The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1917-03-09
INLAND NORTHWEST

The production of wool in Oregon
has decreased during the past year,
according to S. w. Mcclure, secretary
of the National Woolgrowers' associ-
alton.
! 1t is estimated that there are be-
tween 1875 and $50 carloads of pota-
| toes in storage at Seattle, and less
than 100 cars in the entire Yakima
valley.
Owners of stock who have been al
| lowed their animals to run at large IN
the town of Elko, New, are warned |
that from now on the law will be |
strictly enforced, and all animals will |
be impounded and sold.
In the arrest in Billings, Mont, of a |
man giving the name of P. j. Hughes, |
police authorities believe the clever
check forger who recently vicitimized
Ogden, Utah, business men to the ex-
tent of $118, has been captured.
Henry Nagle an employe of the
Copper belt railroad; Major W. ].
Canton, a veteran of the Philippine
war, and a third man, unnamed, were
bitten at different times by the same
coyote at Mason, New, last week.
Mistakes in placing survey stakes
two miles from their proper positions
have been found by the government
surveyors who are now resurveying
two and a half townships in and adj
jacent to Indian Springs, Nevada.
The meeting of woolgrowers in Elko
last week resulted in the organization
of the Humboldt Forest Woolgrowers
association. Only those having a per-
nit to Craze sheep in the Humboldt
forest are eligible to membership.
The Indian school at Winnemucca,
Nevada, has been opened in the an
mex adjoining the grammar school
with an enrolment of nine pupils. 1t
is expected pupils from neighboring
towns will augment the attendance.
E L. Emery, better known as
Good Roads" Emery, because of his
activities in connection with the Lin
coin highway in Wyoming is moving
his family back to Cheyenne, after
living in Boise, Idaho, for two years.
Fire destroyed a long row of rail
n road company shacks at Las Vegas.
i About twenty-five people who occu-
Japanese laborers and many of them
with families, lost all their belong
lngs.
The fiftieth anniversary of the Vir-
ginia City Miners union will be cele-
brated on July 4, next. The union
B which succeeded the defunct miners
league, is one of the oldest, if not the
B oldest miners organization on the Pa
cific coast.
Marked reductions in the rate of in
FAINT mortality and typhoid fever il
Utah during 1915, as compared will
the annual average death rate priol
( to 1910, are shown by statistics takeI
from bulletin Just issued by thu
state board of health.
A freight train struck japanese
3 section hand named Tongu as the lat
+ ter endeavored to get off the tract
! near Meyer Junction, Wyo. The la
4 borer was thrown fifteen feet aCros
two tracks and when picked up wa
4 found to be only slightly injured.
81 Local stockgrowers are planning O.
81 stock show to be held in Verna
81 Utah, during the month of March. L
fine registered animals of all kinds
Wy 1t is believed this show will be c
ue great value to the local stock raiser'
he AL Vizna, a resident of Elko, II
pc Gently saw a coin glittering in som
dirt that had been thrown on tn
~ ground from an excavation in thf
town. On examination it turned OF
to be a copy penny of A. ID. $50
These pennies at present are wort
$25 apiece.
Virgil Patterson. stock expert fl
the Cudahy Packing company, is {
his way to Kansas and Nebraska Il
secure prize sows for the contest
"a TIE Boys and Girls Pig clubs, whiC
ISL gives promise of becoming one of Il
81 most interesting booms to the lii
N stock industry ever launched in Uta
81 The body of ]. A. AIbertson
81 DEMO, New, who disappeared Janua
E ., has been found about a mile and
nj half from the town. He had blow
# the top of his head off with his riff
IN which was found beside the body. !
IN bertson was about so years old al
M had been a resident of Elko coun
n since 1876.
ri Residents of the upper part of c
81 noa, Nevada, were frightened a fe
,W days ago by the roar of a snowslide
M the mountains back of the town. 7
M slide, however, was small and caus
M 10 damage, but the noise it made
M called to the mind of old timers t
ri slide that occurred many years a
M and in which many lives were lost
Ia addition to the flat increase of
III per cent in the grazing fees chars
on national forest reserves, there is
be a general tightening up of all r.
81 ulations affecting the granting of gr
N ing privileges, according to the m,
recent orders just received from Wa