The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-01-09
INLAND NORTHWEST


signed by the state highway depart
ment of Oregon for 1919 is 1890,
1922.
OF the re automobiles reported
stolen in Salt Lake City since January
1, 1919, only eighteen have not been
recovered.
The executive committee Of the state
highway commission has approved pro-
grams providing for expenditures of
s., 100000 in the state of Montana on
good roads during 1920.
Plans of the bureau of crop esti-
mates involve the addition to the force
In Utah and Nevada of an assistant
field agent and of one or two clerks
on government civil service.
Irrigated lands in Oregon total $685.
759 acres, of which 476,419 acres is in
the adjudicated area and 49,, $50 in
the non-adjudfcated area, according to
n statement issued by the state engi-
neer.
Ex-service men of Oregon to the
number of 1000 who are now unem-
pIOyed will be given jobs by the mem
bers of the Associated Industries of
Oregon, according to plan submitted
to Governor Olcott.
Farmers in the Uintah basin of
Utah who often in former years have
had trouble in disposing of feedstuff
grown there, this winter are import
ing corn, and feeding hay that could
be sold almost anywhere in the basin
at S25 a ton.
Railroad accidents resulted In the
death in Salt Lake of nine persons
during 1918. The same number were
recorded in 1918. One person was
killed in Salt Lake in street car acct
dents during the past year, as COM
pared with three in 1918.
| Farmers week at Montana State
| college will be January II to II, and
at the same time there will be an fr-
rigation institute at the college. 1t Is
| expected that there will be a large
number of men and women from ali
| parts of Montana present.
Three of four prisoners who sawed
| their way out of the county jail at
Roseburg, Ore, have been recaptured.
| After escaping from the steel cage the
men broke into the Jail basement and
stole quantity of whisky which had
been confscated by the sheriff.
William Hedrick, who, since last
May has been an inmate of the Carter
| county Jail in Ekalaka, Mont, has
takn to the penitentiary at Deer
Lodge. Hedrick shot and killed Bruce
Cochran April 80 last, and was found
guilty of murder in the second degree.
Importations of livestock in Mon
tana during the past year were as
follows: Horses, 2,S2S; cattle, 20,597;
sheep. 71,177; swine, 222; dogs, ODD.
Oregon shipped the bulk of the sheep
to Montana, 1880 being sent there
from that state; Washington was Sec
ond.
During the year ending November
| so, 1919, the state livestock sanitary
board inspected /, 451, 29T head of live
stock in Montana. To accomplish it,
! inspectors and range riders for the
board rode III, 166 miles by all known
modes of travel with the automobile in
the lead.
Ninety-six deaths from violence oc-
CURED in Salt Lake during the year,
according to a report by the bureau
of vital statistics of the city health
department. Suicide numbered four
teen during the year. Twelve died
from injuries received in automobile
accidents.
! 1t has been estimated that several
| thousand coyotes have been killed in
Beaverhead county, Montana, this win
ter, and ON account of the high price
of furs a large number of men have
become professional hunters and trap
pers. One trapper brought in his
catch recently, selling it for $1,000.
That an effort will be made to es-
tablish, by legislative enactment, an
! extensive wild game preserve to in
elude much of the open range country
from 20 miles or more east of Miles
City, Mont, and as far as the MusSel-
shell country on the west, and as far
north as the Missouri river is indicated
by recent news from that section.
A uniform wage scale agreement of
17h cents per head and board was
entered between the Idaho WOolgrow-
ers' association and the Sheepshear-
erS' Union of America at the final ses-
sion of the two-day convention of the
woOlgrowers at Boise, Idaho. This
scale is to apply throughout Idaho for
1920, according to the agreement.
Declaring he had been the victim of
adverse circumstances, and that after
Il futile search for employment in Salt
Lake he had been driven by hunger
to commit three burglaries, j. III. Dyer
% years of age, made detailed con-
fession to the police of his activities
in the city the past two weeks, and