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Show 'inland northwest The plan to obtain Montana's quota for the national Roosevelt memorial is now well under way. An irrigation congress for Montana will be called to meet in Bozemnn, January IT, IS and 11), 1020. Over 41 10 applications for relief in the way of seed grain and feed have now been Hied with the county commissioners com-missioners at Lewistown. Mont. . - A religious census which has just been closed by the church organizations of Kalispell, Mont., shines that a total of 21 different creeds are represented. An overload broke the shaft on the big turbine at the generating plant of the Alton (Wyo.) Electric company and the town was in darkness foj- several sev-eral nights. Not later than October 1 the Montana Mon-tana trade commission is expected to begin active work on its state-wide inquiry into the high cost of living and its cause. Completion of the irrigation district at Shelby. Mont., which will include 285,000 acres, is reported. This is said to be one of the largest projects in the northwest. Assessment of the wire lines of the Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Tele-graph company in Montana has been lixed hy the slate hoard of equalization equaliza-tion at .'?4,990,.'?5S.OO. Due to the new school house being incomplete, school was begun at King-ling, King-ling, Mont., September 8, in the Congregational Con-gregational church, which has been titled up for that purpose. Over 350 men are needed for jobs in and about Salt Lake at good pay, according to the United States employment em-ployment service, and no relief from the situation seems apparent. . - . - . Charged with having disposed of mortgaged property J. W. Holniau, a former Great Northern special agent, has been arrested in Seattle and will be brought back to Great Falls, Mont. If is satisfactory building can be secured se-cured for exhibition purposes the annual an-nual winter show of the Montana i Poultry association, 'usually held in Butte, may be conducted in Great Falls next January. Daniel Haugliton, "Hi years old, died from injuries received at Billings when a bicycle von which he and another an-other boy were riding was struck by a hotel motor omnibus. The oilier boy sustained a broken leg. A campaign of eradication is to be launched at once against the woolly maple bar!; louse, which, according to State Horticulturist A. L. Straus,, lias been found to he working great harm to Missoula. Mont., shade trees. A woman sanitary inspector, whose special Held will be soda fountains and restaurants and other public eating and drinking establishments, will probably prob-ably be appointed by J. K. White, public pub-lic welfare commissioner . of Idaho. S. W. Voting and R. L. Standish of Xcw York are inspecting the old placer mine on Snake river, north of Afton, Wyo.. willi a view to financing renewed operations under modern methods. The old property lias produced considerable placer gold. Property owners of. Billings. Mont., on whose premises a Hre starts in accumulated ac-cumulated rubbish are liable to a fine of !?20 an hour for each hour spent by the fire department in extinguishing the blaze, according to an ordinance just adopted. The Mendenhall Construction company com-pany of Utah lias begun work on the Montpelier, Ida., highway into Afton, Wyo., shipping a large amount of road building equipment from the neighbor state. About thirty teams and approximately approxi-mately 100 men are employed, E. H. Kendall is dead, Miss Margaret Marga-ret Beattie is suffering from a broken collarbone, and numerous others from prostration as a result of fatigue, excitement ex-citement or overcrowding incident to the meeting at the 'tabernacle at Salt Lake, where President Wilson addressed ad-dressed the people of Utah. George T. Itiggs, Huntley, Mont., rancher, convicted of wife-murder, sentenced sen-tenced to die and reprieved by appeal to the state supreme court, probably will learn his fate within I he next few days. Itiggs lias been in jail since March, 11118, when the body of his wife was found in the burning kitchen of their home. Proposed extension of the boundaries boundar-ies of Yellowstone national park to include the Jackson hole country is condemned in a resolution adopted recently re-cently by residents of Cody. Wyo., in a mass meeting. The resolution declare de-clare the plan is being furthered by "those who would serve personal ends rather than public good." The Nevada Slale Fish commission has planted 25,000 rainbow trout in the Truckee river and expects the fry to flourish in the river because of im-I im-I proved water conditions. The Floris-! Floris-! ton Paper Mill company has apparently apparent-ly discontinued dumping acid and other oth-er malcrials into the stream, and the river is enninioneing to show more 1 forms of marine life. |