The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1920-02-20
NORTHWEST NOTES

close to the Marcus DAILY ranch.
The plant of the Libby Electric
Light company. furnishing light, water
and power to the city of Libby, Mont.
was totally destroyed by fire last
week.
The gate of the mountains, near
Helena, Mont. has been selected def
league as the location for perma-
nent summer institute.
Need of high salaries for. sheriffs
| 10 enable them to meet The high cost
of living was given unanimous APP
| prevail at the sherffs' and peace off
GERS convention at Boise, Idaho.
Mrs. Mary Waddams. familiar
character throughout southern Mon
| tana and said to have been the first
white woman in Beayerhead county
was adjudged insane in Dillon, last
week.
Federal veterinary surgeons, after
inquiry into the mysterious malady
that has been carrying off stock in
northern Montana, are said to have
decided that 1t is influenza or hem
orrhagic septicema.
Harry Dunn, %, son of the late
Mart Dunn, one of the founders of
Great Falls, Mont, and IA leader in
social life among the younger set,
committed suicide by shooting himself
just below the heart.
The Madison Valley Commercial
club Is making preparations toward
landing place near Ennis, Mont, for
the government airplanes which are
going to patrol the forest in this sec
ton the coming summer
Mrs. X. X. Parker of Shelley. Idaho,
Is slowly recovering from burns suf-
fered early in the week through the
explosion of gasoline lamp. The
lamp. which was suspended from the
ceiling, fell to the floor.
The biggest prize list in the history
OF state bowling tournaments in Mon
tana is promised by the managers of
the forthcoming competition which
VIII be held in M1ssOula. March oO-2J.
Fully $500 is to be offered.
Good seed will be scarce this year.
and Idaho growers will find them
selves confronted with big short
age at planting time, according to b.
r. Sheehan, field agronOmist of the
university extension division
) The large irrigation project of the
Cottonwood Development company.
which some time ago under the Carey
act, partly constructed IL canal for the
purpose OF irrgating lands in the
Green River valley, Wyoming, will be
completed some time this year.
Orville Milligan, aged IA, was found
dead in snowbank about seven miles
from his home in the Sheep Mountain
country, near Miles City, Mont The
boy left home January IS and became
lost in blizzard. his body being
found nearly three weeks later.
Peter Perrin. 100 years old. who was
In the audience at Ford's theatre at
the national capital the night when
John Wilkes Booth assassinated Pres
ident Lincoln, and who came to Wyo- |
ming as Il settler Ia the days when
this state was part of the Dakota
territory, is still resident of Wyoming.
According to the report of the sup
erintendent of the Jackson lake res
ervoir the precipitation at Moran, |
Wyo., for January was 2.S7 inches and
the total precipitation since Septem-
her |, 1919, 1901 inches. This is con-
above the average for the
five months since 1912.
A. w. Gould, an engineer is in n
ST. Maries. Idaho. hospital in a ser |
lous condition as the result of being |
shocked when he tried to raise the |
'pantograph' of his electric locomo- |
tive with n fishpole. which slipped |
and came in contact with the 3.3OO-
volt cable. Gould also sustained Sc
we're burns.
Belief that Max II. Houser of Port
land, Ore, by reason of his connec-
ion with the United States Grain cor
has been able To manipulote
'iN'"'N siam winch
le formerly owned. ITO an immense
profit Ia himself aud associates" is
IMPRESSED in the firdingS of United
States grand jury AT Spokane.
Prospectors for oil or mineral have
10 right TO treSpaSS on homestead
'iaimS against the will of the home
teaderS and the land cannot be leased
Until patent is obtained. is the sub
tance of ruling made by Commits
Toner Clay Tallman of the general
and office, forwarded to Register
'eorge Myers of the Miles City. Mon
ana, land district.
In recognition of the heroic efforts
( the late a. f. Peterson. an cleo
rician, TO save Robert Pontet from
ne flames which filled the bedroom
his home in Great Falls. Mont. last
pril, Peterson losing his life as a
aSult, his widow will receive a pen
on of $50 per month for a period of
wears from the Garnegia Har, | ,