The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1918-10-18
NORTHWEST NOTES

baliots Tor the soldier vote of Mon
iaha are being transmitted In large
numbers through the secretary Of state.
Montana's total contribution to the
fourth Liberty loan NAV reach slsooo
w. The quota was Sl6Uoo.ooo. All
Dut Few counties are over the tom
Colorado, which supplied nearly one
third Of the nations sugar beet crop
last year, is expected To produce
i'ieo'ooo short tons instead of .S57 ,649
tons grown in 1917.
some miners In the Utah coal fields
are drawing larger monthly nav checks
IMAM The mine superintendent them.
SELVES, according To John Crawford.
state inspector Of coal mines.
More than 1000 gallons of uouor
stored In the cellars of the public safety |
building AT Salt Lake. after raids upon |
bootleggers and others. will be turned |
over 10 the United States government |
Tor war purposes.
| The l4-months-od son of Mr. and
/ 4 ".
Mont, while playing with hunting
case watch. broke the crystal aud swal-
lowed particles OF glass. Death fol.
lowed soon after.
A native trout. weighing l54
pounds, l. on display in the window
OF Dillon, Mont, market. The fish
was caught near Armstead by IL. IA.
Best, the Argenta mining man. II is
the largest caught in this vicinity for
some time
Representatives Of the Montana
State Bankers association appeared be
| Tore the state board of equalization
last week, asking that the board re-
{ duce the tax valuation on banks from
TO TO 30 per cent. No action has AS
yet been taken.
c Fewer infants died in Butte in Sep
;. TENDER than in any previous month,
|. the number being 40 males and IS fe-
& males, according TO the report of the
health department. During the last
c month % children were born, Of which
4 80 were females.
n Authority 10 increase its freight
c rates to the basis prescribed for fed
n eral controlled roads by William G
McAdoo, director general of railroads
p. is granted To the Salt Lake & Utal
is Railroad company by the Utah publ,
|, utilities commission.
le Since the Butte employment offic,
If was opened on July II, IL. 566 person.
" have called and inquired for work o
sought information. OF this numhe
6100 men registered and 2l6l women
OF these 1929 men were placed Il
. work and 1918 women.
~ Louis Effinger, charged with sed
!. ton, was found guilty and fined $50
~ in the district court at Missoua. Mont
the jury fixing the penalty Effinge
who is well-to-do, announced he woul
al pay the fine. He was born in this coul
se try, but his parents both We're born
NJ Germany
Report of the committee on legisl
ei ton to fix the state lay levy for al
'ei trict schools at 26 mills, instead Of Il
present tax of "a mills. and the ra
IN for the state high school fund al
~ mills, instead of the present tax
~ , mills, was ;dopted ut Il meeting
ia The house OF delegates of the 1t;
of Educational association.
III For the third time in less than
III months, the Goshute Indians on {
Ibapah reservation. near Deep Cree
co Utah. have gone on the warpath. !
III cording To information received In :,
rs Lake. The Indians have left their r,
OPP, ervation. and. heavily armed and wi
inc plenty of ammunition, have taken
red the hills to the west and south of |
ces Deep Greek country.
in With Spanish influenza already r,
ing at Libby. in Northwestern Montal
lies at Chateau, in central Montana,
asst Billings and Scobey, in eastern NJ,
inc tana. and at Whitehall and Tv
ia Bridges, in southern Montana hea
hat officials are of the opinion that ol
ted good luck, coupled with hard work, ,
ons prevent a widespread epidemic of I
xxi. disease in Montana.
Forest fires, driven by high g
ose winds. swept an area p miles "
,ets near Shelton. Mason county. VA
ials destroyed all bridges on the upper
.+al IF the Pennsular railway, and burr
mo, out three logging camps of the Sill
no son Logging Co.
.up With percentage of al, New
,op. stands. ~ per cent below the natio
one average and i twenty seventh In
list of states in percentage of re
mos tions from military camps because
ron liSqualifications from February IL
soId July Is of this year.
NAL Granville Stuart. pioneer, aud
und Of the beSt-known figures in the
inch tory of Montana. died October 3
This Missoula. Mr.. Stuart had been I
rom lent of the state since 1871 and
Hold among the first To discover gold