The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1920-07-30
|1ATE news NORTHWEST NOTES

year Great Falls, Mont. got n half.
inch of rainfall in less than an bo,r
Monday afternoon of last week.
Frank W. MondelI, Republican floor
leader In the house of representatives
has MED papers for denomination as
representative at large from Wyoming
Production of coal from the mines
in the northern Wyoming coal fields
has been hampered by the shortage Of
cars and the mines are now 900 cars
behind orders.-
Frank Tank was killed and Iopis
Weaver seriously Sassed in a mine
in the Adelaide district, about ten
miles south of Golconda, Nevada
few days ago.
Nevada will produce bumper crops
| of hay, alfalfa and potatoes this sea-
son, according to reports ON present
conditions received by the weather bu-
| reau at Reno from all sections of the
| state
Prizes of $4,000 will be offered at
the Interstate fair and livestock show
at Spokane in September. Approx
mately $4,000 will be given in cash
prizes and ribbons for the six DAVIS
| racing.
| All attempts to locate his relatives
proving of no avail, the body of J. Y.
Lindsey, who was killed south of Ely
July in an automobile accident was
| buried last week at the expense of the
county.
Police are without clues to the theft
from Mrs. Eugene p. Shove guest of
the exclusive Denver club, of diamonds
worth $4,000. Mrs. Shove is a
wealthy Colorado Springs society
woman.
Women anglers cannot use fishing
licenses of brothers or husbands, but
must have permits of their own to
escape fines, says warning just is
sued by the state game warden of
Montana
/ Henry Morris, more than 60 years
Of age, was seriously burned in fire
that destroyed half of the electrical
appliances in the sub-station of the
Nevada-California Power company,
one mile north of Goldfied
Il Fifteen forest fires in Oregon were
reported to forestry officials last week.
-Four were in the Oregon national
forest and eleven in the Santiam ma
tional forest. Lightning was said to
have been responsible for all.
Mojave county, Arizona, has appro-
priated $10,S0O for the construction of
a road through Short creek canyon,
thereby greatly improving travel from
st. George and Zion National park to
the Grand canyon of the Colorado.
i Owing to heavy losses sustained by
sheep and cattle men last winter and
: the fact that a great many were
shipped out of Humboldt county
Nevada, to winter, the tax roll fol-
1920 will be somewhat deprecated.
Western state interests will renew
their efforts to obtain an appropriation
! of a quarter billion dollars from con
gress for reclamation work in the
! west, Governor d. w. Davis of Idaho
announced at luncheon at Salt Lake
News that Carbon county, Montana
is facing a grasshOpper scourge was
brought to Red Lodge last week by
John Hunter, a Carbon county rancl
owner, who says that the hoppers
have eaten strip 20 feet wide around
| his wheat field.
Ranch production in Honey Lake
valley in Nevada, will suffer from tho
} general scarcity of water. The hool
/ of Honey Lake is now being crossed
| by automobiles, being an immense
alkali fiat, Is miles long and abou
Il miles wide.
: The Montana State Medical associa
| ton In convention at Helena adopted
i, resolutions urging the next Legislature
/ to amend the state prohibition law Il
} conform with the Volstead act, allow
ing physicians TO prescribe liquor fol
, medicinal purposes.
A wage increase averaging 81 a ia.
| for harvest hands for 1920 was granted
by the pea and grain district associa
!, ton of eastern Washington. wage
E for harvest hands will range from =
to 81 a day for common field work, Il
SIS a day for separator tender.
) DIR. Charles C. Reid of Denver wa
: elected president Of the lnternatioha
t Order of Lions at the business session
/ of their convention at Denver. II. :"
: Cameron of Minneapolis was chosei
viee-president. Oakland. Cal, was Sc
T lected as the next meeting place o
the convention.
: Appearance of red mites IN "hea
5 fields over a large area of southeri
E Idaho this year is without preeedeh
5 in the United States according 10 ia
5 formation obtained from the ohi'e'
States bureau of entomology by eiauo'
l Wakeiand. extension entomoiosist U
E the University of Idaho.
r Renorts of a cold water geyser nea