The Pioche record., 1919-03-21
INLAND NORTHWEST

congress. succeeding James L. Mann-
Approximately 200 were present ut
the opening session of the farm bureau
short course at Kalispell. Mont. and
this was considerably increased later
| ON.
A proposition to hold the willard
Dempsey fight ut the Alan. Ida. race
track. twenty miles east OF Spokane.
has been telegraphed TO Tex Richard,
promoter.
Employees at the Garfield. Utah.
smelter of the American Smelling and
Defining company, who walked out in
protest against a reduction in wages,
have returned TO work.
Walter w. Beck, u former railway
postal clerk on the run between Salt
Lake and Maiad, Idaho, has been ar
rested in Memphis, Tenn. on a charge
| OF rifling the mails, according to word
received at Salt Lake.
The Southern Pacific railroad COM
| pany has the distinction of having
| fewer accidents than any other system
n the United States, according to the
| statistics made public at the Safety
First meeting held ut Ogden last woek.
The Washington state senate has
passed farm marketing bill which
| grants to municipal corporations au-
thority to buy and sell market products
without profits. Advocates of the
measure said it was in behalf of relief
from food profiteering.
Mike Kachian, Great Northern sec
ton hand, saw service in the Euro
pean battlefields and was successful in
lodging Hun bullets to the extent that
only one of them clipped off piece
of his ear. He was one of the draftees
from the Whitefish, Mont, district.
When a Seattle taxicab company re-
fused to discharge two returned SOL
diers it had just engaged as drivers
thirtysix union drivers went on strike.
The company declared the union men
abrogated their contract with it when
they joined the recent general strike.
Albert j. Perry, naval aviator, an
nounced at Spokane that he has been
ordered to report shortly at Cape MAY,
N. j., to act as chief engineer of
dirigible balloon with which it is plan
ned to attempt trip across the At
lantic ocean under government direc-
ton.
Idaho club women are planning
vigorous campaign during Western
Consumers week, which will begin
Monday, April IA. Governor Davis Of
Idaho has issued proclamation ask
ing all the people of Idaho to observe
the week and patronize home indus
tries.
Marking the first sale of It's kind
in the state under the confiscatiOn
clause of the prohibition law, an auto
mobile taken from " a. Nelson, Salt
Lake chiropractor, was disposed of ut
auction at Ogden, Utah, to Henry
Barker principal of the Grant school,
for 5000
Newspaper advertising made cigar
cites the popular form of smokes" in
the opinion of Montana tobacco
salesman. Tobacco manufacturers
realize it and plan to carry on the
greater part of their advert Sing
through the medium of the newspaper,
he said.
denied the application of the Central
Oregon Wool Growers association for
a trail across part of the lands in the
Warm Springs Indian reservation. The
growers proposed to pay "A crossing
tax of , cents head and to build, at
their own expense, a bridge across the
Deschutes river
When the Utah woolgrowers hold
their annual convention April / at
Salt Lake, many subjects of impor-
tance will be discussed. Dipping reg
ulations and laws will be outlined and
extreme care and cooperation will be
urged in the matter of scab avoidance.
The necessity for fixing prices on
sheep shearing and for wages for
herders and camptenders will be ad-
vocated.
Assurance that the telephone EN-
ployees may negotiate with telephone
company officials or with postoftice
department officials at Washington re-
garding wage or other demands, was
given Governor Milliken of Oregon
at a conference with Postmaster Gen,
: eral Burleson.
Seven new counties were created by
| the Montana legislature, and five new
, normal schools established, the latter
however, still having to run the gaunt
let Of the governors office, as does the
bill abolfshing the deputy game war
dens and that reorganizing the state
Highway commission.
The manufacture and sale of neal
. beer is prohibited in Nevada under .
!. decision handed down last week b,
, the state supreme court. The decision
was made in an injunction sui
brought by the state against the Reno
Brewing company to test the claus,
In the prohibition act.
The POcatello Athletic club has tale
I graphed TEX" Rickaid an offer q
). $l6O,OO0 cash for the Willard-Dempse,
, heavyweight fight. The message sait
!, the idaho boxing laws had been re
vised SO that the fight might be held