The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1920-03-12
NORTHWEST NOTES

be placed across Dry flney creehi eiEhI
miles south of Big Piney, Wyo.
Belief that income tax receipts in
eastern Montana will be less this year
than in 1919 is expressed by revenue
agents.
The women of Nevada will take an
active part in the observance of West
eru Consumers week this year, the
date being April to H..
A prominent business man after a
three weeks trip throughout the
northwest, declares that business IS
generally good throughout this section.
Leaving IA note declaring that he was
''tired drifting along on lifes stream,
y. n. Peterson, aged 70, committed
suicide on the street at Billings, Mont.
Better train service to Eureka, New,
Is soon to be provided by the Eureka
Nevada Railway company. Daily
trains will be run between Eureka
and Palisades.
1t is claimed that the development
of the dairy industry in Utah, and in
the intermountain region, is going
ahead at much greater rate than it
Is on the coast.
The citizens of Cokeville, Wyo., have
donated a lot to the forest service on
which will be erected house to be
used as a home and office for the for
est ranger in that district.
In "a shooting, which took place at
the Erickson ranch, six miles west of
Glasgow, Mont, Ernest Erickson was
killed, presumably by his son. Ben,
who is thought to be insane.
In Walla Walla county, WASH, 1900
rabbits were killed by 600 sportsmen
armed with shotguns. They formed a
line five miles long and drove the ami
mails to the point where the Snake and
Columbia rivers unite.
U. Nj. Sum Kim, chief of the Cay
use Indians of Umatilla county, Ore,
who was enroute to Washington on
business for his tribe, was found as
phyxiated in a hotel at Chicago. He
had blown out the gas.
The official report Of the depart
ment of agriculture indicates that the
elk in Jackson's Hole are in no danger
! of determination, thanks to the coop
Grafton Of residents of that section with
the state and government officials.
Since 1900 the production Of apples
in the northwest has increased enorm-
ously until last year Washington, Ore
gon, aud Idaho, with the help of Mon
tana and Colorado, produced over one
| quarter of the total crop of United
States.
| Ten per cent of the men employed
on the Rocky mountain division of the
| Northern Pacific as section hands and
maintenance-of-way laborers have left
the United States during the last few
months and shortage of unskilled
labor looms as a possibility.
Simon Lampola and Seth Laurilla
| employees of the w. A. Clarke MILL
near Missoula, were instantly killed
by a Northern Pacific train when they
stepped from one track to avoid a
| freight train, to another, and We're
struck by passenger train.
If big losses are to be avoided in the
marketing of the northwest apple crop
growers will be forced to give greater
attention to equipping their properties
with up-to-date storage houses than
they have heretofore, says the bureau
of markets, United States department
of agriculture.
Idaho has conducted rabbit drives
in recent weeks, on as big scale as
when the country was new. One dri q
netted over 5000 rabbits and another
$500. In Minidoka county, Idaho, 30.
600 jack rabbits have been killed this
winter in organized drive and 10000
additional by poisoning campaigns.
| Scobey, one of the principal towns
In the northern part of Sheridan
county, Montana. has been in the
throes of a gold stampede, the excite
ment becoming so general that banks
and stores We're closed while the pro.
prietors and clerks joined the rush IL
Il reported gold discovery in order to
stake out claims.
| In Wyoming, out of 59,911 registrants
under the draft law there We're 1914
desertions reported, and of this total
seventy men have been apprehended
leaving 1904 cases pending. Idaho. with
1o5.33I regiStrants, had 14S4 deser.
tons, and of this number 1S6 draft
dodgers have been apprehended anG
their cases closed, leaving Cos yet out
standing.
| The Rev. III. II. Sanborn, the flight.
ing pastor of Sparks. Nevada, has
been commissioned inspector of the Ne
vada state police. DIR. Sanborn will
have charge of enforcement of the pro-
hihition law in Nevada.
Existence of second commercially
productive oil field In Montana is in.
dicated in the reported strike of the
Franz corporation of Oklahoma. in
the Cat creek district. six miles north
of Mosby, in MuSselsSell county.
y. Michels, recently discharged from