The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1921-01-07
NORTHWEST NOTES

Less than "a per cent of the total |
area of Utah is privately owned farm
Ing land, according 10 a table Included
engineer.
Farmers on the Mnidoka reclama-
ton project in idaho are endea voring
to build up large dairy herds on for
age crops which cannot be marketed at
the present time.
Charles w. Ii. Young. of Winnie
mucca. New. was killed when the
automobile in which he was riding
ran into the rear of large truck. be-
mig driven on the road between Reno
anc Sparks.
Proposal that $50 employees of the
Great Northern shops AT Great Falls.
Mont, each work shorter hours to save
sixty of their number from being laid
off entirely has been made by the men
themselves.
ly burned ut her home near Battle
Mountain. Nev., by the explosion of
a gasoline lamp. Her clothing caught
| fire and she was Immediately enve-
| lc.ed in flames.
Jesse Garfield, sheriff of Golden
| Valley county, died at Billings, Mont.
of injuries inflicted by lunatic home
steamer, who later burned to death
when a posse fired his cabin after an
all-night gun battle.
| A skidding automobile. driven by I'll.
+, Russell at Billings, Mont. struck
Freddie Foulkes. years old, and
broke his left leg. The boy was at
| tempting to avoid another car when
the Russell auto skidded.
Hay producers of the state of Ne
vada are petitioBing the Southern Pa
c;fic company to meet the recent rate
reductions made from Idaho points 10
| Missouri river points, and reduce the
present charges of $50 ton to $40 a
ton.
When the census was taken last
January the bureau found 1,69l .795
sheep on the farms and ranches Of
Utah, as against l,67O,S90 in 1910. In
Idaho the enumerators found 2,356,21U
sheep, as against 2,110,330 ten years
ago.
Matt Mccain. sheriff of Hill county,
Mont. was acquitted in federal court
of knowingly receiving pay from the
United States for board for a United
States prisoner white the prisoner
was employed on the Hill county poor
farm.
When neighbors called by his wife
entered the home of Ralph Burgess,
at Cut Bank, Mont, they found Bur
CESS lying on the floor in pool OF
blood and a bullet wound entirely
through the body. Burgess claims ht
accidentally shot himself
Interfering in another's family quar-
rel cost the life of Mrs. Mary Smith
60 years old at Denver. She was sho
, and killed by Phillip Greek. who toll,
. the police after his arrest that he was
so angry he did not know what he wa'
doing. Mrs. Smith was visiting at the
Greek home.
Frank Lamy, prospector and owne
of the Sourdough claims near Hughes
vile, Mont, Judith Basin county, Il
the man who has been sought 70
years by relatives in Menominee
Mich. to share the estate of hi
brother, Frank Lamy's share will b.
from $4,000 to $4,000.
r As IA result of a test case argue'
: in the district court ut Livingston
y Mont, the supreme court will be aske'
n to pass upon the question of whethe
= the state equalization board has con
r plete authority over the hearing of tn
!. protests or whether the matter come
within the jurisdiction of courts q
law.
= Investigation has failed to clear u
: the mystery connected with an q,
p:osion which shook the town of Mon
2 tesano, Wash. December -. Til
J finding of twenty feet of fuse at III
scene of the explosion, a vacant l.
near the Northern Pacific station,
believed by the police 10 Indicate this
an outrage was planned, but the d
ject of attack is still mystery.
Il. c. White. Democrat. elected
the state senate from Fergus count
Mont. two years ago. still has ~
}. years to serve upon his term of off,
h and intends to retain his office
1t sliie OF the fact that the creation
IS Judith Basin county took his preein
q our OF fhe old county of Fergus.
,r order to retain his office. Senat'
White will maintain a residence
ne Lew stown.
= Nibbe is Montana's newest tow
Nv II WAS officially created by the Mo
e tana railroad commission. which act,
80 ~ umpire between proponents of Il
ie toNnsites OF Pompeys Pillar, Roe
:, br dye and Nibbe, the Northern L
lie Cific raili DAD and farmers living
., Yellowstone county for distance
thirty miles north of Nibbe and vi
=, want The place put on the map for