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Show INLAND NORTHWEST In Montiina certain farmers are fmmiliii' up millions of grasshoppers and drying them for chicken feed when (his is expensive in t lie winter. Charged with being a draft evader, Henry Bendusli pleaded guilty at Hel-.na Hel-.na iind was given 100 days in jail, the sentence to end when he enters the army. Homer Mania, a pioneer merchant if Koundup, Mont., was instantly killed on his farm, a few miles from Koundup. when a holt of lightning struck him, while lie was engaged in Iniilding a feuee. The Montana council of defense has passed an order prohibiting the establishment estab-lishment of new publications entered as second class matter or the conversion conver-sion of weekly papers into daily papers during the present world struggle. Sanitation and cleanliness are the prominent requirements which must lie observed by Utah canning factories, according to instructions now being issued throughout the state by Walter M. Hoyden, state dairy and food commissioner. com-missioner. Obstacles which formerly prevented prevent-ed Black Hawk Indian war veterans from having their pension cases brought before the government are now cleared away, according to word which reached state headquarters at Salt Lake. Montana's numerous Home Guard companies have been enthused by reports re-ports that they soon may be armed. State officials have received intimations intima-tions from Washington that the supply of ritles may permit equipping the state soldiers. The second case of its kind in the history of the Utah state industrial commission, where an employer was ordered to pay the state insurance fund $750 resulting from the death of u worker without dependents, was announced an-nounced last week. What is declared to have been an organized gang of automobile and tire thieves which has operated in that city for more than a year past is believed to have been broken up through the arrest by the sheriff's office at Bait Lake of four men and one hoy. Peach pits from the orchards of the Yakima Valley, Washington, are helping to win the war in the front line trenches of Europe. The pits are used in the manufacture ..f gas masks, llic charcoal produced from them having hav-ing superior preventative qualities. The labor unions will make a personal per-sonal canvass of Ogden's industries in co-operation with the government. The object will be to classify skilled workmen work-men who are affected by the new draft bill, thereby determining the really useful from the nonessential occupations. occupa-tions. That strict legislation may be neces- siiry to adopt a standard size of packages pack-ages imported into Utah as a means of preventing serious shorlage in the weight of certain package groceries now being sold in this state, is the opinion of the state fool and dairy commission. A weekly normal outpu: of coal fof the Twentieth federal district, Including Includ-ing Utah and southern Wyoming for the week ending August 10, was reported re-ported by the federal fuel administration. administra-tion. The output of the mines of Utah was 1S2G carloads, and for southern Wyoming 2;i.r0 carolads. All through traffic between Denver, Ogden, Salt Lake and I'rovo is to he routed over the Union Pacific system, while all traffic nrtered between points In Colorado, south of Denver, to Trinidad Trin-idad and between Ogden, Salt Lake mid I'rovo and all points intermediate Is to go to the Denver & Rio Grande. no bodies ot two murdered squaws were found in a clump of brush a short distance from Lovelock, Nev. The skulls of both had been crushed with a heavy instrument or rock. The two aged women had been picking berries. There is no clue lo the murderer, although a Mexican is suspected and a search is being made for him. Stealing a ride on a freight train now is larceny from the government, according to a charge placed against .V nt i I Helm, who "is held at Kverett, Wash., for a hearing before a federal grand jury. It is believed thai this is the first lime in this country tnat a theft charge has been made for stealing steal-ing a ride on a freight train. Twenty-one conscientious objectors, who have signified their willingness lo accept sen ice on farms for lite dura-lion dura-lion of Ihe war and to give to the Ked Cross all but ?l!0 a month of their pay, have been furloughod from Camp Lew is. W ash., and ordered lo report at Uioir own expense to farmers ill King county, with li Seattle is located. The ol'tiiv of engineering of the forest for-est service has recommended that the contract for the building of a bridge af Kooskia, Idaho, the first link in the l.olo highway project, be awarded to tlie Lord Construction company of Hamilton. The Kooskia bridge will span tin' Clearwater river, and will establish es-tablish an automobile line that will cut "iV -lim miles of the distance by road between Missoula and coast cities. Fred T. Krnost was apprehended at Deer Lodge. Mont., and sent to Seattle, Seat-tle, chargeii with being a deserter from file of t ticle Sam's battleships phim: in Atlantic waters. He is also said to have been Implicated In a robbery nt Garrison recently. Lutte is now numbered among the few cities in Montana, and in fact in the 1 nited States, that have a 'kan-ning 'kan-ning kitchen." This has been established estab-lished in tin1 local high school v ith tin co-operation of the school board, and is open to the public four days ia the j week |