The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1920-06-18
|STATE news NORTHWEST NOTES

ny authOrltieS OF the two states
State license taxes Of l per cent on |
the net income of all corporations do
Ing business in Montana are due ON |
June 10.
Fees from the registration OF motor
vehicles in Nevada for the present wear
VIII be approximately three times MS
large as those of 1919.
Vigorous. red-blooded exploits that
made history in the great west will
be repeated in Reno July 2, 3. 4. 4 at
which time the great Reno roundup
will be staged.
Cut worms have been quite active
this spring in certain parts of Cascade
county. Montana, and have already
done considerable damage to fields of
growing wheat.
The livestock census of Nevada
shows that residents of that state own
1.596OOO head Of sheep, $4,000 range
cattle, $4,000 mich cows, $4,000 horses
and $4,000 hogs. -
An automobile camp ground, with
hot and cold water, stoves, fuel and
twenty shelters with tables and seats.
has been provided by the city council
ut Elko, Nevada.
A plea OF not guilty to murder in
the first degree was entered in the
district court at Ely, Nevada, by Mrs.
Marie NJ. Healy, who shot and killed
her husband May II.
Mrs. Alex Thompson, ST., for many
years a resident of the Gage COM
| munity, was run down and killed by
freight train near Gage Mont, while
attempting to cross the track.
Work has started in Butte on the
extension of the telephone system in
vOlving an expenditure of 100000 on
the part Of the Mountain States Tele-
phone and Telegraph company.
Raymond Conger, seven years old,
was drowned In an ice pond at the A.
e. Kent ranch near Golconda, Nevada
The boy was the son of Mrs. Conger,
| teacher in the Golconda school.
1t is estimated that $4,000 acres of
corn will be planted In Colorado this
| year, against 956,371 acres last year,
and 5000 acres of grain sorghums,
compared with 255,6O5 acres in 1919.
| All of the mines in the Niehart,
Mont, mining camp worked by miners
under days pay closed down on June
1, all the men walking out under de-
mand of increase of from $3.50 to Sc
per day.
| California men who claim that they
wish to bring their swarms of bees to
Nevada and engage in the bee indus
try in that state, have lodged pro-
test against the existing quarantine
with Governor Boyle.
Confessions from about 20 Butte
boys captured by the police resulted
in the discovery of revolvers, watches,
| jewelry, gum, candy and other mer-
chandise which had been stolen from
local merchants within the last week.
Word has been received from Gar
field county, Montana, of the killing of
Amer Peterson, rancher residing
near Edwards, by his neighbor, Her
schel Carmichael, following a quarrel
over land matters. Carmichael is now
Id Jail at Jordan.
Clarence Sage, former Nevada de-
tective, who was convicted at Pres
colt, Arizona, of assault upon young
woman named Mrs. Schendel, has
been given a sentence of eight years
to life Imprisonment in the state peni-
Tertiary at Florence, Arizona.
Despite high cost of farm labor and
rumblings that dissatisfaction among
farmers might result in curtailment OF
farm products, Colorado farmers this
year will plant approximately l,ooo'-
600 acres of wheat, an increase OF
nearly $1,000 over last years acreage.
Through arbitration, two wage dis
putes were settled at Butte, when the
transfers committee signed with the
employers and the Butchers union ac'
cepted the committees recommenda'
ton for acceptance Of the terms of1er'
ed by the committee representing the
employers.
Within twenty-four hours AFTER con-
domination and closing by the CIT!
commissioners, an old wooden bridge
forming a street intersection over
sixty-foot ravine, at Everett, wash
collapsed with crash of splinterine
timbers. No one was injured. due IL
the timely interference of the law.
Montana's health officers are no"
| fighting to overcome five cases OF the
disease known as the Rocky mountain
spotted fever which have been re
ported to the state board OF heaith
with three in Musselshell county hea'
Roundup. one in Granite, near pruni
mond, and one in Lewis ana 'iarh
near Helena.
The board of regents OF the I'M
versity of Nevada have increaseu 'n'
salary of President Walter Il. Ia,
$500, making it S12Ooo year '