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Show INLAND NORTHWEST t Only isOO cases of illiteracy in the state of Montana are reported, out of an estimated population of .S(,u0. Resolutions asking congress to declare de-clare in atavor of independence for Ireland Ire-land were adopted at Untie attended principally by residents of Irish descent. de-scent. The .Montana public service commission commis-sion has denied the petition of the ISuite Electric Railway company ask- : ing for a cash fare of seven cents for I street car service one way. That women workers on 1 lie farm are a success is shown by the fact that a Japanese woman at Yakima, Wash., j is believed to have set a record by i picking up 215 sacks' of potatoes -in one day. Through co-operation with the state council of defense and through it, witli the county councils of defense, the military authorities at Camp Lewis expect ex-pect to find jobs in Montana for many hundreds of discharged Soldrers. William Perkins, said to have been one of the oldest living twins in the United States, died at the home of his son at Spokane, last week, at the age of S8 years. His twin brother, Dr. Willard Perkins, resides in Unisted, Mich. 'The management of the Utah-Idaho Sugar company has formally announced an-nounced that the company has adopted a plan of insurance for all employes who have served it continuously for two years. The plan becomes effective January 1, 1910. Historic relics' left in a strongbox of the Bank saloon at Iteno forty years ago by one Jacob Chamberlain have been unearthed with the cleaning up of the saloon preparatory to closing tinder tin-der the state prohibition amendment. Chamberlain is now being sought. When prohibition becomes affective January 1, Butte will lose an annual revenue of about (50,000 derived from saloon licenses. To consider proposal methods' of raising an equal sum from other sources the committee on ways and means will hold a meeting in the near future. Ten thousand soldiers gathered at a great living Christmas tree at Camp Lewis, Christinas eve, and sang Christmas Christ-mas songs in the opening ' event of Christmas festivities in camp. The tree had been decorated and lighted with hundreds of electric lights by the war service societies of this camp. John S. Lewis, who has lived at Bozernan for the past seven years, died last week from paralysis after an illness ill-ness of a few days. He was born in Kentucky and was 80 years old. His wife, to whom lie had been married 65 years, is now SS years old. They had 11 children, all of whom are living. Montanans are storing away large quantities of "hard licker" against the coming long drouth, according to Judge F. L. Mann, deputy collector of internal revenue, and that same liquor is going to be confiscated if the State Anti-Saloon league succeeds in getting the state legislature to place this state among the really "bone dry" suites. Failure of the Montana legislature to provide for a reserve fund to meet losses in bad years, upset the hopes of the state hail board this year when there were heavy damages by hail, the result being that the losers will receive re-ceive a little less than j tin acre where there is total loss, the insurance insur-ance being at $12 an acre, it is announced. an-nounced. When Mrs. Aline Mathilda Julia Cardoner of Barcelona, Spain, died a few days ago in Albuquerque, X. M., her friends believed she was comparatively compara-tively poor. But when her attorney, Joseph It. Wilson of Albuquerque, went to Denver and opened her safety deposit boxes in local banks, he founi" $S20.000 worth of Liberty bonds and thousands of dollars worth of other securities. se-curities. Searchers found at the bottom of the 1200-foot shaft of the Tonopab-Buck-eye mine near Tonopah the body of Alex.- T. McKenzie, chairman of the Nye county (Nevada) Republican central cen-tral ciwnniittee, who had been missing for three days, when he failed to appear ap-pear in court for arraignment on a charge of manslaughter, preferred after aft-er the shooting on November S of James Cusick, superintendent of the Halifax Mining company. Frank-Diamond, a lumberjack, was struck by a street car at Missoula, Mont., and suffered a fractured skull, from the affects of which he died shortly lifter at a local hospital. Diamond Dia-mond was the .man who, several years ago, caused a sensation in the northwest north-west by claiming that he was the man who had killed former Governor Meagher, who disappeared while territorial terri-torial governor as he was sleeping on a boat at Fort Benton in 18G7. Word has been received of the appointment ap-pointment by General Pershing of Dr. James C. Graves of Seattle, a major in the medical corps of the United States army in France, as one of the ten physicians and surgeons to represent this country at an Interallied conference confer-ence upon the problem of the disabled soldier. Graft an orchard on the old npple tree. This advice Is given by Utah Agricultural college experts at Logan, Utah, who have been studying production produc-tion for the state council of defense. All that Is needed Is an old apple tree with a sound trunk. An Indictment charging William Rouck. president of the Washington State Grange, with making seditious utterances ut-terances was dismissed at Seattle by the United States district court nt tin request of Clarence J. Reames, spocia pssistant United States attorney general. |