The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1917-03-08
INLAND NORTHWEST


500 muskrats to his credit in the last
three months.
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 $11S, has been captured.
Henry Nagle, an employee of the
Copper belt railroad; Major W. j.
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 ad-
iacent 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 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-
road company shacks at Las Vegas.
About twenty-five people who occu-
pied the shacks, mostly Italian and
japanese Iaborers and many of them
with families, lost all their belong
ings.
The fftieth anniversary of the Vir-
GINA City Miners union will be cele-
brated on July 4, next. The union,
which succeeded the defunet miners
league, is one of the oldest, if not the
oldest miners organization on the Pa
cifc coast.
Marked reductions in the rate of in
FAINT mortality and typhoid fever in
Utah during 1915, as compared with
the annual average death rate prior
to 1910, are shown by statistics taken
from a bulletin just issued by the
state board of health.
A freight train struck a Japanese
section hand named Tongu as the lat
ter endeavored to get off the track
near Meyer Junction, Wyo. The la
borer was thrown fifteen feet across
two tracks and when picked up was
found to be only slightly injured.
Local stockgrowers are planning on
stock show to be held in Vernal,
Utah, during the month of March. In
that the Uintah basin has some very
fine registered animals of all kinds,
t is believed this show will be Of
great value to the local stock raisers.
Al Vizna, a resident of Elko, re-
Gently saw a coin glittering in some
dirt that had been thrown on the
ground from an excavation in that
town. On examination it turned out
to be a copy penny of A. D. 1900.
These pennies at present are worth
$25 apiece.
Virgil Patterson, stock expert for
the Cudahy Packing company, is on
his way to Kansas and Nebraska to
secure prize sows for the contest Of
the Boys and Girls Pig clubs, which
gives promise of becoming one of the
most interesting booms to the live
stock industry ever launched in Utah.
The body of ]. A Albertson of
DEMO, New, who disappeared January
2, has been found about a mile and a
half from the town. He had blown
the top of his head off with his rifle,
which was found beside the body. AL
bertson was about go years old and
had been a resident of Elko county
since 1876.
Residents Of the upper part Of Ge-
uoa, Nevada, were frightened a few
days ago by the roar of a snowslide in
The mountains back of the town. The
slide, however, was small and caused
O damage, but the noise it made re-
called to the mind of old timers the
slide that occurred many years ago
and in which many lives were lost
In addition to the flat increase Of %
per cent in the grazing fees charged
on national forest reserves, there is to
be a general tightening up of all reg
ulations affecting the granting of graz
ing privileges, according to the most
recent orders Just received from Wash
ington by district forest supervisors in
Utah.
The house of representatives of the
Montana legislature has passed cor
poration tax bill. levying a tax Of q
per cent on the incomes of all corpora
lions whose annual net income exceeds |
$4,000. 1t is estimated the tax will