The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1920-07-16
NORTHWEST NOTES

the United States senatorship from
Nevada.
More than 100 shooters have al
ready made reservations for the state
shoot which will be held In Kalispell
Mont, July 10 to ID.
Omer Maris, resident of Manhattan,
was seriously injured when he was
overcome by gas in shaft at Silver
creek near the Spanish Belt mine.
J.. L. Giroux, millionaire mine op-
orator, is under arrest at Nina, New,
charged with having shot and killed
his son while they were at dinner.
John Oleson, who has been In the
employ of the Great Northern Rail
way company near Fort Benton, Mon
tana for several years, has been COM
mitted to the hospital for the insane.
Hjalmar K0ski, 81 years old, was
killed and Mrs. Edna Johnson, Mrs.
Carrie Hutla and Andrew Hakke, in
jured when the auto in which they
were riding turned turtle near Butte.
More than quarter Of million
dollars was spent in the fiscal year
which ended June 30, last, in the
fighting Of forest fires in the inter-
mountain region, according to the re-
port issued from the Ogden offices OF
the fourth district.
George Strickland, suspected of hav-
ing held up the Desert Club at Ton
opah, was shot and wounded 20 miles
from here by L. Jackson, an express
messenger, who fired from an engine
cab. Strickland has been identified
by several of his victims.
Cement to pave the Lincoln highway
and all other highways in Nevada can
be made at slight cost from the huge
rocks surrounding the state peniten-
tiary near Carson by utilizing the la
Dor of convicts, it is claimed.
Vigorous objection to granting "a
per cent increase Of railway rates, as
applied to the inter-mOuntain territory,
has been made in testimony before the
interstate commerce commission by
J. F. Shaughnessy, chairman of the
Nevada railroad commission.
Following complaints of Ogden wo-
men and girls that young men in auto
mobiles have been accosting them on
darkened streets, Joseph B. Bates,
county attorney, has announced that
these "mashers" will be summarily
dealt with when apprehended.
AT the public sale of lots in the
Frannie tOwnsite, Shoshone irrigation
project, Wyoming, the reclamation
service has sold forty-six business lots
for total of $11,52S. There was lit
tie competition for the lots, most of
which were sold ut the appraised val
uatiOn.
Laramie, WyO., is given population
OF 63O1 by the census bureau. Ten
years ago it had 8237. This is loss
of 1896 or 23.5 per cent in ten years.
The present population of Laramie is
smaller than it was in $780, when
Laramie numbered 63SS. 1t had
grown to S207 in 1900.
j. Y. Lindsay, contractor, was
killed in an auto accident when the
car In which he was riding with A. B.
Smart and wife skidded and turned
completely over near Ely, New. A flat
tire caused the car to skid and leave
the road. Mr.. and Mrs. Smart es-
capped without injury.
A freak hail storm struck Butte
and environs one day last week, caus-
ing considerable damage to the resi-
dences and out-bulldings on the flat
Inc storm did not last more than 40
minutes and Immediately after it van
lShed the entire southern portion of
the city was flooded.
Mistaken for cherry thieves. four
young men and four girls, were fired
upon three times with twelve-gauee
shotgun at II o'clock at night by
FARMER near Salt Lake. They had
stopped near the orchard to get wnter
Tor the car in which they were riding
None were seriously injured.
The Glidden tour, from New York
TO San francisco over the Lincoln
highway, has been postponed until
next year. This is to be reliability
contest and it is claimed that many
OF the car manufacturers, owing to
adverse conditions of the time. are
unable to furnish cars to take part.
Livestock men of Nevada lost cattle
valued at approximately $4,000 last
year from larkspur poisoning in the
lhree Creek division of the Fourth
forestry district. Representatives of
seSehty-one Nevada livestock associa-
tlohs held meeting recently at which
eaeh permit holder estimated his
losses.
Something over 100000 will he ex.
pended on the Lincoln highway this
between Ely and Carson. Ne
'aaa' according to an announcement
vi the highway association. The nm.