. In fact, this official has in mind tiie trebling treb-ling of the size of the Anaconda hatchery, hatch-ery, if the next session of the legislature legisla-ture can be made to see the light. Governor S. V. Stewart of Montana has been requested by Great Falls citizens citi-zens to give state sanction to the organization or-ganization of home guard companies and to have them outfitted with rifles from the war department. Governor Stewart says there is no state law on the subject and he has referred the matter to the attorney general. Hundreds of fish have been found dead in (he different parts of the Yellowstone Yel-lowstone and tributary streams during the last few days and the report has spread around that they have been dynamited. It appears, however, from an investigation made by Deputy Game Warden P. W. Nelson, of Montana, that the fish, and particularly suckers, are suffering from a disease caused by fungus. Special Agent II. H. Cordon of the Southern Pacific Co. returned to Og-den Og-den from Elko, Nev., where he took A. lioast, negro porter, for trial, at which he was found guilty and sentenced sen-tenced to a term from one to fifteen years in the Nevada penitentiary. Koast pleaded guiliy to the charge of burglary in the theft of a bag of money in a sleeping car. Jack Harmon, a native of Finland. o0 years of age, was killed at the Hill camp of (he Mines Timber company on Mill Creek in Montana, when the tongue bolt of the wagon, which he was loading wilh stulls from the mountain to the flume broke anil caused the wagon to lurch against a stump in a ravine, throwing him violently to the right of the wagon and causing instant death. The ouniy council of defense has Issued on order directed to Comity j Attorn-y Hauler request In:; him to im- j niedia'idy take steps to have all cards dice a'ld o:h'T gaining paraphrrna::! j removed fnuit all poo! r.mins and cigar stores of Miles City. Mont. Sr.die LiL'o;;. a: wninv-s. is dead j and '..:; I.l :r. !e-r d;v,.i-r, hu-l't.tvl. hu-l't.tvl. wiil dio :is it!. result of a ,mUle sh..-;::.' hi 1 :'.!..;. !:,; No ,.;!. !:;'- l.i . :i !.:: mod for tli. !i..:uu' c- , 1 .--!: r was r.:'.n: : o a |