The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1920-12-31
NORTHWEST NOTES.

"ioitioh law has been upheId H.. 49,
STATE supreme court. IN
Billings, Mont. business men ,.,,
'"e" WIN The police in an effor, ).
e"eeh AN incipient crime wave tber.
use Jqparese fuel concern h =,
maui picture of George Wasbin,,a.
It's trade mark. the fine, -. ~
a'ue are said TO be up Ii, arms
:" me SIX communities of tbe ppr
s'rict IN Cassia county. Idaho
p"'ato acreage has increased from q,
acres in 1911 to 300 acres l., 1a.
| TWO northern Montana banks wbie,
nau oeen closed recently due ,o tho =,
aoiiity OF borrowers to meet their oh
legations, have been reopened aur,n,
the past week. "s
Dill calling for the creatiop NJ ,
"elIare commission to aid disah,ad
anu Institute ex-service men and wo.
men VIII be presented to the next ses.
SION OF the Idaho Legislature.
Charles Ditmar Of Great n,,ls is !,
'ne county Jail at Sheridan. wyo
narsed with transporting liquor into
wyoming from Great Falls and h,s
touring car has been confiscated
IN order to make more room for the
c'S offices. the mayor Of Roundup.
mont, made suggestion to the conn.
Gil that the cells be removed from the
cry jail and the room thus Secured
be used for offices.
| crops valued at $4,000 were saved
IN kootenai county. Idaho. this year
ps 80 farmers who obtained from
the county commissioners poison TO be
| distributed under farm bureau ans.
pices Tor destruction Of rodent pests.
George 1. Stage, former Tacoma
and Seattle newspaper man. pleaded
guilty at Tacoma to having kidnaped
his son, Bobby Stagg, September a.
ne was sentenced to the state peni-
Tertiary for a term of from ten 10 mr.
teen years
John Colbert, % years old. was in.
stantly killed and Allen Fossen. IS
years old. sustained injuries thar
caused his death Il few hours later
when the automobile in which they
were riding was struck by train AFT
Byers, Colo.
Former United States Senator Paris
Gibson, founder of the city OF Great
Falls. died at Great Falls. Mont. De
cember II, aged 80. He was elected
to the United States senate in 1900 TO
fill vacancy created by the resigna-
ton of ". A. Clark.
Narcotics valued by federal officers
were seized at the King street mes
senger station at Seattle by United
States customs officials. The drugs
were found In two travelling bags,
which arrived at the station on train
from Vancouver. Il. &.
+. c. Mccarthy. for ten years deputy
assessor of Cascade county, was found
guilty in the federal court at Great
Falls, Mont. of selling liquor IN
cigar store ne owned. and was sen
fenced TO five months in the county
Jail and $500 fine and costs.
Jerome county. Idaho. farm bureau
work is estimated to have induced
the planting of pure seed wheat on
approximately 300 farms. where last
year it was grown on only :s3, and in
1918 not field of pure seed wheat
could be found In the county
Cyrus Beard. chief justice of the
Wyoming supreme court. died at Chey-
enne of neuralgia of the heart. He
was sick but three days, but had been
in poor nealth for several years. he
was 10 years old aud had been on the |
supreme bench for sixteen years.
John Goldman Jones. &c, native of |
Bangor, Me. aud II resident of Mon |
tana for more than fifty years. where |
he was Familiarity known to thousands |
is Fat Jack died last week at Los |
Angeles He was one of the best |
known stage drivers in the west.
Beaten over the head with n ham
ner when II burglar entered his home /
II Denver, lsrae. Moses il in a critica! |
condition at local hospital. Police
,aid Moses declared nIs assailanr |
'orced open the door of his home and |
after beating him with hammer.
-ansacked the house.
The story comes from Elko. New,
hat an Indian shot another redskin
md when officers went to arrest him,
,arriCsded himself in house built
# ties. After battle lasting an hour.
ynamite WAS thrown upon the house.
which was destroyed and the Indian
illed. He had wounded two of the
'osse
For the better protection Of the live
took of Montana. the Montana live
took sanitary board will make eight
TO the next iegis-
allure. according TO the biennial re-
ert of the board The report shows
hat during the last two years deputy
tate veterinary surgeons Inspected
Az. OH head OF livestock
An explosion resulted in r. +. Wag-
ner becoming human torch. when
is clothing was soaked with flaming
asoline at Casper. Wyo. Rushing
rom the building. where the e1ple-
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