Show INLAND NORTHWEST one hundred and seven volunteers in 12 days Is buttes answer to tile the navys appeal for more men inen according to reports received from various parts of montana lambing this spring aig lins been approximately per ent cent james purdy foreman of the judge ranch near polaris Po lails mont was instantly killed on 0 n the taylor T it alor creek hill about 16 miles west of 0 dillon by a runaway freight team placing a fuse cut cap on the hie top of ills his head and permitting it to explode with avith its 65 pounds of ter terrific rifle pros pres mire was the method of taking ills own life employed hy by patrick har aar ingwoll Ing toll at butte lewis 11 1 1 penwell of helena has been made director of tile wool section of the war trade board to have entire charge of distribution anil and classification fi of wool ills headquarters will be in washington J B poindexter united states district judge for the district of hawaii who came to montana on oil a sad mission sion that of attending the burying of ills his wife expects to leave for ills island home tills this week to resume ills duties acting in accordance with a general plan which was put into effect throughout gut the country the commercial telegraph operators of butte and anaconda have formed a local union ot of the commercial telegraphers union of america A 1 traveling mining school ls Is to be instituted in nevada under tile tho auspices of the state abid federal boards fot for vocational tri training tile the school will vili travel front from camp to camp barap and give secondary mining training to working miners smelt ermen prospectors and others lawrence L kalb alleged 1 I IV W was taken from aberdeen wash late nt at night by a mob driven in nn an auto iti obile about eleven miles east of the city where he was beaten and tarred he had previously been warned ta leave the city kalb is a native american of german parentage the state council of defense of montana is in mailing alling to city and county officials blanks for registration of those who have not been employed at least live five days a week and who tire are ordered andor a promulgation of the council to get busy no distinction between rich and poor will be made fred S gillard formerly of llewellyn neb sentenced to death for the murder of carnell cooper at alzada near the wyoming line cheated the gallows april 19 by swallowing allowIng fw poison the lawyers who both prosecuted and defended the case jointly preached ills his funeral sermon there has been more land cleared lind and more crops planted this season in the whitefish montant montaut Mon Mont taut ailt district than in all the past years since the development of this section began whitefish Is backing up the war period production program on a scale unprecedented in that part of the state montana flock masters will receive ground around 50 to 55 cents for their wool this year the price agreement reached by the growers buyers and representatives of the government at washington last week in which louis W of helena was one of the tha conferees makes that certain the housewives of reno and sparks nevada are living up to the movement for using more potatoes ns as a food conservation measure every housewife to whom tile the proposition has been explained has enthusiastically in it and Is anxious to find out more ways in which to use potatoes recommendations have been made by the state food administration to impose a 1000 fine on the elko milling company of elko nov nev a flue fine on the tha A W mercantile company of elko and a 1300 fine on edward carville a prominent rancher for violation of the food regulations should the montana Mont anit division of the nurses association succeed in having itself lisell transferred from the northern to the western division tile the convention which has just closed in bozeman will avill be held field in 1919 in the glacier national park however if it no change Is made in this matter the convent convention loi 1 will go to butte many men from froin utah wyoming idaho and nevada are included in the list of graduates of the third officers training camp which has just terminated its session at camp lewis wash these men men are eligible to and have been recommended for appointment to commissions fissions as second lieutenants in the army as soon as vacancies occur f max an allen alien enemy suspected by federal officers of being connected with the poisoning of cattle belonging to the nevada packing corn com pany at fernley nevada and for which william G willis a saloonkeeper of fernley was arrested by federal officers is being held in tile lyon county jail pending from wash t ington ing tonto to intern him police of seattle have practically given up the theory that the man who wash was supposed in have been carl dai da gotz killed hilled in nn an ex explosion pl oslon in a blacksmith smith kallop was working on od a bomb it is belle believed eq acetylene gas explosion caused ills I 1 within the next few weeks geeki there will be an arz army n y of soldier farm ers rele released ased from military duties to take their place for the nation 6 cause inthe in the fields of the northwest and other states which con contribute tribute selects to 0 o the national army at camp lewis |