The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1920-10-15
NORTHWEST NOTES


Idaho. Montana and Wyoming.
About 40 families settled upon
public lands in Nevada in Inc past
wear where there are stu millions
of acres open for settlement.
More than 100000 trout fry nave
been planted in the streams OF Ne
| yada during the season just closed
from the state fish hatchery at Verdi.
Although Idahos staple crops have
not fulfilled the prospects OF August
| l. present conditions Indicate they
will be the largest in the history VI
the state.
John Billet, 16-year-old son of Jas.
| Billet Of Lumoille New, was Instant
| ~ killed when the auto in when ne
vas riding overturned. His skull was
crushed by the rear wheel.
Daniel Mlicevich, brother Of Philip
Mliceych, who was found dead IN
room ut Butte, September u, with two
bullet wounds in his body, has been
formally charged with murder.
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Utah state penlrentinry has advanced
II proposal to the secretary of state
to have prisoners at the institution
make automobile license plates.
Nevada stands second in the twelfth
federal reserve district in the amount
OF per capita investment in savings
securities. such as war savings stamps
and United States treasury certfi-
Gates.
r. l.. Warner, who pleaded guilty to
stealing eghty-two pounds Of gold and
silver bullion from the Como CONSOLE
dated Mining company ut Como, New,
teen years in prison.
! Joseph Cranmer. charged with en-
tering the Edward Morgan ranch
home. near Falon. New. and attack
ing Mrs. Morgan, pleaded guilty last
week. receiving u sentence of fifteen
years in the state penitentiary.
The Montana Development assOcia
ton will resist the order of the Mon
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rates on shipments within the state
and, In a statement issued last week,
calls upon all other commercial and
agricultural organizations to take Il
similar stand
The orders issued by the state board
of, equalization increasing the assessed
valuation of all town property and
cultivated lands in Washoe county,
! Nevada, over the valuations fixed by
Assessor Hayes have aroused consid-
erable opposition.
The first deer hunting fatality OF
the season was reported last week.
Walter X. Herrod, prominent Fort Col
llns man. was instantly killed when
his rifle was accidentally discharged
In the wlfds twenty miles southwest of
walden. near Penrl. Colo.
One hundred million dollars of fed
eral aid money for road building pur-
poses. to be expended on fifty fifty
basis with the states, became avail
able on july of this year OF this
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fifth. or approximately $1,216,OOO.
A well defined plan of the Indus
trial Workers of the World to inaug,l-
rate period of terrorism in the north
west within 30 days is charged bv
congressman Albert Johnson OF the
third Washington district. in n state
ment issued last week at Tacoma.
George Springmeyer. Reno attorney.
was shot by an unidentified mon
supposed footpad, at Reno. pistol
bullet passing through the fleshiest
part OF the calf of his right leg
barely missing the bone, and inficting
Il wound that, while troublesome and
painful, is not dangerous.
tentative plans for the building and
eHnlppihg OF machine shop ut the
ltah state prison AT Salt Lake have
been made by the state road com.
mission and the state board of cor
recton. The shop is To be erected
Tor the primary purpose OF repairing
the state road machinery.
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Idaho, says that a material reduc.
ton IN operating expenses and over
mead charges In the sheep business Is
vital necessity Ii the industry Ia to
survive is the reason assigned for n
81 per cent reduction in wages re-.
Gently put into effect by the Idaho.
nevada Livestock company OF poca.
tello
Possibility that another natural
wonder, centuries old. hut only newly
round, viii he placed within reach of
me western tourist came To liyh, re-
Gently when workmen blasting fnr
'lme rock eighteen and one-half miles
west OF cheyenne encountered nat.
ural cave riNaling. for Stalactit.s and
Sta'agmite~, the famous ones in 9TH.
parts OF the country.
Some of the progressive citizens of
'hrs"h 'ttN, NcN. are ruisipp n fu,d