The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-04-28
Northwest NOTES.

Sylvia Dupuis, q, q young ranchel
near Simms, Mont, was killed beneath
the hoofs Of his team.
The end Of the first quarter on thu
purchase Of automobile licenses from
the secretary of state Of Nevada show
an increase over the first quarter o.
1920.
Louis Tolegff, employed at the Con
Imperial mine In Gold Hill, met hi
death when he fell from a cage, his
body falling probably a distance Of al
least 400 feet.
With postal savings deposits Of
$818, $3.50 registered In the Butte post.
office during March, that city ranks
9th among the, s143 offices with de-
posts of 100000 or more.
If necessary a grand jury will be
asked for to probe alleged disclosures
of attempted bribery in connection
with the 100000 funding bond con-
tract let by the city Of Butte last
January.
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Three thousand Nevada ranchers
will be members of the American Farm
Bureau Federation by next fall If the
Nevada Farm Bureau reaches the goal
it has set in a statewide membership
campaign started last week.
Only one race meet will be held IL
Reno this year, and that will open on
May 30, Decoration Day, and will con-
tinue to June %. Instead of being
conducted by outside parties 1t will
dc under the auspices of local peo-
pie.
4 A reduction of seventy-five cents a
day in the wages of mine workers of
the Tonopah and Divide mining dis
4ricts in Nevada has been tentatively
agreed upon by all mining companies
With the exception Of the West End
and Allied.
His mania for talnpering with head
gates and diverting to his land irriga-
kion water which did not belong to
him resulted in the returning of a
verdict by a jury in the district court
at Sheridan, Wyo., finding John Fin
dahl, pioneer rancher, insane.
Representatives of seven large cleo
trical companies of the east besides
numerous electrical men from Mon
tana cities attended the second an
nual convention Of the Montana State
Association of Electrical Dealers and
Contractors at Butte last week. .
The third annual Nevada highway
road race will be held May %, 20 and
80, instead Of June 8, and 5, and in
stead of being limited to stock cars
the gates have been thrown wide open
and any sort of car, racing or other
wise, will be-permitted to start.
Thirty-four dairy herds in the state
of Idaho are now on the tuberculosis
free accredited list, according to the
records of w. A. Sullivan, veterinarian.
Requirements for g herd to be placed
Oh this list are that the herd shall
pass three semi-annual or two annual
tests without showing one "reactor."
Lawrence Bogart and Everett lmpyn,
Camp Lewis soldiers who attacked
Miss Eleanor Sheyer, civilian nurse, at
Tacoma, were badly beaten by other
prisoners when they were lodged i'll
the county Jail. Deputy sheriffs had
difficulty in rescuing the men, who
were severely mauled, kicked and
struck. at
Southern Idaho sheepmen may ship
the Idaho wool crop to eastern mar
kets by water routes via Portland, 1t
is rumored. Prominent southern Idaho
woolgrowers are understood to be
leading an investigation regarding the
possible saving in freight charges
through shipment of the wool clip by
water to Boston.
WOolgrowers Of southern Idaho and
eastern Oregon will ship their 1921
wool clip to Portland, where 1t will
be put in storage until the market
price rises to reasonable value"
when it will be shipped by way of the
Panama canal to Boston at an esti-
mated saving of more than one cent
q pound over the railroad rate.
Blame for the wreck Of the steam
ship Governor, rammed and sunk by
the freighter West Hartford off Port
Townsend, WASH, April l, with the
loss of five lives, has been officially
placed on the pilot of the Governor,
Captain Harry s. Martin and Earnest
Kellenzerger, second mate, and Arne
Hage, third mate of the Governor.
Bozeman, Mont, was visited by a
furious windstorm one day last week.
At it's highest point the wind attained
a velocity of forty-eight miles an hour.
In the outlying districts barns and out
buildings were unroofed and in cases
demolished. Telegraph and telephone
poles in ali directions were blown down
and wire service much interrupted.
Charles D. Storey, member of the
house of representatives Of the Idaho
legislature from Ada county, and
Boise custodian of the state capitol,
was engaged directing the moving Of
+bo door of q vorlt in tho ctota trnoc