The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1917-05-03
INLAND NORTHWEST

| April 70. The celeDratlOn VIII De lea
tured by parade and speeches.
The site for the new high school tc
be erected at Fallon has been selected
by the school trustees and will be on
the Verplank tract on Main street.
Private Christ Mahos was acct
dentally shot by Private Chavez OF
the California National guard near
Elko, New, and is now in the hospital
seriously wounded.
According to the Gardnerville (Ney)
Courier -four is selling at $50 ton at
the Gardnerville mills and $25 ton
is offered for hay. Potatoes are selling
at 81 and So per hundred.
A. N. Stephens of Las Vegas was
arrested last week, charged with steal
ing a 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 Slovenian at Tonopah while at
tempting to drive newly purchased
automobile ran into a 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.
A coroner's jury reported the cause
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
yada. 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 a 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. 1 Yakima Gems potatoes were
quoted 500 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
80 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
and 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 and
eggs purchased continue to turn up,
according to the state farm markets
bureau, while the sheriffs of several
Idaho counties are trailing the man
said to have written them.
At the patriotic celebration held at
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sons were in the line of march, which
vas led by the G. A. r. and Spanish
War Veterans. Members of the u. a.
R., Red Cross, Elks, high school, Tech
neal cadets and fraternal and labor
organizations, including Greeks, Ital-
ans and colored, participated.
Patrick patsy Cardiff, once fam
'us as a heavy weight prize fighter,
lied last week at the Oregon state
hospital at Salem, aged SO. In his
ghting days Cardiff met nearly all of
he contemporary heavyweights, in
luding John l.. Sullivan, with whom
e fought a siX-round draw in Mime
polls, Mimi, January IS, 1887.
J. b. Vieira, while prospecting near
he Regain ranch east of Carson City,
ievada, found some high-grade quartz
oat, said to show free gold. His dis
oyery caused rush" to the district,
in chiefly by state Of 1
cials whom he guided to the scene
his find, but nothing more was IN ,
oyered.
Recently several test sets of the
onopah, New, class work were sent
, the head office of the Gregg COM
any at New York City. They were {
ighly approved by the judges, who :
ave number of certificates of merit /
, the students making them.
Word reached Canon City, Colo, of
supposed attempt to kill one or more
yards stationed ut a Denver & Rio