The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-12-30
INLAND NORTH WEST


durllg the coal shortage.
" estern newspapers VINO assisted
In the recent third Red Cross Christ
mas roll call are praised in the off.
cial Red Cross A. II. &C. Rays of the
Mountain division.
The yearly losses by forest fires was
the chief subject discussed at the open
ing session of the conference of lead
ing officials of theFUnited States for
est service, held at Salt Lake last week.
The Montana railroad commission is
seeking lower rates from the United
States railroad administration on
sand, gravel and crushed rock, which
are being used in construction Of i'm
proved highways.
In the intermountain west where
there Isl a shortage this season of hay
and other forage, the SLIDING of beet
tops Is recommended by the United
States department Of agriculture as
an aid in meeting the condition.
December examinations of Nevada
school teachers will be omitted again
this year. The state department of
education having determined upon
this procedure, all teachers certifi-
Gates will be valid up to next June.
In 1902 James r. Goss of Billings,
Mont, purchased a 24O-acre ranch five
miles southwest of Billings for $3.50
per acre. Last week he sold the
ranch to farmer north of the city
for SITS per acre, total of $4,000.
George Braskett, convicted in the
Justice court at Ely, New, on a
charge Of violating the prohibition
law and out on bond awaiting an ap-
peal to the district court, has disap-
peared from the Jurisdiction Of the
court.
The biological survey of the United
States department of agriculture, in
cooperation with the North Dakota
Agricultural college, has made ar.
rangements to begin work in destroy
ing coyotes and other predatory ami
mails in North Dakota.
A wage agreement based on the
price of silver has been entered into
by the Rochester Mines Company of
Nevada, and its employees, through
which the men employed at the mine
receive a bonus when silver reaches
$1.21 or more an ounce.
The Anaconda Copper Mining COM
pany is preparing to close all its mines
and smelters in Montana because of
fuel shortage, officials have announced.
About 10000 men employed in Butte,
Anaconda and Great Falls will be
thrown out of employment.
Federal informations against the
most radical Of the 80 foreign miners
arrested at Carneyville, Wyo., charg-
ing them with violations of the in
junction issued by Federal Judge An
derson, will be filed and deportation
will be instituted.
More than 27O aliens are on the
payroll of the Great Northern at
Havre, Mont, according to the quar-
terly report received by the state ac-
cident board. They are from all races
in Europe and while few have taken
out papers the majority have not
and many have been refused papers.
In plea for the abolition of
strikes as a means of settlement of
disputes between employers and en-
ployes. Mrs. Emmaline Pankhurst,
English suffragist leader, in an ad-
dress at Seattle, declared the present
unsettled industrial conditions came
about as a direct rsult of the teach
ings of Karl Marx, German socialist.
To determine the position of depu-
tized civilian, killed while acting as
special deputy sheriff, Is the latest
problem for the state accident board
of Montana to solve. The case came
up over the claim, for compensation
Of the widow of civilian specially
deputized to assist in the manhunt of
q farm hand at Manhattan a few weeks
ago.
Residents of the town of Hobson
and Moccasin, Mont, and farmers of
that vicinity during the past week ap-
to their own use couple
of cars Of coal which had been placed
on sidetracks, one in each Of the two
towns. =
"Bill" Carlisle, benign bandit, who
holds up trains for pleasure and de-
bates the ethics Of highway robbery
with his victims, may attempt to hide
in Salt Lake, it is thought, and the
local police are keeping sharp look
out for him.
Exculpated for the death of his
father-in-law, young John
former service man, has
been discharged by the trial Judge
at Salt Lake. Pantalone was accused
of the murder of Steve Melich, a Ser
bian, of Bingham, Utah.
The snowfall in the mountains in
Montana is unprecedented and assures
ample water for all purposes next
year. The general predictions of an
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