The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1918-07-26
NORTHWEST NOTES

Winltred. Mont. last week.
George Pew of Missoula was awaded
The contract for the new Deaconess
hospital To be erected In Bozeman. the
price being $40 1000.
During the month OF June 62s men
we're taken from Nevada for military
service. OF these 500 were drafted
md r. voluntary enIis.ments.
Two Nevada prospectors have iocat-
al large deposit Of manganese some
distance above Caliente. The deposit
: claimed to be from 40 70 CD feet In
thickness.
Final arrangements have been COM
pleted whereby soldiers from the
Preside will be sent into Nevada for
The haying season 10 handle the hay
,rop In the fall
Wesley Herman II. and Erlerd
Bierman. his brother. aged II, are at
A hospital In Deer Lodge, Mont. both
terribly mntilated from an explosion
of box of dynamite caps.
Farmers of Powell County. Montana,
awe decided upon "A wage scale. agree
ng To pay $500 for all field work. ex-
cept stacking. which Is set at $3.50.
They also created a free labor office.
Missoula authorities are engaged in
trying TO catch the most peculiar Grim
NAL ever To operate there. The crook,
opinions differ as to whether man or
woman. steals nothing but women's
clothing. but Is unusually active.
Major Bylngton has announced the
adoption by Reno. New. OF the slogan.
Work. fight or walk" The police
have been given orders 10 strictly en-.
force IL. All idlers will be given their
choice. get a job. Join the army or
leave town.
Major J. G. Scrugham. formerly
state engineer Of Nevada and before
that dean of the college of engineer
Ing OF the state university. has been
appointed a member of board OF six
army officers 10 review the entire ar
tillery program of the U. s. army.
The hay crop Is 50 short In Flat
head county. Montana. on account OF
the prol nged drouth. that nj a meeting
NJ the executive board OF the Farm
bureau. IL was decided TO take steps
To locate a source OF supply and ship
in enough TO meet the local demand.
The state supreme court OF Montana
made II plain that 1t cares little for
ultra-technical refinement In pro-
cedure when. In the case of the United
States ct al. VS.. the district court OF
Fergus county. II decided that frac-
lions OF day shall not be considered
in filing papers.
Women mechanics clad I'm overalls
are now working In the machine shops
OF the Puget Sound navy yard at
Bremerton. Wash. The force OF sixty
women IL employed as helpers I'm the
various trades. Some ARE operating
iathes and others are learning TO run
the giant cranes.
Perry Henderson, was shot twice.
by Harry O'Scal. his wife's stepfatier.
with rifle bullets which entered his
shoulder aud groin. aud died few mo-
ments later at his ranch house, near
Three Forks. Mont. after Henderson,
had fired two shots at his wife. reither
Of which took effect.
Prisoners at the county jail at
Seattle have been living recently on
bear steaks. bear roasts and bear ribs.
Deputy Sheriff starwleh bagged fine
large bear In the outskirts of Seattle
after trembling residents had called
for trusty officers of the law 10 rid
the ncighborhood of the animal.
Union ship workers from the steel
yards In Portland failed to march In
the shipworkers' parade honorlng III
rector General Charles NJ. Schwab and
General Manager Charles Piez OF the
Emergency Fleet corporation. declar.
ing that the shipbuilding companies
wanted the men "a forego pay for the
time they spent In marching.
Ia response to call made by a rep
reSentatlve of the beef Industry the
Vile. Idaho. have, gone into the fields
and helped in thinning the beeis.
Aside from saving the crop which was
beginning TO suffer the young people
have earned quite sum Of money for
Thrift and War Savings Stamps.
II Is expected that the enemy alien
custodian Will grab all but 81 go OF
the $1,000 estate left by Herman
Schubert. "A former resident Of Helena.
who died In san Francisco aud left all
but s19o II his estate 10 Institutions
aud relatives in Germany. The 81 30
il wilsti 20 the German Lutheran
church of Montana as nucleus for an
orphans home.
styled the human picture gallery
hecause Of the varied and remarkable
collection OF tat,ooed emblems on his
body. Peter klz, - years old, ar
vested as a dangerous enemy alien,
was removed from fiIe city jail At Salt
lake to III. Fort Douglas prison COM
pound last week. He viii be interned
there FOR the duration Of the war.