The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1919-02-14
NORTHWEST NOTES

The people. OF Winnemucca, New,
nave begun a campaign To have the
state capital moved To that place.
Food prices and living conditions in
Butte and Great Falls are 10 he lnyesti-
gated by special representatives of the
legislature.
Adam Steck, sixth of group of
eight men arrested at Helena last May
on charge OF sedltion, pleaded guilty
to the charge last week.
W. Scott, charged with forging
check for $50, pleaded guilty at Lewis
ton. Mont, and was sentenced to from
one to two years in the penitentiary
After over years adjournment be-
cause people were busy with war ac-
tivities, the Parent Teachers circle Of
Deer Lodge, Mont. met again lasr
week
The sheriff recently captured twenty
barrels of beer mt Cobre. New, accord
Ing to the Reno Gazette, and not n
parched throat in the locality Gun urge
any one TO claim the liquid.
With mean temperature of 32.a
degrees above zero, the month of Jan.
uary was the warmest January Helena
has experienced since the local wealth
er bureau station opened there in 1881,
Helen Vaughn, aged II, is dead and
John MAR, superintendent of the Ana
conda Copper Mining company's mill
ut Bonner, Mont, is seriously Injured.
the result of a train striking an auto
mobile.
Congress would be asked to pass leg
islation authorizing the immediate
| completion of the 'Fiathead irrigation
project. according to the terms of Il
memorial introduced in the Montana
legislature.
According TO bulletin of the state
board of health, there were 1867
| cases of influenza In Montana during
| the last three months of 1913 and
| 24S6 deaths from the disease during
October and November.
Searching inquiry is being made by
federal officials regarding the identity
of the man or men alleged 10 have rep
resented themselves as acting for the
| government in securing workers for
employers in Helena and vicinity.
Harry O'Neill was found guilty OF
manslaughter by a jury AT Bozeman.
Mont. O'Neill was charged With muir
der in the first degree for killing Perrs.
Henderson, at Willow Greek in July,
1918. Self-defense was ONeill's plea.
The second annual convention of the
American Sugar Beet Agriculturlsts
Will hold Its next meeting in Denver
late In January, 1920. II was decided
at the closing session of the first gath
ering of the organization ut Logan
Utah.
Upon the charge of obtaining money
by representing he could place men as
section hands on railroads near Spo
kane. George Levich was fined $40 al
Butte, and after serving ten days IN
the county Jail will probably face d
county charge.
Issuance of drouth area permits, un
der which hay and feed Is shipped into
drouth area at half freight rates, vii
ing to announcement by w. l.. Beers
marketing agent of the Montana stat,
college extension service.
The Montana supreme court has or
dered the conviction of Alex Kuhn II
Mineral county on charge Of murder
in the second degree set aside and .
new trial held. Kuhn shot and killed
Gottfried Peterson at Sildex in Octo
Der. 1917, in drunken brawL
According to an ordinance published
by the city council of Ely, the persons
engaged In the jitney business viii
have to pay a seml-annual license OF
$50 for each vehicle used In the serv
Ice and obtain permit for each stand
along the street used by the cars.
There will be no harness races this
year on the tracks of the 1ntermoun
tain Fair 4 Racing circuit, but In
relay races for men and women, nc
cording to a decision reached al the
meeting of the association nj Spokane
Roy G. Hill. brakeman running be
tween Green River and Evanston. was
killed by fall from the concrete
bridge two miles east of Granger, Wyo
He stepped from the caboose 10 set
some colored torpedoes, not knowing
he was on The bridge. He fell down
sixteen feet into ditch.
Calls have been issued by the ma
tional officers OF the Yellowstone
Trail association. and the western dis
trict of Montana member of the Ma
tIonal Executive committee, for the an.
nual meeting Of that organization for
the western district OF Montana, 10
be held at Three Forks on February 20.
In full appreciation of the fact that
| the finest livestock in the world. grown
In the intermountain country. will be
on exhibition at the fat stock show
next April, TO be sold on the second
day OF the exhibition. order buyers
from the east and packing buyers from
the east and west will be In Salt Lake
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