The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1919-09-19

sSuoVoo annually and which was
amended by the last legislature 10 pro-
vide for collection of license fee for
grazing on Nevada ranges at a higher
rate for nonresident stockmen than
Tor residents has been declared uncon-
stitutional by Judge +. ]. l.. Taber In
the district court at Elko, New.
The sum OF S165950 was distributed
TO persons In the city of Reno In 1918
by the various life insurance com
panies of the country ON account of
death claims and matured policies.
Wlnnemucea came second with claims
aggregating $4,000. Goldfield next
with $1,000, GoodsprIngs So
Carson City $4,000. Tonopah ST. $50,
Virginia City Si2,750. Ely sl1.5oo.
The first step toward reclamation
OF the famous big Bruneau project
ana toward development Of the power
and irrigation resources OF the Snake
river In Idaho on a scale that Will be
one of the greatest In irrigation his
tory was taken last week. when the
Twin Falls-Bruneau Land and Water
company applied to the state land
board to have $4,000 acres OF the
project segregated as the FIRST unit
Of the scheme.
An effort Is being made by n. r.
Bicknell. federal food administrator
Tor Idaho. who has been called upon
BY the government to resume his du-
ties during the probe into profiteering
and the high cost Of living, to try
and have the wheat embargo lifted.
With his neck broken and other in.
turies, the body OF Martin Burke was
found on the highway about 10 miles
out Of Chinook. Mont. by other men,
oers of party Of teamsters engaged
In hauling supplies to a ranch. His
| four-horse team was found tangled up
N the harness some distance ahead.
Peaches are going to waste In the
Twin Falls district through over
abundance of the crop, according to
the county farm bureau. In one or
| chard great heaps OF Elbertas. too
ripe to can, are piled up TO rot, il
is reported
/ Mrs. George Rode of Ulysses. and
Eli Allen Of Gibbonsville, were killed
when the car In which they were rid
/ Ing went over the grade at point
/ thirty-tive miles down the Salmon riv-
er from Salmon. pinning the occn-
pants under ii.
Transmission lines Of the Utah
Power Il Light company and OF the
Idaho Power company are To be joined
at Blackfoot and at Pocatello by No
vember /. to provide additional power
for the vicinity Of Idaho Falls and the
Tipped Snake river valley.
Deeming all of FIVE proposals sub
United higher than the cost OF mate
rails and construction warrants, the
building committee Of the stewards Of
the Catholic church has rejected all
bids for the construction OF new
church building at Twin Falls.
Potatoes in Canyon county are turn
Ing out well. Some fields are running
as high as $50 sacks TO the acre.
Much grain has been placed In the
stack 10 await threshing later. when
the rush of the combined harvesting
equipment is over. The third cutting
of alfalfa is In progress and IL yield.
ing a splendid crop of fine hay.
John Hollihan. a 15-year-old boy
who Is a member of boys club Of
the Twin Falls county farm bureau.
expects 10 net $500 from his six-acre
bean patch this year. His beans al
ready are contracted for at 81 bush.
el. and he expects crop of from IS
to 40 bushels. which will bring him In
about $40. IL Is estimated.