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Show News Happenings of the Great Intermoiuiiam States 'I'll a Uun county Oregon court rejected re-jected six bids from bond firms on a ?l--".K0 Issue of 5 per cent mud Nonas, $2.r.0(K) maturing In 1!)28 and $100,001' li l',)L'!). None of tin? bids reached par and accrued interest and were declared illegal hy the court. Kor lack of suppcrl on tlie part of tli,: student liody, t'jj Aloiiiilalneur, 1U yearn the official newspaper of the JiitttH Irgh school, will suspend publication. publi-cation. There are nearly 1,000 students stu-dents attending the Butte high, and only rM.) Imve subscribed to t'je high ichool paper. The farmers In the Gem Irrigation district In Idaho will affiliate with the Idaho producers' union, practically 100 per cent. They expect to produce at least 1U0 acres o' lettuce In this territory ter-ritory and will hae sufficient acreage acre-age to warrant the erection of a packing pack-ing plant ir this territory. Gordon G. Brown and Leroy Childs, In -charge of the Hood River experiment experi-ment -station, are urging potato growers grow-ers of the upper valley to affiliate with the Pacini' Northwest Potato Growers' association. Mr. Brown says tlmt growers of this section have lost moiiy annually in not being organized. He riled that they have no standardl-KHtU.ii standardl-KHtU.ii 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 In two near I'asco and In the north end of Umatilla Uma-tilla county. This seemed incredible, tiut K. 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 wl'liiu two hundred feet of his cabin near Currle, Nevada recently. Boofer was engaged in handling -supplies to Lis iaqc'Ii by motor truck. In company wUh Joe Morse a neighbor. Wlien Sie did not put in an appearance for several days Morse became anxious about Ids friend and went up to Ills place to impure of him. It was then that he uiude the gruesome discovery. Twelve, members of the Mazamas, Portland's mountain climbing club were swept by a snowstorm SOU feat down the side of Mary's peak, 10 mllns liurl ser.ously and two men were In- jurd. The climbers, after reaching Hie peak in a blizzard, were sliding on the snow when the avalanche gave way, carrying them down with terrific ter-rific speed and landing them m a ravine, ra-vine, buried in snow. D.ive Oglivie, State Sheep Inspector, for Nevada, came into Eureka from' t'" HiicUwater country where he has been engaged in dipping u number of band of sheep. He states that recently curing cur-ing the extreme cold wave when the thermometer was down to 10 degrees below zero most of the time, lie dipped t-wo haiwls of sheep totalling 3200 head, aud tho'. count of these bands 1-1 days later disclosed that only five of Ue sheep had died or were missing. Judging from the inquiries coming Into tie chamber of commerce from all points ill the country, Butte will lie visited hy 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 tine ellowstone 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 hundreds hun-dreds in the hills west of McDerraitt. Muy of the horses will be caught and shipped to Petuluma for chicken teed. Others will be shot, as they are a great detriment to the cattle and sheep industry in-dustry in the vicinity of Winnemucca, destroying much range. Many fine uitliiiuls are among them and all are wild as df?r. Ouring the five years ending with l(r'0, fire losses in Idaho caused the destruction of property valued at the uston. ailing trtal of $5,763,OS3, according accord-ing to figure' made public by the National Na-tional Board of Fire Underwriters, which compile! the statistlce froui its nctur'al bureau's records. These figures fig-ures reveal in a startling way, Hie price being paid by the state for publ'c ignor-iim'.c ignor-iim'.c anil cue' 'ssncss in handling fire hazards. On the north bound trip the Bridge, port stage bef une snow-bound four miles H'Mith of t' e Mountain house, and Hi,; driver, Wiv Kopple, and Ids five nnsM'i.gei-s, we) compelled to walk f,.:r mill's throu (b three feet of soft snow and the pai'.y readied the mountain moun-tain house late rt night and several of the men were a) nost exhausted from fighting I heir wa: through the deep now, several of tb party falling ex-fcsusted ex-fcsusted aud had to prodded oo bj em. |
