The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1920-10-08
NORTHWEST NOTES


all previous records.
Air mail service between cheyenne
and Salt Lake has been temporarily
abandoned because Of ii shortage Oh
airplanes.
Rock Springs, Wyoming, has pres
ent population of 6456, as against 3''S
in 1900. according to announcement OF
the census bureau.
Found guilty in the federal court at
Great Falls, Mont, of Illegal nome
Stealing on public lands, Henry Dusky
was fined $500 and costs.
Receipts amounting to more than
900 were realized by the Wasatcn
forest district for July and August,
1920, according to an official report.
Sterilization of every new shaving
brush purchased in Montana is urged
by the state board of health as a
precautionary measure against con-
traction of anthrax
/ The big beef roundup in Upper
Ruby, in Montana is over and some
thing like 800 head of fat steers have
been brought down from the upper
ranges and sent to market.
The slayer of Philip Milichevick,
who was found dead in his room ut
Butte, is believed by authorities to
have fled to Salt Lake, and the police
there are searching for him.
,D+h
Tikkula pleaded guilty to stealing be-
tween $500 and S400 worth of mer-
chandise at Billings, Mont, and were
sentenced to ninety days in Jail.
The proposed strike Of the 5000 min
ers employed by the day in the coal
mines of the state of Washington has
been postponed until referendum
vote can be taken by the local unions.
Two Montana sheriffs have been
hailed before Judge Bourquin's court
in Great Falls on charges of con-
tempt in the matter of liberties al
lowed federal prisoners committed to
their keeping.
Coal in the bins at the state capitol
at Cheyenne. Wyoming, caught fire
from spontaneous combustion, and it
was found necessary to remove hun
dreds of tons stored there to prevent
Il serious conflagratiOn.
The construction of a $4,000 hotel
and from 80 to 100 summer homes, on
the Phelps lake recreational project
at the mouth of Death canyon in the
Teton forest of Wyoming, has been
authorized by the government.
Uinta county, Wyoming, has suffered
heavy slump in population in the last
ten years, according to census bureau
figures. The county today has 6611
inhabitants, where in 1910 it had
1882, loss of Gil per cent
With one of the heaviest legislative
programs of any organization in Mon
tana the Montana State Teachers as
ISOLATION is planning to pass upon
many of these measures at the annual
meeting in Billings in November.
One of the largest stills ever found
in Montana was located near Butte
last week by member of the federal
dry squad" who seized 50 gallons
of moonshine and 12O-gallon still.
which could have supplied the wants
OF many of the thirsty ones of the
Montana ciN.
Mrs, f. Il. Morgan was brutally as
suited at her home near Northam,
New, and would undoubtedly have
been killed had not her lO-year-old
daughter helped her beat off the brute
who attacked her as she lay sleeping.
Every effort is being made to effect
the capture of the brutal assailant.
}. V. Gutierrez, William Bigler and
Oren f. Hall met with sudden death
when an automobile turned over a
10-foot embankment on the edge of
Willow Creek gap, in Wyoming, and
pinned them beneath the wreckage in
the bed of the shallow stream. All
three We're drowned before help ar
rived.
Elk confined during the greater part
of the year in the big fenced enclosure
of the Midland Empire fair grounds
at Billings objected actively to being
herded into smaller enclosure. A
large elk charged the horse ridden by
the park commissioner. and the ami
mails agility alone saved ii and the
official from injury.
The famous contest which was in.
Stituted over the will of Amos w.
Smith. the Wyoming cattle king. who
died in Cheyenne about two years ago
was settled last week by the filing
with the clerk of the court of Lincoln
county, which was the residence of
Mr.. Smith, &c Stipulations and agree.
mentS by the opposing attorneys.
A piece of bicycle pump tubing and
the presence of mind of Miss Pearl
Hanson, trained nurse. saved Tho
life NJ Melville. Mont. Of Mrs Tod