The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-07-04
INLAND NORTHWES.

d Larkspur has been responsible for
the death Of a number of cattle near
Roundup, Mont.
That drought throughout northern
Utah, Idaho and eastern Oregon is
running crops was the word received
last week.
G. w. Brinnan, a Confederate veter-
an Of the Civil War, shot and instant
ly killed himself in the ice house of
the home of his daughter, at Ontario,
Ore.
Wyoming oil fields lead all the fields
Of the country in production per well.
according to figures recently compiled
by the Standard Oil company of New
Jersey.
There Is a possibility that Flathead
county may get the location of the
state industrial school for girls, pro-
vision for which was made at the last
session of the Montana legislature.
Fernley, Nevada, ranchers have de-
cided the minimum price of their hay
this fall shall be $14 per ton, rs per
cent down and a 6O-day measurement,
to be paid In full at time Of measure
ment.
The federal employment office at
Pocatello has a clean slate In regard
to placing service men in positions.
and many Of the returned men have
found their old positions waiting for
them.
William H Clone star) Dietz, form
or football coach, was re-indicted by
the federal grand jury at Spokane on
two counts charging false registration
for the draft and classifying his ques-
tionaire.
Reports from all sections of Fergus
county, Montana, at the end Of the
week show that the winter wheat Is
In bad shape, much of it too badly
burned to make anything, no matter
what. the rainfall may be.
Joseph Gilbert now on trial with
A. G. Townley and others at Jackson,
Mimi, on charge of conspiracy to
commit disloyalty, was formerly To-
cately in Salt Lake City, where he pub
lished Socialist paper.
The prohibition law is fairly well
enforced throughout the state Of Ne
vada and there are no wide-open
places, despite numerous reports to
that effect, declared E. F. Jones, state
superintendent Of the Anti-Saloon
League.
An automobile bandit who shot and
slightly wounded John Bunyan, presi-
dent of the Berthoud, Colo, bank, in
IN attempt to rob the bank, shot and
killed himself when surrounded by a
posse in the mountains seven miles
west Of town.
War pictures that were not shown
to the public during the progress of the
war for military reasons will be dis
cording to information received by
Governor Boyle from the division of
films at Washington.
Applications of disabled soldiers who
wish to make new start in the
world by taking advantage of Uncle
Sans opportunity offered them in vo-
eational training are crowding the Of.
flee Of Ralph Price, federal vocational
adviser, located at Salt Lake.
James Bogovich has presented q
new test case to the industrial acct.
dent board of Montana In his refus.
Ing to submit to an operation which
will cure him and relieve the board OF
paying compensation. He was crushed
by q mule in a coal mine and was
permanently disabled.
William Short of Seattle was over
whelmingly reelected president last
week Of the Washington State Fed
Grafton of Labor in convention at Bel
bingham. His victory was regarded as
triumph Of the conservative labor
element over the so-called radicals
and anti Gompers faction.
After participating in much Of the Sc
we're fighting on the French front with
out serious injury, Captain Kenneth
Booth and Lieutenant Tom Walker
two prominent young men Of Rene
who were among the first to 60 ovel
seas, were severely injured in motor
cycle accident recently in France.
Having only expected to secure ont
platoon of cavalry, Kemmerer boosters
feel highly elated because the city will
now have an entire troop. This Il
owing to the enthusiasm shown b!
Kemfnerer while other towns were In
different until Adjutant General Nc
Coy explained the plans Of the organ
ization to them In detail.
To aid the big influx Of land regis
tsants from the east, representing prin
oipally returned service men, the pub
Ncity department Of the Pocatello Com
meroial club is preparing to COMPILE
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