The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1922-07-21
News Happenings
Of the Great
lntermountam States

hingsvilie. Ontario.-Eddie Sander.
son. schoolboy from Bellngham. Wash.
was rescued as he was being burned
at the stake in a woods beyond the
eit! ny irate youngsters, who resent
| eo the attention he was receiving
from Popular girl OF Kingsville.
sacramento, Cal.-An army of
worms. which is travelling along a
front Of nearly mile and in a north.
cry direction from the vicinity of
nierraVllle, Cal, has been reported to
the state department OF agriculture
marry \. Smith. entomologist of the
| department, said they were LARVAE of
tpe sphinx moth. Some of the large
worms are described as being ahou,
| iour ihches long and trifle larger
'iiah lead pencil, while the smaller
ones are about two and a half inches
in length.
| behNer-Reports received at Den
yer IRE department headouorters
sl'te that the forest fire which broke
out IN the Turkey Creek district, four
miles south of Morrison. 10 was
nhzing over an extent of more than
square mile Members of the DEN
yer IRE department have been dis
patched to help volunteers fight the
| flames
SAT- Lake.-Dr. Arthur L. Murray,
surgeon for the United States bureau
OF mines, has completed paper ON
the economic relation of accidents
ana preventable diseases to the coal
mining industry, in which the cost Of
accidents in coal mining camps in this
state is shown to be very large, bur
the losses Through disease. typhoid
ana smallpox being taken as basis
are oy no means insignificant. In
lo-oi9Zl the costs of accidents in
tan coal mining camps are estimat.
ed at 1881 OPT. The aggregate losses
due to accidents for the years studied
says DR., Murray, approximate II cents
FOR every ton OF coal mined.
Cheyenne.-A freight saving of SIS
TO $50 a car for sheep producers has
Deen erected by the decision of the
interstate commerce commission re-
ducing the sheep weight minimum cars
50 feet and Z inches in length from
z'oOo TO $4,000 pounds. The deci-
sion established a 1900 pound min.
lmum for cars more than 80 feet :
inches long and less than 40 feet, and
1000 pounds for cars more than 40
feet long.
Boise.-Flashing around the track
on the beginning of the second lap
IN the final five mile auto race at the
state fair grounds, Jack Murray
skidded at the one-elghth mile post
and his car left the track and vaulted
fully 35 feet iRto the marshy ground
along small irrigation ditch. Murray
suffered serious fracture of the left
thigh and badly skinned and bruised
left lower arm. The car was COM
pletely wrecked. ~
Great Falls.-Durng a wind storm
here, the roof was blown off the grand
stand in Earring baseball park, In
which between 500 and 900 persons
were seated Ultimately the flying
wreckage was carried to the rear
about 100 feet and struck in an area
which the police, sensing danger be-
fore the crash came, had been able
Salt Lake.-M. ]. Camomile, 80, was
fined $40 by City Judge n. II. Tanner
Monday for throwing a lighted cigar
into the mouth of bear at the 700
at Liberty park Sunday. The Judge
scored the defendant
Boise-Seeking a permanent home
for his treasured books on mining and
geology, Joseph ]. Taylor of Mont
pelier, who is spoken OF here as "the
father OF phosphate In Idaho" has
given his collection Of 500 volumes
to the university school of mines.
Boise.-Federai looms made to Ida
no farmers TO purchase seed total
more than $4,000 according TO re-
port received by agricultural stats
tician Of the Idaho crop reporting ser
vice. from the farmers seed loan OF
! fiji, Grand Forks. y. Oak. A total o.
| 1G7 loans was made in IL counties Of
the state, and the average amount 81
each loan was s14T.SO. The Est OF
counties where loans were made to
| ear+har with the number and amount