The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1918-08-23
NORTHWEST NOTES

e"ei io 10 Il, inclusive
an industrial plants of Montana are
ICING classified by the fuel aamin,s.
,"'oh 10 determine those Essential, "a
the conduct of the war
Inc Minneapolis federal employmen,
oance alone of all the offices in the
Nin'h district is placing more men
i women than the Butte bur,.u.
Montana farm loans to August | as
s'esa'ed Sl,6S7270 Register Miller
ms reported. The July business was
siio'VV. Many applications are pend
Ing. pe"u
reports from % counties In Mon.
'aia Indicate that crop conditions
SNOW continued Improvement both ms
10 the yield per acre of grain and the
condition of the ranges.
me FOOD administrator is urging
that every housewife i'm the Northwes,
uiitii the first OF November and esne.
ciaiiy until the middle of October
heip TO save the fruit crop and vet
conserve sugar.
a, II. Reniger, colored man, better
known by his ring name of A. r..
thompson, was fatally injured at
anaconda, when he slipped and fell be.
tween TWO cars on the Air Line at the
reverberatory scales.
The war has brought women mail
carriers to Portland So far members
OF the fair sex do not deliver letters
out number of them have been EN-
pioyed In the wholesale and shipping
district collecting mail.
The antelope have summered on
grain fields within three miles of Har.
ioWton, Mont, for several years, there
peihg as high as 70 in one herd. The
state has not decided to recompense
these farmers, though it protects the
game.
Fred T. Ernest was apprehended at
Deer Lodge, Mont, and sent to Seat
tie, charged with being "A deserter from
one OF Uncle Sans battleships plying
In Atlantic waters. He Is also said
to have been implicated in a robbery
at GdrrlS0n recently.
Butte Is now numbered among the
few cities in Montana and in fact in
the United States, that have a kan
ming kitchen" This has been estab.
lished in the local high school with the
cooperation of the school board, and
is open to the public four days in the
week.
On behalf of the Crow tribe of In.
dians, the government has filed com
plant In the federal court against
George b. Kirby and Charles McDan-
iels, cattlemen of Billings, Mont, seek
ing to recover $66.0S0 on an alleged
grazing land lease contracted with the
Indians.
A union railway station will be es
tablished at Butte. The Milwaukee
Butte, Anaconda 4 Pacific, Grea
Northern, Oregon Short Line an.
Northern Pacific railways will use tina
station. The Great Northern ant
Northern Pacific buildings will b.
abandoned.
Word has been received that ]. Serb
wanted by the authorities for stealing
a car belonging to Jens Hansen, a
Deer Lodge, Mont, had been located
by the officials at Tucson, Ariz. i
was long trail the officers followed
to apprehend Serb, as the car wa
stolen last spring.
/ An automobile trailer, fully equip
ped with chemical tanks and other fir
fighting apparatus, is to be maintaine'
by the Pullman, Wash. chamber o
commerce during the harvest seasol
for fighting grain and farm fires In thi
vicinity. A volunteer fire fghtin
force of fifteen men is TO be organized
A hailstorm in Gallatin County
Montana, cut a swath II miles via
and five miles long through wheat tina
was about ready to cut while In Sun
water the storm denuded Il strip :
miles wide and eight miles long. Gias
in farm house windows was broke
and scores of farmers lost every acr
of grain.
Any young man between the ages Q
1S and u may enlist in the army an
at the same time pursue his studies u
the state university of Montana
he is qualified to enter the institution
This is made possible through the r.
cent designation Of the university q
an institution where students arm
training corps will be organized unde
war department supervision.
In every county in the state OF WYE
ming. If the present plans are success
full. such material as scrap iron. col
ner zinc. lead, discarded machiner.
rubber. rope and rags found in IN
hack yards and vacant lots OF III
cities and on the farms Will be c"iiec
sd chiefly by boys and girls and assen
bled at railway stations. Buyers WI
risit each county on speci1ed dat'
and i'm taking over the maierlai WI
make payments in thrift stamps,