The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-04-04
NORTHWEST NOTES

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announced a voluntary wage reduction
from IS to 81 day. The purpose o
the cut is to stimulate building, it wa
said.
The League of the Southwest vii
hold Il meeting at Denver April Is an,
16 to cons,d der plans for urging of re
clamation legislation before congress
at Washington.
Wages of nearly $500 men belongin;
10 fifteen Denver building crafts Were
cut from 81 to $1.3O day by an orde
of the COLORADO industrial commission
issued last week.
-Four. persons, all residents Of Ore
ION, are dead and another injured as .
result CT the autOlloDile in which the.
4 were riding running OFF the Columbia
4 highway near Astoria. Z n
The Tonopah town levy for 1927 vii
be S446 per 500 compared with $3.3,
for the preceding year on an assessed
ialult.on of $4,000 COO compared witt
81, 159,l21S0 for 1920
Montana was brought under the Vol
stead act Oh March - through ap
prONal by both houses of the legislative
assembly of senate bill Z, which makes
the state liquor law conform to the
f deral law.
| The city school board at LeWstourn,
I Mont., has purchased a tract of land
upon which fine, modern school
building will be erected at once at a
cost of $4,000, the money being on
hand from the sale of bonds.
| Indictments against twenty-one al
legged Industrial Workers of the World,
who had been out on 500 bail each
since their arrest during raids more
than year ago, were dismissed in
circuit court at Portland last week.
1t is announced that Z. Blake Ken
nedy of Cheyenne will be appointed to
the federal bench in Wyoming as soon
as vacancy occurs, and that H. l..
Patton Of Casper will be appointed
United States marshal for Wyoming.
AS In most other potato growing Sec
tons of the country, the growers in the
Yakima Valley, Washington, this
spring are disappointed in the prevail
ing prices and are holding approx
mately 1000 cars of potatoes still I'M
sold.
l. One hundred acres planted in can
taloupes in the Faflow, Nevada, section
is the object of the Cantaloupe Grow
ers' association. FOrty-five members
have signed up for growing total of
30 acres, and still others are expected
to sign up.
In the Greeley district of northern
Colorado 1850 cars of potatoes remain
ed March 1, according to the local field
station of the U. S. Bureau of Markets.
Of these, $3.50 are stored in farmers
dugouts. OF this stock probably only
700 cars will be shipped.
Appearing blue and depressed, Mike
Burzan, who shot and killed former
Traffic Officer Phil Prlja at Butte,
spends much Of his time pacing back
and forth in his cell in the county Jail,
where he ran and gave himself up
following the shooting.
A general Improvement in unemploy-
ment conditions in the state of Wash
ington is announced in statement by
w. G. Carpenter, federal employment
director Of the Pacific Northwest.
Especially in farming communities is
work becoming more plentiful.
Just day after his old business |
partner, George e. Teeters, died in
Bannack, Mont, Finley r. Wayne, a
resident, Of Montana for almost 40 |
years, passed away lat his home in
Dillon. The two were associated in
business for years in Bannack.
Citizens of the United States who
are bcna-fide residents Of Nevada will
be charged the sum Of $1.5O for either
a hunting or fishing license in Nevada.
U. s. citizens. who are not residents
Of Nevada must pay So for a fishing /
license and $40 for hunting permit.
Governor Hart has forwarded to Il
Secretary A. b. Fall of the interior
an invitation to visit the
state Of Washington during the dry
season next summer to view the arid
sections of the state. The governor
specified July, August or September
for the visit.
"Oregon is pleased at the selection
If western man to be secretary of
he interior in President Harding's II
cabinet, and it Is more than pleased at
he selection Of former Governor Spry II
% be commissioner Of the land office"
declares United States Senator Robert
Y. Stanfield Of Oregon.
In report made by a censorship
of the Ministerial associa-
ion Of Missoula, Mont, 1t threatens 4
hat the churches may 60 into the NOV
ng picture business because Of the
lass of films shown by Missoula pic
ure houses. Not all Of the pictures
ire classed as bad, however. HI
Colorado sugar companies are re-
'orted to have offered the sbeet grow
~ 81 per ton for sugar beets. As
ct the growers have not signed the
OntractS. hoping to get better prices. U|