The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-05-20
INLAND NORTHWEST


but nearly all other fruits have es-
capped harm.
Moving-picture slides advertising
Utah's war savings campaign have
been prepared by the Salt Lake office
for distribution and exhibition in the
aires throughout the state.
Trial of the first of 20 alleged indus
trial Workers of the World arrested
at Seattle on criminal anarchy charges
in connection with their activities dur
ing Seattles recent general strike will
be held May 10.
No trace has yet been found Of five
prisoners who escaped from the county
Jail at Everett Wash, by saving their
way through three steel barriers. The
escape. was discovered i"ht as the last
of the five made his departure.
A report from the Billings. T.. NJ. G.
A. shows that between the dates OF
May and May 10 almost 500 returned
service men had taken advantage of
the hospitality offered by this organi-
cation during their stay in Billings.
The codling moth has appeared in
the vicinity of Missoula, Mont, and it
is the intention of the state board of
horticulture to carry on thorough
spraying campaign this spring in order
to eradicate this pest, which is dan.
gerous to fruit.
Washington's prospective winter
| wheat crop alone exceeds her COM
bined 1918 winter and spring wheat
production by more than 100000 bush
els, The $4,000 acres seeded last fall
came through the winter with but
3 per cent loss.
| A conference agreement whereby
| transfers and chauffeurs Of Spokane
will receive $4.35 a day, helpers 81
day, with time and a half for overtime,
was accepted by the union and the
strike of about 500 local teamsters and
chauffeurs was declared at an end.
Letters have been received at Bill.
ings detailing conditions among mem
hers of the old Second Montana in
France that have served to arouse
| more or less indignation. 1t is set
forth that they are employed as labor
ers and solutions at large educational
| institution.
| Joseph Kellar, state parole officer
| held a unique reception at Portland
1 when he kept "open house. at the
courthouse for men on parole from the
Oregon state prison. More than. 20t
paroled convicts had been notified by
mail to report Only one was out OF
employment.
Seven indictments against the state
fish and game commission of oregon
were contained In a resolution passed
| nv the executive committee Of the
Multnomah Anglers club, petitionlne
Governor Olcott to make an immediate
probe of the administration OF the
commission.
The Pacific Coast International
Longshoremen association. closed its
second annual convention at Seattle
with the adoption of resolutions pro-
testing against shipments of arms and
ammunition to Russia and favorlng
the immediate withdrawal from Russia
of American troops.
After more than twenty-three years
of continuous service with Yellowstone
park touring companies, Howard H.
Hays, who started as a busboy with
the Wyie Way Camping company, has
purchased the company and is now
sole owner of what is known as the
Yellowstone Park Camping company.
i A cash scholarship of $500 is to be
awarded sometime during September
nv the Harvard club of Utah, accord
ing to announcement by the chairman
of the scholarship committee, last
week. 1t will be open to any Utah man
who desires to enter Harvard in any
of it's departments, either as an al
vanced student, graduate or freshman
City officials at Cheyenne have an
nounced plans for the construction OF
a 100000 hospital, to be known as the
Frances Warren pershing hospital
United States Senator F. E. Warren
gave S25,OOO, the city contributing the
remainder. The hospital will be, named
in honor of Senator Warren's daugh-
ter, wife of General John ]. Pershing,
who died in fire at the Preside, San
Francisco, in 1915.
Taxation officials of Montana are
engaged in the preliminary operations
of putting into effect a method OF land
classification declared to be unique in
the west and which is intended to give
the state board Of equalization more
accurate basis for estimating tax val
uations. The entire area Of the state
Is to be cut up into 40-acre tracts and
the exact value of every acre OF each
ascertained through classification.
At the present livestock market
price of ii to 10 cents, e. L. Dana OF
near Parkman, reputed to be one OF
the Wyoming cattle kings, will receive
between two and thre millions of dol
lars for apnroximateay 10000 head of