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The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1909-06-30
tie exposition. Miss smitn will be
absent for two and a half months.
viii Leave For Richmond.

Mrs. Oliver j. Sands and little son,
Jack, who have been guests at Pea.
cock Farm for the past week, Will
leave tomorrow for their home IN
Richmond, Va. Upon their return to
Richmond, Mrs. Sands will have as
her guests for several weeks, her sis.
ter, Mrs. Otis Skinner. and two chill
dreh. Mrs. Skinner was formerly Miss
Fanny Relle Robinson,
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1909-06-30
pERFEcTdi RL
From Physical Standpoint Is mi.
Margaret Wards, Of Napas
California.

( NEW YORK. June
which embraced ap the eiIai
cities In the wofla. the York
Physical Gulf socieiy haf awarded
Miss sSsaret calIreed wards et
Med; CAL the gpld m dal fof ne
most perfect physical deeVlopmsnt
of n gtrl'uddsr IL yssrsgo age:
Berrard MeFaaasn one of ths
Judges, said tosday IS mar:
vel, andSI am glad " siouhd the mos
perfect physical girl ii the wofid
rtsata here az home
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1909-06-30

BRIDGEPORT Q June 30
though the Ie yeat does not fSf
Until midnight lhe strike pfac||t.
began this moru|1e' only zen oI I
forty SIX inilla b. ih Aetna Stand
and Laughlm romti today MeA
Other mills reiiael to report Tor II'
ias day.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1909-06-30
euest LeaNsE for Home.

Miss Ruth Hyde, who has been the
guest of her aunt, Mrs. Morgan Bill,
Kingsley, on Locust avenue. for several
weeks, returned to her home in King,
wood todap.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1909-06-30
FELIX ~sHARkEY.
To-day as spapsst In pyrs:
hitting Gaze.

CHICAGO June SO:-The police ar
rested Felix stlarkey to-day susrscts
ed of having dynamtted the censrat
telephone building and may have per.
petrated munyon's dynamite outrages
which have for months Bafitsdst pos
lice. The police claim shatkey a. fsw,
days 8 .bought a supply OF dynamite
and signed tecejtlt for the explosive
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1909-06-30
AMONG THE MINES

DRYDEN. Ont, June 1O.-As stated
by the Morning Herald some hmeagol
the Northern Pyrttes Co. operating
the we'll known pyrites mine moth ii
Dinorwic. Intends building q large
dock In Fort misunderstanding tie
product q, their mine on the Tram
continental. and Mr.. Wendell. the. pres.
.tdent Of the company, viii again visit
Fort William about the goth inst, D
complete arrapeements TOR Inc CON
~struction OF the same.
Just what the location win be has
not yet been. decided, but the
Company Is anxious 10 obtain he siee
owned by the city ahdsknomn ne
wire works site: the intention
build large dock eaPsbts ofs haadifng
not only the ortptt.gt their mine But
other business as Well.
Ashas beeb1stated before other n
;terests are after THIS ste for the baiids
ing of mapufeetuihg pant and 1t
;lookssas though Ii would not Be long
.hel0re could be taken up BY some
ind6sttytha WfiI 5sRsat me cIy
The visitors the Mention lask
sYes inciaied q nunbet 81 So1ctaist ok
sthe Dstoa Deyelopneht companF
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1909-06-30

SOMEBODY wan Se6ufs ths one
best bsfKaiaS to be found IN to-daye
ads. Hesent yon someambIdon to b
that persont
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1909-06-30

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The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1909-06-30

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The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-11-18
Coal Strike; Railroad Outlook
Nine Feet of Solid Coal In Mine on Little Smoky-Sur-
veying Parties On Camas Prairie Supplies for
Big Construction Outfit Up the River

, discoverer. Coal from some of the
smaller veins took the first prize at the
Idaho state fair this year, as the finest
coal of the kind in the West
A railroad through Camas Prairie
would give an cay market for half a
million acres of fine grain and hay land,
besides this coal and the mines and hea-
Wy timber on the Boise river.
The three surveying parts heretofore
mentioned as being out on Camas Prai-
rie, are still there, at work. At least
one of them represents the Short Line
Short Line surveyors are working be-
yond Boise also, carrying out the pre-
diction that this line was to go on from
here through the capital city.
A large quantity of supplies shipped
in to Haley, for one of the biggest of
the construction companies that has
been working in this section of the
West, has aroused considerable curios-
ity The supplies are billed to Soldier,
via Haley. AS there is no big ditch
work there, and the company has made
its reputation on railroad work, it might
not be a bad guess that it is railroad
work that takes them there now.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-11-18
BUYS BIG BUZZ WAGON
Company's New Auto for Show
ing Customers Around.

The Idaho Irrigation Company has
bought fine 30 horsepower Stoddard-
Dayton auto, which is being used to
show buyers out over the tract. 1t is
one of the best machines in the county.
1t will do anything that any automobile
can do-climb hills or even trees, tobog-
gan down hills so steep that they lean
the other way, swim like duck, out
run the longest-legged coyote or jack
rabbit that ever wore corns on its feet
racing across the prairie-in fact, do all
the spectacular stunts that any machine
can do. 1t is three times as fast as the
fastest team, and the company is well
pleased with it.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-11-18
More Concrete Walk
Concrete Walks to be Laid to North
Part of City---WOrk to Begin as
Soon as Weather Will Permit

At the last session of the village
trustees an ordinance was passed es-
tablishing sidewalk district No. 2.
This means more concrete side
walks for Riehfield. The walk is
to be in the west side of Main street,
from the hotel to the extreme north
part of the city, and as nearly all of
the citizens in that part of the town
are employed in the business section,
the new district will benefit a larger
number of people than any walk that
could be laid in the city, unless it
should be one to the school house.
The walk is to be five feet wide of
concrete and work is to begin as
soon as the weather will permit, and
it is expected that the walk can be
completed in ten days from the time
work begins There is nothing like
good walks for town, and as the
city trustees as well as the property
owners all seem to be in favor of
good walks, it is safe to say that in
side of another year there will not
be residence in the city, but what is
connected with the business section
of the city, the church and the school
house by good concrete walks.
The district No. 2 was ordered by
a petition with large number of
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-11-18

One of the surprises of the day was
the dry majority Of Ala in Twin Falls
town, which because Of their reiterated
boasts had generally concbded to the
vets. The total dry majority in the
county was about 9OO Only two small
precincts voted wet.
Since the four best, most enterpris-
ing towns in South Idaho Richfield,
Gooding, Wendell and Twin Falls have
We'd with the country districts in vot-
ing for prohibition, it may be stated as
a fact that the best business element
sees more prosperity and land and store
sales and happy homes in that direction
than through the saloon door.
1t wasn't the woman vote, but the
sober business sense of the whole peo-
pie, that thought it out and voted dry.
But for the part which woman's emo
played in doing the right
God bless 'eml
The saloon is dead in Lincoln county.
The bootlegger isn't-quite. But
Raus NIT ihml Prontol
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-11-18
CLOSE CALL
G. w. Clark Has Narrow Escape
in Runaway

G. w. Clark had narrow escape
from death in runaway last Satur-
day afternoon and only for the pres
ence of mind of Frank Rhubesky and
the fact that he could sprint some,
the Recorder would probably have
had an entirely different account to
write.
Mr.. Clark, MIR. Hrubesky and Mr.
Armstrong were driving along about
six miles west of town when, in eros
sing a draw, the front part of the
hack went down with such force, as to
dislodge the spring seats and send
the men head foremost out of the
hack, which frightened the mules
which they were driving, causing
them to run away
In falling Mr. Clark fell across the
double trees with his hands down,
leaving him in such a shape that he
was unable to help himself in the
least, and as the mules ran one of
them began kicking but Mr.. Clark
was so close to his heels he could
not injure him much.
Mr.. Hrubesky on seeing his
friends plight started in pursuit of
the team and by some lucky chance
outran them, got in ahead and then
brought them to a standstill, when
Mr.. Clark was released from his per-
ilous position. His face and hands
were badly scratched and bruised and
his hip pretty badly bruised, but he
considers himself lucky that he is
able to tell of the accident at all.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-11-18
Family Set Free.

The family of C. j. Lisle, of the Re-
corder, was this week released from a
months quarantine for small pox, at
Gooding. The little girl, three years
old, took the disease, presumably from
kitten that may have carried the con-
tagion. She has fully recovered, with
out mark, but beautiful little grille
born during the quarantine, was taken
away by the disease. The family now
rejoices over the return of good health
and freedom to those who are left, and
that closed-window visits are no longer
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-11-18

water tower stands and was given to
the city by the Idaho Irrigation Com
pany and is one of the most beautiful
blocks in the city, having natural
slope each way from the center.
James A. Green, of the j. G. White
Company, presented to the city, six
large gasoline street lights, to be used
for lighting Main street, provided the
business men would keep them up.
These lights are not very expensive
and the light furnished is a good sub
stitute for electricity.
An ordinance was passed making it
fine of 500 for riding or driving across
the cement sidewalks, other than at
regular street crossing.
1t was also made an offense to allow
stock or poultry to run at large inside
of the city limits.
A city Jail and fire house will also be
built and many other Improvements
are being contemplated.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-11-18
Lincoln county is dry.


Dry as it was when the Biographies
used to paint this as "the Snake River
Desert, where bird had to carry a
canteen to fly over it without drying up
and perishing of thirst
The day of the ''bad man" soused in
liquor, of the registering boozer who in
efficiently helped to SOW the seeds of
advancing civilization, is past.
A two-to-one majority for the anti
saloon sentiment-a decisive enough
majority to make the new law respect
ed by all, and feared by some.
And there are other counties just as
dry-Twin Falls, and Kootenal, and
Washington--every county in Idaho that
voted on the 17th
That makes ten dry counties and only
two wets-Ada and Elmore.
ct was an Elmore legislator who two
years threw AZ distinct kinds of fits try
ing to get the legislature to legalize
gambling said it helped business. '')
Gooding, which the vets have heldup
as horrible example that was 60
ing to redeem itself by voting wet, did
nj do it that way; it stood 338 to 78,
almost to l, dry. Funny guess, was
MT it? Governor Gooding, who was the
banker and fighter and one of the best
head pieces of the dry" campaign,
doesn't seem to be such dead 'un'
in his own home
Richfeld voted dry as a box of mum
mifed bones-58 dry, % wet. Shoshone
upheld it's belief by majority for the
vets. Jerome drank deep from the cup
thatcheers and inebriates-- and went wet
by a considerable majority; they feared
Twin Falls would go wet and get their
money. Minidoka wanted booze worse
than boy vents his first puppy love;
SO to 5, for the vets. But the whole /
county went dry as keg of powder
only it doesn't promise to blow up.
One far-sighted land man, who bases
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-11-18
Nine feet of coal.

Nine feet of coal.
The best coal in the west.
Right near the line of the proposed
new railroad through Camas Prairie.
Three surveying parties now at work
on the Prairie, getting elevations and
figures for their roads.
Half a million acres of the finest land
ready to be opened up into farms, to
grow grain, hay, stock and little
fruit
Word was brought in this week that
the prospecting drill being operated on
the Little Smoky coal prospects 10 miles
from Soldier, had opened vein OF the
finest coal. nine feet in thickness. and
at very moderate depth. The coal
underlies sand stone Gaping Ihere
have been several other small veins or
streaks of coal above it, enough TO war
rant the belief that there would be
found good deposit, But the most
sanguine hardly expected SO large
vein as the one just reported Inc
property belongs to Mrs. HOLSTER, OF
HALEY and Gooding, and was located by
her two years ago, she being the actual
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-11-18
GREAT LAND SALE.
Opening Draws Crowd
of Interested Buyers.

A large crowd of interested buyers
attended the opening at Medbury, this
week. A large acreage of Carey land
was opened, as well as lot of prefer
ential rights from the settlers who had
turned their lands back into the Carey
Act and then had not refiled on so large
an acreage. More than 1000 acres of
lands near the townsite was subdivided
into small tracts, most of which were
sold. All the Carey lands were sold,
and a good number of town lots. The
company gave excellent service to the
large crowd. The weather was good
enough to show up the climatic advan-
tages of the beautiful valley.
A rather doubtful treat was provided
in the shape of train wreck right on
on the townsite. A freight train, with
two of the heaviest freight engines run,
ming at 40 miles an hour, ran into an
open switch at the siding just being
laid for the town, and the resulting
was about as complete as one
could wish. No one was hurt.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-11-18
BAND PROBABLE

A meeting was held at the CONNER
cial club Wednesday evening for the
purpose of organizing a band. Ten
members have been secured so far,
and as there are several old band men
in Richfield, it is thought that no
trouble Will be experienced in organ
izing. AS band goes great ways
IN advertising town, the boys should
receive all the encouragement possible
from the citizens of Richfeld.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-11-18
Park, Band, Fire Protection
Commercial Club Takes Up These and Other Important
Topcs---Live Ones Reawaken Interest In the
Advancement of Richfied.

The resurrection of the Richfeld
Commercial Club is complete.
Another very interesting meeting
was held at the club rooms. Monday
evening and fair number of the mem
bers were present and much business
of Importance to the future of the city
was transacted
Ths matter of the city park was
again brought up and there is now no
doubt but what the park will be i'm
proved and shade trees set out in the
spring as Manager Fitch of the Idaho
Irrigation company will ask his COM
pany to head list Of donations with
$500 and it is thought that 5000 will be
given by the city and that enough 9th
er donations can be secured to bring
the total to $1,000, which, together with
the work that will be donated, will put
the park in fine shape, and which we
can point to with pride in very short
time. Word was received later in the
week that the company had authorized
the gift of $500, which liberality makes
the finest park in Idaho certainty. A
beautiful privet hedge around the block,
the clearing, leveling, fertilizing and
setting out to grass and the finest trees
that can be secured, and the graveling
If the walks, will be the first and most
Important steps.
The matter of organizing fire de-
'artment was brought up, and COM
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-11-18

signers being presented to the village
trustees and in order to have walks
laid to the church and school house,
a petition will probably have to be
presented to the trustees, and as the
walk to the school house will be very
badly needed this winter, no time
should be lost in getting the matter
before the council, as it will be next
to impossible for the smaller child
rem to go to school unless there is
walk lai dOf some kind to the school
building, and as a board walk would
cost more than half as much as a
concrete walk, it will be far cheaper
to put in concrete walk to begin
with.
The walks in the business section
would have been completed ere this
if the weather had been favorable,
but as the weather now is it is impos-
sible to do good work, and as the
contract calls for the best of work
and Contractor Whittier does not
care to do a poor job the work is
held up, but the older citizens claim
that as soon as this bad spell of
weather is over, there will be a
month of nice weather, which will
enable the contractor to complete his
work this fall.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-11-18

ket them in Boise and Payette and
the other apple countries. The com
mon farmers over in Preston, at an
elevation of about 5000 feet, have
carloads of apples to sell or give
away. And it is so all over the
higher sections of Idaho. Almost
every year they can count on a good
crop of excellent, wormless fruit, and
year like this, they can reap such
a harvest as will buy them all the
automobiles and flying machines and
pianos and blooded horses and 9TH
er luxuries that the farmers think of
buying.
There are no better apples than
those grown in the higher attitudes.
There are none other so good, in
fact. the keeping qualities and free
dom from all kinds of pests make
them the most desirable of all apples
for home or market. 1t is not quite
worth while to claim that the aIti-
tude of 1000 feet or higher, will be
suitable for the tender, early fruits
like the peach or apricot, but they
will grow apples to perfection.
During the coming season, several
hundred acres in all will be set out
to apples on the Richfield tract. For
people have had the benefit of some
good advice. Alexander Mcpherson
and other well known horticultural
experts have given them the very
best they had. There will be plenty
of water next season, for the whole
10000 acres of the Richfield tract,
enough water, enough good land, and
enough clear blue sky to grow the
apples for whole state and have
enough culls and windfalls left over
to make cider and jelly for two OF
three neighboring towns.
The Recorder has had some excel
lent advice from w. S. Guilford, head
of the agricultural experiment work /
for the North Side Company, with |
large experiment stations at Jerome
and Wendell. He says that a long /
and careful study of the fruit situa-
ton at all the elevations in Idaho,
and Oregon, as well as
Colorado, lead him to believe that the
premium apples of the whole world
can be grown at altitude close to
what prevails over practically all of
Lincoln county. This is not a guess,
but the result of careful study,
light on the ground, of all the great
ruit growing sections of the North
vest. Mr. Guilford recommends the
PLANTING of selected, adaptable apples
III through this part of Idaho, as the
'reatest money maker of all the prof
table crops that might be grown
lere.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-11-18
Grow Apples Here
of Idaho Supply the Fruit
Section With Apples--It Will
Pay Big Money

Shipping coal into Pittsburg.
Or shoes to Brocton.
Or exporting Jews to Jerusalem.
Or macaroni to Rome.
Or Patrick O'Shaughnessys tc
Cork.
Or sausages to Hamburg.
Or wheat to Dakota, or praties to
Dublin, or champagne to Paris, OF
oranges to California, or any of those
improbable things.
On par with this is the shipment
of apples from Carey, up the Little
Wood river a few miles from Rich
field to Boise the Beautiful" the
purported home of the big red apple,
of the fragrant peach, of the durable
prune and the luscious grape and the
melon and the tomato and every os-
culent, succulent, excellent thing
that grows.
But it's truel
Large quantities of apples are ac-
tually being shipped from the Carey
and Picabo sections, over to Boise.
the central market of the state. The
Carey apples are several years ahead
of those from Richfield-indeed
most of the Richfield apples are yet
in the graft stage, the trees not
having yet been grown=but their
growing conditions, soil, climate,
horticultural skill and everything
that makes apples grow big are hard
ly on par with the advantages at
this place. They have several years
the start, indeed, for their country
was so easily irrigated that they
could do it by small private capital or
by cooperative effort among the set
tiers, while it has waited for the
coming of the big corporations. But
we could, can, and will go them one
better, and while the whole Rich
field tract will soon be abloom with
the best selected, best tended or
ehards in the West.
1t is noticeable fact that in all
he higher attitudes, there is a good
crop of fruit this year while the
over attitudes have suffered. Pay
cite and Emmett and other high
'riced sections of the lower Snake
liver valley in Idaho, have this year
'ome through with hardly enough
ruit to feed the birds, they are like
to have to ship in grain and spuds
nd other good things from the high
r countries to keep these insect eat
rs over to try and save their next
ears crops Over in the Lost River
ountry, there is some as fine fruit
S anyone could wish At Black
Dot, an elevation of 400 feet, they
ave more apples than they know
hat to do with-saye as they mar ]
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-11-18
GOOD MEETING

The local option meeting held at the
church in this city Monday evening was
well attended, the church being filed
to its full capacity.
Ex-Governor Gooding, of Gooding,
c. E. Helman of Shoshone, and D. S.
Bailey of Meridian, were the speakers
of the evening and some good, strong
argument was produced against the
saloon.
The large audience was treated to
some choice selections, by the sing
ers who accompanied the speakers.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-11-18
Lincoln County Dry
Two to One Majority Against Saloon
Three Other Counties Go Dry,
Making 10 In State

his opinion on the practical business
side, says that the lands of Lincoln
county are worth SIS an acre more than
if the county had voted wet. Let's see
900, 900 acres of tillable land, at IS
an acre bonus, means 1000, 600 That
isn't so bad for days work
The detailed vote of the county, as
reported in the Statesman, is here given:
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-11-18
VILLAGE TRUSTEES MEET
Many Important Matters Acted
nn---AEeans Much to City.

One of the most important sessions
Of the Village Trustees, ever held in
Richield, met Tuesday evening, and
many things of vital interest to the
city was acted on, and much good was
accomplished.
An ordinance extending the side
walks and establishing grades was
passed, and work of excavating will
begin at once which will give Richield,
at least, five more blocks of concrete
walk.
The beautifying of the park was ta-
ken up, and the cluy will go ahead with
the work as soon as a deed is secured
to the land, and the weather will per-
nit The park is the block where the