The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-01-06
NORTHWEST NOTES


| spring.
Chester Clark, a fugitive from the
Oregon penitentiary, Is under arrest
at Marysville, Cal. charged with muir.
der. ~4 ls ....,
Lumber prices will soar to unpre,
cedented levels during the winter and
spring, according to lumber company
officials at Portland.
More than ninety per cent of the
men arrested in Salt Lake for intoxi-
cation are found to have been drink
ing denatured alcohol.
Eighteen American Legion posts
have been organized in Nevada to
date. Their membership Is now
around the thirteen hundred mark.
A patent on an airplane designed for
either road or air travel has been Sc.
cured by Thomas Wade of Billings,
Mont, an expert mechanic and licensed
pilot.
Mrs. Wilhelmine HeimsoOth, an old
time resident of Carson City, Nevada,
committed suicide by hanging herself
with a rope from the casing of a door
in her home.
Possessed of the delusion that he
had lost fortune in the mining stock
market, c. D. Aprie, Reno waiter,
slashed his throat in an attempt at
suicide in crowded poolroom in that
city.
A new hotel at Winnemucca, New,
to cost about 100000 will be built
early next spring. The hotel will be
built on the site of the old Ell Dorado
hotel, which was burned nearly two
years ago.
Five cases of what physicians dag
nosed as sleeping sickness" were re-
ported last week to exist at Spokane,
and it was declared another victim of
the same disease had died at New
port, Wash.
A license of 500 per quarter per
table has been established by the city
council of Elllo, Nevada, on gambling
games there. The city previously al
lowed games to run on basis of $135
per quarter for each house.
Following the recent freeze at Che
halls, Wash, potatoes have started
skyward with apparently no limit in
sight. Dealers report that potatoes
now are valued at $65 a ton. They
were quoted locally at SAT prior to
the freeze.
Frank P. Pittman, lawyer of Tono-
pah, New, and brother of Key Pitt
man, died at the Mayo sanitarium
Rochester, Mimi, following an opera
ton for kidney trouble. Senator Pitt
man was with his brother at the time
of his death.
1t is announced that more than TO-
600 head of cattle will be taken out of
the Jackson Hole country, in north
western Wyoming, within very short
time and fed in Idaho and the hay
thus saved in Wyoming given to the
large elk herds.
With prices during the past year
far in advance of the prices received
for farm products in 1918, and with
practically the same acreage, IdahO's
losses during the year 1919, owing to
the drought, will figure far into the
millions of dollars.
Labor Commissioner Cole has sub
mitted figures in reply to an inquiry
from the New York Sun, showing that
over $3,5O0,OOO was lost in production.
ETC., from strikes in Nevada during
1919. Over $45O,O00 was lost in wages
to the WOrkingmen.
Next year will be one of great pros
perity for the live stock industry of
Nevada, particularly the sheep men,
as fully twO-thirds of the 1920 wool
clip of this section has been sold to
local and eastern buyers at prices
ranging from fifty to fifty-one cents.
W. D. Henderson, a miner, reported
at Hoquiam, Wash, last week, that he
had discovered gold on the beach of
the Pacific ocean between the north
edge Of the Quinalt Indian reservation
and the Hob river. He said the gold
resemhled that found on the beach of
Nome.
Scores of persons have gone into the
Winnett-MOsby section, in Montana. to
try and secure oil locations anywhere
in the vicinity of the structure on the
MesSelshell where the Frantz corpora
ton is drilling, or on the Yellowwa-
ter, near Winnett, where we'll is to
be sunk early in the spring.
Buffalo meat was placed on sale at
a Billings, Mont, last week. The ami
NAL was shipped from a buffalo farm
in North Dakota and was sold at mod
crate prices. The largest demand, the
of the shop says, comes
from old-timers who 30 years ago knew
buffalo meat as an article Of daily
diet
James dad" Sherrod, LOG years
old, died last week at the county poor
farm near Dixon, Wyo. dad" Sher-
rod was born in Harrison, Ohio,
June 20, 1918. For many years he
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