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Show ! INLAND NORTHWEST i I i i A California man has invented a j poultry feeder which is operated by an alarm clock which permits Train to fall into a trough. Three men were instantly killed at ! Butte when a 10-foot depth of (.'round i gave way and buried them in a stope on the 1,700 level of the Black Bock mine. While on the Atlantic en route to France, Private Klmer Winters, first class, died of pneumonia, October 0. according to advices received at Butte, his home. Stealing a lied Cross contribution box. said to contain more than JM00 and then getting away without being caught was the crowning mean act of some thief at Miles City, Mont. The first Ih'llon, Mont., boy to make the supreme sacrifice for his country was Charles lieis, who according to word received by his sister, was killed in action in France Nov. 2. C. A. Itasniusson, of Dawson county, elecleit to his third teYin in the Montana Mon-tana legislature, will be a candidate for the speaker's seat in the house of representatives repre-sentatives at the winter session. The estate ' of the late Thomas Kearns, former senator from Utah, is valued at more than .2,000,000, though it may prove to be double or quadruple this amount. He died without leaving leav-ing a will. The P. C. O. A., an organization formed in Butte several months ago for the purpose of aiding the government govern-ment in prosecution of war. has become the intelligence department of the local lo-cal council of defense. Dr. O. P. Johnson, deputy state veterinarian, vet-erinarian, died at bis home in Miles City. Mont., after a short illness. Death resulted from pneumonia, following Spanish influenza, with which he was stricken on election day. Anaconda picture theaters 'opened November 12 to capacity audiences, when hundreds of hungry movie fans, eager for the sight of favorite heroes, after four weeks of enforced absence crowded them to the doors. For" the purpose of organizing all shop crafts employed on the Union Pacific system under one affiliated head, a general convention will be held in Salt Lake December 9. Upward of 200 delegates will be present. Louie I'upich came to his death by "the taking of some drug, the nature of which is unknown to the jury, while temporarily insane," is the verdict reached by a coroner's jury at Anaconda, Anacon-da, which investigated the man's death. Announcement from San Francisco that forty-eight wounded soldiers from the western front have just arrived at the Letterman General hospital at that place indicates that the movement of reconstruction soldiers' to western hospitals hos-pitals has commenced. Six thousand spruce workers, composed com-posed about equally of civilians and soldiers, are being released at the rate of fK)0 a day from the spruce forests in the Olympic peninsula near Seattle, as a result of the termination of government gov-ernment spruce contracts for airplane material. Utah ranks second among the states of the western department in the percentage per-centage of united war work allotments reached November 14, according to a dispatch from San Francisco. Nevada leads all the western states in the percentage per-centage already raised through donations dona-tions by her citizens. Many dairy cows of Utah may be shipped soon to European countries, if present plans of the department of agriculture ag-riculture are carried out, according to J. V. Dorman, bead of the western dairy division. Because of the war large dairy herds in Europe have been slaughtered for beef. There is growing demand for Utah coal from the coast states, according to Moroni lleiner, fuel administrator for Utah. Heretofore the coast has been using coal from British Columbia, but the shipment of Utah coal to several sev-eral coast points has caused the consumer con-sumer to demand more. It has been learned (bat the man found in the Sweetwater district of Montana, dead from exposure, was William Wil-liam Peters, a well-known character and a pioneer resident. The man had been employed as n sheepherder and had evidently lost bis way in the recent re-cent storm anil becoming exhausted froze to death. Government control of the nation's wool clip for at least one more year is predicted by Dr. S. W. McClure. secretary sec-retary of the National Wool Growers' association. "Of course, no one can forecast the probable price of wool for 1010, but I believe the war Industries hoard will, within the net thirty days, set a price satisfactory to wool growers." grow-ers." D. O. McKay, a Salt 'Lake sheepman, sheep-man, has won a pot of .20op. made up by twenty-nine sheepmen, each subscribing sub-scribing SHHI to a fund whit-h was to go to the one naming a date nearest the day on which the world war would come to an end. The guessing was done two years ago last February aud Mr. McKay chose November 1 101S. He missed it just a few days. Announcement is made that Pacific Coast Mcial Trades council convention at Seattle adopted a resolution urging that a pardon be given Thomas .1. Mooney. convicted of murder in connect con-nect ion with a San Francisco preparedness pre-paredness day bomb explosion. Spruce production for airplane purposes pur-poses stopped on November U in the northwest. Orders from the headquarters headquar-ters of the spruce division of the signal corps reached Oregon and Washington logging camps, and felling of trees as well as all construction work was term- , I loated. |