The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-08-29
INLAND NORTHWEST

1913 as direct result of county
: division.
Airplanes equipped with wireless.
telephone sets will be used in the for
ests of the intermOuntain district liz
fighting fires.
Chris Walter Johnson, thirty years
OF age, native of Nebraska, com.
mltted suicide at Paradise Valley, Ne.
vada, by taking strychnine.
Alfred Ridste of the Alton, Mont
section, has brought suit against c.
Il. Fenner, prominent farmer of that
district, to recover $4,000 for the al
legged alienation of his wifes affec-
tons.
Suit for an accounting of affairs of
the Montana-Ttah Sugar company will
be filed within ten days in Salt Lake,
according to IL statement made last
wees By II. l.. Pratt, counsel for D. A.
West.
A new industry is to be established
in Gallatn county, Mont, the Sunshine
| '"''p o"hSi 'oiIipdiiS VI AoHldild anu
Idaho having started a factory for the
manufacture of their products in Man
haitian
Under the auspices of the Fergus
County Farm bureau meeting of 10
StOckmen and ranchers was held at
LewistOWn, Mont, last week, to con-
slider the situation as to hay and other
feed for stock.
Any evidence that may be found in
Montana of violations of the federal
laws governing profiteering, food
boarding and destruction of foodstuffs
to keep up prices, will be placed be-
fore grand jury.
To have wildcat jump on his back,
tearing flesh with sharp claws and
biting with teeth, was the thrilling ex-
perience of Pedro Yassi, Basque
sheep camp tender employed near
Winnemucca, New.
Citizens of Whitehall, Mont, have
perfected an organization for the
identifying of the jefferson county
fair grounds adjacent to the town, and
the equipping of the tourist camp.ns
and public amusement park.
Nick Oblizalo and Steve Maslich,
both under arrest, the former in Ely,
New, and the latter in Butte, Mont
are believed to be the two men re-
SpOnSibe for the murder of Marco
Laus near Salt Lake on the night of
August 3.
The farmers and ranchers of Elko
county Nevada, will hold their ferst
annual outing and get-together at Lam.
ollie, September l. and ID. The prin
cipal purpose of this gathering is to
perfect the organization of county
farm bureau
Governors of public domain states
who meet in Salt Lake will memoir
ialize congress to cede the public lands /
to the various states, according to ed
ward Everett Young, chairman of the
New Mexico soldier settlement board |
who is in Salt Lake.
Appearing as a long-lost daughter
of the dead man, Miss Hazel Craig o;
Los Angeles has filed a probate peti-
ton in the Third district court of Salt |
Lake asking that she be appointed as
the administrator of the estate Of her
father, G. d. Tobey.
During the past week the great
droughth in Western Wyoming has
been broken by several good rains.
The farmers in the surrounding vicin-
ity appreciate the downpour and the
stOckmen and sheep growers welcome
the moisture as salvation for their
herds.
Utah will have an apple crop of
about SO per cent of last years, ac
cording to a special estimate from the
United States department of agricn-
ture received by NJ. NJ. Justin, field
agent for Utah. The Jonathan crOpIs
reported as exceptionally light in this
state, the report says.
; High prices of hay in the state,
makes even more serious the situation
presented to farmers of Montana the
scarcity of feed on account Of dry
weather this summer. Hay is selling
at $27 in large quantities, and
it is reported that in some sections of
the state the price has reached $4O
Resolutions declaring that in their
opinion the crops Of Montana this ,
year, while not up to the average, are
reasonably acceptable and that the
wheat crop of the Treasure state in
1919 will total 100000 bushels as
to 25,OOO,OOO FAST year, were s
adopted by the Montana bankers at
their recent meeting.
1t has been many a year since city
taxes or lease royalties have been paid
in gold dust in Montana. Recently,
however, the custom has been revived
IN Helena and Raleigh Wilkinson has
been paying in gold dust, over the
counter of bank, the city's 10 per
cent royalty on the gold he has mined
n the heart of Helena. o
jeanette Rankin, former congress- !,
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