The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1920-08-13
NORTHWEST NOTES

contain four persons, a total ofls0o
people have stopped in Bulbs tourist
park.
Three hundred fighters are fighting
fires which are threatening the des-
truction of those northern Idaho
forests. In addition to these fires, q
dozen other blazes, many Of them out
Of control,are reported raging in the
Priest river and st. 10 districts.
Priest river and 81. Joe districts,
fires.
Oscar Beck, cattleman of Big Piney,
Wyo., and member Of the livestock
board, says the industry is nearly nor
NAL and that no particular complaint
can be made at the present market
conditions. that the prices are hold
ing up as well ~ could be expected,
considering the falling off in ex-
ports.
People using the slower road" be-
tween Opal and Big Piney. Wyo.. one
Of the principal thoroughfares Of the
county, are much wrought up over
the mysterious burning Of forty foot
wooden bridge which crosses Slate
creek At . point where . ford Is i'm
possible. even At low water. which oc-
CURED one night recently.
A corporation il being formed 1t
Oakley, Idaho. to develop artesian
water for irrigation. Il will be known
~ the Oakley Land 4 Water De-
velopment company and will Be cap
italixed at $500. 900. The plans con-
template the sinking Of . number Of
wells to bring to the surface the water
from the artesian basin which II now
known to underlie the district south
Of Oakley.
Officers Mooney and Ross Of Dill
lon returned from . trip through the
Centennial valley recently and report
that the grasshopper pest is being
combated by about fifty men now
and are being rapidly killed off.
The contract for the new city hall
at Deer Lodge. Mont, was let at .
meeting Of the city council. Nelson
d Peterson Of Butte, who are build
ing the courthouse, received the con-
tract, the bid being for $44,3s0
Increases in pay to railroad men
employed in the Livingston district
will total nearly half million a year,
local officers of the Northern Pacific
estimated in discussing the award of
the railroad labor board.
Mountain lions are causing so much
damage in herds grazing near the
northern boundary of Yeilownston,
park. stockmen will seek to have a
bounty placed on them. according to
John Pfohl. a resident of Garbella,
Park county.
Nearly all Of the sixty men needed
to reorganize the former Billings unit
Of the Montana national guard, COM
pany X, have been secured. Organiza-
ton Of the company will be complet-
ed within ten days, according to Capt
William Morse.
The street car fare at Tacoma,
Wash, was increased to 10 cents last
week, when the state railroad com.
mission granted the company permits
sion to make the change. The cash
fare at present is s cents. Commuta-
ton books will be sold at 8 cents a
ride.
Oregon. Washington and Idaho pub.
lie service commissioners will confer
at Seattle. August 0, to consider plans
for equa LIKING log and wood rates on
the railroads. in the three states. At
an earlier conference, the Oregon CON-
mission contended for a reduction OF
the rate for carrying wood.
Home Industries Week." featured
by the exhibit Of products already
manufactured in Butte and those that
could be profitably made there, will
mark the opening Of the new chamber
OF commerce headquarters in the Pal
las building, according to an an
nouncement mare by Manager p. L.
Wills.
Canadian government railroads will
accept the schedule Of wage increases
granted railway men in the United
States, J. ID. Reid, minister Of rail-
ways. announced at Vancouver. This
would result. he declared. In nm In
crease Of from $4,000, 900 to s70,-
100000 in operating costs, which
would have to be met by increased
passenger and freight rates.
Giant hydraulic streams are slowly
carving out Of the University of Wash
ington campus at Seattle the site for
n 100000 stadium, being built TO
stage the university's athletic con-
tests and the eity's big outdoor meet
ings. Washington field. as the sta
dunn has been named. will sea. be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000 people when
The structure is being con-
structed in units.
r. b. Terriberry, state bee inspee-
tor. has returned from a trip through
Heber valley. There are now 600
of bees in the valley, he said,
and those colonies will produce nj least