The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1918-06-14
NORTHWEST NOTES

Nevada. * VI
montana state university win give
're'i' 10 student soldiers for kpoyyl-
su .,' they may acquire While in the
Hllltary service.
A most urgent call for more Rcd
'roSs nurses has come. and the north
"eSt division has been asked TO sun
ply 10 al once.
Inc wheat acreage on 10000 farms
IN Montana viii he increased This wear
from L'99'2O4 acres to 1861. 654 acres.
Vi increase of about 43 per cent.
A total of 1T9,9S1 articles were
shipped TO the Mountain division
headquarters at Denver by the Salt
Lake county chapter, American RED
Cross, in MAY.
Inc White House wool allotted TO the
state OF Nevada has arrived Al The
capitol and will be auctioned off 70
lle highest bidder on June & M the
pubic park in Reno.
Representative johnson of Wash,ng-
ION recently introduced a bill 10 pro-
iioit the sale of liquors on trains of
all railroads under the control of the
director general of railroads.
Johh Allen, negro, who was plcked
up on the streets of Dillon Nant
ABOUT week ago was found to have
oeeh the man who escaped from the
insane asylum at Warm Springs 10
days previous.
A barber shop at Conrad. Mont
gave the entire receipt for one dav ro
'iie hed Cross netting over 500, the
coiored bootblack alone taking in 500
every cent of which was turned over TO
the Red Cross.
Miss Blanche McCauley an attrac.
1--WE and intelligent young woman. is
being held at Lewiston. Mont for
the authorities at Fargo, n. D., where
she is wanted in connection with the
cashing by her of alleged worthless
| checks.
A company of volunteers Of YongoI
Slavic blood now being Organized will
leave Butte in the near future to take
It's place on the firing line with their
brothers of the Balkan nations. Near
ly 200 Serbians of Butte have already
| enlisted.
Montana is called on for 600 volun-
teers for the 372nd regiment of engi-
neers U. S. A. The organization is a
replacement unit and will make mill
tary maps of America while in train
ing. Men of 10 to 40 are asked to
volunteer.
News that Clarence ]. Brandley OF
Salt Lake, member of an infantry unit
had been on the British armed mer.
chant trOOpship MOldavia, torpedoed
and sunk on the morning of May %
but that he had escaped injury, has
been received.
All freight traffic matters for tn,
federal controlled railroads in Utah
California, Nevada and Arizona: also
New Mexico west of Albuquerque anC
Deming, are now conducted by JONI
committee of three, known as the Sar
Francisco district freight traffic com
mittee.
A valuation of $40, 800 900 has beer
placed upon the property of the Wash
ington Water Power company by the
Idaho public utilities commission ant
the Washington public service com
mission, who sat jointly at Il hearing
in Seattle last week for the purpose
of deciding the valuation.
Although a grandfather, james A
| Ia.
little difficulty in enisting in the
army last week. House is only 81
and is as hard as nails. He entered
an engineering regiment. All of hi.
children, with the exception of tbs
drafted son, are married.
Two Harlem, Mont, young men were
bound over to answer the charge OF
grand larceny at their hearing recent
ly. The defendants were accused o.
stealing a Ford car, but 1t was brought
out that they are probably responsible
for some seven Ford cars, which hav,
been stolen around Blaine county il
the last year.
A conference of forestry officials a
MisSoula, Mont. has resulted in a plar
To handle some of the large herds o.
elk that roam Yellowstone park in th'
forest reserves of the state. The ell
multiply SO rapidly that they arr
crowded in the park and losses arr
greater than normal, 1t is said. becaus'
of lack of food There is ample room
in the forests for the herds.
The state dairy commissioner ha'
called a conference of the creamerl
and chepSe-men of Montana to be hei'
at Helena. to consider methods %
increasing the sale Of Montana hut
ter in the state. 1t Is said that man!
dealers. because they can make a cen
or two more profit, are discriminaun;
against Montana butter and imporun;
II from middle western states.
Danger Of q general strike In Lewis
, town. Mont. which threatened for
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