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The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-11-11

was decided to ask the village trustees
to order cement sidewalks constructed
along the west side of Main street to
the northern limits of the city, and as
petition had been circulated and
good string of names secured, there is
no doubt but what the walk will be
built this fall; if the weather remains
good.
AS the furniture ordered several
weeks ago, has not yet arrived, it was
decided to have the committee buying
the furniture, to report at the meeting
next Monday evening, and if the furni-
ture does not arrive in short time,
the order will be cancelled and placed
with another company.
Several other matters of minor inn
portance was then discussed. Taken
all the way through the meeting was
very interesting and much good was ac
complished 1t was decided to meet
regularly every Monday evening and as
the club has comfortable winter quar-
tsTs, there is no doubt but what there
will be something doing in Commercial
club headquarters this winter and it
looks a. though the resurrection Of the
RichfieId Commercial club was m ~
sured fact.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-11-11
HU HUNTERS \ T EERS RETURN
Arrive Wednesday,. Loaded With
Big Game

A hunting party composed of Shorty
Edwards, Walter Fender, George Ed
wards, S. S. Edwards and B. H. Samp-
son, returned Wednesday, from three
weeks trip to the mountains, where
they had been after big game.
The boys report good weather, and a
good time and they had the evidence
with them to show that they had good
luck, they having brought in five noun
tain goat and two deer, besides they
killed quite lot of small game.
Owing to the fact that the snow was
crusted it was nearly impossible to get
sight of deer they having killed the
only ones seen by them, and the near
est they came to seeing bear was one
lonesome track.
The boys have the thanks of the Re
corder for nice piece of venison.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-11-11
Adapted to Culture of Fruit
Many Orchards Will be Set Out by Ranchers on Rich
field Tract the Coming Spring

That the Richfield tract is destin-
ed to become a great fruit raising
district, can no longer be denied or
doubted.
Ranchers on this tract are careful
observers and by carefully watching
other sections in about the same al
titude as RichfielG, have come to
the conclusion that the Richfield Sc
gregation is especially adapted to ap-
pies, pears, plums and all kinds of
small fruit.
Those who have old settled ranch
es near Richfield have tried fruit
raising on small scale and since
the trees became old enough to bear,
there has never been a failure to
raise some fruit and when the sea-
son is favorable the yield has been
large.
The display of fruit at the fair at
Boise this year demonstrated that
the high altitude is the place to
raise good apples and the Council
Valley, where the altitude is about
The same as at Richfieid, carried OF Il
nearly every prize on apples and the
ranchers on the Richfield tract have
decided that if apples can be grown
successfully on farms adjoining the
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-11-11
Water for Dietrich
Six Miles of Canal Already Watered,
% Miles More Next Week---WOn-
derful Progress Everywhere.

Water IS now flowing through miles
of the Dietrich canals; it will be in Is
miles of main canal and main lateras
by the 18th of the month
Work has been begun on the North
Gooding diversion dam; when that is
finished in about 6 weeks, water will
be turned into that distributing system,
clear down to Gooding.
Close to a worlds record is being
established for the size and type of
steam shovel-the Marion No. 2O-for
the two shovels used in filling the big
dam.
There are steady jobs for so men
woodcutters, wood-haulers and general
workmen, clearing the several square
miles of the great reservoir site prepar-
atory to filling the great lake to the
brim
Good news, isn't it?
Practically all the work on the Rich
field, Dietrich and North Gooding canals
has been completed; only little clean
ing-up is needed to deliver them to the
company according to contract. Most
of the sub-contractors are about ready
to break camp and go to other jobs.
If the weather holds good up to the
time it usually does in the fall, every
canal and main lateral of the whole
Idaho Irrigation Company system will
be thoroughly tested before the close of
the year; every defect, if there are any,
will be remedied, and the whole dis
tribution system ready for next years
crops.
A camp has been established and
work begun on the diversion dam in the
Big Wood river to supply water for the
North Gooding tract The dam is to be
several miles below the diversion dam
that supplies the Richfield, Dietrich
and south Gooding tracts, and will be
built of concrete. 1t is to be about 20
feet high. 1t will divert all the waters
for the North Gooding and Shoshone
lands. AS most of the canals on that
tract are already finished, they can be
tested out as soon as the dam is COM
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-11-11

4 for g number OF years.
Mountain Home is beginning to see
chance for permanent water sup
ply and mild boom is starting 1T
that place also. They have magni-
ficent body of land, that once water
is applied, would be one of the finest
things in the state 1t the plans
mature to bring the waters of the
South Fork of the Boise river to
Mountain Home and Sunnyside, to
water approximately 100000 acres
of fine land, it will make about as
good town as anyone need want.
All Idaho is on the boom of course
the new towns are making the fin
est showing-it has passed into a
proverb that Richfield, and Gooding,
and Twin Falls, are the very best
towns in the whole west=but all
over the state of Idaho there is
marked and permanent prosperity
To speak particularly of the pros
poets for investment and business, ii
is being repeated all over the south
part of the state that Richfield Is
going to be the finest little town
anywhere, next year. The water will
be in the bitches, ready for the irri.
cation of every farmi the town is
already well started-water works,
concrete walks, Incorporated govern
ment, one of the livest little com
mercial clubs to re found anywhere,
and stores that will meet the wants
of all comers, without having to send
a dollar away to help build up some
other town. The new school house.
the best bargain in a municipal build
ing ever bought in the state of Idaho
will be finished and in use. Probably
no other town in the state of like
size boasts as live a newspaper as
certainly there is no other
such town that has bank deposits
or bank building to compare with
the First State Bank here. The town
has been dry by the voluntary ac-
lion of the people. showing that the
class of citizenship is high. Sur
rounded by the most fertile of SOIL
thousands of acres of it already be-
ing plowed and ready for crop, it
should prosper next year like the
lreams of the Argonauts.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-11-11

be registered up to 9 O'Clock Saturday
night. Those who voted here at the
last election need not register again;
those who voted elsewhere in the state
must either register anew or get vot-
er's transfer.
All native born or naturalized persons
above the age of q years, either male
or female, are entitled to vote, provid-
ed they have resided in the state s
months, the county 30 days and the pre-
cinct 10 days. But in order to vote you
must register.
Local option will win if full vote is
brought out. To vote right is the duty
of every good citizen. Vote dry.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-11-11

Can be Depended on to Make Large
Yield and Ready Market at
Good Prices on Product

county proves that Sood crops O.
the tubers can be raised on raw sage
,lush land but that the big yit. is
are rom old alfalfa ficl1s.
Another consideration that may
come into play some time in the fu-
ture is that potatoes are a good dry
farming crop. Lincoln county is an
irrigation proposition but there will
be lands left that can not be irri-
gated and the dry farmer will not
be slow to use them.
Wherever in Colorado, Kansas,
Oklahoma and other states, potatoes
are a successful and standard crop
farmers become rich and the COM
munities prosperous. 1t can hardly
be doubted that similar conditions
will prevail when potato farming is
made a business.
Six hundred and sixty-six bushels
of spuds from one acre of ground
would make quite a sensation back
in the rain belt. A Rupert farmer
dug a crop like that this week and
this is only one example of what sub
land on the Minidolza tract
will do. p o. Lambert is the farm
er who made this record He has
an 80 acre farm just northwest OF
of Rupert. The spuds that he took
off of one acre weighed just twenty
tons, which is equivalent to 666 bush
els. After they were dug the plies
were so thick that one could hardly
walk across the field. 1t was Mr..
Lambert's farm that produced The i
pound pumpkin exhibited at the
state fair.
Four cars of spuds are being load
I'D out of Rupert at As cents a hun
1red. At this rate Mr.. Lambert's
ne acre will produce enough to maxi
he water payment on his entire so.
Oliver Martin, northeast of Ru-
'ert, harvested 500 bushels of po-
atoes from one acre this season.
1ields like this are becoming com
non on the Minidoka tract.
If you want to live where things
row, come to the Minidoka project.
Rupert Pioneer Record.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-11-11
CEMENT BLOCK FACTORY

J. W. Huffman, who came to Rich
field last week from Hutchinson,
Kansas, expects to open a cement
block factory in this city in the near
future. He has a block machine of
the best make and can turn out al
most 200 blocks day. He has
machine for making cement shingles
and can also make cement brick. This
is a good place for a business of this
kind and we have no doubt but that
Mr.. Huffman will have all he can do
when he once gets started.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-11-11
LOCAL OPTION MEETING

Ex-Governor Gooding will speak
in this city next Monday evening on
the local option question. The Gov
ernor is an able speaker and one of
the leading workers in the local op-
tion movement and should be favor
ed with large crowd. There will
also be several good singers in the
party and those who attend the meet
ing will be treated to some choice Sc
lections.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-11-11

cleared off, and is now in use. It's the
finest kind of an investment-the kind
that builds cities and states One trav-
cling man who visited Richfeld few
days ago, remarked:
well, you've got admirable nerve to
build that class of walks and crossings
in new town like this"
1t is pretty nervy thing for one of
the smallest towns in the state to put
in blocks and blocks of the highest class
walks in the state. But
It's sol
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-11-11
ELECTION THE 18th.
Local Option Question to Be Set
tied Next Week.

Former Governor Gooding, with other
speakers and a quartet of singers, will
be in Richfield Monday night, in the in
terest of carrying the local option cleo
ton. A very interesting and instruc-
tive program is promised. Governor
Gooding, the hard-headed, practical man
of affairs, has seen both sides of the
question, and he speaks with the fervor
of the man who knows he is right.
B. w. Reeves, postmaster, is regis
try clerk for this precinct. Voters will
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-11-11

If any one doubted the success ot
potatoes as a commercial crop in
Lincoln county, that doubt has been
dispelled by the showing made by
spuds this season all over the coun-
/ ty
With 400 bushels per acre raised
near Hepburn on field of several
acres that never received a scratch
of cultivation from the time they
were planted till they were dug, with
an even 20 tons raised on an acre
near Rupert, with 8 potatoes raised
on the Blue Lakes ranch of Bert
Perrine that weighed SO pounds and
with Z acre field on the w. H.
Baugh ranch several miles up the
Little Wood river from Shoshone on
which the potato sacks were Uttered
thick on which guess would be
safe at 900 bushels per acre, there is
certainly no guess work in rating
spuds as a safe and profitable COM
mercial crop for Lincoln county, Ida
ho.
In recent conversation with A.
D. Milligan, the veteran editor of
the Hub City Irrigationist, regarding
potato culture in this county a ques-
tion was asked him about the price
of potato lands in the Greedy, Colo
rado country, where spuds are the
main crop.
His answer was that good potato
land with a good water right could
not be bought for less than s400 per
acre. Mr.. Milligan believes this
country is as good for spudc as the
best land in Colorado where prices
range SO high.
Now, about the quality. 1t is well
known that many car loads of pota-
toes are bought and shipped out of
Idaho Falls that are marked and
sold for Colorado potatoes. And it
S also well known that where peo-
)ie from Colorado come here to test
he Idaho potato they pronounce 1t
equal to if not superior to Tie Co.
q do product.
Experience in different parts of The
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-11-11
Yet Another New Railroad

third railroad surveying party, possibly repre-
sentng the Hill interests, is reported busy in the
Camas Prairie country. This makes three railroads
In three weeks--at the rate of 81 railroads
year. But there's no section of the northwest that
so much deserves brilliant railroad future.
Richfied is the gateway to all this prosperity.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-11-11
WALKING ON SIDEWALKS
Good Footing for Pedestrians in
Richfield

The snow this week checked the side
walk construction work, so that it will
have to go over until next week for
completion. Otherwise the contractors
would have been able to finish up and
get away.
Most of the earlier walk, which had
been covered with earth, has been
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-03
News of the Courts
CONTEST REQUEST OF
FORTUNE TO CHARITY
HEIRS BRING SUIT TO FRUS-
TRATE TESTATOR'S WISH
Woman's VIII Arranges for Erection
and Maintenance of Home for
Aged Men at New
Orleans

A contest to determine whether the
proceeds from the sale of a Broadway
building shall go to the heirs of the
estate of Leila Bonner Dwyer, or shall
be used for the founding and mainten-
ance of home for old men, to be stu
ated in New Orleans, was begun be-
fore Judge Rives in the probate divi-
sion of the superior court yesterday.
Mrs. Dwyer died in June, 1905, leaving
property in Louisiana and California,
the latter being valued at about $780,
000 Prior to her death Mrs. Dwyer
sold the Broadway property to j. r.
Carr for $500, 900, only $1,000 of this sum
being paid her before her death.
Mrs. Dryers will provides that the
proceeds from this sale shall be used
in founding and maintaining the
Home for Aged Men" in New Or
leans The heirs, however, contest this
provision, claiming the property should
be divided among them and contending
that under the California law, not more
than one-third of an estate can be be-
queathed to charity
The heirs are residents Of New Or
leans and include Mrs. E. K. Moss,
Mrs. E. E. Moss, William Bonner,
Samuel L. Bonner, Zelda Pierson,
James B. Gledney. w. B. Summerville,
Joseph P. Blair and Benjamin Moss.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-03
TELLS HOW Her
HUSBAND DIED
MRS. RIGHETTl DESCRIBES
THE SHOOTING
Nuchois' Attorney Tries TO Show He
Is Only Standardization
Says He Was Born in
1886

Calmly and dispassionately Mrs. Fred
Righetti, widow of the plumber for
whose murder Elijah B. Nuchols is be-
ing tried before Justice Chambers, told
the story of her husbands death. Vivid
ly she described their little home, 1885
Sunset boulevard, in front of which
her husband was shot down, and told
how she had gone to the door to see
if her husband was coming from the
car.
when 1 got to the door, she said
81 saw this man (pointing to the pris-
oner) running in the direction from
which I expected my husband. l did
not like his looks and went back into
the house. Almost Immediately heard
pistol shots, and afterward they
brought my husband home"
Detective Carroll testified that he
arrested Nuchols little distance from
the scene of the crime and shortly after
the shooting. Argument as to the
transcript of testimony at the coroner's
inquest occupied most of the time al
the trial today, and as this transcript
will not be completed for two days, II
is likely that considerable time will
elapse before the actual hearing is
begun.
Physicians who attended Righetti
were examined, and Nuchols' attorney
attempted to show that the young man
is only 16 years of age. The prosecu-
ton claims he was born in 1886.
Coroner Hartwell was witness al
the morning session.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-03

up-keep, of a most insignificant house
in New York. The whole tendency is
to furnish something new, and In the
search for novelties the hotels lead tho
way. Perhaps the most striking Illus
tration of this, the first of Its KIND IN
the country, is the proposal of the pro-
prietor of the Hotel Gramatan in
Westchester county to equip not only
that house but his Long Island, Bos-
ton and other hostelries as well with
the wireless telegraph to be used in
intercommunication, or, II guest
wishes, in talking to a friend In mid
Atlantic The American as home
seeker would seem to be lazy, at least
about New York The desire to have
his menage run with no worry for his
wife is largely responsible for the
present conditions.
Then, too, the possibility of having all
sorts of modern appliances and oppor-
tunities for indoor and out-of-door
sport ready to hand, such as could
never be afforded outside a hotel, are
leading more and more people to make
their homes in suburban establishments
of this sort. By and large the spirit of
combination is invading the home just
about as thoroughly as the field of
| business. The finishing touch to- the
achievement of the homeless age about
New York, however, must be charged
to SOC1etyS account. w mere society
goes, would-be Society. which includes
a far greater number, follows. and the
stamp of Societys approval at the ex
pense of uninhabited country mansions
has been large factor in extending the
homeless age to the country and caus-
ing many persons in suburban communi-
ties to make their homes in the subur-
ban hotels, which rival the city cara
vansaries in appointments though not
in price.
And so the extension of the homeless
age goes. About the only field left for
it to invade is the farm, and the pre-
diction that it may yet do so is no more
incredible than a forecast of present
suburban conditions would have seemed
thirty years ago. 1t has been proposed
already that with the extension of good
roads and the increasing use of auto
mobiles it will become possible in time
for tillers of the soil to live in village
communities and still conduct their
farms. Perhaps rural hotels and apart
ment houses for local residents may yet
come. When they do, however, it will
be farewell to the already fast disap-
pearing American home.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-03
EARNED LIVING FOR
SELF AND HUSBAND
ACTRESS SAYS SHE WAS WILL
FULLY NEGLECTED.
Divorce Is Granted Chorus Girl and
Also to Man Who Alleges
That He Married In
Haste

T.oretta. Mullaney, a pretty chorus
girl whose stage name at the Unique
theater is Marguerite Murray, was
granted a decree of divorce in the su-
perior court yesterday after Judge
James had heard her testimony and
the corroborating statements of several
other persons showing that Edwin Null
laney, her actor husband, was guilty or
willful neglect.
Mullaney. who recently has appeared
on the bills of the Grand theater as
Eddie Murray" did not contest his
wife's action. Dixie Blair, MEMBER
of the Ferris Hartman opera company,
was the principal witness for Mrs. Null
laney.
The chorus girl said she not only did
not receive support from Mullaney fol-
lowing their marriage In Albuquerque,
N. NJ, May 81, 1907, but that she was
compelled to earn livelihood for both
HE was seldom sober" said the wire,
land for this reason could not hold a
POSITION for any length of time" Miss
Blair said Mullaney was full the ma
jor portion of the time.
r, G. Cobb said he married Hattie &.
Cobb in haste, and week later sne
ran away with Otto Ryder, supposed
friend The domestic smash occurred
January /, 1908, and Cobb said he has
not since seen his wife. decree was
SrdHleu. !,
Alice D. Medhurst, who was married
to Fred D. Medhurst in 1899. said her
husband sent her to Los Angeles from
Ell Centre four years ago. since when
he neither has joined her nor expressed
a desire to have her return. she was
given a decree.
A divorc was granted to John Tucker,
who charged his wife, Selma Tucker,
with desertion.
Eleven divorce actions were filed yes
terday as follows: Charles w. sutton
against Mary e. Sutton, Emma }.
Hamblin. Flemon N. Miller against
Vassie Miller Daisy B. Stroup against
| Delmar ]. Stroup. C. A. Bowser against
| VERNE Bowser, Rose Grafton against
Frank E. Grafton, Ruth l.. Cline
against Arthur Cline, Helen Kelsey
Tynn. James l.. Laffan against Hen
rietta l.. Laffan, William M. krat2
against Anna NJ. Kratz and Grace
North against James w. North.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-03
.STRAUS IS CONFUSED
BY QUERY OF HOUSE
CONGRESSMAN HAVE TO BE
MORE EXPLICIT
Resolution Requesting Information
Relative to Admission of Aliens
Referred Back to Rep
resentatives

WASHINGTON, March 2.-Confess-
ing that he did not know what the IN
curry meant, Secretary Straus OF the
department of commerce and labor to-
day asked the house of representatives
to explain it's question, What number
of aliens were admitted 'on parole or
temporarily"
This question was a part of reso-
luton passed on February II, calling
upon the department for information,
Aliens are temporarily landed at the
American ports for several distinct rea-
sons. it is pointed out. The secretary
SAYS he will reply if the inquiry Is
made more explicit.
The report shows that fourteen aliens
were admitted in 1908 solely because
of an established claim of heretofore
acquired domicile; that six aliens were
admitted on the same grounds together
with the fact that the defect which
might have barred was contracted dur
ing residence in this country; and tnat
in thirty-one cases the former residence
had prevented the deportation of those
held to be inadmissible.
At least twenty, but for the former
domicile, would have been inadmissi-
ble 1t is reported.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-03
EAT DINNER OF
ROAST MONKEY
WHALE AND SNAKE ALSO ARE
ON BILL OF FARE
Canadian Camp Gives Banquet OF
Many Strange Dishes at Hotel
Acknowledgements
Served
fRy Associated Press. ]

NEW YORK, March 2.-Broiled Pa
cific whale, grilled blubber from Moot
ka, roast Amazon monkey, baked VIM
nipeg porcupine and boa constructor
outlets were among the more imposing
features of the annual dinner OF the
Canadian camp at the Hotel Astor to-
night.
These delicacies came at the end OF
the menu, the diners appetites being
whetted first by ordinary viands such
as Martindale one-eyed trout, mountain
lamb with horns). Newfoundland rab-
, bit pie, spitted Vancouver pigeons and
African sorbet la white.
| Col. C. j. (Buffalo) Jones was the
guest of honor and principal speaker.
His address, which the toasfmaster
described In advance as n challenge TO
nature takers and mollycoddles," was
Illustrated by stereopticon pictures.
Not the least interesting part of the
discourse were limitations by Buffalo
Jones of the cries of the coyote, bear,
mountain lion, buffalo and other ami
mails of the plains. enabling any of the
diners, the speaker said, ITO recognize
these specimens easily by ear when
ever they CHANGED to get within speak
ing distance"