The Idaho recorder., 1921-11-18

Coffee Creek, Montana, suffered
$4,000 fire.
Three new oil wells are reported al |
Devils Basin. Montana.
Pueblo, Colorado, miners have an
nounced strike In case their wages |
are reduced.
George X. Edwards and Harry Kress- |
we'll of Butte were drowned in Browns |
lake in Blaekfoot county. six miles |
f. Brockwell of Butte. the men were |
hunting ducks when their boat over
turned
Ii the request which Scout Execu-
tive benjamin Owens of Butte to the
national executive council Is granted,
ti6I 600 Boy Scouts of the United
States will aid In the search for the
Pickett family OF Butte which disap-
peared some time between July IL and
Oct. -. 1921.
Additional proposals to the applica-
tlon of carriers To the interstate COM
merce commission for reductions in
transcontinentai freight rates 10 Mon
tana will show even greater discrim-
ination against jobners and manufac-
turerS of the nlermountain region than
the original application.
Changes in methods and manner of
! fighting forest fires are expected To
result from the big conference of for.
estry experts to he held in San Fran
cisco soon and which conference is ex-
pccted to result IN the adoption of
new and better fire lighting methods
which will revolutionlze existing me-
thods.
Mrs. Buck Stauson OF Chandler, Ok
H., was Instantly killed and several
others were slightly, and possibly SER
iously injured, when stage bound for
Phoenix. Ariz., from Tempe, east Of
Phoenix, overturned mile and n half
west of Tempe Mrs Stauson was one
of the II passengers on the stage when
1t overturned
The defense In The trial of big Tim"
Murphy and others charged With inn
plication In the S350,O0o mail robbery
at the Dearborn street station at Chi
cago last April, closed its case without
putting big Tim" on the stand. Less
than one day was taken up by the de-
fense.
Darius NJ Trlmble. deputy state fire
inspector, in justice court nj Lincoln,
Neb pleaded guilty To robbing the Id
berty theater of between $500 and
$1,000 Lee tnrrull, doorman of the
iheater. charged with being an accom-
plice in the robbery, pleaded not gull.
~.
The following appeared In n Boise,
Idaho, paper fifty years ago; The
Montana people are suffering pan
ic OF high prices from the oper-
alton of corner" made by three or
four OF the lending grocery and provi-
sions dealers. When they get rail
road This thing will be played out.
= Arthur &. Burch. indicted for mur-
t der IN connection with the Staying of
: j. BeIton Kennedy, broker, mt Los An.
0 selcs last August, was adJudged legal
~ sane by Superior Judge n. Reeve
be granted sanity trial before trial
of llle murder case.
The memory OF the late Franklin X
!. Lane is to be perpetuated through one
Y OF the loftiest peaks in the Tatoosl
Vt range within Mount Rainier national
ounced Saturday that the geographi,
board had decided 10 name the peal
= Mount Lane
Inc eleventh annual Pacific Inter
national Livestock exposition wa
r opened few days ago. The paviIloni
:. we're filled to capacity with fine cattle
hogs. horses, sheep and goats Nor,
Than 300 entries, ribbon winners II
Y the largest shows In tne country, wer'
K on exhibition.
'e Charles II Cassill. former preslden
D. of the First State bank Of Ovusda
e Mont, WAS sentenced In district conr
" at Deer Lodge, Mont, 70 serve frou
three To six years in tie state peni
tentiarg. and his son. Scott X Cass!i
former cashier, was sentenced Ia serr
from one to three years. The Cassill