The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1920-12-24
NORTHWEST NOTES

Jack Spencer, Southern Pacific
brakeman. slipped from the ley roof
Of ii box car near Verdi, Nevada, and
was killed.
As result of the reclamation OF
swamp land, approximately 1000 acres
of newly drained land came into cul-
llv1tion in 1870 in Gem county. Idaho.
The Nevada state highway depart
ment reports that the new concrete
highway ON the north side of the
Washoe summit has been completed.
Livestock shipments from points of
the Butte division of the Great North
ern during 1920 have been 1865 car
loads as compared with approximately
5000 In 1919
Mrs. l.. NJ. Mushett was seriously
burned at TonopalI. Ney., by the ex-
plosion Of a can of oil which she was
holding while lighting fire In the
kitchen stove.
The jury hearing the ease OF n. j.
Perkins. charged with numbering TheO-
dOre Sharp. Indian agent of the Flat
head reservation, at Ravalli. Mont.
last July, returned verdict of not
guilty.
Every community In the state Of
Wyoming In which a tuberculosis sur
there are eight times as many living
cases as there were deaths for any
one year.
Circulation OF proposed initiative
in any form has started In Reno. New,
and copies Of the proposed act have
been sent to other sections OF the state
for circulation.
Utah is entitled to fourteen and
Idaho to thirteen votes in the six-day
convention Of the National Women's
party to convene In Washington, Feb
ruary Is, according to word just sent
out from the party headquarters.
In the 1920 poultry Improvement
campaign Of the Gilmore county. Idaho,
farm bureau. 5Sl5 birds were handled
by specialists, county agent, project
leader and owners. or this number,
1903 were found to be non-layers.
Mrs William A. Schultz. who was
arrested in Dalton, Neb., was placed
in the county Jail at Cheyenne on
charge of having murdered two infants
after she had been discharged as
nurse at a private hospital ut Chey-
enne.
After being badly injured by the
caving In of the roof of ignite mine
In which he had been working. Math-
ias Ileser, farmer of the northern
part of Mccone county. Mont, died as
he was being taken to IL hospital at
Glasgow.
Charles t. Pearl OF Seattle paid a
Helena. Mont, after pleading guilty
to charges of blgamy. Judge Poorman
RENTED the sentence tn six months in
Jail, rs Pearl had already spent three
months in Jail.
Sheepherders will hereafter receive
wages of $50 month. following nc
ton of the wooImen of the state, who
met at Helena. Mont. and decided on
the lower scale. Last year sheepherd-
ers were paid 500 month and in
the summer wages were reduced to
$50
As n result OF the investigation
made mt the William Brodie ranch by
the sherlffS office and number of
stockmen of the Green River valley.
Charles Brandt was brought to KEN
merer. Wye. charged with stealing
livestock. and lodged in the, county
Jail.
Frederick RAIDER was acquitted OF a
charge of manuslaughter by jury at
P,ndletan. Ore. RAIDER. NJ former
trial. was convicted of manslaughter
following an Indictment Of second de-
gree murder charging that he shot +,
+. McCue Of Long Creek, Grant county,
In February. i9lS,
Union Pacific railroad officials and
the county officials at Rock Springs,
Wyo, are conducting an inyestiga-
ton Into the death Of Charles Bell,
~ years of age. of Green River. Wyo,.
whose body was found NJ the side of
the tracks near Rock Springs. His
head had been crushed,
Reports from over the state of Ne
vada agree that the trapping season
this year has opened very auspicionsly.
so far as the prospect for good catch
of both coyotes and boheats il con-
cerned, and the quality of fur taken
thus far, of both eats and dogs. rs of
exceptionally fine quality.
A charge of manslaughter was filed
against W. J. Van Shike. raneher.
he.d IN Jail N, Spokane in connection
with the death hast week ef Mrs, =.
Kirkpatrick Mrs kirkpatrick died
after she had been Knocked down, il
was said. by Van Shike's automobile
and dragged for thirteen blocks.
Retail druggists nj n meeting of the
Oregon State Pharmaceutical associa-