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Show INLAND NORTHWEST The Montana Bankers' association con v-ii : : i n was liolil In Billings, August Au-gust 9 him! 10. Home Martin, a prominent rancher near Roundup, Mont., was found in liis field, having been killed liy lightning. .Charged with sedition, William Fer-rell, Fer-rell, a government road foreman of Yellowstone park, was arrested at Livingston, Mont. Bnzeman. Mont., and the Immediate vicinity lias lieen visited by one of the worst wind and hail stonns ever known in that part of the state. Willi a nieiiiheship of more than .loll, representing every section of the state, the Ketail Coal Dealers' Association Associa-tion of Utah was organized at Salt Lake, August 8. Recruiting in Nevada in July broke all records for the state and made the Keno station the banner station of the western slope. During the month 200 men wore accepted through the Keno station. Elaborate plans are being made for the Labor day celebratou which will be held at the fair grounds at Roundup, Mont., on Sept. 2. About $1,000 in prizes and awards will be made for various sports, races and games. The action taken by the Carbon county exemption board in placing married men without children in Class 1 will be taken in all other Montana counties, before very long, according to a member of the district exemption board. Emil Herman, Washington state secretary sec-retary of the socialist party, "at liberty, on 20,000 bond following his conviction convic-tion under the espionage act, was arrested as he was passing through Havre, Mont., on a train bound for Chicago. Advices from the war department . are that 274 Montana boys are called to enroll in the students' military training train-ing course at the colleges in the state. They must he below draft age and must pledge themselves to remain at college. Although the big catalog for the Fergus, Fer-gus, county, Montana, fair was issued weeks ago and general arrangements for the show have been completed, there is a chance that the whole plan may be abandoned, as there seems to he a lack of interest in it on account -of the war. After a thorough investigation, State Food Administrator T. C. Diers, has temporarily closed the mill at Lyman, Wyo., for the alleged sale of white flour in quantities up to 500 pounds without any substitute. The sales, it is .alleged, were made to prominent Evanston citizens. John ('. Devlin, one of the pioneer miners of the Ooldfleld district, was instantly killed when he fell seventy feet to the bottom of the New Jersey Mines company shaft, at Groldfi-eld. According to the verdict of a coroner's ' jury, Devlin met his death through being overcome by foul air. All the volunteer crews of Lewislon, Mont., business men who went out to shock wheat on farms near town during dur-ing the past few days have reported in and are ready to take other assignments. assign-ments. These men have surprised farmers and everyone else with the amount of work they have done. The Montana agricultual college has experimented with sunflower silage mid tests have been made which prove its practicability and productivity. The sunflower will grow an average of 22 bushels of seed to the acre on dry land in tliis vicinity. One ton of alfalfa hay Is considered equal to three tons' of sunflower silage. While the plan proposed of enlisting volunteer crews of business men of Lewistown. Mont., to work in the grain fields in case of emergency may have seemed fantastic at the beginning, it has taken a very practical aspect, as several crews have been formed and will go out each afternoon In work on the nearby farms until dark. In the opinion rendered to Miss May Triimpor, stale superintendent of public pub-lic Instruction. Attorney Genera! Ford of Montana has held that a hoard of county commissioners In a county not having a county school lias not discretion discre-tion of lis own in regard to the amount of funds that shall be raised as a county tax for the support of high schools in the county, that decision resting with the trustees of the schools t henisol cos. Sam P. Goza of Helena was ap-poinled ap-poinled slate chairman of the Montana Mon-tana sub-region of the Sixteenth federal fed-eral war industries region at a conference con-ference M Helena attended by repre-soniaiives repre-soniaiives of eevry indusiry in the stale, and slate headquarters were ordered established in Helena. Washington's IfilS wheat crop will total ."0.000.000 bushels, an increase of H.OOO.OOO over last year, Chief Grain Inspector I .1. Sweeney estimated in a statement issued hist week. The Oregon Ore-gon crop for I'.MS is figured at 1S.0OO.-000 1S.0OO.-000 bushels and the Idaho production at tvOOO.OUO bushels, thus giving the I three states a total of .""lii.Otio.OOO hush- j els, ;(s compared with -l.'l.ooo.ooo in i 1017. Mrs. Mark L. Wildes of i Fallon. New, widow of Sherilf Wildes, who was shot and killed by l'aul Walters, a draft evader, had filed nomination papers for the ofiico her husband held in opposition to George A. Cole, who was appointed to the vacancy. (hie of the interesting features hrotiL'ht out in the questionnaires sent out in Montana recently is that 7.000 farmers have total assets amounting to ?tV2.1t2.oSO. Of these assets $10,000,000 in round number is In livestock. $44,000,000 in land and $7,000,000 in equipment. |