Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-03-11

definitely fixed at $4,000 per annum.
without any additional allowance for
travelling expenses.
Miss Belle Hagner, social secretary
to Mrs Roosevelt has been trans
ferred to a position in the bureau OF
trade relations of the state depart
ment
number OF the women of CoIuna-
cus. Ind have been circulating pc
tition asking Mrs. Taft not to permit
the serving of wine at White House
dinners.
The bil prohibiting free lunches in
saloons was killed in the Wisconsin
assembly. and the bill prohibiting
treating in saloons was refused en-
grossment
The New York suffragettes have or
ganized a crusade for the furthering
cf their propaganda among the news
Taper men who work on the morning
publications.
w. H. Tilford one of the vicepresi-
dents of the Standard Oil company,
died at his home in New York City,
March g Mr.. Tilford was former
treasurer of the corporation
When Charles Williams, beggar,
was locked up by the police of Chi
! cago. he confessed that he had reach
ed such a stage of thirst for whiskey
that he had pawned his artificial leg
for So.
While being shaved, in Bromley,
KY, Joseph Stolzer Jumped from the.
barber chair, grabbed razor, and. be
fore anyone could interfere, cut his
throat from ear to ear, dying almost
| Immediately
Guy Razor was found guilty of man
slaughter at Medina, o., by the jury
trying him for the murder of his
sweetheart, Orie Lee, October 8. The
penalty is from one to twenty years
in the penitentiary.
Miss Fannie Hageldant aged 40
was found dead with bullet hole in
her head at her home near Columbus,
Ohio. The body was tightly wound
about with bed-clothing. The house
had been ransacked.
Mrs Peter Derenbrecher of San
Diego, Cal, was fatally burned in the
explosion of a gasoline stove She
was in her room preparing breakfast
when the gasoline stove exploded. en-
yeloping her body in flames
The annual report of the Pennsyl-
.-ania Railway company for 1908, made
rublic last week shows decrease in
gross earnings compared with the pre-
ceding year of s52,446.722. and de-
crease in net earnings of $7,436 ,297.
The anti-cigarette bill was passed in
The house of the Missouri Legislature
last week. The bill prohibits the man
ufacture, sale or giving away of cigar
cites, cigarette papers or wrappers.
I Of ~,
$500
DIR. G. c. Throckmorton, aged 65
years, of Piqua. O., has beaten the mil
itary ride of President Roosevelt OF
ninety-six miles military gait when he
rode three horses on the relays 100
1 miles in thirteen hours and forty-fiye
minutes.
Returns just completed by the for
etgn office at Toxic show that between
June and December. 1908, 1854 Jap
anese left the empire bound for the
United States, while $500 returned
from the United States during the
same period
conference OF prohibitionists OF
Tie New England states was held in
Boston last week, the meeting being
called for the purpose of discussing
I.lans for an active campaign, to be
waged by the party from now on tc
the presidential campaign of 1912.
Mystery surrounds the killing o.
Mrs Jerome Hoover, wife of an At
Gibson, Kans-, tanner, who was founC
dead at her home. Thursday the un
6ertaker discovered a small wounC
behind the right ear. The woun,
was probed and a bullet taken from
it.
Permanent headquarters for the
National League of Republican clubs
of which John Hays Hammond il
president will be established il
Washington in the near future in OF
der to keep the $500 clubs and 200
900 members active throughout TIT
year.
What to do with our vice-president
Is question which has been solve,
by at least one of them for himself
Adlai f. Stevenson according 10
Chicago dispatch will retire from hi
law business and his coal mining t
establish the La Sale Extension uni
versity.
Two foreign mine workers wer
Killed, another is missing and abou
twelve were badly burned by an eS
t.losion of gas in a colliery of the Fri
Coal company at Port Blanchard, Pa
Fire followed the explosion, and sixt
miners were entombed back of tn
Ere for several hours.
Upon the recommendation of Score
tary Newberry, the president has re
duced the sentence of Lieutenan
| Frank T Evans, son of Robley D. E
ana m 9, loss of fifty numbers and