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Show INLAND NORTHWEST j t Seattle's stores my be closed in an effort to prevent the spread of Spanish Span-ish influenza, Cily Health Commissioner Commis-sioner J. S. McBride ha announced. The Southern Tai-ilic and Western rncitic railroads will be operated under un-der the double-track system lor a distance dis-tance of about 1S2 miles in Nevada in the near future. Arrangements have been made whereby nutritious soup anil other food will be taken lo homes in Lewis-town, Lewis-town, Mont., where the influenza has made the preparation of good food for any patient' difficult. For the purpose of determining whether live slock growers of Utah and adjoining slates are in need of government financial assistance, W. 1'. (1. Hurtling of Washington, D. C, arrived ar-rived in Salt Lake Cily last week. An entire carload of honey, for which V. S. Harter of Wheatland. Wvo., will receive $11,300, was shipped to Akron, O., last week. A previous shipment of 25,000 pounds of strained honey was sent to Sioux City this season. sea-son. Approval for an expenditure of $27i;.000 on buildings at the base hospital hos-pital and instructions to invite proposals pro-posals immediately were contained in a communication received at Fort Douglas last week from the war department. de-partment. Big gaps were broken in the ranks of Yukon river steamboat men by the loss on the Princess Sophia of S4 em- I ployes of the White l'ass and Yukon llaihvay company, which operates a summer line of bouts on the big northern north-ern wnterwav. To cope with a situation induced by increased cost of materials and the suggestions of the food administration. administra-tion. Butte dealers of soft drinks have decided to serve soda water beret-ages in smaller glasses. Prices will not be increased. John Fit, a veteran Chinese cook of western Montana anil a plutocrat of the Missoula colony, is dead. He succumbed suc-cumbed after a long illness of appendicitis, appen-dicitis, at the age of 40. He had been a resident of Montana for at least a quarter of a century. The American Gold conference, in session at Keno, Nevada, and in conference con-ference with Kaymond T. Baker, director di-rector of the mint, appointed a committee commit-tee to proceed to Washington and present pre-sent to William G. McAdoo, secretary of the -treasury, the requests of the gold producers. ' Druggists will be permitted under certain restrictions to refill prescriptions prescrip-tions calling for morphine, codeine or heroin, written by registered practitioners prac-titioners for patients suffering front influenza and any pulmonary or bronchial bron-chial afflictions, according to notice received at Helena. State Auditor 11. G. Poland lias written writ-ten the Montana council of defense, requesting it, and also members of the countv and community councils to advise ad-vise Ids office of the operations of stock salesmen who endeavor to trade shares of stocks or bonds or notes tot Liberty bonds of any issue. Warrants charging John Browning of Ogden, Utah, son of John M. Browning, inventor of the Browning machine gun, and six other San Fran-..: Fran-..: .t r-i,r,in men with engaging in I iai.1' unit i a conspiracy to ship wholesale quantities quanti-ties of liquor into Utah, were sworn to in- the federal court at Ogden last week. Just what will be done with a maiden in Pueblo hasn't been definitely definite-ly decided. She is determined to be a boy. At least, she is not satisfied with fate and insists on wearning hoy's clothes and working in factories oi-'anv place she can as a boy. Site was arrested last week for the third lime. Conrad Hohlegard, a 10-year-old boy, living at Belmont, Mont., while on his way to school stopped to play near a garage., anil seeing an old oil tank in the ground in front of the establishment,, establish-ment,, threw a lighted match in it so as to see the interior better. An explosion ex-plosion folbwed, and the little fellow-was fellow-was severely burned. House rats, common brown variety, are increasing at an alarming rate in Ogden, according to B. B. Kichards of the United States department of agriculture ag-riculture in Ulah. They breed from six to ten times each year. To aid in the extermination of the rats the city commissioners have authorized a bounty of 10 cents per tail. To have Liberty hell peal a second liberty message from its original setting set-ting in Fancuil hall, so that t very per-I per-I son in the United States might hear ts sacred sounds when the war .'nils, Is the plan of the Altaita en "- hind, Wyo., which points out that (he old tower could be connected by te.-i-phone with the entire United States. Men members of a sect styling themselves -Brothers of Jesus." were arrested at Portland at a lodging house on a charge of evading I he draft and obstructing the war program. William Freidlino, their leatler, said they did not believe in war. |
