The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1917-05-01
INLAND NORTHWEST

COIDoIdlihB tlt pune tree cuhp.
Goldfeld has the patriotic fever and
gigantic demonstration was hello
April %. The celebration will be fea-
tured by a parade and speeches.
The site for the new high school TO
be erected at Fallon has been selected
by the school trustees and will be on
the Verplanll tract on Main street.
Private Christ Mahos was acct
dentally shot by Private Chavez Of
the California National guard near
EllSo, Nev., and. is now in the hospital
seriously wounded.
According to the Gardnervlle (Nev.)
Courier -four is selling at $50 Il ton at
the Gardnerville mills and $50 a ton
is offered for hay. Potatoes are selling
at 81 and 50 per hundred.
A ~ Stephens of Las Vegas was
arrested last week, charged with steal
ing horse. He waived preliminary
hearing and was bound over TO the
district court under $500 bonds.
Garden owners of Salt Lake City
will be provided with water by the
city at reduced rates until July 1,
1917 in order to encourage the vacant
lot and back yard gardening move
ment.
A Slavonian at Tonopah while at
tempting to drive newly purchased
automobile ran into fire .hydrant.
The hydrant was smashed and young
geyser resulted until the damage was
repaired.
Tonopah is to have new double out
let fire hydrants in the business dis
trict, all connected with the high pres
sure system, having 135-pound pres
sure. 1t will require about five weeks
to complete the work.
A disease commonly known as the
lip and leg ulcer is playing havoc
among the hogs and sheep of various
sections of the state of Oregon. The
disease confines itself to these two
classes of livestock and is especially
bad in sheep
Alien enemies of the United States
residing throughout the state of Wash
ington have been ordered to turn in
/ their firearms, weapons or any imple-
ments of war; to the office of United
States Marshal Boyle in Seattle or
Tacoma, at once.
n COlOhtA jury ItpOilcu Tie CduSt
of death unknown after investigating
the demise of Miss Blanche Humph-
rey, who was found dead in her resi-
dence about a mile from Carson, Ne
vada. 1t is the general opinion that
death was due to a stroke of apoplexy.
Charles X. Overton, an Idaho guards
man, who was shot in the leg while
guarding railroad bridge near SpO-
kane, has confessed according to Of
ficers at Fort George Wright, that he
shot himself accidentally. At the time
of the shooting Overton said he had
been shot by an unidentified man.
No. ] Yakima Gem potatoes were
quoted 500 a ton wholesale at Seattle
last week, the highest price on record.
When the scant supply now here gives
out the price will go still higher, as
Yakima county farmers began asking
500 at the shipping point. Less than
90 carloads are on hand in Seattle.
Alarming reports of conditions
which threaten destruction of the
Yellowstone elk herds are beginning
to reach the department of agriculture.
both from the Jackson's Hole region
ard from Gardiner, Mont. The danger
is said to be due to an exceptionally
heavy winter snowfall and late on
coming of spring.
Only labor shortage, due largely
to an unwillingness of city laborers to
accept farm jobs stands in the way of
a maximum production of foodstuffs in
Montana, it is stated by members of
the state council for defense. Enough
seed wheat and potatoes will be avail
able, it was declared, although feed for
farm animals is short
More bad checks alleged to have
been given by G. W. Reed TO farmers
and dealers in produce in southwestern
Idaho in return for poultry. butter anG
eggs purchased continue to turn up
according TO the state farm markets
bureau, while the sherffs of several
Idaho counties are trailing the man
said to have written them.
At the patriotic celebration held al
Pocatello, Idaho, more than 2OOO per
sons We're in the line of march, which
was led by the G. A. r. and Spanish
War Veterans. Members of the d. A
r., Red Cross, Elks. high school, Tech
nical cadets and fraternal and Labor
organizations, including Greeks, Ital
ians and colOred, participated.
Patrick (Patsy) Cardiff, once fam
Gus as a heavy weight prize fighter
died last week at the Oregon STATE
hospital at Salem, aged 90. In hi
fighting days Cardiff met nearly all o
the contemporary heavyweights, in
GLIDING John l.. Sullivan, with whom
he fought siX-rOund draw in Mime
apOlis, Mimi. January Is. 1887.
! j. B. Vieira while prospecting nea
the Regain ranch east Of Carson City
| Nevada, found some high-grade quart
float, said to show free gold. His dis