The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1914-04-23
INLAND NORTHWEST

In the state of Montana, where min.
eral lands have been officially classi
led, the state has more than 100000
acres of state lands which is being
sold with remarkable success.
Roy Welsh, not yet 10 years of age
has been received at the state peni
Tertiary at Walla Walla, Wash, to be-
gin his life sentence for the murder
of A. H. Warden, 1anitor OF a Tacoma
school.
William H. Race, aged "a, said to
be the last member of the convention
which brought the Republican party
into existence March 20, 1854, IL the
little town of Ripon, Wis, died last
week at the Masonic home in Helena
When pleading that his wife and
children needed his money for food
Julian Anselmo, a car repairer, was
shot and MORALLY wounded by
masked highwayman at Salt Lake
who took Anselmo's wages before he
shot him
William A. Mathews, vice-president
of the Overland Insurance company OF
Boise, Idaho, under arrest at Chicago
charged with embezzlement of $1,000
of the company's funds, will fight ex.
tradition and will not return to Idaho
unless compelled.
1t has just been discovered that the
Mountain States Telephone & Tele-
graph company has been using the
streets and alleys of Kemmerer, Wyo
fourteen years without franchise. 1t
has allowed the city one telephone for
the use of the streets.
Prof. ]. T. Game III of the Agricul.
tural college at Logan, Utah, has be.
gun a trip through various parts OF
the state, during which he will visit
the strengthening plants in the inter.
est of the movement to bring about
more humane treatment of sheep in
shearing.
Mrs. Belle Van Dorm Harbert, presi.
dent of the International Congress Of
Farm Women, has been decorated
with the Cross of the Order of Agri-
culture of Belgium, according to ad.
vices received at Denver. Mrs. Har.
bert is the first woman to receive the
decoration
N. w. Lewis, who lives about five
miles south Of Payette, Idaho, was
seriously burned by the explosion of
natural gas in his we'll last week.
1t has long been known that the we'll
on the Lewis farm supplied gas in
slight quantities, but no explosion has
before occurred
One of the most unique hunts in
history, and one that is being con
Quoted on large scale, is the noun
tain lion drive now on in the Yellow
stone National park. Within fifteen
days eighteen lions have been bagged,
including the largest specimen ever
seen in that region.
At the election at Granger, Wyo., the
citizens voted to incorporate. the town
into a city Only one vote was cast
against the bill. The county commits
sioners will soon authorize an election
for city officials. 1t is understood
that no limitations will be placed on
the number of saloons
During the conference of governors
at Denver attorneys general and state
engineers of the western states per-
fected organizations of their respec.
tive members The two associations
will hold their first annual meetings
either at Salt Lake or Boise, Ida, in
July, when officers will be elected.
Because he could not effect a rec.
onciliation with his former wife,
Frank Avansino, member of a wealthy
Italian family at Reno, New, shot and
wounded Jennie Yori, whom he di.
vorced a year ago, and then sent a
bullet into his own brain. Avansino
died, but it is thought that the woman
will recover
Fear of being killed gave Charles
Meyers courage to kill himself at
North Yakima, Wash This was the
conclusion of the coroner's jury after
an investigation into the death of
Meyers. The psychological paradox
of his action is accounted for by the
fact that he was haunted by the fear
of combat with relatives of a man he
had killed ten years ago.
Officials of four transcountry rail
roads terminating in the northwest
and representatives of commercial
organizations in Portland. Seattle
Tacoma and Spokane held a confer
ence in Portland last week and
planned joint campaign to bring to
the northwest as large a share as pos
sible of the influx of eastern tourists
expected on the Pacific coast next
year.
AS he was chatting with fellow
&orkmen about the execution of the
four Gotham gunner and the use of
electricity in executions. Murray An.
sci, aged 26, an electrician, was en-.
veloped in flame of electrical fire and
narrowly escaped electrocution while
working at a substation at Butte. An
sci came in contact with a cable car,
rying 1000 volts and was severely
burned about the face. hands and arms
when It grounded an iron pipe.
As result of the death in a hos.
pital at Seattle of Lawrence Kelly.
70 years old, of Mortified. VT. three
orakemen employed by the Chicago,
& St Paul railroad were
arrested. charged with having thrown
Kelly from a moving train