The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1919-02-28
NORTHWEST NOTES

The road connecting Jackson and
Big Piney, Wyoming, is coming in for
its share of attention, and steps are
being taken toward having the road
completed this summer.
Forty four aliens who forfeited first
citizenship papers to escape military
service during the war. were denied
citizenship rights by Superior Court
Judge Tellman mt Seattle.
The city of Seattle on its own work
and in work done for the municipality
by contracts will give employment only
to loyal American citizens. it Is an
nouneed by Mayor Ole Hanson.
Action ON d coastwide strike vote of
telephone operators and electrical
workers has been deferred by the Port
land union of telephone switchboard
operators, pending further investiga-
ton.
Leasing of 1000 acres of park
property as location for hangers and
training grounds of locally organized
aviation company was announced mt
the offie of the city park board at Seat
tie last week.
The lower house of the Nevada legis-
lature passed the boxing bill, amend
ing the state law to allow 25-round
fights. The vote stood % to u. and
1t is understood that the senate will
pass the bill.
The Wyoming senate has passed a
game bill which provides for a closed
season on sage chickens and grouse
during the next few years and shorten
ing the period during which the big
game may be killed by Is days.
Automobile licenses in Wyoming
may total 10000 during 1919, accoru-
ing to present Indications. To show
the remarkable increase. six years ago
there were about 1900 licenses issued
and in four years increased to over
12,00o
High prices Enthusiastically are on the
decline at Butte and the statement Is
made by one Of the most prominent
of Butte merchants that six months
hence present prices will have siumped
to a point where they will not be
recognized.
Because many Nevada school teach
ers who failed to accept the provisions
of the teachers pension act when II
was passed, now desire to do so, bill
| has been introduced in the assembly
giving them an extension of time until
January /, 1921.
Andrew Anderson, a laborer, died al
Wallace. Idaho, after being struck by q
| Northern Pacific train at Alice spur, on
| the Occur d'Alene branch. Nothing IL
known of the man there. He was badly
mangled but lived until he reached the
hospital in Wallace.
Municipal employees who joined tn'
recent general strike at Seattle have
been penalized by the loss Of theiJ
| annual vacation, and those who did MOI
| respond to the mayors demand to re
| turn to work at the time set will lose
in addition Is days pay.
1t was announced at the divisional
| headquarters of the Northern Pacific
at Missoula, Mont, that all former EN-
| ployes who entered the army will bt
given their old jobs, with such prefer
ence rights as they enjoyed at the tim'
of enlisting or being called.
In an address at Seattle before Z
large gathering of business men at the
Chamber of Commerce Mayor Ole Han
son demanded punishment for "crim
L InI.x ,fysa Inns
but also asked ''for justice and forgive
ness for the miSled workers"
Montana people who loaned tele
scopes and field glasses to the govern
ment last year are now receiving then
back In good condition and 1t Is quite
probable that the instruments saw ser
vice on some of Uncle Sans wal
vessels and torpedo boat destroyers
The Tacoma shipyard strikers have
turned TO President Wilson in an ap
peal for influence with the emergency
fleet corporation to secure promise OF
a hearing on the Pacific coast TO adjust
wage scale before March 81. the date
of the expiration of the present Macy
scale.
Stockgrowers In the Great Falls sec
ton of Montana will enter the spring
months with their stock in the best
condition that has happened In the
memory of the oldest resident OF this
section of the state They win also
come through the winter with large
amount of hay.
A hig irrigation project which has
been for a long time forming in Neya'
da came definitely To light last week
upon application for a certain amount
of the food waters of the Humboldt
river, made by John q. Taylor and
Jerry Sheehan of Winnemucca, who in
tend TO inpound flood waters to re
claim 10000 acres of land.
While representations were made TO
the state council Of defense that the
future of the sugar beet industry Ia
Montana i jeopardized unless the
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