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The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-06-29

the way he fused A good bucking
ontest Is worth going to see, and
1t Is believed a gcood one Will be
offered here.
Two base ball games are to be
offered, one in the forenoon and
one in the afternoon. The Richfield
team meets the Soldier bays in the
morning, and the Shoshone players
in the afternoon. while Richfield
has played no outside games this
season. it is a fair guess that the
visitors will be right sure they had
ball game; and that the visiting
team that goes home defeated bya
close score will be mighty lucky.
who pick Richfield to lose even one
game.
The smaller track athletics will
be carried through according to
well arranged schedule, and there
will be more fun in them than you
ever saw. The person who misses
these pleasures ought to have to
work the whole year on half feed,
and have some one at home to ex
plain three times a day how wrong
it is to stay away from Independ-
ence day celebrations.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-06-29

treat the family to candy and Gig
ars; if l buy a load of potatoes
must do the same. Customers who
are able to pay hang onto their mon
ey, while I pay 10 per cent at the
bank to get ready cash. l have
big business during hard times and
poor crops from people who are
willing to trade with me provided
can duplicate catalogue prices and
wait until after harvest for my
money.
My scales weigh too heavy when
sell sugar and too light when
buy butter. | am a thief, liar and
CRATER. If | smile l am a soft
soapy hypocrite; if l don't smile
am a grump.
yes this certainly is a snap.
And then he looks over $4,000
worth of book accounts. all good,
and wonders how he can raise $3.50
to meet a sight draft tomorrow
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-06-29
They re All Coming
Interesting People, Interesting Things
Will Be In Richfield For Indepen-
dence Day Celebration.

1t i current rumor that about all
of Carey will come down to the
Richfield ourth of July celebration
The Carey band and orchestra has
been engaged, and the good peo-
pie there are proud enough of their
musical attainments to follow them
almost wherever they go.
Nat few people are expected
up from Shohone, to take part in
the festivities for Independence day.
county seat, and as Richfield is the
They have no celebration at the
nearest and best neighbor that does,
many of the people will take advan-
tage of the occasion and come
Some excellent riding is expected
in the bucking contest While this
is not typical COW country, with a
lot of legendary outlaw horses hid
away in the brush to be brought in
for bad-mans match, there are
enough buckers to make it interest
ing for any average good rider. A
few years ago, a tame horse that
had been driven to a dray down in
Shoshone, was brought out for the
bucking match, and you'd have be-
lieved that he was live, roaring
lion fresh from the African jungle,
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-06-29
NEW STORE.
Prominent Boise Merchant Selects
RichfieId as a Winner.

M Alexander, of Boise, has open
ed his clothing store in the Recor-
der building in Richfield, and it is
now ready for business, under the
able management of Fred Simons,
late of Boise The store is carry
ing an exceptionally complete line
of mems and boys clothing and fur
nishing goods, including shoes, and
there will be no better kept store
anywhere
Mr.. Simons, the manager, was at
the head of the Boise fire depart
ment dring the administration of
James H. Hawley as mayor He
served for several years with the
fire department of San Francisco.
He lives at Star, on the interurban
line to Caldwell, where he is a gar
dener and fruit grower on the side.
He believes that this is going to be
a premier apple country, better than
or at least as good as the Boise
valley
an investor in Richfield is one of
the best of business indications. 1t
is proverbial that he has never
guessed wrong in picking a prosper
Gus location, in towns wherebusi-
ness conditions are such as to in
sure growth. He is one of the
most persistent and effective of adj
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-06-29

build these bridges of steel. but that
would have meant to delay the com
pletion Of the road until next year,
as the steel could not be had on so
short notice, and so wooden struc-
lures will be put in instead. These
can be replaced with steel when
ever it is necessary to do so. The
bridge across the Big Wood is to
be high one, nearly 100 feet above
the water and about 500 feet long.
The other will probably be longer,
but not so high.
Most of the grading is finished
for the Richfield yards, and within
a very few days the tracks will be
laid for the material yard More
than 100 cars of ties are on the
road. that need a place to rest;
and steel, and every kind of build
ing material. in quantities sufficient
for whole railroad All this stuff
can be stored as soon as the local
yards are completed.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-06-29

e. Steve, a contractor of the firm
of Steve & Anderson on the new
railroad, committed suicide at his
camp at mile 13 last Saturday night
by shooting himself through the
head with a Winchester rifle
Steve had been drinking heavily
of late, and when he could not get
whiskey or alcohol he would drink
lemon extract or anything else that
contained enough alcohol to intox-
icate IT. is probable that he WAS in
measure insane from this kind of
drink at the time he committed the
last rash act
The county coroner not being able
to come, Justice of the Peace II B
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-06-29
Tired of Life; Shoots Himself
Contractor Steve, With Pockets Bullying With Money
And Bank Deposit Slips, Takes His Own Life
at His Camp on New Railroad Grade.

Jones summoned a jury Monday and
held an inquest out at the camp, the
jury bringing in a verdict to the eff
feet that the deceased came to his
death from a gunshot wound in
flicted by himself.
At the inquest, the body was
searched, more than 5000 in money
being found in his pockets, besides
bank deposit slips showing that he
had close to $4,000 deposited in var
ious banks. He also had head OF
good horses. and a lot of grading
machinery He was a native of Swe-
den, and has daughter living in
that country.
The remains were sent to Sho-
shone for burial
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-06-29

thankfulness that we're not so poor
as poverty-stricken as the very best
or the very worst of them, and be
as other people are. No stree; be
not ashamed to tell all the world
that we, too, are poor as snakes;
to claim fellowship with Jobs tur-
key, with the proyerbial church
mouse, and and with all the sad,
distressed peoples and things of all
times
So Richfield Is poor today. City
milk is rich and fat in comparison
with the tax roll; the Arkansaw
Traveller was a plutocrat beside the
local assessment roll It's all full
cash value, however, as per law.
When thecounty and state boards
of equalization meet to judge be-
tween the various sections of the
state, the self-sacrificing effort of
the Richfield people must become a
model for emulation. There will be
many who will say, why didn't l
too do SO good a deed?". Honest
ly, we don't know; probably because
they weren't kind-hearted enough
at the right time.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-06-29
GIVE THEM JOBS.
idle Men Who Might BE Put On the
City Pay Roll.

1t Isl being proposed that few
of the idle men around town be
gathered in by the officers, and put
to work on the city streets. With
the railroad boom have come lot
of men who are OF on the best
terms with hard labor, and what
ever the demand for workmen they
would not respond. In one way or
them so long as they are here. 1t
would be a kindness, perhaps, to
enforce habits of industry, and the
matter is being discussed seriously
by the officers. There are num-
Der of confirmed dope fiends here,
brought in by the boom, who have
made life miserable to everyone in
reach. 1t has been suggested that
course of hard labor would be a
real blessing from a medical and a
social standpoint, and this too is in
contemplation by the officers.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-06-29
Old Geography a Prevaricator
This Year Disproves the Teachings of MothEaten Vol
ume That Prates Learnedly About the s'Deadly
Dusty Snake River Desert of Idaho"

trying to keep out of each others
way, and you can't tell when one
rain lets off and another one be-
gins---just like a three days Fourth
of July celebration, with firecrack-
ers popping all the time until you
can't tell the days apart.
But there have not been enough
kicks to make it worth while to try
to change it. 1t is true that the al
falfa is not quite up to the usual
standard, the first crop being more
or less OF failure because of the
backward spring. But the grain is
so much better, and the trees, and
the pasture, ,--and we couldn't help
it anyhow---that the rain looks like
mighty welcome guest.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-06-29

Nobody coming into this country
this spring for the first time, would
believe that this should be classed
as part of the arid belt; the great
Snake River desert as it used to
be marked on the old biographies.
There has been enough rain to put
this into the real humid class,
where long woss and mildew grows
on everything that stands still for a
few minutes, where the frogs sing
grand opera aiiztne day long, where
the rubber-boot salesman works 13
months every year, and where the
malaria and the shakes and thecat-
fish never die. The clouds have al
most worn themselves to frazzles
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-06-29
THE MAN IN BUSINESS.
What Happens When He Does or
Doesn't DO Anything.

What Happens When He Does Oh
Doesn't DO Anything.
Yes" remarked the country mer-
chant to the newspaper man, q GER
tainly haye a snap. hTe wholesale
houses send me duns every month
and draw on me at sight but if l
send a bill to a farmer he comes in
swearing mad and quits trading at
my store. While | am hard up for
money, many of those who owe me
are sending cash in advance to mai.
order houses. If | contribute mon
ey to ny cuse people say | am bid
ding for trade; if | don't they say
am a hog. Every day | am expec-
ted to dig up for everything that
comes along, from a rattle ticket to
a church 1und, by the people who
say | ought to become they do their
trading here, but my friends, Skeei
and Chawbdck, neither buy ticket
nor help the church funds, and get
cash in advance business, and if |
were to circulate a subscription pa
per among the wholesale houses l
trade with I'd get the laugh pro-
per.
'If l sell a pair of pants l must
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-06-29
NOTICE-sTOCK RUNNING


Whereas numerous complaints
have been received concerning the
running at large through the streets
and upon private propertwy within
the Village limits. of horses, cattle
and other stock; and,
Whereas, the ordinance has been
duly passed and published prohibit
ing the running at large of ali stock
within the Village limits, providing
for the impounding off all such an
mails and assessing penalty OF
two dollars for each beast together
with cost of keeping same in any pu
lie stable or other place used as
pound;
Know ye, therefore, that it is
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-06-29
CRANE-DAvIS WEDDING.
Fred Crane Brings Bride From the
Golden State.

Fred Crane Brings Bride From the
Golden State.
Fred w. Crane, of Richfield, and
Miss Lillian Frances Davis of Chico,
California, were married at the
home of the bride, Friday, June %,
and are now at home on their ranch
north of Richfield, after a honey
moon trip of nearly two thousand
miles.
The young people were school
mates back in Marion, N. Y, and for
all they were widely separated in
miles, they had never lost heart in
terest in each other The bride
went to California some years ago,
where she was for a long time ac-
countant in the office of the Chico
Daily Record Mr.. Crane came to
Richfield more than two years ago,
and no one has been more indus
trious, or more successful, for he
had a worthy object to look forward
to---the making of a home for the
one he had cared for for so long a
time The many friends of Mr..
Crane in this locality welcome the
newcomer most sincerely.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-06-29
HOW POOR IS ANN?
Mighty Destitute, According to As
sessment Schedule.

The question How old is Ann?"
is a mathematical axiom, a palmer
with what is going to be considered
"a fair cash valuation for taxation
purposes.
V. V. Bower, deputy assessor
for Richfield, started out to make
this one of the richest communities
in southern Idaho BY the Christian
Science method of saying we're so
town and tract were to be put into
the Croesus and Rockefeller class.
Several of the honestest people un-
der this classification were planning
automobiles, trips to Europe, blood
private banks and all the other i'm
pedimenta of the sinful rich The
way they fell for a full cash valua-
tion that made them richer than
they ever dreamed of being, was a
beautiful realization of P. t. Bar
NUNS celebrated proverb.
But when it was learned that the
full cash valuation of property was
about twice that in and around the
county seat, they WEIGHED, reniged,
squealed, quit, ducked, side-stepped,
beefed, roared, crawfished, and all
those potent verbal forms that mean
that they wouldn't stand for the
stuff. Not that they disbelieved in
the real equity of thedoctrine that
Richfield is twice as good as Sho-
shone; but they didn't want to ap-
pear purse-proud and arrogant. Not
on your life would they rebuke the
honorable governors nor would they
doubt that their neighbor towns wer
all precisely what Marc Antony call
ed thesenate of Rome after they
had poked old Caius Julius Caesar
as full of holesf as a mosquito net
for honor's sake. But they would
not be odd ducks for the whole wide
world; none of your pharisaic
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-06-29
SHOOTING AT SOLDIER.
Joe Jones, Bad Man, Shot to Death
by Ben Higgs.


Joe Jones was shot to death by
Ben Higgs at Soldier last Monday
evening.
Four shots were fired. each taxi
ing effect, the one causing his death
severing the jugular vein. One en-
tered his arm, coming out through
his shulders, the ther two passed
through his thighs and II inches
above his knees. Jones expired in
20 minutes.
Higgs was Immediately taken in
to custody and lodged in the village
jail, and the next morning was ta-
ken to the county jail at Haley by
Deputy Sheriff Somers. who happen
ed to be in Soldier. The gun taken
from Higgs was 3S Colts and
empty shells were found in the gun.
A little four year old child by the
name Of Campbell was struck in the
knee by a bullet and will probably
be a cripple for life.
Jones mas been a resident of the
Prairie for Z years and was known
as a reckless and dangerous man.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-06-29

tiles to strictly enforce saidordinan-
ce and, To that end, every citizen is
hereby authorized to take up any
large within the village limits and
turn same over to the Village Mar
shall to be impounded in the man
ner provided.
BY order of the Board of Village
Trustees
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-06-29
RICHFIELD, COUNTY, THURSDAY

vertising boosters, and people go a
long ways to trade at his stores; it
is good town asset to have few
such business men to reach out for
the outsiders. There may be many
others attracted by his coming, and
in all it looks a lot like Richfield
is getting some very valuable en-
dorsement.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-06-29

Mrs. j. F. Miller, living one and
a half miles north of town, brought
to this office last Saturday, some
as fine strawberries as were ever
raised in any country. The berries
were yer large, nicely colored and
highly Favored and the vines on
which they grew were set out
this spring
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-06-29

D. G. BRAKE, Village Clerk
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1911-02-09
FOREIGN.


Already nearly 5000 bodies of vic.
Tins of the plague have been burned
or buried in tn eoutskirts of Harbia,
Manchuria.
Sani-Ed Dowlen, Persian minister of
finance. was shot dead in the street
at Teheran. His assassins, two Arme-
mans, escaped.
DR.. Jean Charcot, the French Ant
artic explorer, issues an appeal to
France to follow other countries in
honoring Captain Robert E. Peary.
A Rotterdam blacksmith was 80
overcome with Joy on hearing that he
had won $4,000 in lottery that in
bis excitement he lit his pipe with the
ticket and is now unable to prove his
claim.
Aviator Say. competing for the aeri
al league prize for the aviator flying
forty miles over a circuit course at
Paris, covered forty-two miles in thir-
ty-two minutes. He used biplane and
few over the track at Issy La Moli.
neaux.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1911-02-09
GEN ERAL.

Archbishop Ryan is in critical con-
dition at his home in Philadelphia.
One Of the most sweeping quaran.
tines in the history of Philadelphia,
was put in force following discovery
of smallpox.
A prairie fire which has done over
100000 damage to oil ard farm prop
erty. has swept across Washington
county, Oklahoma.
Richard l.. Ashhurst, postmaster of
Philadelphia has been missing for
some time and It IL feared he has
either suicided or been murdered.
According to statement made by
c. M. Drake, president Of the Phila.
delphia Produce Exchange, specula.
tors in second grade butter in New
York and Chicago have been unable to
find . market for all Of their cold stor-
age holdings and will be compelled to
ship 100000 pounds Of the product
70 Europe to save themselves from ab.
soluts loss.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1911-02-09
News Summary of the Past Week

Rear Admiral Charles S. Sperry, re-
tired, who successfully piloted the
United States fleet around the world
in 190S-O9, died in Washington of pneu-
monia.
Thomas ]. Henderson of Princeton,
ILL.,, who represented his state in Con-
gress from the Forty-fourth to the
Fifty-third, inclusive, died of pneu-
monia in Washington.
President Taft commuted the sem
tence Of Fred R. Warren, the Kansas
Socialist editor, who was recently SEN
fenced to six months Imprisonment
and $1,000 fine, by striking out the
imprisonment and reducing the fine to
800, to be collected by civil process
only.
The House Public Lands COMMITTEES :
at Washington reported favorably the
bill providing that patents to oil lands
for 160 acres in any one claim shall
not be denied because of transfer or as
signmsnt of the claim by the original
locator prior to discovery of oil or gas
on the claim.
Five of President Tafts appoint
ments Of United States circuit judges
have been confirmed by the Senate.
They included William H. Hunt of
Montana, Robert w. Archibald of
pennsylvania, Julian w. Mack of H.
llnois. John Emmett Garland of South
Dakota and Walter-I. Smith of Iowa.
Congress is working under high ten
sion and the prospects for the rest of
the session do not promise many days
barren Of excitement. The congestion
is such that appropriation bills are in
some danger, but members of exper.
fence recall conditions equally bad
which were met without the necessity
of extra sessions.
The War Department, undoubtedly
acting in concert with Mexico, has or.
dered large forces of cavalry to the
Mexican border to prevent egress OF
access Of Mexican rebels.
In considering bills allowing com.
pensation in personal injury and death
cases the house extended relief to
Peter Jelorac, who lost his eyesight a
the result Of an explosion In the Gun
nison tunnel in Colorado. represents
tive Martin got favorable report on
bis bill for Jelorac. carrying $1,000
In passing the measure, the House in.
creased the amount to $1,000.
After three hours of confederation
the Senate passed the river and har
! bors bill. carrying appropriations Of
about 33s.000.oo0.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1911-02-09
WESTERN

st. Joseph's Catholic Church at
Butte, Mont, was badly wrecked by
fire.
Three miles of copper wire on the
trolley line from Beacon hill to Pony
gulch, Cripple Creek, Colo.. has been
stolen.
By a cave-in on the 200foot level
Of the Homestake mine at Lead, S. d.,
Joe Thomas, an old-time shift boss,
lost his life.
Almost without opposition. bill to
abolish the whipping post for wifebeat-
ers in Oregon was passed by the State
Legislature.
The finest rural school building on
the western slope will be erected
soon at Fruitvale, Colo. 1t will &C.
comodate 400 and cost $4,000.
Grown weary Of alleged extortion
and arrogance, q number of farmers
in western Iowa have solved the rail-
way problem by building road for
themselves.
Mrs. Jack Chambers Of Ell Paso,
Tex, while in custody of the sheriff
on . charge of selling her 13.yearold
girl to a Chinaman for 5000, shot and
killed herself
Postmaster General Frank L. Hitch
cock, and Supervising Architect of the
Treasury John Knox Taylor may be
present in Denver, when the corner
stone of the new Federal building Is
laid.
At a session Of the Kansas Senate.
a few days ago. Rev. A. F. Randall,
chaplain, requested the senators to re-
peat with him the Lords Prayer.
Eight senators only were able to join
in its audible repetition. They are now
being taught.
Forty carcasses Of beef which had
been held in cold storage since De-
cember 1, 1909, and which were owned
by five Japanese restaurant keepers,
In Seattle, were seized by state pure
food inspectors and found to contain
formaldehyde.
A mysterious disease ID killing off
Mexican Inhabitants in settlement of
San Vicente, Brewster county. No
doctor has Investigated, but in the
last week five strong men have died.
Will there have been heavy deaths of
women and children.
Judgment In favor Of Cornelius 8.
Lodsr Of New York City. against form
er Governor G. N. Haskell Of Oklahoma
for $4,000 and interest since, Feb
ruary. 1905. and costs, was rendered
in Guthrie b. Judge Cotteral os the
Units& SXtDo Circuit Court