The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1918-07-12
NORTHWEST NOTES


sending obscene matter throngh ,ha
mails. 'i'e
niue damage by hail has been re.
ported by farmers living south of Rye.
gate Mont-, during the showers of The
last few days.
r. Ii, Wilson, former postmastar a,
Gapneill, Mont. pleaded y,,i,,v !, ,ha
.euerai court, when charged with n
shortage of s452.
~ ohe northern half of Montana
winter Wheat has been ruined hy the
drought, aud rain is badly needed 10
save the spring wheat. according "a
'he weekly crop bulletin.
Frank Shatfer, treasurer of the In.
ternational Bible Students association
everett Wash, was found guilty by
Jury there OF charges of violating the
United States espionage law.
Claude l.. Benton of Deer Lodge
mont, was elected commander of sons
VI veterans, division of Montana and
iaano' at the annual encampment of
'hit organization, held at Helena.
huge bear, considered one of tho
"iesl oi The species, was captured
awe at Pine creek, IL miles east OF
Livingston, Mont, sevral DAYS ago.
Inc splendid animal was caught In a
trap.
The Montana recruiting district Of
.he United States marines has broken
the record for the number of men en-
hsted during the month that closed
last week, leading all western dis
tricts.
Farmers have been cautioned
against fan weed, which seems to be
gaining foothold in the Ryegate.
Mont, vicinity. Most of the farmers
are active in their efforts to eradi-
cate it,
Ihe supreme court has denied the
petition for rehearing of the murder
case of George Van Laningham, alias
Jack Logan, of Miles City. Van Ian
lngham Is now serving term in the
Montana state penitentiary.
Arthur Sherwood, a farm laborer,
was almost instantly killed, at Dillon,
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helper engine. Details of the accident
are not known and life was extinct
when the gruesome remains were dis
covered.
For the first time since the found
ing of the city of Bannack, Mont, the
one-time capital of the state. is dry.
the residents having decided that the
saloon Is an unnecessary business. In
J the vigilante days Bannack was a
famous mining camp.
The data on just how much coal is
needed to carry Montana over the win
ter and the progress that has been
made in meeting that need will be
available when retail coal dealers and
wholesale consumers make returns on
, blank forms sent out last week
: Fifteen women registered June 26
! at Missoula, Mont, at the state uni.
versity's summer term for the inten'
! sive course in nursing that the institu
ton is Offering, in response to the gov
, ernment's request for 5000 nurses to
replace those whe have gone tC
? France.
With 81 $1,000 bills on his person
Alexander Palmer, aged II years, wa,
5 arrested at Glendiye, Mont, by the
sheriff at the request of Hebron, n. ID.
authorities on the charge of elopins
with a 17-year-old girl. He told con
) flicting stories as to the way he came
into the possession of SO much money
5 There are many saloons in Nevada
, which probably have not understood
1 that their sugar usage Is limited
These will not be allowed to purchase
any cane or beet sugar products after
July / without presenting the neces
sary certificates, and they and th'
r dealers from whom they buy arr
| warned that no exceptions will b.
: made. nor will evasion be tolerated.
Beginning July /, more drastic ra
4 tioning governing use OF sugar Wen
! into effect In Nevada. All manufac
turers mast procure certificates IA
5 heretofore: in addition, all whole
salers. retailers, hotels. restaurants
Q bakers and saloons must secure certih
Gates from the federal food admins
4 traitor of Nevada or from their count.
: administrator before they can pur
: chase sugar for any purpose othe
e than household use.
I Construction of a fifty -fiye-mli'
u highway across the main range or tn
Rocky mountains from Glacier far'
! station on the east to Bolton. Mont
on the west will be started Immediate
" by. the highway commission. IN
= road will cost 100000 and will be tn
connecting link in a new transcontln
| entail highway.
Adyices from Austin, New. indicate
that a cloudburst which, last Week
sent a large volume of water rnshih
down the canyon. did considerapi
3 damage in the town and 10 some