The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-01-09
NORTHWEST NOTES

Inc l9.O annual convention Vi tie'
National Education ASSOCIATION will be
held in Salt Lake July 4 to 10.
Colorado livestock is reported in
good condition, but shipments ar
slow. Some slight suffering on thu
ranges has been reported.
The police Of Reno are making
hit with the public by vagging al
members of the |. w. w. and othea
undesirables who appear there.
Two hundred and fifty sheep men OF
Idaho will attend the convention OF
the National WoolgrOwers' associa
ton at Salt Lake January -, Y
and y.
The contention that the amount paid
to census takers is inadequate has re-
suited in there being few, if any, ap.
plicants for such appointments In
southern Nevada.
Control of the open ranges in the
state will be one Of the principal ques
lions taken up at the annual meeting
of the Nevada Live Stock association,
which will be held in Reno.
Southern Nevada will begin the
growing of Egyptian long-staple cotton
next year on a commercial basis. Di-
rector NOrcfOss of the agricultural ex-
tension division recently announced.
Jose Jaca of McDermitt, Nevada,
had two bands of sheep, eight thou
sand head in Louise canyon, beyond
the three forks of the Owyhee, when
the storm came recently, and all were
lost.
Weekly crop notes sent in to the bu-
reau of crop estimates at Washington
by its field agent in Idaho called at
tention to the heavy snowfall there
which is believed to favor the fall
sown grain crops.
Bill Allen and Calvin Perkins OF
Browning, Mont, pleaded guilty and
were sent to the state prison for three
to six and one to two years, respec-
lively, for stealing two horses, BRIDES
saddles, chaps and outfits.
Twenty-Five tons of steel rail have
been received at Palisade, Nevada, to
be used in constructing an extension
from the Eureka-Nevada railway to
the mines of the Eureka-CrOeSuS COM
pay on Prospect mountain.
Alex Miller, deaf mute, now in Gus,
tody in the Den,rvr county Jail, has
been held responsible for the murder
of Adam Shank, his wife and four chill
dren, on December q, near Gilcrest
Colo, by the coroLer's jury.
The provision made for the specia
stock fund has proved adequate tt
take care of the extra drain imposed
by the condemning of tuberculne cat
, tie throughout the state of Nevada, &C
cordlng TO reports given out.
| A frequent visitor to the section OF
Idaho where elk and other game
abound near the Yellowstone Nationa
park, believes that it is the cold OF
! winter rather than the hunters which
is responsible for their gradual exter
mination.
Several sheepmen of the Cokevlile
| Wyo, district who winter their sheel
on the Rock Springs lease have pur
chased hay from the ranchers IN Oil
| ferent parts of Idaho and Will shll
their sheep into that state to feed tol
the remainder of the winter.
Oscar H. Grey, former secretary O.
state of Nevada, pioneer of Virginlgi
City and the first man in the United
States to advocate equal suffrage in
bill before a state legislature, is deat
in Washington where he was EN-
ployed in the treasury department.
Mounted elk heads, of animals killed
| in season, are classified as game ant
permits for their shipment out OF tn
state to hunters who killed the elk il
Montana and left the heads for mount
ing with local taxidermists have beel
refused under a ruling made by tn
state game warden.
Some districts iii Idaho have shippe'
out stock to such an extent that, de
spite the drouth of last summer, Their
| is now a surplus of hay in those dis
tr,ets, it is said. Stock on tn
desert ranges, however, are short
feed, and there have been UNUSUAL
heavy shipments in some districts.
The state highway commission ha
sent an appeal to all county, commits
sioners in Montana urging them to &C
operate with the commission in MARI
ing all forks from main state high
ways, in compliance with the prov
sions of the general highway LAY
passed at the special legislative se'
sion.
That the control Of the Jackson Hol
district elk herds, which are threat
ened with determination by starvs
ton during the winter months, shoui
be placed under the direction OF tn
forest service. and not the biologtcs
survey, is the view of the members
the committee of the Jackson Gait
and Horse Raisers' association.
The executive committee Of the stat
highway commission has approved pr
| ,o,,,, nroy;ding for expenditures