The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1919-01-03
..ORTHWEST NOTES

hoht-t itiiJttS rapidly uttfeaStHs
stock of liquor and ii is estimated that
the final day for the sale of booze in
this community will see practically
tevery drop sold.
w. l.. Kenny. federal manager of the
Great Northern railway, in telegram
to Helena officials. requests them To
urge the public along the Great North
ern lines To store coal against the Sc
we're winter season.
Dates for the 1910 Montana state
fair will not be fixed until February
next and there is n possibility that
they will be moved back because farm
ers claim that this year they had not
time TO prepare exhibits.
Capt. Herman Logan of Lewiston
Mont, who has been soldering with
Pershing" for over ii years straight
will be home this week, straight from
the battlefields Of France, on his way
to Manila on military duty.
From 20 to 40 years in the state pen
itentiary was the penalty fixed by the
jury when it returned verdict of
guilty in the case of the state against
Lawrence Mccoy, charged with burg
larizing a drug store nj Butte.
Graft an orchard on the old apple
tree. This advice is given by Utah
Agricultural college experts at Logan,
Utah, who have been studying produc-
ton for the state council of defense.
All that is needed is an old apple tree
with II sound trunk.
Twice wounded in action, Captain
Homer S. Youngs, formerly grazing ex-
aminer for District No. ] of the forest
service. with headquarters at Missoula,
recovered and returned to the front,
only to be wounded fatally. according
to a message received last week.
An indictment charging William
Rouck, president of the Washington
State Grange, with making seditious ut
terances was dismissed at Seattle by
the United States district court at the
request of Clarence J. Reames, special
assistant United States attorney gen
eral.
Eva Lewis, member of the bandit
gang which terroriZed the Colorado
TENDER, has been sentenced to serve
from five to seven years in the state
penitentiary. The sentence is the min.
mum for one convicted of robbery with
a gun.
In the hope of Fastening the advent
of prohibition in Wyoming, petitions
are being circulated in many counties
| nf no tnt ;ohn oil m Il
boards Of county commissioners and
which ask that these boards refuse &c
grant any licenses for the sale of liquor
during 1919.
Cold weather has stopped work or
the Fisher section of the Lincoln high
way in Utah. The thirteen convicts
that were in the gang constructed three
and a half miles of surface road 10 L
is feet wide and drained on the upper
side on the west side of the pass, The
heaviest on the road being s per cent.
The supreme court of Montana has
affirmed the judgment Annie Matool,
recovered in Butte from Jerry Il. Sui
Ivan for cooking, washing and tending
to his house for him and furnishin,
him with groceries and fuel. The cour
holds there was sufficient evidence of
fered on behalf of the plaintiff to jus
tify the iury's verdict.
Word has been received of the ap
pointment by General Pershing of Or
James G. Graves of Seattle, major il
the medical corps of the United State:
army in France, as one of the ter
physicians and surgeons to represent
this country AT an interalled confer
ence upon the problem of the disabled
soldier.
Besides deciding that all rules Of
both the Pacific Coast and Northwes
intercollegiate conferences, including
the freshman eligibility clause, shall b,
put into operation with she first of tho
year, northwestern athletic directors
in conference at Portland, adopted {
football schedule for the two confer
ences next fall.
, The fact that greater farm produc
ton in tle future, during peace times
is apparently more essential than dur
ing the period of war In the past, be
cause OF the hundreds of millions 81
people IN the world that must be fed
: decided the American Association OF
: Fairs and Expositions nj its annua
convention at Chicago 10 urge each oi
it's seventy members to stage in 1915
|. greater fairs and associations than ever
, before in their history. The associa
! ton has many northwestern members
An empire containing 100000 acres
of land is to be reclaimed under an ir
, rlgation project designed TO conserve
the flood waters of the Colorado river
! basin. The project lies north of the
town OF Green River, Utah, and filing,
, for the water have been made by this
United States through J. l.. Lytel. pro
ject manager. whose residence Is II
Provo, Utah.
The Colorado public utilities corn
mission has issued an order granting
authority to the Denver Tranway