The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1921-02-25
NORTHWEST NOTES

| HtHiptTs turing lH-l.
Sixty years ago. in 1861. Gold HUI,
Nevada had population of l.a1. and
before the current YEAR has passed into
history those figures may again be
riyalled
number of Fruita, Colo. stockmen
have incorporated new cattle com
pany, 10 be known as the Douglas
Greek Cattle company. with ranches in
eastern Utah.
/ La a jealous rage. Elmer Harding
80, at Spokane. killed his brother, Carl
Harding, -, and then shot his wife
so desperately that she died soon after,
killing himself with The same weapon
/ Opening an allotment of the lands
of the Belknap Indian reservation in
Montana by enactment OF pending leg
i>lation before congress is urged in IA
memorial introduced in the Montana
| legislature.
| County Officers in Nevada would
| serve four-year terms and The state
| legislature would hold quadrennial SEES
sessions If two proposed amendments
large Legislation through which they
must pass
The federal prohibition enforcement
| agent for the state Of Washington has
announced that additional enforcement
officers with Il fleet of airplanes and
seatraft will he necessary before boot
/ logging across the Canadian border can
he stopped.
Invitations have been extended by
the Utah state farm bureau Ia the
state farm bureaus Of Nevada. MNom-
ing. Idaho and Montana 10 send repre-
sentatiyes 10 the labor and wooIgrow-
ers' conference To he held in Ogden
February II and Is
+. X. Mulkey. brakeman on the
Southern Pacific. was caught in the act
of rohbing car ~ Hyndon. New, and
has been sentenced 10 one year in the
Nevada state prison Ryndon lived
in Ogden. Utah. where he has wife
and ii small child.
Judge Dunn OF Littleton Colo, sit
! ting in the criminal division of the
Denver county court. has decided that
| # II can be proved that fhe liquor is
not manufactured for sale or gift"
II home brewer can not he convicted
of violating the prohibition laws
Reductions of from s. to 81 n thou
sand feet on common grades of lumber
effective immediately, are announced
by the Weyerhauser Sales company
which controls the sales of number
Of companies on the Pacific coast. ac-
cording to advices from Spokane.
The Oregon legislature believes that
| jurisdiction of world governments
should be extended from the short line
of their mainland II miles at sea in.
stead of three miles aS now The
senate has passed a resolution asking
congress 10 take action necessary 10
bring this about.
A lone masked bandit held up the
police station AT Black foot Idaho.
| forced the city clerk who was on duty
into "A vault and robbed the office Of
$50. Firemen in the fire station ad.
| joining the police station heard the i'm.
prisoned clerk tapping on the vault
walls aud rescued him.
| The marketing committee Of the
Montana State Union. American So
ciety of Equity. recommended AT the
annual convention nj Great Falls. Feb
ruary l., that 2ooNn or 100000
bushels of wheat be shipped to western
and coast markets Immediately The
report WAS adopted by the organiZa-
| ton
| signed the Scott bin amending the
present divorce law 81 ~ To eliminate
! the MARY Piekfordn type of divorce
| in Nevada. The measure provides that
no action for divorce may be Instituted
/ unless ut least one party To the action
shall have been resident of Nevada
iii least six months
Resolutions adopted hy the mining
men in session mt Boise. Idaho. inelud-
| ed an Endorsement of senate bill 4aT1.
! introduced into congress by Senator
Chamberlain. which provides for an
/ amendment OF the present 6i0-acre
! homestead law. which Is working such
| All injustice To the pfospe"inr through
| out the public land states
\. When, 90. rancher diving
eighteen miles from Eugene ore. and
| his wife. ~. were found at their home.
shot To death \ revolver lay behind
Wheat's body and a note. pnrporting
To have been written by him and ad-
dressed to brother in Portland. said
he was about 10 Kill his wife and him
self because they had qua rreled.
James Rush aged 10. OF longmmnt.
Colo. earned The enmity Of hi school
mates because nf hiS prowess with his
fists. having whipped nearly every
youugsier IN school One afternoon
last week a number Of the bids
pounc,d upon him and hung him from
tree with n rol,@ An officer hap
peued along and ent him down The
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