The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1917-09-14
INLAND NORTHWEST


the closed shop
tn" federal governments wants
Idaho to increase It's wheat acreage
Il per cent iu 1915 over This year.
The building trades throughout the
state "f Washington have decided 90
refuse To- handle lumber mnde Ia 10
hour mills.
Electrical workers employed by The
telephone companies OF The state of
Washington are about To- take vote
ou IS strike for higher wages.
The safety deposit vaults Ur u hank
al Medfard ORE were robbed of 5000
ia money and 500 la ieweIry The
only cine So The robbers is two chisels
stamped 20 4 A."
iaah9Hu= are shipping honey 10
Europe this year one or the largest
producers 1T The smtc living nrnr
Meridian says his honey crop This
year VIII Dee 10000 pounds
l'laho sill get $1,000, her share If
the appropriation for vocational edu-
cation. ~ congress passes The special
bill drawn by the vocational education
bureau aud sent to congress.
Jay Hague, nn Idaho hoy. who rec
entity was commissioned 49, FIRST lieu.
tenant has been ordered 10 Funcc.
The young lieutenant was born In
Bellevue, Ida, aud his relatives live
IN McCummon idaho
senator Horah OF Idnho viii take
ffn NTH Ita.aHI.,tt Win .,.l Ia..1
Administrators Hoover the question of
having Portland aud semitic cstub.
lshed ns primary whcut markets at
which the 10l7 price Of 500 shall
apply
The silver copper and lead output
Of Nevada ia 1917 viii probably show
an increase over the output of the pre-
yious year, but no Improvement Is eN
pected ia gold, the production Of
which has been steadily declining for
the last few years
Seventeen members Of the | W W.
who had been picketing Testers camp
near Montesano, Wash, for two weeks
We're arrested last week Fourteen Of
them were lined S25 each aud costs
None of them was able 10 pay, so
they were lodged IN Jail
Walter Fuller Of La Grundc, a brake.
man On AN Oregon Washington Rail.
road 4 Navigation company freight
train, was Instantly killed nenr Pen.
dieton, Ore, when light engine fol-
lowing the train plowcd through the
cab0ose Ia which he wHs riding.
One thousand sheep persisted la
forest fire which cat them off Ia She
mountains ~ the head Of Rock Greek,
Mont, The herier, who had 1000 AMI.
mals In charge. escaped with half his
flock The sheep were owned by Mills
Wright of hurley, Ida, aud were
valued at $4,000,
A majority OF the sawmllls und
shlnEie mills Ia the state of Washing
Ton have been closed for several
weeks hy strike OF worEmcn for the
eight hour day and higher wages The
employers say that owing To the duh
market for lumber they can afford to
leave their plants idle.
Representative Smith Of Idaho,
through, bin recently introduced aud
referred to the committee on judiciary,
proposes to wipe out the l. W. W. by
the application Of drastic methods. lie
would fine or lmprisnn or administer
dual punishment to all members Of the
|, W, w aud similar organizations.
Mrs. Emlee Carroll Kelly, wife OF
Joseph Kelly merchant, Is dead aS
result of hu alleged pro German out.
break la Ruwhide, Nevada Il is
charged that Mrs, Kelly was thrown
bodily from the store of W. 4. Maggie.
with whom she had disagreed over
purchase. being found Ia dying con
ditinu
All of the nsh ia The upper waters
OF Burnt Fork creek In the Bitter Root
valley Ia Montana. we're Killed by
forest fires last week according 20
government rangers who Inspected the
devastated district The heat from
the burning woods was so intense that
hundreds of trout We're cooked alive
la the stream.
Gratu produced this year In the rnc-
lie northwest win be mlllrd at home.
The hulk of the Hour viii be- shipped
ia Europe, but the millsturrS will be-
largely consumed here. This an.
nounccmcnt was made az Portland last
week by Theodore Il, Wilcox, federal
milling commissioner, aud Max H.
H0usrr. federal grain commissioner
Organized labor Is loyal to the PRES
ident la the war, but h Demands an
increased wage ia keeping with the
huge profits being made hy mHnufac-
turvrs bcrsusc at the war. a. ONouug
general organizer in the United states
aud Canada Tor the American Fedora.
ton of labor. DECLARED Ia speech
delivered gt Boise. Idaho. last week
Discrimination against the lumber
industry 81 the northwest states In
favor 81 California and southern >luteS
l. feared by tthv Oregon Lumber com.
psny HI Portland and other northwest
earrvrns 60 changes uf minimum
weights pn ears ~ lumber and tam.
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