The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-01-30
NORTHWEST NOTES

Ogden Live Stock show:
Five hundred thousand dollars vii
be Invested in construction Of a, h0te
in Sheridan, Wyo., by Roy Carruther.
of New. York If $4,000 is secured 10,
cally.
Fees totalling $253, 200 were paid to
the Insurance department of the STATE
of Montana during 1919 by 325 insur-
ance companies Of all kinds operating
in Montana.
From far Jugo-Slavia comes a claim
for compensation from the widow OF
Frank AbramOvitch, who was killed
in a mine of the Cottonwood Coal
company in Montana, in 1918.
The Northern Pacific depot at Gar
rison, Mont, burned down at an
early hour one morning last week. The
fire probably started in the lunch coun
ter department and spread rapidly.
A series of experiments have con
vinced Ross Phillips, supervisor of the
( Big Horn forest, that the gas bomt
is failure in combating forest fires
he announced last week at Sheridan,
Wyo.
The Union Pacific railroad has been
awarded the pennant by Hale Holden,
regional director of central western
railroads, for making the best record
in safety of all railroads having 5000
or more employees.
Forest rangers in the Yellowstone
National park will be given instruc-
ton in auto mechanics so they will
be prepared to give tourists assistance
during the summer season. government
officials announce.
w. L. O'Neil, known throughout the
west as pioneer Nevada cattle and
sheep grower. died January in San
Francisco. Mr.. +O'Neil was the presi-
dent of O'Neil Brothers Land and Cat
tie company of Wells, New.
All the larger restaurants of Billings,
Mont, have announced raised of To-
cents in the price of orders designated
as merchants lunches" together with
an increase in the price Of coffee from
5 cents to 10 cents per cup.
The awarding of the prizes in the
100000 stock show held at the
Union stockyards at Ogden brought to
an end on January 10 the most sue
cessful event of that nature ever held
in the intermountain country.
Dealers at Helena are receiving de-
layed shipments of wild hay from
Kansas, Minnesota and Wisconsin and
shipments of timothy, alfalfa and up
land from Washington, Idaho, North
and South Dakota and other points.
One of the biggest and most enthu-
siastic good road meetings ever held
in the state was the second annual
meeting of the Arrowhead Trail I'M
provement and Development associa-
ton held at Cedar City, Utah, last
week.
The senate has passed the bill by
Senator Myers allowing Ben Kurlee of
Missoula $500 for injuries received
in forest fire four years ago while |
in the forest service. The |
original Myers bill provided $1,000 for
Kurlee.
Bert Lacy, 20 years of age, was shot |
on N stnn nt tha nj tx, nd
county hospital in Green River, Wyo.
Jack Williams and shis wife are being
held for investigation. Williams con-
lends the shooting was the result of
m accident.
Cyrus Cspens, arrested recently at |
Wyo. on "a charge of at
to hold up two men by point
Ing his finger in an endeavor to make |
them believe he held a revolver, is
an escaped lunatic from Warm
Springs, Mont
Seven railroad men, who pleaded
guilty at Ogden to charges of petty
larceny, were each sentenced ty City
Judge D. r. Roberts to serve 112 days
In jail and to pay fines of $500 each.
Three Of the men are conductors, and
four are brakemen.
Thomas Lahey and wife and Pete
Colliff, an Austrian farm hand, living
IN a ranch five miles west of Twin
Bridges, Mont, were each placed un-
Ter bonds of $500 at hearing and
will be turned over to the federal au-
for alleged moonshining.
All red-headed men over 16 years
# age have been invited to join the
Read Head club Of Spokane" organ
zed at meeting last week. Among
he announced purposes is ito uphold
he standards of our illustrous red
leaded forefather, Thomas Jefferson"
Employees Of the United States sur
,eyor generals departments Of Utah
ind Colorado ask a rs per cent in
.rease In wages in petition which
las been forwarded to the congress
ional committee at Washington on
he Redistribution of federal salaries.
The operation Of the Montana pri-
nary election law as amended last Au-
,ust by the legislature, providing as
N emergency measure for the closed
Urinary and repeal Of the presidential
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