The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1920-05-28
NORTHWEST NOTES

Hundreds Of silos will be built this !
year by Montana and Wyoming farm
ers
AT the recent city election at KEN |
merer. Wyo.. Lester G. Baker, the Re
publican candidate. was elected mayor. |
and the entire Republican ticket was
successful.
The state Of Nevada will receive
So ,GiS.49, the residue of the estate OF
the late Charles f. Forney This is
the result after litigation that has
been pending for years.
Leonard ". Fristoe has been placed
in the Nevada state prison to serve
life sentence for the killing of Con
stable Arthur ST. Clair of Deeth and
Deputy Sheriff George Requa, Feb
ruary 10th.
Russell Morris, aged 10. was acct
dentally shot through both limbs just
above the knees by II rifle in the hands
of Louis Babb, 10-year-old compan-
ion, while the boys were hunting
gophers near Great Falls, Mont.
Approximately $30O0,OOo has been
paid out under the Montana compen-
sation law TO more than 10000 acct
dent victims and TO dependents of $40
workingmen killed since the creation
of the industrial accident board in
1918.
Operation of street cars in Butte,
suspended since last Monday by a
strike of the Workingmen's union,
probably will not be resumed for some
time, according to statement made
by the manager of the street railway
company.
At the request Of the Benewah
county Idaho. farm bureau, the office
of Indian affairs appropriated $1,000
from tribal funds to eradicate the
ground squirrels from unoccupied IN
dian lands of the Occur d'Alene res
ervation.
Agents of the bureau of investiga-
ton of the department of justice and
the narcotic squad of the bureau OF
internal revenue are investigating the
mysterious death of a man believed TO
have been Ernest Willard of San
Francisco. in a Pullman car near Raw
Inns, Wyo.
Approximately 1000 head of cattle
were tested for tuberculosis in the
>eterinar,ans Only - head wee round
10 be infected with tuberculosis. and
20 head of these We're in two neigh
boring dairy herds. the infection ap-
parently having come from a single
| source.
Paving projects of the city of Deer
| Lodge, Mont, have been abandoned
| for the year. Recently an appeal was
made to the supreme court by those
opposed TO the work. and so, in spite
| OF the fact that an offer of 80 cent:
had been made for the bonds, the city
council has decided that no work vii
be done.
| Charles T. Brown was acquitted o.
| the charge of numbering Edward Bel
Rodgers in q Denver hotel Februar,
30 Immediately after the verdict
Brown was arrested on charge o.
violating the federal white slave act
Brown admitted living with Rodgers
| wife in the hotel where the shootin;
occurred.
Judge Lunsford of Reno has hande'
down a decision denying fees to TN
public administrators for carrying
case TO the supreme court. According
to the decision the public administra
tor, not being an aggrieyed party. ha
no right to make his appeal from til
decision of the lower court. and a
such services must be given withou
compensation.
A calf with eight legs. two bodie
and of the size of an ordinary cal
two months old. was born at the stat
asylum farm east of Salem. Ore. of
Holstein mother The freak calf die
fifteen minutes after birth. TIL
main" calf was of normal shape. tn
extra four legs and small body grow
ing between the legs OF the large
body and on It's stomach.
Senator Kendrick of Wyoming wi
seek 10 secure three amendments
the sundry civil bill. one appropriatin
$4,000 for-an investigation and su
vey for an irrigation system In u
, Green River, Wye, watershed al
+, other increasing the appropriation II
the Riyerton Irrigation project
$50 600. and third increasing Il
appropriation for the Shoshone PROBE
by s469,0oo
A conservative estimate Of the lo'
j.. from grasshoppers in Lemhi count
Idaho, in 1919 is at least $1,000
according TO Claude Wakeland. ent
mologist OF the university extensiS
division, who has just made trip
the county In trips 10 iniest'
ranches. he and the farmers who
] eompanled him located the most of u
i main esg-laying beds aud discover
that the grasshoppers laid literal
millions OF eggs last fall.
The suit Of the state Of Nevada
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