The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1918-05-03
NORTHWEST NOTES

run down by the fire department auto
at Reno and seriously injured.
The sum of $4,000 will he expended
within the next few weeks by the Butte
Electric Railway company for street
improvements and paving.
. The poisoning campaign against the
ground squirrel, which had been in
progress in Montana for three weeks,
came 10 "A close last week, 50 far as
the government participation is con
cerned.
Louis Neunthal. native born German.
was arrested in raid on his home at
Butte, in which large quantity Of
dynamite, six boxes of caps and more
than IA thousand feet of fuses were
discovered.
With blistered heels and froStbitten
toes. souvenirs of a flfty-mile "mush"
over the trail to Anchorage, party Of
railroad engineers, formerly with the
Alaska engineering commission have
arrived in Seattle
Ben Kahn, salesman for IA California
wine house, was found guilty in the
district court at Red Lodge, Mont, of
violation of" the anti-sedition law.
kahn'S-is the first conviction under the
recently enacted measure.
John Jacob Lilly of Elko. New. ar
rested by members of the sheriffs
force at Ogden as a Stacker, was reg
lstered and examined by the county
draft board. He will leave for Camp
Lewis with the city and county con
tingent.
Employees of the Butte Electric Rail
way company have invested "A sum of
$4,000 in Liberty bonds of the third
issue. These same men invested an
equal amount in bonds during the first
and second campaign and are heavy
purchasers of thrift stamps
The Washington state penitentiary
houses an original thief, convict who
stole the whistle from off the shop
building inside the walls and replaced
1t with "a replica made of tin. 1t is
said that the brass whistle has been
converted into curios and sold.
The Reno flour mills have been or
dered to cease milling wheat at once
by the United States food administra-
ton, and the state food administrator
has been instructed to take over $500
bushels of wheat now held by the mill
and to place it on the market through
Pacific coast ports.
Stanley Fraser is suffering from n
deep knife wound in his left arm, near
the biceps, and another slight cut on
his forehead and William Randolph,
Familiarity known as Soldier" color
ed man, occupies cell in the county
Jail, charged with assault, as result
of an alteration between the men at
Butte
HarmOnization of the road laws and
policies of Washington, Oregon. Idaho
and Montana for better results, and
raising Of the standard of the highway
engineer to bring most practical re-
suits at minimum cost was discussed by
the delegates attending the meeting
of the Northwestern Society of High
way Engineers at Seattle.
Oakley, Wyo., is coal camp. Prob
ably nineteen-twentieths of the POO
miners employed there are of foreign
birth. Oakley's quota Of the third Lib
erty loan is $500. The Japanese con
dngent of Oakley's population alone
put the town over the top" in the
loan drive, their subscriptions to bonds
equaling the towns quota,
Every man employed in the coal
mines at Rock Springs. WyO., more
than 500 in number, has purchased one
or more of the bonds of the third Lib
erty issue. Rock Springs is the most
cosmopolitan coal camp. Forty-two
languages and dialects are spoken by
the miners. The country most heavily
represented among the miners is Aus
tria.
1t is unlikely that women will be
patrol lookouts in the national forest
of Montana. according to Supervisor
Elers Koch. Carrying n heavy mat
took and a pack through the forest
and grubbing and chopping all day TO
fight fire is not suited to feminine
physical abilities, he declared when
young women applied for the job.
Women acted as jurors in America
almost half IA century ago. The first
grand jury which included members
of the weaker" sex was impaneled at
Laramie, WyO., forty-eight years ago.
The territory of Wyoming was organ
lied in 1868 out of parts of Dakota.
Utah and Idaho. and one Of the first
official acts Of the new territorial gov
eminent was to grant women the right
to vote and hold office.
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