The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1914-01-15
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severe losses as a result Of the re-
cent heavy rains.
For stealing a coffee percolator
| from hardware store in Reno, B. c.
McCutcheon was sentenced to twenty
days In jail.
Increase in the number of working
| hours without an increase of wages
is the reason given by $50 laborers
at the Tacoma smeiter for having
! gone on strike.
John Ryan, who pleaded guilty at
Reno to larceny, has been sentenced
to not less than two years and three
| months nor more than four years In
the state prison.
II is announced by a member of the
Nevada tax commission that land APP
praisers will shortly be sent out
| through the various counties and a
standard appraisement will result.
The Nevada Industrial Insurance
commission now has a surplus in its
treasury of approximately $4,000, ac-
cording to Attorney General Thatcher.
who is a member of the commission.
Mother" Jones was seized by the
militia upon her arrival at Trinidad,
Colo, from Ell Paso, taken from a
Santa Fe train. held for two hours
and deported from the strike district.
No trace of poison has yet been
found in the stomach of Clyde Rudell,
the bank clerk and lodge treasurer of
The Dalles who. was found dead In
Portland r0oming house three weeks
ago.
Theron Netcalf, trail blazer and
pioneer Of the west, died January l..
in Reno at the home of his son.
Death was due to heart failure. He
emigrated to California during the
year 1853.
With a HNht vote citizens of Ia
coma rejected an $4,000 bond issue
proposed to build a street car line
across the tide flats manufacturing
district. The bonds received 1852
votes compared to 1898 against.
s. Benson noted Oregon timberman
and good roads advocate, has bought
220 acres embracing the famous Cor
don falls, on the Columbia river east
OF Portland, and will make of the
spot a scenic playground on which
the public may roam.
Through traffic will not be resumed
on the Western Pacific until some
time next week The six slides which
are on the tracks cannot be cleared
away before the expiration of that
time, although two steam shovels are
at work in the Feather river canyon.
Peaceable behavior and the organi-
cation of local union of the Western
Federation of Miners were recon-
mended by Charles Perry Taylor, or
ganizer of the American Federation
of Labor, to 700 unorganized strikers
from the works of the Tacoma Smelt-
ing company.
Thirty lazy husbands of Seattle.
arrested for nonsupport of their fami-
lies and confined in the county stock
ade, earned 1901 in December. The
money was paid over to the wives
and children. The work was clearing
land, under supervision of deputy
sheriffs.
Charles e. Mahoney, vice-president
OF the Western Federation of Miners,
has left Denver for Chicago. where
he will discuss with President Char
les H. Meyer, the proposition of call
ing general strike throughout the
United States of all members of the
Western Federation of Miners.
Orlando w. Powers, Democratic
leader in Utah. and widely known as
lawyer, is dead. He was associate
counsel in the defense of Clarence
barrow at Los Angeles and defended
Anna NJ Bradley, who in 1906 killed
former Senator Arthur Brown in
Washington. d. c. He was ga years
old.
Mrs. Lewis Gauier, wife of a pain
ter, was held up at Great Falls Mont.
at the point of a revolver by two
men and, while one clapped his hand
over her mouth cautioning her to
make no noise, the other, ascertain
ing that she had some money In her
stocking. promptly cut 1t open and OBJ
tanned SIS.
The record for number of divorce
applications filed In one day at Reno
vas broken on December 81. on the
last day for fling under the provi-
sions of the old law admitting of a
six-months' residence as sufficient to
confer Jurisdiction Eleven actions
for divorce were filed in the district
court.
Idaho was by far the heaviest ship
per on the Short Line system last
year, Idaho sent out 1881 care COM
pared with 2.66S cars for Utah, 1875
for Oregon and nine for Montana. Out
OF 1895 cars OF potatoes. Idaho fur
nished 6.4S9. Idaho also leads in ap-
pie shipping, 1859 cars, compared with
447 for Utah,
Various tree diseases classed as
blight are working havoc with the
species OF pine tree known as conf
fers. according to a federal bulletin
received in Salt Lake. The bulletin
advises that conifers In Idaho are be-
ing generally ravaged by the blight
and suggests the possibility of the az
Election spreading into Utah.
AS q result of injuries sustained at
Carter. Wyo., c. c. Butler, a coal
chute foreman. died at an Ogden hos
pitaL The injuries resulted when
RutIar's cintbins ..u,h, q. a. -.