The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1920-10-22
NORTHWEST NOTES

~ appears probable that tho eo,th
ern section Of the Nevada sto,a ina.t
tute Will be held in Tonopah The weat
beginning December 20
Claims of Montana farmers for Ios.a.
from hali In grain cropS can,,;toa
date by the chairman Of the stare
Doard OF hail insurance. have hear
approved for S2460O2.O5.
The census of Nevada Is y Ar .
decrease of 446S, or > nor con, ~
Vada mad a population of 81 s75 in
lSlo, ranking it as the smallest state
IN the union in point of population.
Out of eight women drawn nc ts;o,
Jurors to serve in the Reno. Nov
district court, every one of than
CANNED exemption when the first
criminal case was called last week
inquiries received from prospective
students Indicate that the attendance
at the Mackay school of mines con.
nected with the University of Nevada
at Reno, will be larger than ever This
year.
MOntanas twenty American Legion
delegates, dressed as cowpuncberS
drew prolonged and hearty cheering
over the entire line of march in the
recent convention parade at Cleye-
land.
Joseph Murphy, one of eleven men
hnnOpr Cfril ~,
CORK, Ireland, was born in Butte. He
IS the son of Mr.. and Mrs. ]. s
Murphy, who were married in Kutta
May p, 1890.
The machinists and pipefitters of
the Great Northern shops at Great
rails, Mont, who had been out on
strike, have gone back to work and
VIII settle their grievances with the
company later
Assessed valuation of property with
IN the city limits of Butte is more
than 100000 less than in 1919. ac.
cording to the tax extension rolls
which have just been completed by the
county assessor.
1t is estimated that at one time
more than 5000 people resided within
the Bodie townste in Nevada. The
recent census credits Bodie with no
people. men, women, children, In
dams and others.
When the marshal at La lara, Colo,
arrested man for stealing an over
coat, he discovered that there was no
police magistrate in the town and had
not been for the past three years. The
prisoner was released.
Alsry johnson was shot and killed
at his home at Trinidad, Colo and
Rudolph Mazza, automobile livery
| owner, has been arrested. Mazza ad-
mits witnessing the shooting, but re-
fuses to say who did it.
Officers in charge of Salvation Army
corps in Montana are laying plans to
provide work and aid for jobless men
in Montana this winter should the
wave of unemployment now spreading
over the east engulf Montana.
Grace Konigen, a COW from the Hol-
stein herd at the Montana State col
lege at Bozeman, will have produced
$4,000 pounds of milk by the end of
the year as the record of her fifth
lactation period, it is estimated.
Charles Stringer, who escaped in
July from the Nevada state peniten-
tiary, where he was serving SEN
tence for murder, has telegraphed TO
the warden from Bragg, Calf, that he
will return and complete his SEN
tence.
John Davis, proprietor of pool hall
at Tabasco, Colo, shot Sam Duran,
Mexican, in the face and neck. Davis
says he shot the Mexican when the
latter menaced him with knife and
used abusive language in the presence
of Davis wife.
An historic roulette wheel, over
which millions are said to have passed,
in gold dust, in currency and in silver
was sold at Helena recently for 20
cents. The wheel had long lain in the
used department of a furniture store
that is going out of business.
1t is said that while the hunters are
securing the hills for deer, Jake Mid
dlebrook, a farmer near Little Trick
ley Pear, in Montana, is trying TO
"shOo" the critters out of his fields
and away from his cattle. He has
chased several out of the fields win
pitchfork.
Approximately fifty silos have been
erected by Ada county, Ida, daryineh
and stockmen in the last few months.
Corn is used as silage crop III most
instances. Sunflowers were used as
replant in many fields, and have IN
creased the tonnage in every case. ohe
silo is being filled with >untioWers
only.
REPORTS from seyenty-nine Bonner
county, Ida, farmers who have used
poison distributed through the iaith
bureau this year for the killing u Fa-
dents reveal savings of SSS9l," rom
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