The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1919-04-25
NORTHWEST notes.

issued Il proclamation fixing May IL
as ArbOr day.
Money 10 build the Swan river val
iey highway to connect Kalispell with
Dyando. Mont is 10 be available tins
year from national forest road funds
land the federal "J0.50" road aid.
The Tacoma Metal Trades council
Ithat managed HE February strike, has
Improved the plan 10 recall the I'VE
rify commissioners because of the ar
rest of tag sellers for the soldiers and
sailors council.
Property valued mt $4,000 was de-
stroyed and bIoOded stock. including
20 span Of horses and mules, burned
to death when a big barn on the Nal
colin Moody ranch at Tygh Ridge,
Oregon, WAS burned.
i mine foreman and Il fire boss were
blamed for the explosion in the Empire
Mine Mt Aguilar Colo, March 13, in
| q report by Colorado's coal mine ill.,
spcctor. Thirteen miners lost their
| lives in the accident.
In 1859 me trees which were planted
last week and in the near future in
Oregon under the direction of George
| Cecil, district forester, will be ready
for the market, according to esti-
mates of the forest service.
Presidents and secretaries of the
eight clubs in the northwest district,
international Association of Rotary
Clubs, In session at Seattle, launched
Il movement to establish clinic or in
stituton for crippled children.
Following IL fall of twenty feet from
u window ut the state hospital near
Sheridan, Wyo., Bernard M. Solver
son of Birney, Mont, died last week.
Solyerson who was 80 years old was
delerious following an operation.
Twenty-four men and women Red
Cross workers are scheduled to sail
from Seattle on April - for service
In Siberia. The workers, it was an
nounced will be stationed in camps
along the Trans Siberian railroad.
The livestock men from all parts
of the west are to meet in Salt Lake
July 81 next to launch formal cam
paign to bring about national legisla-
ton for federal control of unappropri-
ated public domains in the western
states.
"There Is work enough on the farms
of Utah and Idaho to employ every
idle man in both states;" Is the opin-
lon of NJ. .. Evans, supervising farm
help specialist of the department of
agriculture, from Portland, Ore, who
Is in Salt Lake.
out Of II total of $50 Oregon draft
registrants reported to the office of
the adjutant general as deserters or
delinquents, 450 still are under investi-
CATION by department Of justice oper-
atlves and large proportion of them
Will be brought TO trial soon.
Citizens of Salt Lake will finance
railroad into the Uintah basin if built
from Salt Lake. Financial aid neces-
sary TO operate the line will be appro-
priated by local financial interests.
Actual construction will In all prob
ability be started next summer.
Mrs. Nancy Jane Bush has been
sentenced to not less than ten nor more
than eleven years in the Colorado pen
itentiary. On April 8 Mrs. Bush was
found guilty ut Montrose, of second
degree murder on charge of killing
her son, John o. Bush, with an AK.
Ii present conditions continue, the
central Oregon ranges will be free from
rabies this year. according to Stan
ley q. Dewett of the United States
biological survey. The number of coy
otes decreased last year and ranchers
are taking better care of their dogs.
he says.
Apricots and early peaches of the
upper Yakima valley were killed by
the recent frost, during which the
temperature In places dropped MS low
as u degrees, it was reported. No
damage was done to other fruits or
crops. Peaches in the lower valley
were reported uninjured
Conditions in the northwest and Pm.
cttic coast sections of the United
states, based on personal investiua
lion, and reports from the big markets
nf the easi Indicate beyond doubt that
The retail costs of dairy products this
year will be fully as high, If not higher,
than those of the past year.
As far as the National and Utah
" "oigrowers' associations are con.
rerhed the controversy over sheen
prices ended last week when
NJ u meeting at Salt Lake of officials
nf the two organizations decision was
reached Ia stick by the former ruling |
II the Utah WoolgrowerS' association
" l2is cents u head and board fire..
1r IL cents per head board furnished |
BY the Shearer
After going begging all winter at
ninety cents Il hundred, sacked. f.o.b. |
deiena. potatoes have taken Iump |
within the past ten days and local
growers are now being offered sl.25 n
hundred pounds.
IL the bond issue carries April - |
Nehmerer. Wye, will be located on a
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