The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1920-10-29
NORTHWEST NOTES

| ona -, reported In Hell
aa whiie Butte is fighting against
- cases of measles.
according to the census Of acri.,,
'ure' Nevada has 1854 farms in H.
s.a'e' This is an increase of AIS over
the number in 1910.
resources of Montana hanks IN.
creased s1,l6a.e0S between lime On
.o-o, and September s, 1920. the state
oank examiner announces.
George Mcneil, hoising enp,ne.r
at butte, shot his wife and himsa,f
while, it is believed, he was snffar;ng
rom n OF temporary insanity.
Inc secretary of the state board of
STOCK commissioners reports that 81.
W. head Of cattle have been sh,nnas
from Montana to eastern markets this
year.
Parry Sturgis, 16 years of age. who
was found dead in cabin near the
ranch OF Harold Mum, near KEN
merer, Wyo., is believed to have sui
| cided
A wheat pool to hold for n priee
commensurate with cost of growing
mas been formed in the Judith Basin
section of Montana, and the movement
is spreading.
For the first time since building on
eratlons started at Helena last spring.
contractors report that there Is suffi-
cieht Skilled labor in Helena for all
work now going on.
Claude Wellman whose whisky still
was seized on a pig farm two miles
from Billings Mont. pleaded guilty to
moonshining and was sentenced to
serve forty days in Jail.
Nevada woolgrowers are expecting
to receive approximately $4,000 as
refunds from wool dealers who han.
died the 1918 clip under direction of
the war industries board.
Washoe lake i'm Nevada is recording
the lowest water level remembered by
any of the old settlers. The three
dry seasons and the draw-off for irri-
CATION has brought the lake level
down.
PatrOlman Mcmahon shot aud killed
Henry Johnson, negro, at Portland,
when the latter leveled revolver at
him and threatened to shoot. The DO
liceman was searching Johnson's room
for moonshine.
Ten years ago the United States
census report showed that Wyoming
had population of 14S,437. The CEN
sus of 1920 shows gain of 80 per
cent, in ten years, the present popu-
lation being 1914 ,402.
Too much dirt in the cement being
used on the concrete paving for Liv-
ingstOn Mont, has stopped the lay
ing of pavement Until the cement
meets specifications. the work will be
held up, city officials announce.
Plans for an educational campaign
to acquaint the east with the recla-
| nation ideas of the seventeen western
arid and semi-arid states were laid
at a meeting at Spokane of leaders
of the Western States Reclamation
association.
While a prisoner in the county Jail
at Twin Falls and under the influence,
it is said by the police, of Il home
made alcoholic drink. Oscar Johnson,
local plumber. attempted suicide by
-, with nnnEnifn
He will recover
The Reno chamber of commerce,
which has expressed dissatisfaction at
the showing made by the census
enumerators, has been notified by the
United States census bureau that the
bureau will not recheck the enumera-
ton in Nevada unless grievous error
is shown.
Discovery of shotgun and glove
used by the missing man, has revived
interest in the disappearance OF A. IL.
Bargion, a resident of Livingston,
Mont, who completely disappeared
while hunting II is now believed that
he went into the water TO recover
duck and was drowned.
Mrs. Karl Knapp was shot in her
home at Rawlins. Wyo.. her body being
found by her husband when he re-
turned home Gales Phillips, with
whom the police say Mrs. Knapp had
lived previous TO her marriage 10
Knapp two months ago. has been ar
rested, charged with the crime.
Attacked by dog and so frightened
that she lost all account of time ana
effort and even her own identity. was
The experience of Ruth Lee. fifteen
vear-old girl from Hazelton. Idaho
who was found several days age wan
dering near the Montgomery ranch,
nine and one-haf miles from home.
In attendance and financially the
s.xth Idaho state fair. held nj Boise,
was one of the most successful IN
IFS history. The total attendance f"r
the week was 1888, as compared with
3301a last year. The expenses u"
tailed 100000. and the receipts were
,r,nla m meet them and leave coiD-