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Show News Happenings of the Great Interm mldh States The Linn county Oregon court re-; re-; jected six bids from bond f nns on a 1 (125,000 issue of 5 per ceill r ad bonds, ?li",0-:X) nurturing In ltfclS an tl J100.0U' in 1920. None of the bids reached par j and accrued Interest and ft'Cf. declared illegal by rhe court. For lack of support on the part of I the student body, the Mou:i.a!neer, 10 years the official newspaper of the i Butte high school, will suspend publl-i publl-i cation. There are nearly 1,000 students stu-dents attending the Butte high, and only 500 have subscribed to the high school paper. The farmers in the Gem irrigation district in Iduho will affiliate witli the Idaho producers' union, practically 100 per cent. They expect to produce at least 100 acres of lettuce in this terr ritory and will have sufficient acreage acre-age to warrant the erection of a packing pack-ing plant in this territory. Gordon G. Brawn and Leroy Chllds, in charge of the Hood River expert-ment expert-ment station, are urging potato growers grow-ers of the upper valley to affiliate with the Pacific Northwest Potato Growers' association. Mr. Brown says that growers of this section have lost mousy annually in not being organized. He -cited that they have no standardi-zatlf.a standardi-zatlf.a of grades and plant, their acreage acre-age without regard to standardizing varieties. A month ago jackrabbits were so hungry they were reported to have gnawed the telephone poles la two near Pnsco and in the north end of Umatilla Uma-tilla county. This seemed incredible, but R. T. Jackson of the United Sstates biological survey verified the report of rats killing calves, which was not believed until the acual evidence was seen. Thomas Boofer was found dead wi'Jiin two hundred feet or his cabin near Currie, Nevada recently. Boofer was engaged in handling -supplies to his ianch by motor truck. In company witli Joe Morse a neighbor. When he did not put in an appearance for several days Morse became anxious about his friend and went up to his place to inquire of him. It was then that be made the gruesome discovery. Twelve members of the Mazamas, Portland's mountain climbing club were swept by a snowstorm 300 feat down the side of Mary's peak, 10 milos hurt seriously and two men were Injured. In-jured. The climbers, after reaching the peak in a blizzard, were sliding on Die snow when the avalanche gave way, carrying them down with terrific ter-rific speed and landing them in a ravine, ra-vine, buried in snow. Dave Oglivie, State Sheep Inspector, for Nevada, came into Eureka from tn-1 Duckwater country where hu has been engaged in dipping a number of banda of sheep. He states that recently during dur-ing the extreme cold wave when the thermometer was down to 10 degrees below zero most of the time, 'he dipped uwo bauds of sheep totalling 3200 head, and that a count of these bands 14 days later disclosed that only five of the sheep had died or were missing. Judging from the inquiries coming into the chamber of commerce from all points in the country, Butte will be visited by more automobile tourists tour-ists this year than ever before in the history of the state. Inquiries from the middle west show that many plan to motor over t)ue Yellowstone Trail and the Park to Park highway. A large number will also come from southern states, according to present indications. Inland Northwest It Is rumored there will be a general gen-eral roundup of wild horses In the spring, these abounding by the hnn-dreds hnn-dreds in the hills west of McDermitt. Many of the horses will be caught and shipped to Petaluma for chicken teed. Others will be shot, as they are a great detriment to the cattle and yheep industry in-dustry in the vicinity of Winnemucca, destroying much range. Many fine animals are among them and all are as wild as d??r. During the five years ending with 20, fire losses in Idaho caused the destruction of property valued at the astonishing trtal of $5,763,083, according accord-ing to figure made public by the National Na-tional Board of Fire Underwriters, which compiled the statistice from its acturial bureau's records. These figures fig-ures reveal in a startling way, Hie price being paid by the state for publ'c ignorance ignor-ance and carelessness in handling fire hazards. On the north bound trip the Bridgeport Bridge-port stage bee ime snow-bound four miles south of t1 e Mountain house, and tho driver, Wn Koppie, and his five passengers, we; compelled to walk four utiles throu :h three feet of soft snow and the pat '.y reached the mountain moun-tain house late ft night and several of the men were a) nost exhausted from fighting their waj through the deep snow, several of tb party falling exhausted ex-hausted and had ta be prodded oo by e Lb erg. |
