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Show fr- 1 -- I T -' I News Happenings of the Great Intermountain States Thirty acres of cantaloupes will be grown at Fernley, Nevada, this year, and possibly forty, according to an announcement an-nouncement made at the farm bureau there recently. Last year only two acres were grown and It is anticipated that cantaloupes may become one of Fernley's staple crops, as it was clearly shown last year that cantaloupes yield prolifically in the district. Buried beneath tons of ore and rock tor six hours, and yet living to tel) the story, fell to the lot of John Sells, of Goddfleld, New, after being rescued. He regained consciousness and an examination ex-amination of his body revealed that no bones were broken, and unless pneumonia pneu-monia should develop he will soon be as good as ever. During the time the men were endeavoring to extricate Sells, he was uncovered on one occasion oc-casion as far down as the knees, but another run of ore resulted which enveloped en-veloped him completely a second time. Sergt Lee Harris of Vale lost hla life at Hampton Roads naval base when the giant airship Roma dived to the earth from a height of 1000 feet and burned. Mrs. W. P. Harris, mother of the aviator, received an official telegram, tele-gram, confirming the news reports ot her son's death. Five hundred and thirty-three names have been affixed to the petition requesting re-questing that the city manager form of government be voted upon at the next election in Baker, Ore. For the second time this winter, Billings and vicinity experienced a temperature of 22 below zero. A rabid coyote chased a child into a barn on a ranch at the south end of Goldfleld, and was about to follow the child into the barn when it was stopped and killed with a hoe by a hired man on the ranch. The coyote was undoubtedly undoubt-edly rabid, as its teeth were broken, its mouth was bleeding badly and it had torn the fur from its back and tail. Twenty-four hours of driving in the teeth of a blizzard punctuated by long periods spent in shov.eling snow from in front of their automobile tramping about uncertainly at night in zero weather with narrow escapes rom becoming lost, was the ordeal of four deputy sheriffs who arrived with two prisoners and a whiskey still in Billings, Bil-lings, Montana, recently. The State Federation of Women's Clubs, and all women's organizations of the state, will make an organized move for the reopening of the women's wo-men's industrial home at Medical Lake, through the next legislature. fhe federation is to make this its main issue during the coming campaign. The home was closed a year ago when the maintenance appropriation was vetoed by Governor Hart of Oregon. The United States reclamation service ser-vice is preparing to lay concrete for the siphon across Snake river east of the King Hill bridge in Idaho. "Weiser now boasts the largest American Legion post in Idaho, according ac-cording to figures sent out by state officers of the Legion. Weiser'a paid-up membership totals 112. During Dur-ing the year, with former service men becoming connected with a host of other activities, practically every post reported a decrease in its membership. member-ship. Weiser was one of the few to not only hold her membership of the year, but to make an increase. Weiser added 11 new members. Louis Shell is the "meanest man" in Denver. Because he bought clothes for his baby, Shell stripped, the infant in the courthouse during his wife's divorce suit. An attorney loaned the mother a coat to cover the child. The Lahontan reservoir in Nevada will be filled this year for the first time since its construction, according to the prediction of reclamation officials of-ficials for the Newlands project. That Nampa, Idaho has a singularly singular-ly efficient manufacturer of high grade stringed musical instruments ia demonstrated by the fact that one lias been sold for $250. Another one has been contracted for at the same price. A majority of the cities in the North-west North-west will charge tourists for the use of camp grounds during 1022, according accord-ing to information which has been gathered by the Rocky Mountain Northwest Tourists camp association, the organization of cities recently formed at a meeting at Spokane, Washington. Tom Moloney is in Carson City, receiving medical attention for injuries in-juries he received from the horns of ,in infuriated cow which he bad been milking in a corral. The animal had a calf which he was handling when he was (tflnr ked by the cow. Befnra he could get out of the way the cow hooked him in the side, the horna Inflicting a pnlnful wound. He was also Irfidly injured by the blow from the animal's head and his doths were torn. |
