The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1908-12-24
NEWS SUMMARY

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away with $4,000.
The bill prepared by the postal re-
vision commission will probably be
presented to congress during the
week.
The Rose county option law was
declared constitutional by Judge
Duncan of the common pleas court at
Finlay. Ohio,
The eonstitutionality OF Pennsyl.
vania's two-cent fare law is again at.
tackled in an equity suit filed in the
common pleas court of Pittshurg.
A New York chauffeur convicted for
the third time OF violation OF the au.
tomobile speed laws, was sentenced
to pay fine OF $3.50 and spend thirty
days in Jail.
Triplets we're born last week "a
Mr.. and Mrs. Ambrose L. Calhoun OF
Columbus. Ga This couple now has
twenty-five children. The father is
So years old.
John Solomon and Frank BAblnsEv
we're killed by an explosion os dust
following a windy shot In the Spring.
field Colliery company's mine at
Springfield. H.
Speaker Cannon has made known
his unalterable opposition TO the pro.
position OF financing waterways i'm.
improvements by the issuance OF
government bonds
Charges of criminal libel preferred
against Omar X. Benedict, manager
OF the Oklahoma City Times, by
Governor Charles n. Haskell OF OK.
iahoma. have been dismissed.
Licking county, Ohio last week
voted dry by 700, doing away with
eighty-four saloons Harding county
was carried by the "drya" by 1900.
Twenty'one saloons are affected
The town OF Pine Blur. Ark. Is
again endangered by food waters of
the Arkansas river. and unless some
plan is conceived 10 check the wa
tiers there win be heavy property
loss.
James Gordon Bennett has present.
cd TO the French Aero club an inter.
national aviation cup, valued at
$4,000. as well as three sums OF $4,000
TO be added as prikes IN the urst
three annual competitions.
A concurrent resolution proyld
ing for the appointment OF three sen
ators and three representatives "a
: make the necessary arrangements
for the Inauguration OF President
Taft has been adopted by the senate
In a speech to the delegates In at
tendance upon the Southern Com
norcial Congress, held in Washing
ton, James Bryce, the British embaa
sador. expressed the conviction tha
n great future is about TO dawn upor
the south.
Appropriations aggregating $500.
200 were made at the annual meetinl
of the board OF trustees OF the Car
negie institution of Washington
This amount Is to be used In 1870.
merely TO continue projects hereto
fore initiated
II develops that some one stole
pocketbook containing $500 belong
ing TO Senior Don Juan Barrlos, minis
ter OF foreign affairs OF Guatemala
Is he was lying unconscious by The
roadside after an automobile accident
near washington
The ooroners jury In the inques
o, Trlncbera. Colo. into the KILLING
Of the Garcia family, returned n yer
dict that the five persons had beer
I ~.
who then committed suicide by blow
Ing out his brains.
President Roosevelt and President
elect Taft publicly put themselves on
record last week IN advocacy OF the
issuance Of government bonds for tbs
construction OF permanent public I'm
provements 10 conserve the natura
resources OF the nation.
The long overdue British ship
MADDEN Hall, over whose safet,
much anxiety was caused. arrived Al
Seattle, 2i5 days from Liverpool via
Monteyideo. The ship bad a moAi
temDestuouB voyage during Which
many OF her crew were injured.
Governor Hughes OF New York de
clares that he does not deem II ad
yisable to At this time appoint a com
mission OF citizens to investigate the
conditions surrounding the hife in
surance companies OF New York
state. and report to the Legislature
sixty-fye years is the age limit FOL
members OF the University Of MIN
nesota faculty. The board Of regents
decided that contracts with members
Of the faculty should expire when
they reached that age. The rule VII
lie applied beginning with this week
Becoming suddenly insane Hiram
Badger OF Wakefield, Mass, killed
his two daughters. then ran amack
through the town. shooting at per
sons he met and into the store win
dows. a grocers clerk received a
wound in the leg Badger was finally
captured.
Advocates Of the establishment OF
az Appalachian and white mountain
national forest reserve. headed by
governors from all sections Of the
United States. appeared before the
house committee on agriculture last
week and pressed their appeal for an
appropriation
The duty on canned musk" was
discussed before the house ways and
means committee last week. Repre-
sentatlves Of several manufacturers