The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-06-17
INLAND NORTHWEST

SuIucu uuCh was pidStA~oiy AuAhSe W
frost at Superior, Montana.
The Pacific Coast Advertising Mems
association held its annual convention
at Portland, June 10 and IL.
One per cent of the payroll is the
average cost to the employer for com.
pensation insurance in Montana.
While driving cattle, Loren Alt,
aged Is, of Roundup, Mont, was
thrown from his horse, death resulting
Approximately two million pounds
of Wyoming wool has been sold at
prices ranging from As to IS cents
pound.
Prospectors have made strike be-
tween Nyala and Current Creek, Ne
vada, which is showing up rich in gold
and silver.
A new corporation headed by Former
Congressman Roberts of Nevada, will
start developments in the Lander oil
fields, near Fallon, Nevada.
An open air dance pavilion has been
added to the amusement resources of
Twin Falls, Idaho. The pavilion is
100 feet long and 80 feet wide.
The chamber of commerce has con-
tracted for a tract Of land near the
central part Of Forsyth, Mont, that
will be converted into city park.
Under the auspices of the CONNER
eial club of Sheridan, Wyo., some 800
business men will visit Hardin, Mont,
and intermediate points June II and
18.
The people of Hardin, Mont, the
coming metropolis Of that section of
the state, recently celebrated the
twelfth anniversary Of the birth Of
that town.
Preparations are now under way for
the thirty-second annual conclave Of
Grand Commandery, Knights Templar
Of Montana, which will be held in Bill
ings June 10 and 20.
James Hutchinson Karr, 81 years of
age, a pioneer of Colorado and widely
known as geologist and mining en-
gineer, died at Colorado Springs, June
10, after a short illness.
The commissioners of White Pine
County, Nevada, have announced their
intention of borrowing $4,000 for the
purpose of repairing the roads and
highways in that section.
That Idaho is threatened with
water shortage for irrigation pur-
poses during the coming summer is
the declaration of the commissioner Of
reclamation for the state.
The ranchers in the vicinity of Kem-
merer, Wyo., who had been worrying
over a lack of precipitation, were made
happy last week by rainstorm which
assures an excellent hay crop.
Representatives of Utah Boy Scouts
who requested the government for use
of tents to be used at summer camps,
were informed that the law prohibits
the loaning of tents by the govern
ment.
The new herd district law appears to
be somewhat popular in Montana, Pc
titions having been filed with the COM
missions for the creation of districts
near Hobson, Stanford, Roy and Coffee
Greek.
No special session of the Wyoming
state legislature will be called to rat
lily the federal suffrage amendment,
according to Governor Carey, and the
matter must wait until the next reg
ular session in 1921.
Feed distributors of Philadelphia are
buying from the Kansas City market
alfalfa hay shipped from the Idaho
fields, paying fency prices for the
same, because they desire alfalfa from
the irrigated areas Of the west.
At the big coal mine at Klein, Mont,
the record for days production was
shattered one day last week, when
3O36 tons of coal were hoisted in an
eight-hour shift, exceeding the sup
posed maximum capacity by SO tons.
A masked robber entered the bank
at Beaverton, Oregon, and at the point
of pistol forced Miss LILLIAN Evans,
the assistant cashier, who was alone
at the time, to hand him currency
amounting to $4,000, making his es-
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The continued dry spell is causing
many farmers in the vicinity of Round
up, Mont, to worry about the early
winter wheat, some Of which is COM
mencing to head, and little had start
ed to fire slightly when the cool spell
set in few days ago.
That divorces have ceased to dis
courage second marriages in many in
stances is indicated by the records at
Billings, Mont, which show that dur
ing the month of May out of the sixty
marriage licenses applied for, thirty
eight of the parties had been pre-
viously married.
Cards urging tourists to remain
away from Salt Lake during the dates
of the International Rotary cOnven-
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