The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-02-11
INLAND NORTHWEST

As the result of an automobile acct
dent near Boulder. Mont. Mrs. MARI
Conway of Butte was killed.
The stage line from Thorne to Bodie
New, has been abandoned, as mail con
tracts will now 60 via Bridgeport.
A legislative investigation of the
high cost of living by a COMMITTEES
Of three members has been proposed
in the Nevada legislature. Y
Butte physicians who recently raised
their rates are to be called before q
committee Of the legislature, at the
request of the local labor unions, to
explain their action.
A bill is before the Wyoming legis.
lature providing for the semi-annual
payment of taxes, there being consid.
cradle difference of opinion regarding
the merits Of the measure.
The money to build the new spur of
the Strahorn railroad from Dairy to
Bonanza, Ore, is reported to be more
than half raised, and it is thought the
balance will be secured in few days.
Opals weighing six ounces and Of a
fiawless texture are being mined in the
Thousand Creek opal field in Nevada.
Expert lapidarists have pronounced
the Nevada product to be Of the finest
grade.
If bill introduced in the Montana
legislature becomes law, the educa-
ti0nal institutions of the state will
derive an annual income Of $4,000
from the interest on uninvested school
funds.
The North Pacific district, compris-
ing Oregon, Washington and Alaska,
will receive $272,422 Of the million
dollar federal fund for the building Of
roads and trails within the national
forests.
The deficiency bill before the. Ne
vada state legislature calls for an ap-
preparation Of $4,000 to care for the
deficiencies in state institutions, the
state prison leading, with $21, 716, and
the asylum $14,148.
The town of Winnemucca, New, is
having trouble securing dog catcher
who will round up the numerous dogs
which infest that town, and up to the
present time no one has been found
who will agree to accept the position.
Metropolis, New, ranchers are doing
remarkably well raising poultry, one
farmer who has 200 hens spending 81
each day for feed for them and selling
Sc worth of eggs. Turkeys are also
being raised with profit in that COM
munity.
Charged with padding pay rolls, in.
dictments have been returned by the
federal grand jury at Carson, New,
against P. F. Connolly, former road
master of Winnemucca district, and
twelve former section foremen OF the
Western Pacific. 44
After five previous unsuccessful at
tempts to end her life, Mrs. Mable
Johnson, wife of a Fall0n, New, ranch |
er, jumped from the roof Of the hos
pital at the state asylum, distance Of
forty feet, her skull being fractured,
death resulting.
The officials of Ormsby county, New,
are contemplating making the women
Of the county pay poll tax. 1t is ar
gued there that since the women are
engaged in all the businesses in which
the men are engaged, that they should
bear an equal burden.
The Oregon state board of health,
giving a record of the influenza cases
to that office, including those
who had used vaccine treatment and
hose who did not, makes good
showing for the use of the vaccine,
,ut advises that the effects do not last
Ong.
A member of the state brand COM
mission of Wyoming reports that his
BOARD has paid $4O6,OOO to Wyoming
.attlemen since April 1 last, and still
las $4,000 on hand to be disbursed.
This immense fund was derived from
he sale of stray stock at the single
market Of Omaha.
Hancock and Taylor, the prospectors
whose mysterious disappearance from
heir camp in the Colorado river coun-
nv below st, Thomas, Nevada, caused
sensation in that state, were foully
murdered, it is believed, the bodies be-
ng found in a badly mutilated condi-
ion and partly eaten by wild animals.
The death is announced at Los An
,eles of Charles Forrnan, Nevada pio-
leer and Indian fighter, at the age OF
A. Forman took part in battle with
indians near Virginia City in the early /
Avs, when ninety-twO white men op- |
,osed several hundred Indians, and &
My twenty Of the white men sur
lived.
In full appreciation Of the fact that {
he finest livestock in the world, grown +
D the intermountain country, will be +
n exhibition at the fat stock show I
ext April, to be sold on the second