The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-04-23
NORTHWEST NOTES

OFFICIALS when they ralded the Avan-
s,nO ranch near Reno, Nevada.
Murray Ryburn suicided at Kem-
merer, Wyo., shooting himself through
the head. He had been in i'll health
for some time.
According to estimates of r. j.
Lemert, state accountant, the tax yield
10 the state of Montana for 1920 from
an estimated assessment will be ST.
100000.
The United States government
through the war department, has Ida
no credited with 1854 desertions. OF
this number, 7S6 were apprehended
and 69S are still outstanding.
A Union Pacific passenger train
narrowly escaped derailment when it
ran into herd of beef cattle mile
west of Evanston. Seventy-five steers
We're killed and twenty injured.
Never before have so many young
married women ffocked into Reno,
Nevada, for divorces. Many of the
,nsatisfied wives are those who mar
ried service men, and have not found
life happy.
Fire was discovered in the coal mine
at Sublet, Wyoming, which was eX-
tnguished before it became real
danger to the mine. Several of the
men We're slightly burned in battle
with the flames.
Four Fallon, Nevada, boys were ar
rested last week charged with taking
two barrels of wine from a ranch near
that town. The wine was taken into
the desert east of FallOn, but was
later recovered.
Formal application has been sent
to the interstate commerce commits
sion by the Idaho public utilities COM
mission praying for an order that
mountain time be reinstate0 as stand
ard time in Idaho.
Two Greeks at Kemmerer, WyO.,
have reported that two of their coun-
trymen had induced them to with
draw 5000 from the savings bank, to
be invested in lodging house scheme,
and then had disappeared with the
money.
1t has been announced at Twin
Falls, Idaho, that the 1daho-Nevada
4 Tidewater Railroad company has
been organized to build railroad
from Twin Falls to Wells, New. This
will give a direct outlet to the coast
from that section of the state.
At from seven cents to seven and
one-quarter cents pound, wholesale,
Portland is today paying the highest
price on record for potatoes. 1t also
is facing at this time the greatest
famine of supplies that the establish
ed trade there ever heard of.
Caroline Jones, II years old, was
found guilty of voluntary man
slaughter by jury trying her on a
charge of killing Carl Bay, who was
slain on the street at Bayfield,, Colo,
in January last The penalty is from
one to eight years in the penitentiary.
Ella Connell, who was sent to the
states prison from ElkO county, Ne
vada, for an attempt to poison her
aged husband, Mike Council, died at
the home of her son in Idaho recently |
She had recently been parOled from
the state prison on account OF Ill
health.
The boys of the Beaverhead county, |
high school have adopted
khaki trousers and Overalls in order
to combat the high cost of clothing.
The plan seems to meet with the ap-
prevail of the majority Of the students
and it is expected that the girls also
will dress in garments of a cheaper
quality.
The car shortage claimed in south
arn Idaho does not exist, according to
men. 1t is claimed by them
here are plenty of cars in all parts
Of the state to move freight and that
many more are located at Salt Lake
and other points which can be moved
to any given point should they be
needed.
The state superintendent Is receiv-
ng many applications from nOn-resi-
1ents who wish 70 secure schools In
Nevada for next year The reason
ror the inquiries about Nevada schools
s attributed mainly to the fact that
higher salaries in prncipalships and
high schools are paid there than in
many other states of the union.
At the meeting of the officials OF
ne forest service and the advisory
committee of the Lincoln county IVY
,ming) Wool Growers association at
he forest service offices at Ogden.
{ was agreed that 114,OOO head OF
sheep would be permitted to cross to
he Wyoming forest and $4,000 head
# sheep would Craze OH it during the
summer.
The amounts that have been ex-
pended on the Utah portion OF the
lincoln highway during the last state
fiscal year, from December 81, 1913,
o November 80, 1919, and during the
irst quarter of the present fiscal year,
~ nm Tn Februarv %. last, distributed