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The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-07-29

Porch columns and cedar pielsets
at Murftt's.
r. f. Richardson, chief engineer for
the J. G. White companz in the United
States, is a Richfeld visitor this week.
Mr.. aud Mrs. Joe Pepper returned
Wednesday from visit to Salt Lake
Mr. Pepper is construction foreman at
the dam.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. w. Micklewait
left Thursday for an extended trip
to the coast, after visiting for a
week here in Richfield. They will
90 to Portland, Seattle. San Fran
cisco and other interesting points
in the far west, before returning to
their home at Ord, Nebraska.
w. J. Taper returned Monday from
Missoula, Occur d'Alene and Spokane,
in each Of which places he registered
for the Indian reservation openings for
next month. He says the first choice
is estim ated to be worth $40, 900, and
a lot of the tail-enders 40 cents-so
there is a wide range of values.
K. G. Phelps new house on his
lain west of town is nearing com
)letion. 1t will be one of the most
comfortable and commodious farm
louses on the tract, and it is also
one of the most noticeable, being
set up on the hill so that it shows ua
against the sky line in looking out
from town.
N. |. Hedge and wife of Norton,
Kansas, visited this week with the
family of Mrs. Hedges brother, V. V.
Bower Mr.. and Mrs. Hedge had been
visiting the Seattle fair and stopped
off to dispose of some Carey Act land
hat Mr. Hedge and Mr. Bower owned
near Gooding They cleared geo per
cent on 7 months investment, which
shows what can be done on Carey Act
Investments in Lincoln county.
ne hltnltAu IAtdl -ISidlt az IN
iurance Co. have put up their sign
rs the accredited agents for the town
site company, and will handle all the /
OTIS and lands for the company on
this tract Some land IS being sold |
every week, but the big rush is eX
2ected later in the fall. when the
lomeseekers will begin to come in.
There are some great chances for
he home-hunter, in boch farm lands
and in town opportunities. and there
is reason to believe chat they viii
come in here to get whatever there
Is good
Contractor John Dodson has been
spending his spare time figuring on
a fine bank and Masonic hall build
ng for the town of Bull, in Twin
Falls county. It Is to be two stories
high, finished in birch, with maple
doors, and is intended to be one of
he finest of its kind in the state.
Mr.. Dodson has established a repu-
-ation as careful, conscientious
builder, and should the contract fall
o him the owners are to be con
graduated on what they are bound
o get from hi min the way of a
/ well-fnished structure.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-07-29
BUYS A HOME

Fl. B. Jones, of the Recorder, has
bought the house and lot recently
owned by R. w Simmons, on Ban
mock street. He will build larger
house and prepare to settle down to
bet the most out of life in the best
title town in Idaho The location is
2 very desirable one, in the heart OF
she best settled residence district, anC
will make a fine home
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-07-29

Mrs. Oliver Lee, died at her home in
Boise, Friday, July %, after a linger-
ing illness. The remains were laid to
rest in the Picabo cemetery, Sunday,
July %. The deceased leaves a hus-
band and four children besides large
number Of friends to mourn her loss.
Mrs. Lee was kind and loving wife
and mother, a devout christian and
was held in the highest esteem by all
who knew her.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-07-29

ton as exceptionally capable IN his line
of work, will be at his best in doing
hard, daring work in the face of diff
culties. His wife left here two weeks
ago, for visit to Cleveland, Ohio, and
will join him this fall down at the Sal
mon river dam.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-07-29
Send the Recorder to your friends.

Don't borrow the Recorder-buy it.
Screen Doors and fixtures at Muir
htt's.
Percy May transacted business in
Haley last Friday.
Have your letter heads and envelopes
printed in Richield.
Louis A. Hamilton of Kearney, Neb.
was in the city Tuesday
M. E. Steele of Pittsburg, Pa, was
a Rchfeld visitor Tuesday.
Roy Hanna passed through the city
Saturday, enroute to Haley.
F. w. Taylor and wife visited at the
big dam Saturday and Sunday.
Charles w. Lusk of Galena, Kansas,
was Richfield visitor Tuesday.
II. NJ. Moore, the druggist, made q
business visit to Haley Sunday
H. w. Alexander of Montgomery,
Alabama, was in the city Tuesday.
R. G. Hunt of Chicago, was regis
tered at the Richfield hotel Monday.
The Richfield Mercantile Co. have
put on handsome new delivery wag
on.
Foley & Thomas still have plenty ice
and will deliver it to any part of the
city.
J. H. Murftt is having more shed
room built at his lumber yard this
week
A. w. Goodding, of Shoshone, was
in the city Saturday, taking orders for
trees.
l. L. Farmer started Tuesday for
Haley, where he will assist through
haying.
F. w. Taylor and D. s. Smith made
final proof before Land Agent Blodgett
last week.
Architect w. o. Pearce transacted
business in Dietrich the latter part of
last week
j. Nj S-hmsbel of Pitts 5u e, Pa,
was registered at the Richield hotel
Tuesday
J. A. Green and c. A. Caswell made
a visit to Ketchum, Sunday and Mon
day, after fish.
w. G. Gossett and son Van, left
evening for Seattle. They
will be gone several weeks.
Mr. and Mrs. L. s. Knox, Mrs
Waterbury and W. S. Durnin spent
Sunday at the Burns ranch.
John Thompson and wife of Norton,
Kansas, visited with V. V. Bower and
wife several days last week.
Mr.. and Mrs Ira Black started Mon
lay for six weeks visit to Portland,
Seattle and other coast cities.
John A. Frater and Ralph B. Nc
Donanld left Thursday of last week for
Seattle to take in the Exposition.
w. G. Gossett and son Van, were
;aking in the sights at the big dam on
Wood river, the last of last week.
York Denton, manager of the Weeter
lumber Company, started Wednesday
light for visit to the Seattle exposi-
ion.
The interior of the bank building has
eceived coat of tinting this week
hat has added greatly to the appear
nee.
Good music and good time for all,
ssured at the young peoples enter
ainment at the church, Saturday eve
ing.
Micklewait and Brush, the insurance
zen report business in their line as
eing good, since the Spokane restaur-
mt fire.
Mr. and Mrs. James A. Lee, of
Washington, father and mother of
Irs. Lee Kirtley, were in the city Z
unday.
L. S. Knox broke the record for =
ichfeld Friday evening by catching :
lie largest trout of the season, weight
lree pounds.
Harry Rose, representing the Con- :,
nential Casualty Company, of Boise, p
as in the city Saturday and drove :,
1t to the dam Sunday :,
Little dust devils" dancing across fl
e prairie, whirling their hotway from al
where to end in other nowheres, are n,
e sure sign of ''the good old summer &c
me- in arid Idaho or
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-07-29

Idaho Carey Act Lands
Now open for entry and settlement
in the choicest agricultural section
Of the Northwest.
The Snake River Valley Southern Ida
State Government Supervision
For free information on Irrigated
Lands, write
c. B. HURT, Boise, Idaho.
81
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-14
GERMAN WRITER RESENTS
TONE OF JAPANESE PRESS

BERLIN, Aug Tn a semi official
telegram to the Cologne Gazette COM
plaint is made of the tone of the
Japanese press, "a great part of
which is said to be manifesting
a remarkably unfriendly attitude
toward Germany 1t is said that while
Germany would thoroughly under
stand Japanese defense of japanese
interests wherever Germany might
cross them or be thought to cross
them, "a pronounced hostility to Ger
many in criticism of events in re-
gard to which Japan has really no
interest of her own" is quite another
matter.
For example, a number of Japanese
journals are said to be continually re-
ferring to German policy in Morocco,
although Morocco can, on the face
of it, be treated by the Japanese as
matter of complete Indifference The
semi-official writer is equally hurt by
Japanese judgments "on the triple al
lance policy and on recent events in
the east" although he does not sug-
gest that these things, like Morocco,
deserve TO be disregarded in Toxic.
The japanese press is informed that
its tone is regrettable, because not
only are German and Japanese in
terests not opposed, but there is moth
r.
great military successes which raised
Japan to the level of the world power
and for which, as even the japanese
admit, German instructors have some
share of credit have in no quaretr
been more unreserVedly recognized"
than in Germany, which has also the
highest respect for Japan's rapid ad-
vance in civilization.
Japan is reminded that criticism
provolles criticism. like an echo in
the woods and is invited to note that
in all quarrels which Japan has had
with other peoples-for example, the
question of Japanese immigration
into America-Germany has carefully
avoided taking sides in any way which
might wound Japan
As the Cologne Gazette onits to
quote any of the japanese criticism
to which objection is taken. il is d.
ficult to estimate the merits of the
German defense. Only the other day,
however, the North German Gazette
in reviewing the course by which Ger
many rose, as Japan has risen, "to
the level of a world power" deliber-
ately invited attention to the Morocco
episode as well as to the recent
Austro- German success, and treated
them both not as private German en-
terprises, but as manifestations of
German world policy
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-14
News OF the Courts
FINDS CHEAP PIANO
COSTLY INVESTMENT !
HIGH FINANCE METHODS BASIS
OF ACTION
Latest Owner of instrument Claims
She Was Fleeced by Couple
in Deal Involving
Sale

The peripatetic habits of piano
were called to the attention of Percy
V. Harmon, deputy district attorney,
yesterday, who placed a stumbling
block in the path of the musical in
strument in the form of a warrant
for the Arrest of George c. Stobie and
his wife, Ethel M. Stobie.
The complainant against the Stobies
was Mrs. Mary Froelich, wife of Peter
Froelich, prominent in Eagle circles,
Mrs. Froelich told Deputy Harmon the
piano was sufficiently upright, but that
it had fallen in bad company.
According to the story told Harmon
by Mrs. Froelich, the piano was not
employed so much for the musical
sound of it's notes as for the more
substantial clink of gold. First, she
said, the instrument was rented by
the Stobies from E. d. Cheesebrough
in Fabruary. A month later, she said,
it was morgaged to r. F. Bowen for
S75, and after an interval of thirty
days was sold to her husband and her
self for $685..
"a few days after we purchased the
piano Bowen showed up with his
mortgage" said Mrs. FrOelich. MY
husband satisfied this claim by paying
500. We thought we had acquired full
title to the instrument until Cheese
brough appeared, claiming he owned
the piano and demanding its return y
The complaints were filed in Justice
Summerheld S court.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-14
DROMGOLD IGNORES
HARBOR COMMISSION
PROPOSES THAT CITY ENGI-
NEER MAP HARB0R
Councilman Wallace Opposes Hasty
Action, and His Motion to Refer
Matter to Commission
Carries

A resolution introduced by Council
man Dromgold yesterday came near
splitting the council, and at the last
divided that body five to four. During
the discussion of the resolution 1t ap-
peared that Dromgold and Wallace
would exchange a few compliments,
and in fact Dromgold did intimate he
had been insulted.
The resolution was to the effect that
the city engineer be authorized to pre-
pare maps of the water frontage at
San Pedro and Wilmington suitable for
public use, and TO prepare plans and
specifications and estimates of cost for
all other buildings and appurtenances
necessary for a free harbor.
Councilmen Wallace and Lyon imme-
diately took exception to the resolu-
tion. They declared it looked too much
like a slight of the harbor commission,
and that the council should secure the
recommendations of this commission
before taking any action. Dromgold
insisted that the harbOr commission
had nothing to do with his resolution,
that the harboT commission had no
standing in law and that the full re-
sponsibility of the matter rested on the
council.
Wallace moved, and was seconded by
Lyon, that the resolution be referred to
the harbor commission and this finally
prevailed by a vote of five to four,
Lyon, Wallace, Wren, Pease and
Yonkin voting for this disposition Of
the matter, and Blanchard, DromgOld,
Healy and Clampitt against it.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-14
VISITORS WARNED AGAINST
OVEKINDULGENCE IN SURV
ABBOTT Kinney Company Issues Cireu-
lar Giving Advice Relative to
Salt Water Bathing

VENICE, Aug. 13-To protect visit
ors and novices against the harmful
effects of Indulgence in bathing is the
object of a circular being issued by
the Abbot Kinney company, which VIII
appear in few days. Many persons
from inland cities who are unused to
salt water bathing are inclined to mis-
Judge their powers and overdo bathing,
with the result that they derive harm
from the sport rather than benefit.
The circular Is in part as follows:
mo novice should be in the SURF
NOR than fifteen or twenty minutes.
This Is especially applicable to women
and children. Surf bathing is decided
ly beneficial If employed with discre-
ton. There is great need of advice on
this subject, and also of the time OF
day in which it should be indulged.
From my experience there is com
paratively little, if any, danger of accl-
dent in the water If bathers go in only
while the tide is coming in. When 1t is
going out the most experienced SWIM
mers sometimes will have trouble on
anv beach, but when it comes toward
shore anyone becoming helpless In the
water will probably be carried on the
sand. Nearly all the accidents l have
seen in the surf we're while the tide was
flowing out"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-14
BORROWS BLANKET
AND Is FINED S.
HORSE COVER is BASIS FOR
PROSECUTION
Story of Men Who CaVil at Terms
and Differ as to Meaning
of the Verb "to
Loan"

A ragged and fea-infested horse
blanket was the object around WhlcH
centered proceedings in Justice sum
merfeld's court yesterday forenoon,
and while the rug is valued at only y
by the owner, Richard Plehm OF Hynes'
tie county was enriched through the
payment of a SO fine by J. X. McNl'le.
charged with its theft.
McVitie said he borrowed the
blanket. Plehm said it was stolen from
his barn. That was the story In
nutshell. The kernel was left LOT the
Justice to pick out.
When Plehm secured a Warrant lo
McVitie's arrest the paper was piaceC
in the hands of Constable Ed Rice &c
serve, The ocff1er's first journey after
McVitie was without result. AItei
chasing his man around a building sew
era1 times McVitie, according TO RICE
left the beaten track and disappeared
in a dense fog. This fact was not
known to Rice until he encircled the
building several times and olscoVereu
it was the echo of his own tootsteps lit
was trailing. - .,,o,,-;,, q
the search the following day, armed
with a foghorn. This was not required
for as he entered McVitie's nome ht
saw the object of his quest disappear
ing under the bed. ,, NJ
IT was looking for my shoes' Mo
Vitie told the court. -,
He added that he had borrowed tht
horse blanket and refused to return l.
to Plehm because the latter u5cIlaer ,le,
70 giye nm an umbrella that had peer
ioa6ed hv McVitie few days before
testimony concerning the umbrella
was not permitted the justice taklns
ooenizance of the unWritten law cover
ne ownership of such articles.
Plehm had more witnesses than Nc
yitie. and the latter was the loser
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-14
IN VIEW OF SENIORITY,
BLANCHARD GETS VACATION
Extra Holiday Time Allowed Veteran
Lawmaker-DromgoId Also
Takes Needed Rest

Pop" Blanchard is getting more than
his share of vacation this year. 1t is
customary to give each member of the
council thirty days leave of absence
every year for vacation, and Blanchard
has already had his thirty days. Yes
terday the council granted him anoth-
er leave Of absence for three weeks.
But there are some extenuatng cir
cumstancs in Pops" case. He has
been hard at work with the budget
committee for the past two weeks and,
besides, he is the oldest councilman in
point of service. He is rounding out
his fifteenth year in the council and
says it is his last.
Councilman Dromgold was also
granted leave of absence for thirty
days, and will take a much-needed
rest This will leave the limelight en-
tirely to Wallace for the next month,
and he has served notice he will make
two speeches on every subject, one for
himself and one for DromgoId. AS two
members of the finance committee will
be away at the same time. Wren was
sddad in the committee pro TEN.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-14
ITALIANS PLAN TO DO
HONOR TO COLUMBUS
WILL CELEBRATE DISCOVERY
OF AMERICA
Big Picnic to Be Held October 3 at
Cucamonga Canyon-Proceeds
viii Go to School
Fund

Christopher Columbus whose "hunch"
in regard to the existance of another
continent made him an undesirable
citizen of Italy until he delivered the
goods, is not forgotten by the Italian
colony of Los Angeles, and his dis
covery of America will be celebrated
October by the men from the land
of Garibaldi.
October is the date of discovery,
according to the reckonings of the
Cregorian calender, and more than 200
Italians met last night at Italian hail.
642 North Main street, and arranged
to do honors to Mr.. Columbus on the
date which they maintain is the an
niVersary of the great discovery.
A picnic is to be given at Cucamonga
canyon on the date in question and
all of the merrymalSing features known
to residents OF sunny Italy are to be
indulged in. An admittance fee, which
is to be determined later, is to be
charged and the proceeds obtained are
to be invested in the local italian
school fund.
Cav. Della Rocca, Italian consul at
San Francisco, Mayor George Alex
ander of Los Angeles, Mayor s. w.
McNabb of San Bernardino, and many
other celebrities are to be given In
vitations to the celebration and q big
attendance Is expected.
The health of the good-guessing
Christopher Columbus win be the sub
ject of many toasts and Branca will
not be neglected in doing honor to the
man who made George Washington,
Abraham Lincoln, and all of our ma
tional heroes a possibility.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-14
BIDS ASKED FOR
CITY HALL SITE
COUNCIL RESOLVES TO SEEK
PURCHASERS,
PRESIDENT PEASE THINKS TIME
UNPRoPITloUs
Resolution Requesting Offers for
Building and Grounds Sets Forth
That Municipality Is Free
to Refuse All

Bids for purchase of the city hall
property are to be received by the
city council until IL o'clock on the
morning of September 81. This is In
accordance with the recommendation
made by the finance committee to the
council yesterday. The council unani-
mously expressed its purpose by the
following resolution:
Resolved, That the city clerk be
and he is hereby directed to advertise
the city hall property for sale, and
that the notice of sale contain the fol-
lowing provisions:
THAT sealed bids will be received
on the 21st day of September, 1909, un-
til II o'clock a. M, and the same VIII
be opened at that hour; that the prop
erty, if sold, will be sold to the person
making the highest bid; that any bid
accepted will be accepted with the
provision that the city shall retain
possession of the said property until
December 81, 1910, and that each bid
der shall state in his bid the time
within which he proposes to pay FOR
the said property and the interest pro-
posed to be paid on deferred payments,
If any; that no bid will be considered
unless the same provides for full pay
meut within three years; that the city
and all bids; that each person sub
hitting a bid shall submit herewith
check for the sum of $1,000, drawn in
favor of the city clerk. certified by a
responsible bank of the city of Los
Angeles, guaranteeing that such bidder
will enter into a contract in accord
ance with his bid
President Pease did not appear TO
be in full sympathy with the other
members of the council in the matter
of the sale of the city hail. although
he said it would do no harm to receive
bids. He declared he believed the city
would gain in the end if it held on TO
the property a little longer.
Councilman wallace said something
would soon have to be done. He de-
clared the city was paying S3O,OOO
year for rent for quarters outside the
CITY hall because the hall is entirely
too small for the city's business. He
said the finance committee had first
considered the advisability of erecting
a modern office structure ten stories
high on the lot north of the city hall,
owned by the city, and that only serves
the use of a fork, but that it would cost
probably a quarter of a million dollars
and the city did not have the money.
He believes the present city hall can
be sold and a new one erected on
cheaper property without taking cent
of tax or bond money.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-14
SHARP TACTICS
DEFEAT PROJECT
PUBLIC UTILITIES BOARD Is
VOTED DOWN
DROMGOLD WINS PARLIAM ENT-
AIRY sKlRMIsH CLEVERLY
Laughing, Councilman from Old First
Ward Causes Measure to Be Acted
on Immediately, and Whole
Scheme Falls

Parliamentary practice used by Coun-
Gilman Dromgold killed the plan for a
public utilities commission yesterday
afternoon, although Councilman Wal
lace, who is really the father of the
move, gave notice that when the vaca-
tion season is over he will use his ut
most endeavors to bring the corpse to
life.
Two proposals for a public utilities
commission were before the council for
consideration. One was introduced by
Councilman Lyon and provided for a
commission of five to be appointed by
the council, three of whom were to be
nominated by the chamber of COM
merce. Merchants and Manufacturers
association and the Municipal league.
These five men were to employ an eX-
pert accountant, an engineer and Sec
retary.
Councilman Dromgold introduced a
proposal for a commission of three to
be appointed by the council. His com
mission was to have been composed Of
an engineer, an accountant and a sec
retary. The engineer and accountant
would not be expected to devote all
their time to the work and would re-
ceive $1,000 a year as their compensa-
tion. The secretary would work all the
time and receive a salary of S2400 a
year. The accountant and secretary
were to be elected Jointly by the civic
bodies
Lyons measure appealed to Wallace
and some other members of the Coun-
ell and Dromgold's to Blanchard and
others But Healy and Clampitt
wanted the whole business filed, and
President Pease was of their frame of
mind. Councilman Wren was luke
warm on the proposition, and to get an
expression from the council seconded
Healy's motion to file. An amendment
was then made to lay the whole matter
over for four weeks.
Dromgold called attention to the fact
that the amendment was not to the
original motion to adopt Lyons proposal
and demanded that the chairman de-
clare it out of order, Wren and Healy
having withdrawn their motion to file
in favor of postpOnement. When the
chair declared the amendment to the
substitute out of order Dromgold In
sisted that his motion to adopt his
scheme for a board be put. 1t was
voted down. and he insisted on the
original. That also was voted down.
Then an effort was made again for
postponement and it was found both
measures were off the table, while
Dromgold laughed in his sleeve at Wal
lace's discontinue.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-14
GIRL FOUND MURDERED IN
ROOM ABOVE RESTAURANT
Another Mysterious Crime Puzzles
the Police Officials of
French Capital

PARIS, Aug. Il As if the, tragedy
in which two high police officials lost
their lives was not enough, another
sensation has been created in the same
district by a mysterious murder. At q
corner of two busy thoroughfares is a
cafe. One of the walters, who was in
a bathroom, noticed blood trickling
from the ceiling. The proprietor of
the cafe informed the concierge, and
they went upstairs together.
on entering a fat which is occu-
pied by a person who keeps regis
try office for servants they noticed that
one room was in great disorder, and
that an AK was lying on the floor.
Reinforced by policemen, they broke
into the place and discovered a young
woman who livel with the tenant lying
dead in the kitchen. Her skull had
been fractured, and her face was one
mass of fearful wounds. There are in
dications that the girl was killed by
a woman.