The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-02-24
NORTHWEST notes

The annual income of Nevada on
bonds in 1921 will be S135,OoO. For
1922 and 1928 the earnings will be
$13S,5OO and $4,000 respectively.
1t soon will be possible to hire an
aerial livery car for quick trip from
Billings, Mont, to other points in the
state, according to the purposes Of
company just formed.
Failure of Ed McCarty, Is years old
to stop when ordered to do so by Spe.
cial Officer Peterson at Butte, caused
the officer to shoot him through the
fleshy part of the left leg.
Following a quarrel with her hus-
band, against whom she had just fled
divorce proceedings, Mrs. Ocie McMul-
len ended her life with a bullet from
.38 calibre revolver at her home in
Whitefish, Mont
The remains of a gigantic pre-his-
toric animal were partially uncovered
recently in the gypsum beds being
worked by the White Star Plaster
company, about six miles southeast
of MOapa, Nevada.
Carl HOwelson of Steamboat
Springs, Colo, with a jump of "a feet,
| won the ski riding contest in the ma
tional championship class of the Rocky
Mountain Ski club held at Genesee
mountain, near Denver
The bill authorizing Elko county to
issue bonds to provide bonus Of
$4,000 to encourage and assist the
building Of the proposed railroad from
Twin Falls, Idaho, TO Wells. has been
passed by the Nevada assembly.
Despite the fact that the people of
the state at the general election last
November turned it down by ma
jority of $4,000 votes, the house COM
mittee of the whole has recommended
for passage Governor Dixon's tax com
mission bill.
One Of the interesting features of
the meeting of the council Of the Gen
eral Federation Of Womens clubs in
Salt Lake next June will be the eX-
hibition of d collection Of rare Indian
baskets from Nevada, to be in charge
of Nevada club women.
Paul Schaefer, former teller in the
North Side bank, at Seattle, recently
ordered closed by the state bank COM
missioner, confessed he had en-
bezzled money from the bank and
loaned it to members of ring Of boot
leggers operating in Seattle.
In the hope of eliminating some of
the misunderstanding between the
farmers of the territory and the bust
ness men of Billings, Mont, the local
Rotary club has resolved itself into
forum for the discussion of griev-
ances which the farmers entertain.
There is movement on foot among
Anaconda spOrtsmen to introduce quail
into that section of Montana in the
spring. Men conversant with the gen.
eral habits of this game bird are en-
dOrsing the move and say that this
section of Montana is ideally situated
for the purpose.
A. CerfOglio, proprietor of soft
drink establishment at Carson City.
New, whose conviction for perjury
followed verdict of guilty in case
in which he was accused of having
liquor at his place of business, has
been sentenced to a term of from one
to fourteen years in states prison.
Another sheep outrage Is reported
on the Colorado Utah line. Two I'M
identified men called at the blue noun
tain sheep camps, seventy-five miles
southwest of Grand Junction, Colo,
and held up John Adolphus and Her
man Peters, sheepherders. Their out
fits were saturated with oil and
match applied.
Portland is preparing to be host to
the third annual international mining
convention to be held April to 8.
Fifteen hundred delegates, exclusive
of their families, will attend and will
represent territory covering Alaska,
British Columbia, and the six states of
Montana, Idaho, Washington, Oregon,
California and Nevada.
Decision to recommend to the bank
ers Of Montana that the 1921 wool clip
in this state be shipped to warehouses
licensed by the federal government,
and that advances to wool growers be
made on negotiable receipts for wool
stored in those warehouses was
reached by members of the executive
council of the Montana Bankers asso-
citation.
Disabled soldiers and sailors of the
world war will be required to pay in
come tax on money received from the
federal government as compensation,
in the event their total income
to more than $1,000 year in |
the cases of single men and $1,000 in |
the cases of married men, it is an
The Salt Lake office of the United |
States secret service has completed an |
of recent communicating