The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-10-28
INLAND NORTHWEST


difficulty.
A large reservoir is to be built In
Fall River meadow, 30 miles east Of
Ashton, Idaho, for the purpose Of ir-
rigating two million acres Of land.
Seventy-nine farms, comprising $500
acres, were disposed Of by drawing
at Powell, Wyo., the headquarters of
the Shoshone reclamation project in
Wyoming. 80
Alice Duffy, aged Is years, died In
Helena hospital from shock and. Sc
rious burns received while assisting in
starting a fire in the kitchen of St.
Joseph's Orphans home.
Herbert G. Thompson, superinfend-
ent of the Nevada Packard mine at
Packard, Nevada, was killed when he
fell from the 300-foot level of the mine
to the bottom, 100 feet.
The leaders in the mofement- to
create judith Basin county out of the
west side of Fergus and the east end
Of Cascade, in Montana, have begun
the circulation of new petitions.
A rural life institute, gotten up along
the lines of the Oid-fashiOned farm
ers' institute, with many additional
features, is scheduled to take place at
Twin Bridges, Mont, October 2S-29.
A Lewiston, Mont. elevator company
has begun an action against the Great
Northern to recover 5000, represent
ing the value of wheat alleged to have
been lost In transit on shipments east.
Secretary Franklin K Lane Of the
interior department. has announced
that $l,OO0,OOO. will be expended in
reclaiming Utah Lake bottom land by
diking the shores Of the lake and
draining the water-scaked land.
A Lewistown, Mont, correspondent
says the first Lewistown woman to kill
a deer this season is Mrs. John Brooks,
who has just returned from the Little
Belt mountains with Mr.. Brooks. The
latter brought down black bear.
According to the report just issued
by the government of the production of
gold .and silver in the United States
for the calendar year 1918, Nevada is
fourth in the list in the production Of
gold and third in the production of
silver.
Montana merchants who fail to APP
ply for licenses under the state PRO,
fiteer" bill before November l face
fines of 500 to $1,000, according to
resolution adopted by the Montana
trade commission, which administers
the law.
Several hundred men will be EN-
ployed this fall by the national govern
ment improving the highways in Vel
lowstone National park. Already a
large force has been started at work
and will be augmented as rapidly as
possible
The story is going the rounds about
a bootlegger who sampled his own
goods SO freely that he was found by
the roadside near Winnemucca, Nev.,
by three of that towns residents who
confiscated the greater portion of the.
bootlegger's stock.
After being at liberty for nearly
seven years following the fatal stab
bling of James Ferry at Butte on the
night of November q, 1912, Dan Mer-
rigan has been taken to the state
prison to start in on his long term of
from 40 to 80 years at hard labor.
Under the law regulating the fixing
Of the true value of property and the
levying of taxes upon certain fixed
the assessed valuation Of
Cascade county. Montana, this year
is smaller by $1,512,9 $40 than in 1918,
when the taxable valuation was $42,-
1895.
Reports from eight counties in Mon
tana show that the situation in regard
to- the shortage of hay is not so acute
as it was thought to be about six
weeks ago, several counties reporting
that the market is slow, the third cut
ting yielding well and that the demand
Is not so acute as it has been.
A maximum grade of per cent from
Salt Lake over the Lincoln Highway
to Carson City, New, will be possible
soon, members Of the highway asso-
citation announce. The association will
subscribe $125,000 and the remainder
necessary to construct the highway,
S425,OO0, will come from federal, state
and local funds.
Not having the heart to shoot an old
horse belonging to them, Erick and
Herbert Hoare of Eureka, Utah,
numanely as they thought, put stick
IF dynamite in each ear of the horse
and, turning their faces away, touched
/ match to the fuse and ran. There
Is no more horse and Erick and Her
bert feel easy in conscience.
A Tonopah dispatch says that,
behind the curtains of dark
room leading into the office of her
boarding house, Mrs. Mary Harring-
y i