The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-07-16
INLAND NORTHWEST


Ing and the great deposits In the Vim
tab basin are now being worked on a
larger scale than ever.
Indians of the Blackfeet reservation
in Montana, held big Fourth of July
celebration at the agency which spread
over six days. The affair opened on
July l and concluded July 8.
Little if any encouragement is held
out to woolgrowers by reports COM
ing from the eastern wool centers.
Slight demand, and that only for
bargain consignments, is In evil
dence,
Henry p. Davidson, former director
general of the American Red Cross
and member of the firm of J. r. Nor
gan & Co. has gone to Island Park,
Idaho, to spend two months vaca-
tion with his family.
The public utilities commission of
Utah has continued until August 10
the hearing on the application of
Wedgwood & Boyd for permission to
inaugurate an automobile freight line
from Salt Lake to Ogden.
That from one-fourth to one-half of
the normal hay crop will be cut this
year in the Lovelock valley, in Ne
yada, is the opinion of many farmers
who have commenced haying and of
others who are about to do so.
Phillip Anker, rancher near Love-
lock, Nevada, while endeavoring to
kick belt from pulley on his
ranch, got his foot caught in the pull
ley and had his right leg broken be-
tween the ankle and the knee.
Forest officials have announced
from Ogden that they propose to split
the Wyoming National forest situat-
ed in Lincoln county, and add one-half
to the Caribou forest in Idaho and
the other half to the Bridger forest.
Another pioneer mining man of Ne
vada passed to the great beyond last
week when Charles w. George Of
Kennedy went to his reward. He
was about sixty years of age and had
mined at Kennedy for the last twenty
years.
Unless some agreement is reached in
the controversy between the Utah
Gas & Coke company and it's plant
employees within the next few days,
Salt Lake faces a serious shortage, if
not complete interruption, of gas
service.
Matthew A. Callahan, formerly of
JacksOn's Hole, Wyo., committed sui
eide by shooting while sitting in front
Of the Amelia Palace at Salt Lake.
Callahan, who was one of the best
known men in the west, was losing
his eyesight.
The state livestock board of Utah
has decided to institute quarantine
against Lincoln county, Wyo, sheep
and to retain the quarantine against
sheep from Idaho and Colorado, al
ready in effect. The quarantine il
against scabies.
Registration for the summer quar-
ter at Montana state college at Boze-
man has passed tho 125 mark. OF
the total number registered, about rs
are vocational training students, men
sent to the state college by the fed
eral government. ...
After wading through snow drifts
three and four feet deep in the st. Joe
forest, while inspecting the ranger sta
lions near Avery, Idaho, Elers Koch,
CHIEF of fire protection in this dis
. trlct, has returned to forestry head
quarters with the belief that that there
Is no fire hazard as far as this region
is concerned.
Convincing evidence that the wild
buffalo of Yellowstone national park
the last surviving remnant of the
great herds which once roamed the
western plains, are on the increase
instead of dying out, as was feared
has been obtained In the discovery of
new group in the southeast portion
of Yellowstone park.
More than 100 rock chucks were
poisoned north of Shoshone. Idaho.
one night, by one ounce of strychnlne
sulphate which had been mixed in
one gallon of hot water and soaked
into as much alfalfa as was required
TO absorb it. The alfalfa was allowed
to wither for about four hours before
being used.
A resident of Tonopah has the car
eass of bob cat, which he found in
the slime pond of the Tonopab Rel.
mont. The beast was stiff in death
through having imbibed too freely of
the cyanlded waters of the pond which
are as clear as crystal and ant TO de.
ceive even denizen of the forest
whose Keen scent usually protects
them from such perils.
DeFlating from his transcontinental
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