The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1920-06-11
NORTHWEST NOTES

of The old-tine covered wagons.
The new tourist park ut Killings
| Mont, several acres III extent. provid
ed with every convenience 10 meet the
needs of the long distance AUTOMOBILE
fst was opened with big dance Sat
ur,lay night.
Captain Ivan G. Wettengel. com
lnander of the cruiser Montana, sta
toned ut the Puget Sound navy yard
| Brenerion. Wash, has been notified
! thai President Wilson has appointed
him governor OF Guam.
July 10 is the date set by the inter
state commerce commission far II
hearing ~ Boise on the complaint oi
| the State of Idaho and The public
utilities commission against the Ore
gon Short Line and other railroads.
| There Is no danger of Flathead lake
being used as II reservoir IN coniec-
!on with irrigation projects In WASH
ingion. according TO Il letter received
ny the secretary of the Kallspell cham
her Of commerce from Senator Thomas
| ]. Walsh.
The University Of Oregon. with 3G
points. Won the annual Pacific North
west Intercollegiate conference at
Pullman, Wash Oregon Agricultural
college. with 81 points, WAS second,
and the University Of Idaho, with 30
points, was third.
One Of The largest land transactions
In eastern Oregon In years was com
the Cunningham Sheep X Land com
pIeied al PendletOn last week. when
pany was purchased by Fred W. Fal-
coner Of Enterprise, Ore. at n price
said To exceed n half million dollars.
Trustees in all parts of Montana are
making every possible effort to pay
higher salaries TO keep their present
school teachers, 10 give them better
conditions, and to make their vocation
more pleasant, according To Miss May
frumper. state superintendent of pub
lie institutions
The first community council to he
established In Idaho was organized in
PocHtello last week under the direc.
ton OF Miss Dorothy Wysor Of the
northwest division Of the Red Cross
aud Miss Margaret ByIngton of Wash
lngion, field survey director of the
same organizations
Mrs. Emily +. Sloan, woman attor-
ney. making her first appearance in
court at Billings. Mont, won judy
nent for her client, Mrs. Rertha Moore,
IN the latters suit against Sheriff
Stone Matlock 10 collect damages al
legged to have resulted from the at
tachment of an automobile.
The circuit court at Portland de-
cided that the will Of the late Henry l..
Pittock. publisher af the Portland Ore
gonan. was valid. The will, dispensing
IF nm estate Of xSOOOOO0, was con-
ested by Mrs. Caroline Leadbetter. a
aughter. who charged undue influence
On the part of the executors.
The Pocatello chamber of commerce
has heartily indorsed the report OF
NV e"'N"'ibtHi tbHiuiittte HSkinS mat
A special educational drive be made
in southeastern Idaho for n campaign
af publicity for the Idaho technical
Institute and for getting its needs be-
fore the next state Legislature
The Lincoln hotel fire In Seattle in
which four lives were lost, was prob
ably the work of an incendiary, Fire
Marshal Harry W. Bringhurst assert
ed, Ten fires In Seattle during the
ast month We're of like origin accord
Ing 10 the fire marshal. and six of
these We're set In the Easements Of
hotels.
Committees of Salt Lake. Ely. New,
and Tooele business men. delegated to
thresh out the road-building problems
arising out of the great expense of
the Soldering section Of
The Lincoln highway across the Great
Salt Lake dessert. have reached an
agreement. and Il IL believed the high
way will be improved
Mrs. l.ige Tonry. living near Three
Forks, Mont. met with n painful acct
lent when she was burned about the
lace and body by dynamite. which WAS
aecidently thrown In the cook stove
With some papers from shelf. She
MAS burned about the face and neck,
besides having two of her fingers on
he left hand almost severed
{. q. Whittemore. president Of the
4 Goldfi~ld Railroad COM
'any. vice president and general man
lger of the las Vegas 4 Tonopah
Railroad. company and former general
counsel of the Los Angeles 4 Sal, |
AXE Railroad company. was found |
had IN n bathroom Of wayside hotel
II Esc"ndido, San Diego county. Cal |
Death WAS due In heart failure.
Cpcnnnecied with the outside
verdi 10y railroad or wires. Jordan |
'ounty SeHt of fairfield county. Mon |
ana, has solved the problem If speedy |
by the establishment |
II A wireless miami nnar.t..t ,,,l..