The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1920-08-20
NORTHWEST NOTES

community nurse for year at leaSt.
Several young athletes in Ely, New,
are training for the government physi-
cal tests to be given this fall under
the direction of the child's welfare
committee.
An up-to-date electrical siren fire
alarm is to be purchased by the Ely
(Nev.) fire department at cost OF
S7O0 The siren will replace the bell
which is now in USE
A storm of cyclonic proportions
struck Tonopah, doing damage esti-
mated at $4,000, every business house
on lower Main street between Oddie
and Brougher avenues suffering from
| the flood.
| 1t will take about 100000 to put
Fort Douglas, Utah, in first-class con-
! dition, according to Maj. Gen. Hunter
Iiggett, commanding general OF the
western department, after inspecting
| the post.
james Morgan, secretary treasurer
of the United Mine Workers of Amer
li'u, uIStIltt dtICBtCu
ton for congress by the FarmerLabor
party, the state convention OF which
was held at Casper, Wyo.
The one big project for the people
of the west to unite on and fight for,
irrespective Of politics, is that the next
secretary of the interior be western
man." declares Maj. Fred X. Reed OF
the Idaho Reclamation association.
The Oregon Short Line railroad has
presented the state of Utah with one
of the old Yellowstone stage coaches,
which did service in the park many
years ago and which is Il valuable ac-
QUESTION as relic Of pioneer days.
Leslie Thompson, % years of age, OF
Butte, Mont, was instantly killed in
the Union Pacific railroad yards at
Ogden when he stepped from freight
train upon which he had been riding
into the path of a passenger train.
An explosion caused by ignition OF
gasoline fumes in a garage at Reno
shook the entire city and caused dam
| age of about $4,000. Plate glass win
| dows within radius of IA block were
| 1t is announced that carload Of
elk will be shipped from Jackson Hole
next spring to Tobar, New, for the
| Elko Fish and Game club. From To-
bar the elk will be Grated and taken
to the Ruby mountains, where they
will be turned out to Craze.
Twenty-Five hours and thirty-eight
minutes from San Francisco to Salt
Lake in an automobile over good
roads and bad ones, is the record so
far in the official transcontinental
mail run, which started at San Fran
cisco Thursday of last week.
Government experts who have been
in Utah since early spring conducting
research experiments regarding the
cause of deer-fly or pahvant valley
fever, which has been prevalent in
southern Utah for several years, have
discovered that it comes from the
jack-rabbit
AT the meeting of the Kemmerer
| (Wyo) city council bids We're opened
for $4,000 worth of sewer bonds, au-
| thOriZed at the last election. 1t was
found that there was only one bid,
that of the state of Wyoming, which
bid par for the entire lot, and the Of
Ter was accepted.
Definite knowledge Of an under
ground system on the Pacific coast
whereby thousands of Japanese are
struggled into the United States year
| ~" was announced by Congressman
Albert Johnson chairman of the house
| committee on immigration holding
hearings at Tacoma.
Mrs. Mary S. Hansen of Richfield,
| Utah. is plaintiff in sensational $780,
900 damage suit against Leland Stan
| ford, Jr., university. in the superior
court. Mrs. Hansen charges that the
after his death in Lane hospital and
stuffed with newspapers.
Speeding up of the coal movement to
the northwest sufficiently to enable
delivery of 20.O0O,OOO tons by Novem-
Der |, is forecast by officials of the
| interstate commerce commission, as a
result of the return to normal work
ing conditions of bitunlinous mines in
the central competitive field.
The population of three Wyoming
counties is announced by the census
bureau. Hot Springs county, which
WAS carved out of Big Horn. Fremont
and Park counties in 1912, now has a
population of o146. Sheridan county
has a present population of 1872 and
Park county has a population of Cos
The residents of Lovelocks. Fallon
and other communities N that vicinity
of Nevada are preparing their oil
lamps, for the indications are that the
low water in the Lohantan dam. which
recently caused the shutting down of
the mines in thar vicinity, will make
ii necessary for the power house sup