The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-04-01
INLAND NORTHWEST


the opening session of the farm bureau
short course at Kalspell, Mont, and
Ghis was considerably increased later
| on.
A proposition to hold the Willard
Dempsey fight at the Alan, Ida. race
| track twenty miles east of Spokane,
has been telegraphed to Tex Richard,
promoter.
Employees at the Garfield, Utah,
snelter of the American Smelling and
Refining company, who walked out in
protest against Il reduction in wages,
have returned to work. :.
Walter W.. Beck, former railway
postal clerk on the run between Salt
Lake and Malad, idaho, has been ar
rested in Memphis, Tenn on a charge
of rifling the mails, according to word
received at Salt Lake. ,.
The Southern Pacific railroad COM
pany has the distinction of having
fewer accidents, than any other system
in the United States, according to the
statistics made public at the Safety
First meeting held at Ogden last week.
The Washington state senate has
passed farm marketing bill which
grants to municipal corporations au-,
thority to buy and sell market products
without profits. Advocates of the
measure said it was in behalf of relief
from food profiteering.
Mike Kachia. a Great Northern sec
ton hand, saw service in the Euro
pean battlefelds and was successful in
lodging Hun bullets to the extent that
only one of them clipped off piece
of his ear. He was one of the draftees
from the Whitefish, Mont, district.
When a Seattle taXicab company re-
fused to discharge two returned sol
diers it had Just engaged as drivers,
thirty-six union drivers went on strike.
The company declared the union men
abrogated their contract with it when
they joined the recent general strike.
Albert ]. Perry, a naval aviator, an
Eounced at Spokane that he has been
ordered to report shortly at Cape May,
N. j., to act as chief engineer of
dirigible balloon with which it is plan
ned to attempt a trip across the At
lantic ocean under government direc.
ton.
Idaho club women are planning a
vigorous campaign during Western
Consumers week, which will begin |
April A. Governor Davis of |
Idaho has issued il proclamation ask
ing all the people of Idaho to observe
The week and patronize home indus
tries.
Marking the first sale of it's kind
in the state under the confiscation
clause of the prohibition law, an auto,
mobile taken from V. A. Nelson, Salt
Lake chirOpractor, was disposed of at
auction at Ogden, Utah, to Henry
Barker, principal of the Grant school,
or $780, ,a.. .-,
Newspaper advertising made cigar
sttes the popular form of smokes" in
he opinion of Montana tobacco
salesman. Tobacco, manufacturers
'ealize it and plan to carry on the
greater part of their advertising
through the medium of the newspaper,
le said.
Indian Commissioner Cato Sells has
ienied the application of the Central
oregon Wool Growers association for
trail across part of the lands in the
Warm Springs Indian reservation. The
.rOwers proposed to pay crossing
AK of cents head and to build, at
heir own expense, bridge across the
)eschutes river. .. , -..-. -.
When the Utah wOOlgrOwers hold
heir annual convention April at +,
'alt Lake, many subjects of impor- {
ance will be discussed. Dipping reg 1
lations and laws WILDE outlined and
xtrenle care and cooperation will be
rged in the matter of scab avoidance.
he necessity for fixing prices on :
heep shearing and for wages for
orders and camptenders will be ad-
coated
Assurance that the telephone en- :,
lOyees may negotiate with telephone
ompany officials or with postoffice
apartment officials at Washington re- u
arding wage or other demands, was N
iven Governor Mlliken of Oregon q
t conference with Postmaster Cen a
raj BurlesOn. 1
Seven new counties were created by
he Montana legislature, and five new U
Drmal schools established, the latter, I
)wever, still having to run the gaunt-
t of the governors office, as does the
II abolishing the deputy game war u
Ems and that recognizing the state IL
ghway commission. o
The manufacture and sale of near II
,er is prohibited in Nevada under a p
,cision handed down last week by e.
e state supreme court. The decision 81
as made in an injunction suit
ought by the state against the Reno 81
'ewing company to test the clause b.
the prohibition act. W
The Pocatello Athletic club has tele- al
aphed "Tex' Richard an offer of re