The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1920-05-21
NORTHWEST notes

Flax growers of Montana are being
urged 10 plant larger acreage this
year.
In northern Montana hay is being
sold al $50 ton, and is scarce al that
price.
Drilling for oil is soon 10 be started
on White river. A. miles from Ely,
Nevada.
The board Of education al Bull.
ldaho, has recently granted an Increase
of 3s 3 per cent in the salary Ia he
paid the teachers.
Farmers of Blaine county. Idaho.
have organized community flour mill.
in which more than 100 farmers Of thai
section are stockholders.
Business men OF Elko. Nevada, are
organizing a company with the inten-
ton of drilling for oil ip that section
only local money to be used
4. +. Woodruff. secretary of the Mill
and Smeltermen'S union III Great Falls.
Mont. has been arrested. charged with
being short in his accounts in the sum
of 1850
There were 595.2o4 acres Of land COW
cred by squirrel poisoning work under
farm bureau auspices in the state of
Idaho last year, and il paid big re-
turns in saving of crops.
The typographical union III Living
sion, Mont, has withdrawn from the
local trades and labor council rs Il
protest against radicalisn advocated
by members of the organization.
Fifteen barrels of molasses To he used
for grasshopper bait has been pur-
chased by the Camas county. Idaho.
farm bureau, and a war against the
grasshopper pest is to be waged
With hay selling i'm Dillon. Mont,
Tor SGD a ton. dairymen and others
who are forced To feed stock are fac
ing one of the most serious feed sit
uations In the history of the county.
John +. Sullivan, an attorney OF
when he may be reinstaied upon sat
isfactory showing. as II result of
court opinion handed down last week.
A resident of Livingston Mont. Col.
b. .. johnson. has the distinction of
being the first person outside the
Czech-Slaeia army To receive the war
cross of the new central European re-
public
The first uniformed officer ever EN-
ployed by the city, of Ogden. Utah.
retired last week. after II service of
over thirty-tive years In all that time
he has been IL member of Ogden's po-
lice force.
Talesforo Pitaro. sentenced from
Eiko, nevada, for manslaughter. has
been paroled by the state board OF
pardons Of Nevada. I'itaro shot man
as the result of "A gambling game, and
after serious provocation.
II is said that over POO cranes and
blue heron, protected by law, have
been ruthlessly slaughtered IN Mon
tana recently, and officers declare that
a number of hunters will he arrested
as Il result of their violation OF this
law.
In three decisions handed down by
the Nevada supreme court the consti-
nationality of the section of the state
prohibition law giving justice courts
the power To hold violators of the law
at preliminary examinations was up
held.
Farmers and ranchers of Lamoille
valley. in Nevada, have begun war
of determination upon the ground
squirrel. Fifteen thousand pounds Of
poisoned grain was secured and dis.
tributed in that section one day last
week.
1t is charged that florists of Butte
took advantage of the custom Of wear
ing carnations on Mothers day Ia jump
the price of carnations beyond reason.
and that many people of that city wore
flags In their coat lapels instead of
Despite the fact that he was wear
ing gas mask. while at work in the
bag house at the Great Falls (Moni.)
reduction works OF the Anaconda com
pany. John Mangunson dropped dead,
ii being alleged that he inhaled the
poison fumes.
Sentiment that the American Legion
must in no WAY constitute itself u
police organization in It's ef-
forts to combat radical organizations
was expressed by representatives Of
Legion posts of Washington. Oregon
Idaho and Montana. meeting III Spo-
kane I'm conference.
Testimony In the inquest al Butte as
TO the death of Thomas Manning who |
died of wounds received during the |
riot last month. brought out the fact |
that most OF the pickets who had been |
called as witnesses are members az the |
!. ". W. are not citizens of the United |
States and are new arrivals in Butte.
The president of the Montana branch |
Of the League Of Woman Voters has |
announced that the date for the re-