The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1920-03-05
NORTHWEST NOTES

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poultry show ami farmers short CO..
WIN De held IN Harlowton ,on, ~
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I What is believed TO he the sirst cow
punchers' union in the county Is be-
ing organized in Reno under the d.
rection Of the trades and labor council.
| Half-wild cattle with smaii bodies
and long horns are slowly bur surely
being supplanred by heavier and bet
ter stock ON the ranges Of eastern
Montana
Ben Durkee, chief operator In Port
land for the Postal Telegraph com
pany and one time champion receiving
operator of the United States, died
last week at the age Of AZ.
| A leaky valve In the engine room
at the plant Of the Billings Gas com
| pany caused an explosion which prac-
ticaiiy demolished the building. but did
no material damage to the machn-
/ cry.
The country about Great Falls and
Missoula will be helped by an amend
ment to the original reclamation acr
WHICH provided th.' wafer shou,d no
used fot ...r.gation and townsite pur-
poses.
Between $4,000 and $4,000 annual
| ~. 1t is estimated. will be. saved tax
payers of Cascade county. Montana,
ii the splan now under consideration
to combine the city and county jails,
is adopted
The referendum on the closed pri-
mary law. passed as AN emergency
measure by the extraordinary session
Of the Montana legislature last August,
is to be attacked in the supreme court.
/ it is announced.
.,e permitted his liberty while
he earns money sufficient 10 pay Off
Il fine of $500 at the rate of SO II
month is the rather unusual experience
of Frank A. Pike, formerly postmas-
ter at Pike, Mont.
Petitions are being circulated In
Pompey's Pillar on the Huntley rec
lamation project east of Billings, Mont.
proposing that the entire community
of 40 houses and residences be moved
two and half miles west.
Never having fully recovered from
the '.gassing" he received while il
. service in France and which Is believed
TO have affected his mind. Fred Spell
man, aged 33. committed suicide OF
a ranch near Great Falls. Mont.
: There were $4,000 fewer range cat
tie i'm Wyoming on the first of thi
year than year ago and 100000 fewe
sheep. according to the 1920 livestocl
report. recently issued by the govern
ment department of agriculture.
Following trial mt Mondak. Mont
on charge of murder for the killini
of Art Williams last October. Joe Bur
shia was found guilty of murder in tn
second degree and. his punishment
fixed at Imprisonment from II TO 3
years.
The Denver scale of prices wa
adopted at the Idaho Beetgrowers
meeting at Pocatello, asking ST. pc
ton for beets with sugar at 8 cent
and a raise of $l.5O per ton for eacl
cent rise in the seaboard price q
sugar.
Although there was more tLan on
hundred per cent increase in deaths Il
Salt Lake for the week ending Febru
airy 20. compared with the same perio
last year. the number was exceeded b
births. which totaled ninety-two 70
the week.
:. Establishment of proposed expert
o ment station of the United States bu
Q reau Of mines at Moscow, Idaho, rattle
than mt Reno, New. was urged in
resolution adopted by the convention Q
the Northwest Mining association
E meeting at Spokane.
: Hugh NJ Caldwell, former army ms
jor. and James Duncan, secretary G
y the Seattle central labor council. an
one of the leaders In the general strik
at Seattle year ago, have been nom
mated to contest for Seattle mayoral,
. In the election March ,.
= Many thousands of dollars have Jul
been paid to the state of Wyoming J
=, the federal government 10 be used Il
!. road and school purposes. This none
. Is portion of the receipts of n
:. Wyoming national forest for the fisci
n year ending June 30, 1919.
Reward of $1,000 has been offered !
~ the governor of Nevada for the ca
I'd fure. dead or alive. of two unknow
es men who are alleged Ia have shot aT
Id killed A. l.. ST. Clair, constable
" Deeth. New, and seriously wounds
h. George Requa. deputy sheriff.
40 While cutting timber near Harlo'
ton. Mont. William Warren was )
vereiy injured by falling tree. n
lie tree, falling In an unexpected dire