The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-10-17
INLAND NORTHW WEST

Coming to the rescue of a BlackfOot
J cattle herd which was being stalked
by bears, C. NJ. Carson shot and killed
three bears six miles above Bonner,
Mont.
Members of the former Ely Rifle
club and many citizens who are inter-
ested in rifle practice, met at Ely, Ne
vada, last week and organized a new
rifle club.
/ Idaho wool growers have formally
announced their opposition to the fed
eral governments threat to quarantine
all sheep in the state, unless the ep.-
demie of scabies is soon put under
control.
A snOwstOrm ended all danger of
forest fires in western Montana, off
Gals of the forest service headquar-
tiers expressed as their belief follow
ing receipt of advices that the storm
| was general.
| At meeting of 500 citizens Of
Whitefish, Mont, the whole gamut Of
the needs of this city was gone over.
and it was decided to organize an as
ISOLATION for the benefit of the city
and envirens.
Stevensville, Mont, suffered heavily
as the result of fire starting in the
attic of the only hotel in the city
The flames We're not brought unde!
control until three-fOurths of the bust
ness section had been wiped out.
Heart failure brought death to J. f.
Weren, pioneer of Montana, beside
a spring from which he was drawing
water near Acton. A veteran of tn
Indian wars of the district, Werlen
was known in every quarter of the
state.
A spark from an engine set fire to
the meadow on the Gilmore ranch nen
Elburz, Nevada, and before it wa:
eXtinguished the flames had swer
over about fifty acres of meadow land
and three stacks of haw were con.
sumed.
Within the past week, 25 business
and professional men of Ontario, Ore.
have signed an agreement to each build
a residence. The contracts are to be
let by December 1, and the proposed
houses are to cost between $500 and
$4,000.
The movement of western Montana
sugar beets to the Billings factory o.
the Great Western Sugar company has
begun. The crop is valued at 100000
or 10000 tons. 1t will take about
forty days to move this crop, it is
thought.
One Of the many excellent crop
yields to be reported in Wheatland
county, Montana, this year is that of
the ranch of Mr.. Higgins of Helena
located on Fish creek. Over 1900 bu-
shells of wheat was harvested from 200
acres of spring sowing.
Adjutant General Maurice Sullivan is
engaged in the compilation of a card
index Of all Nevada men who served
in any and all branches of the U. s.
forces during the late war. When
completed it is expected that the list
will be issued in book form.
Because a 'wOman became angry
when he laughed at her during an al
tercation she was indulging in with the
proprietor of an alleged soft drink par
lor Elton Karl Won Schuldheis is in the
county Jail at Great Falls, Mont, and
the authorities have an illicit still
found in his house.
That the bullet-pierced skull and
crumbling bones of man found par
TALLY buried under huge boulder in
a coulee II miles northwest of Billings
early this month were those of one of
band of cattle rustlers exterminated
by posse nearly thirty years ago is
the theory advanced by a number of
old-time residents.
William Fiske, rancher living 40
miles north of Billings, is in the coun-
ty Jail on charge of assault in the
first degree. 1t is alleged Fiske fired
shotgun at Marco Badonvinatz, three
of the pellets taking effect in the
latter's right leg.
Four hundred pies at 60 cents apiece
and great quantity of bread at 25
cents loaf, were sold to about 100 In
dams from Smoky valley, Elko, Pah-
ranagat valley, Ely and other places
who held their annual fandangO at
Duckwater, Nevada.
The case of Glen Hamilton, the 49,
year-old boy who shot and fatally
wounded Ernest Heusser, near Salt
Lake, will probably be turned over to
the Juvenile court. Hamilton shot
Heuser when he caught him stealing
from the Hamilton place.
Attaches of the sheriff's office have
obtained sufficient Identification to con-
firm their belief that the bones taken
from an island north of Bull, Idaho,
are those Of Albert Harkelrood, a Bull
rancher, who mysteriously disappeared
early in September, 1915.
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