The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1921-12-16
INLAND NORTHWEST

Careful Investigation has disclosed
growing prevalency in the use OF
narcotics by high school children OF
Seattle.
Approximately 10000 bushels Of
wheat have been sold in Pendleton,
Ore. the last week at an average price
of SO cents net.
Claim owners in Humboldt county
New, are greatly exercised. over what
may be an important discovery of
platinum.
Approximately $12 900 worth Of reg
changed for bonds Issued out of the
S530,OO0 issue recently floated by the
Silver Bow County, Mont, officials.
An artesian well has recently been
brought in, near Schellbourne, New,
which produces a flow of warm water
at the rate Of over $50 gallons to the
minute.
series Of exhibitions of the work
of Utah artists to be given under
the direction of the University of Utah
Art guild will be opened in the art
gallery of the John II. Park building
in Salt Lake.
Representatives of the social, civic
and religious organizations of Price,
Utah, met and effected temporary
organization, pursuant to the establish
ment of municipal year-around re-
creation system"
city of Soda Springs, Idaho, for 1921
are almost prohibitive. In many cases
the taxes for 1920 remain unpaid, the
levy on each $1,000, exclusive of sewer
and sidewalk taxes, is 1888.
The Washington Growers associa-
ton, composed Of growers of prunes in
Clarke county, Washington. and which
handles the crop on a cooperative
basis, this week dropped into the mails
checks tOtaling more than $165.0 for
part of the 1921 crop.
Sixteen cars Of blister copper from
McGill were shipped. This probably
leaves less than fifty cars of the orr
ginal 10000 tons on hand and at the
same rate that shipments have been
made recently all should be moved
within the next two or three weeks.
Frank Conley,' former warden of the
state penitentiary, under fire by Gov
ernor Dixon came to Helena to demand
that the governor convene the board Of
prison commissioners and give him an
opportunity to- answer every charge
in the Macdonald report in detail
The establishment of national mon
ument surrounding the entrance to Leh-
man, cave, near Baker New, in this
county, is subject which has re-
ceived some attention Of late, and when
the facts are considered interest in the
matter appears to grow rapidly in the
minds of those who give it more than
passing thought.
For the past 10 years the journalism
Of hn p,,tt to-,
out very we'll edited school paper
called the MOuntaineer. The class of
Journalism studies the best and newest
methods of news writing as advocated
by the leading newspaper men of the
United States, which they put into
practice in the writing of their paper.
Beet sugar molasses, which has been
regarded as food fit only for livestock.
Is to be turned into commercial pro-
duct. containing seven pounds of sugar
to the gallon, free from impurities. a
wholesome food, and of a standard
which complies in every respect with
the pure food laws of the United
States.
The overhead railroad crossing ;Nd
bridge on the Old Oregon trail this
side of Huntington will be one of the
finest structures of Its kind in eastern
Oregon. The bridge carries the cross.
ing over the railroad and is a bridge
over Burnt river at the same time
The concrete floor of part OF The bridge
has been completed and the remainder
should be completed in a short time.
A monument costing all the way
from $4,000 TO $4,000 is to be erected
at Brownsville, Ore, in honor of the
pioneers of that section of the state.
Recent heavy rains in the vicinity of
Reddington, Ariz.. have uncovered the
burial grounds of a race of gaint peo-
pie who are thought to have lived
thousands of years ago, according to a