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Show j INLAND NORTHWEST . Vi!lkt:n I'u .-r. air.-d l'l. Ml from a train n,-:ir Shaft .-r, Nevada, and one of in- I.-u w;i r;-h..-l. An,.;i;a:iua will ,. h.-,:,.--ary. ' A- tin- reMlil of a special eleclion, j j Clyde I'ark, in I'ark county, Mont., i will have a new .;;.".i mj high school i during he coitj:nur year. ! I'n:d Karu-. nje.l a sheepherder, I Mlleide.i i :i a-,ek Wl.-Upi."! t'V hilO ' :v.lii;e heialin' .-hoop, near Ilariowtou. .Mont.. -Iiooring hiiaelf through the All steel work on the new bridge aer4,- the Yellowstone river at Hunt-ie.v. Hunt-ie.v. Mont., will he in place by May -it. and the bridge probably will be in I u-f v.iihiu till days. Neariy 2"ii workers at the Clol.e and Sperry mills in Ogdon walked off the job in protest to tiie "'American plan" of labor as advocated by the Utah Associated Industries. Vhitofih, Mont., is soon to have a white way, the Moiiutaiu States Power company having commenced work on the erection of ornamental posts. There will be six lights to the block. To prevent short crops in Montana as a result of the labor shortage, it is propseii to begin an extensive advertising adver-tising campaign in eastern papers in ;in endeavor to secure men to labor in the fields. Thomas M. Joy, known for years at Sale Lake as "Hypo Tom," a drug addict, ad-dict, was found dead on April 21. At one time Joy was attached to the American legation in China, where he acquired the drug habit. Clayton lierkstrand. dead bandit who killed George Warhurton. Powell I county deputy sheriff, at l-'lli.-ton, Moid., has been identified as Joe Sullivan, Sulli-van, alias "Calgary Ited," a well known Montana police character. The jury in the trial at Hardin, Mont., of Charles C. I'lankenship, charged witli "rustling" an entire train-loud train-loud of cattle, was unable to arrive at a verdict after 4S hours of deliberation deliber-ation and was discharged. A paved highway from McGill to Keystone, Nevada, passing through Ely, and placing it and all the neighboring neigh-boring towns thereon, has been ordered, order-ed, and construction will be under way within the next few weeks. Mrs. J. J. Cast ner, colored, known as "the mother of Belt," is dead at lielt, Montana. She was so called because be-cause for 30 years' she operated a miners' min-ers' hoarding house at' I!elt. She was horn a slave 72 years ago. Statements circulated in Montana to the effect that game and song birds are being killed in numbers by poisoned poi-soned oats used in campaigns against the pocket grophcr, are branded as' unauthentic un-authentic by state officials. The St. Ignatius-Poison highway project pro-ject in Montana may be held up indefinitely indefi-nitely unless Missoula bankers guarantee guaran-tee (he sale of !?75,O00 worth of Missoula Mis-soula county road bonds, which failed of sale when offered recently. More men and women of Montana purchased game and fishing licenses in 1910 than in any other year in the history his-tory of the state, with a total near TO.tlUO. while I'JIS was one of the poorest poor-est years in the history of the state. With upward of 1000 out of town guests in attendance the new $33,000 pavilion of the Montana Livestock Pavilion Pa-vilion company was dedicated at Great Falls, Mont., by Governor Stewart at exercises held in the sales arena of the pavilion. Gust Andrews, charged jointly with two other men with the murder of Sylvester J. Preuatt, December 9. 1919, was convicted at Butte of murder in the first degree, but escaped the death penalty, being sentenced to life imprisonment. im-prisonment. The concrete road construction problem prob-lem lias been giving the stale highway high-way department of Nevada ciuisider-able ciuisider-able concern, especially since no bids have been received for work of this nature on the state road between Carson Car-son and lieno. Flying into a violent rage over a trivial cause, William Bates, aged 56, shot and killed Maude Waite, aged 34, wounded his 19-year-old daughter, beat hi.s wife over the head with a revolver, then shot and killed himself at Leavenworth, Leav-enworth, Wash. Assistance in meeting the problem of housing several thousand visitors to the American legion convention at Livingston, Ment., in June has been promised by the local recruiting officer of the navy, who will undertake to supply tents for the accommodation of the visitors. Charlie Myers, a well known resident resi-dent of Kuby Valley, Nevada, was badly injured by the back kick of a tractor engine he was attempting to tart. The crank of the machine struck the unfortunate man full in the mouth, breaking his jaw bone and knocking out many of his teeth. 'Twenty-six Nevada employers who havs so far failed to- make proper income in-come tax returns for the year 1917 fre to be prosecuted. fine to shortage of hay in Bear Lake county. Idaho, farmers have asked permission per-mission of the railroad to herd ;iieir cattle along the right-of-way, where grass is high. The state of Idaho has launched a campaign to exterminate the red spider, spid-er, which arracks fruit trees, particularly particu-larly prunes, and destroys the fruit bud.- ami blossoms. A I'.'.rm bureau si'.o campa:-.'!! In Lemhi county. Idaho, ha - been starred with tit:' or g oi 10 w ! "l sih.s. Five i ; . t. f ete s-;;,-.'. t ,. e. I ,,-,1 yr : |