The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-06-03
NORTHWEST NOTES

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Ruth, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. GIL
ford G. Greer, aged a year and half,
was drowned in a small irrigatins
ditch near Lewistown, Mont.
The Montana supreme court has up.
held the constitutionality of the Mon.
tana sedition law, enacted by the ex-
traOrdinary session of the Fifteenth
legislative assembly In February, 1918.
Arthur Newell was acquitted Of a
charge of murder in the second degree,
following trial at Ely, New. Newell
was accused of the killing Of Frank
Morris in saloon at Riepetown last
January.
Only three people were killed in the
whole state of Nevada last year by
automobile accidents. This Is the
lowest figure of any state in the union,
New York leading the list with 1912
fatalities.
With wages from IS to 70 per cent
higher than before the war, the labor
situation in eastern Washington, and
northern Idaho, is In excellent cOndi-
ton, with the supply about equal to
the demand.
Provost Marshall General Crowder
has sent congratulations to the local
board of Nevada, informing them that
Nevada Is the first to report all prop
erty Of the late boards as ordered by
the War Department.
BY vote Of 7O5 to 40, Carson City,
Nev.. placed the stamp Of approval
last week on municipal improvements
and passed a $4,000 bond issue to
erect a new court house to take the
place Of the dilapidated structure now
used for this purpose.
Federal grain inspection rules now
followed by the laws Of Oregon, Wash-
ington and Idaho may be changed ma
terially II plans formulated at a con-
ference of officials Of the three states
held at Portland, are approved by the
secretary Of the interior.
Every one Of the $50 convicts at
the Wyoming state penitentiary struck
when the state board Of charities and
reform refused to reinstate C. L. Mar
tin, former warden. Martin was re-
moved on the allegation that discipline
at the Institution was poor.
Four thousand acres of land were
taken up last week in the south end
of Mason valley, in Nevada, and now
practically every bit Of land that has
any irrigation possibilities through
bitches from the West Walker river
has been taken up either through the
desert entry or by homesteaders.
There are reports of many deaths
among the flocks of sheep in the Elko,
New, shearing corrals. These ami
mails We're recently brought from the
winter feeding grounds in the southern
part of the state, and their death is
attributed by the owners to the eating
of the leaves of a certain species of
underground in the vicinity Of the
corrals. @
The latest word from the North
Standard property in Tintic district, is
that the men working two shifts are
carrying the shaft down at the rate of
four feet a day. This is single COM
partment shaft with large manway.
1t is down now below the 200-foot level,
clio Sc, In wifi
some gangue matter reported COM
ing in.
Individuals who accompanied the
members Of the Copper Export associa-
ton in their survey of the European
markets hold forth little promise OF an
early and considerable demand from
that source. The English, French and
italian governments are reported to
hold considerable stocks of the metal,
said to aggregate in the neighborhood
of 4OO,O00,OOO pounds.
Words could no better describe the |
utter stagnation Of the American cop |
per market during the first quarter
VI Ills yCdl IilQll wv llSuiSo Noh-
tanned in the reports of the four
lacking porphyries- Utah, Chino, Ray
and Nevada Consolidated, says the
Boston News Bureau. But an infinite
sinai percentage of their production
was sold and each company cut into
surplus account in order to pay its
dividend.
The management of the Yellow Pine
Mining company, GOodsprings, Nev.,
district, reports that after shutdown
Of several weeks that the mine will
resume work in two weeks. This is
the largest producer and dividend pay
er in southern Nevada. 1t will EN-
ploy force of thirty to forty men at
he resumption Of operations. The
mill will be ready to operate at that
time. 1t has a capacity Of $50 tons
If ore day.
Considerable prospecting work is
now under way over the Deep Creek
Ferber district, about ITO miles west
,rly from Salt Lake, according to late
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