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Show INLAND NORTHWEST ( According to the annual report of the county clerk at lieno, 530 marriage mar-riage licenses were issued there during the year l!)l!0. "Jack" Knight, mail airplane pilot, broke all records in a flight from Salt Luke to liock Springs, Wyu., when he flew the distance of 1G5 miles iu one hour. In the hist two years skins of wild animals valued at $10.'J47.S0 have been sold as a result of the efforts o the official hunters stationed in various vari-ous parts of Nevada. In keeping with decisions of the majority ma-jority caucuses, L. 11. Ewart of Cody was chosen speaker of the Wyoming house and W. V. Daley of Kawlins president of the senate. At a meeting of the Sawtooth Wool-growers Wool-growers association in Shoshone, Idaho, it was agreed to reduce sheep-herders' sheep-herders' wages the coming season from $75 to $00 a month. The total property valuation for Montana for 1H20 is $l,G(;s,024,10G compared com-pared with $1,701 ,:JA)0,523 in 1919, according ac-cording to figures announced by the state board of equalization. Notice of a bill for the establishment establish-ment of a court of industrial relations, modeled after that of the state of Kansas, Kan-sas, has been given In the lower house of the Montana legislature. Letters signed "Shadow" and demanding de-manding amounts varying from $25,000 to $10,000 on pain of death and other damage have been received by five prominent meu of Portland. Joseph Conway, aged 21, was killed in a small coal mine uear Hardin, Mont., when a rock weighing 1200 pounds fell from the roof of the mine portal and crushed his head. Louis F. Hart, who has been acting governor of Washington since Governor Gover-nor Ernest Lister retired because o illness in February, 1919, was inaugurated inaugu-rated January 12 as governor of the state. The marriage of Yida Olson and Willie Fong, a white girl and a Chinese Chi-nese of Lewiston, Idaho, which took place last November, has been annulled. The girl was a minor at the time of the ceremony. Missoula poultry men will have the support of the local chamber of commerce com-merce in a determined effort they intend in-tend to make to bring the 1922 convention con-vention of the State Poultry association associa-tion to thnt city. The State Federation of Labor, in session at Boise, Idaho, last week, discussed dis-cussed the "open shop," to which it is opposed und which it proposes to fight with all the forces that can be rallied by organized labor. A garage employee at Melstone, Mont.., named Kilsehote, committed suicide by jumping from the top of the local coal dock, injuring himself so badly that he died while being taken by special train to Itoundiip. Senator Key Pittman has set all doubts at rest regarding his intentions to run for the United States senator-ship senator-ship in 1922. He has wired to Nevada Ne-vada newspapers emphatically stating that he will he a candidate for the position. Organization of a co-operative marketing mar-keting association for handling Oregon's Ore-gon's wheat crop was discussed at sessions ses-sions at Portland of the Oregon Farm Bureau federation. Problems of hay, wool and mohair growers also were considered. The Washington state bonus to soldiers sol-diers of the world war, voted at the November election, will cost $1S,000,-000, $1S,000,-000, James H. Davis, chairman of the appropriation committee of the lower house of the state legislature, announced an-nounced recently. Charles Soticam. member of the Ptiyallup tribe of Indians, died recently re-cently at the age of 110 years. He was a cousin of Chief Seattle, after whom the city of Seattle was named. Soticam vas one of the "head men" of the Puyallup tribe. The sheepmen of the Buhl, Idaho, section have announced a wage reduction re-duction for the current year. Sheep-herders Sheep-herders will be paid from $50 to $00 and board, the amount depending on the length of time they have been previously pre-viously employed iu that capacity. Camp tenders will receive the same V)1 iP. One hundred local unions, having a total membership of f"S7 and affiliated affiliat-ed with 37 national organizations, constitute con-stitute Nevada's quota of organized labor, la-bor, according to the report, and of these railroad employes are shown to have the greater number with four unions and 3!H3 membership. The miners have 10 unions and 1171 membership. mem-bership. A water power bill introduced In the Oregon legislature proposes the creation of a hydro-electric commission commis-sion to make a survey of present hy1ro-electric plants and power projects proj-ects of the state and ascertain the approximate cost of generating electric elec-tric power, looking particularly to the hydro-electric development of the water wa-ter power in the Columbia river gorge. Two soldiers known as Boyd Ellis and Walter McCleary were arrested at Vancouver, Wash., charged with holding up and robbing an automobile driver and three persons at a refreshment refresh-ment resort, later engaging in a pistol duel with pursuing police. Count and Countess Vigo Holstein liathlou of Denmark, the latter formerly for-merly the wife of Dr. I'.oy A. Miles Coiiins. killed in Portland in lfion. were arrested at Spokane last week by United States immigration authoritie.-and authoritie.-and are being held for possible de norration. |
