The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1920-11-05
NORTHWEST NOTES

oo..., "hS VI NOnfuna re-
n'is refused 10 fight as "supers~ for
moving picture for less than nnton
pay '"'o'
proclamation, Designating Noyen,.
iith' armistice Day. legal boli-
oay' mas been issued by the govarpor
of Nevada.
thieves broke into the storeroan of
uus ruhcinelii in Eiko. and made a
cieah-up OF more than 81, 800 in money
and jewelry.
The school census gives Halena 4
700 children, of which 1850 are bows
ana 2.Oli are girls. There are "a,
children under six years and 3.o5o of
school age.
AT the closing session at Missoula
ol the Montana-Idaho conference ~
swedish Congregational churches
butte was selected as the city for next
years meeting.
win the harvest season drawing
TO a close in Montana the labor situa-
tion on highways being constructed by
the state highway commission has ma
terially improved.
Major F. d. Pease, first Indian
agent of the Grow reservation and
prominent in early-day business enter
prlses along the Yellowstone river,
died at Helena last week.
Loss from fires in the national
forests of Montana and northern
Idaho was small this year considering
the large number of fires and the
small amount of rainfall
Refrigerator cars are being used by
the Great Northern to haul wheat
from stations on It's Butte division.
Grain elevators at score of points
on the division are glutted.
From an accidental bullet wound
sustained while playing with boy COM
panions near his home at Poplar,
Mont, Elmer Coughton, aged IA, died
few hours after being shot.
Frank yorpahl and John Haaken
were instantly killed and Nels Grand
was severely injured when they were
struck by fast Union Pacific pas
senger train at Greenville, Wyo
Each family of five in Reno is con-
tributing 81 IA day to the railroads as
increased cost of freight traffic follow
ing the twenty-five per cent increase
granted the carriers, says the Reno
Gazette.
SIX men and two women, believed
by the police to be an organized band
of drug store thieves who have been
robbing stores in Denver, are under
arrest. More than $4,000 worth of
loot was recovered.
A gasoline explosion in the dry
cleaning department Of a laundry at
Billings, Mont, resulted in severe
burns for John Carr. a workman, and
ruined IA quantity of clothing. The
building did not catch fire.
A total of 500 ,07492 in state funds
was apportioned to the seventeen
counties of the state of Nevada in
January and July of this year, accord
ing TO the records In the office of the
superintendent of public instruction.
At a mass meeting called at Half
way, Oregon, fifteen men were nomi-
mated for mayor and fourteen declined
to make the race. The other one was
absent. A good friend made ii known,
however, that this one would accept.
The forty-fifth anniversary of the
Custer battle, June -, 1921. Is TO be
celebrated on scale even greater
than the big observance In 1916 Dele
gates from many towns in eastern
Montana and northern wyoming. with
some from North Dakota communities.
will meet at Billings.
Hundreds of tons of third cutting
alfalfa hay in eastern Oregon IS IN
danger of serious damage II the rains
of the past two weeks continue. The
larger part of the third crop hay In
this section was in the shock, and the
unexpected spell of wet weather has
damaged ii materially.
Residents of Mercer island have en-
gagged an attorney TO find why their
children should be barred from over
crowded Seattle schools while Japa-
nese students were admitted. The
school boards attorney ruled that the
Japanese. living in the school district,
have precedence over white children
living outside.
With the ball OF his left eye pierced
ON each side of the pupil, Jimmy Barn
hart. four years old. was rushed to
Reno from Cedarville, Nevada, by au-
tomobile for treatment. and according
to reportS he will not lose the slght
of the eye. The boy was playing win
a pair of manicure scissors in his home
and fell down.
The mysterious disappearance Of }.
7 Lunch. 10 years OF age, o. Rock
SpringS. Wyo.. Is puzzIing the poiiee
Of both Utah and Wyoming. Lynch
started fer Salt Lake city on October
> He had sos on his person lie i
believed to have arrived in Salt Lake.
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