The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1914-09-24
NORTHWEST NOTES

eHA oAiment IN the Reno public
schools will this term far exceed any
past record is confirmed by statistics
already gathered.
Miss Margaret Byron of Boise won
the state tennis championship of Ida.
no. Women's singles. when she defeat.
60 Miss Mabel Anderson Of Lewis
ton on the Boise courts.
A comparison Of building statistics
az given by the American Contractor
OF chicago, shows that Salt Lake is
decidedly advancing on the principal
cities OF the Pacific coast.
Bob Bracken. who believes he has a
fortune in diamonds which some mys
ferrous pursuer wants to steal. was or
dered held at the Reno Jail for obser
Vation pending hearing under an In.
sanity charge,
AFTER tenacious battle for life. fol.
lowing an attack of appendicitis which
overlook him two weeks ago. Dwight
allison Dawson, former postmaster OF
Keno passed away at Reno hospital.
September 10.
That the Western Federation of
Miners will have to step in and "a
habilitate its wandering brother, is the
opinion of most OF the members of the
Boise labor union, touching the Butte
labor question.
Louis Avansino, one of the most
widely known residents and property
owners OF Reno. passed away in San
Francisco. from an attack of typhoid
fever from which he had been suffer.
ing for about two weeks.
Potato digging in Idaho already has
begun and shipments are being made
TO eastern markets II is not thought
there will be car shortage. as there
are more cars as well as better stor-
age facilities than last year.
T. Grandjean. supervisor of the
Boise national forest. has asked the
Oregon Short Line for bids on hauling
fir and pine cross ties. in view of hav-
ing installed at or near Boise a plant
Tor treating ties in southern Idaho.
Grading for the new depot which is
to be built by the Southern Pacific at
Verdi, New. was begun last week.
Construction will be rushed to compile
ton as rapidly as possible and Verdi
VIII soon have one of the neatest little
depots on the line.
Word has been received from Rock
Springs. Wyo.. that II. Van Densen,
cashier OF the National bank at that
place, is dead. after an illness OF two
weeks with pneumonia. He was one
of the leading men OF Rock Springs
and prominent Mason.
Four track gangs have arrived in
Cokeville, Wyoming, and will i'm
mediately begin laying rails for the
new line between Pixley and Folger
One gang will be CHARTERED at Pixley
one at Folger and two at Sage. The
work will require about one month.
Ellis Morrison, for many years well
known in Republican politics in the
state of Washington and in 1895
speaker Of the legislature. died at his
home in Seattle. aged 81 years Be.
fore coming to Seattle he had been for
FIVE years a member of the Pennsyl
vania legislature.
Walter A. Byers, aged 80. might
clerk in the Seattle postoffice, ana \
practicing attorney. was arrested with
his pockets full OF letters taken from
the mails. He made full confession
saying he had been abstracting money
from letters since January because he
was hard up"
The steamship Mariposa, which left
Seattle Saturday for Skagway. car
ried the last freight which can reach
the Yukon river boats for Transports
ton down that stream. along whose
shores ice has already begun to form
The last boat from White Horse tc
Fairbanks will leave September Fl.
Ralph sheldon OF Pineyille. Ore, en-
tered a plea OF guilty OF murder II
the second degree. and was given q
life sentence in the penitentiary Shell
don poisoned his infant son on Jun'
10. After the child died. he crematet
the body in the kitchen range. huryinG
the remains on the mountain side nea'
| the home.
Railroads are mighty fine things
I guess. but | don't want any more
in mine" remarked Samuel d. Con
nelly of Pioneerville. Idaho. aged %
who has Just returned from his frs
trim on a real railroad train. IN sticl
20 the stage ia future" Mr. Connel,
has the distinction OF being the oldesl
living Master Mason in Idaho.
A federal grand jury has beer
called at Boise TO consider evidence
in the possession of the district at
,orney. including charges against u
Simpson and L. G. Long, officers o
the American National bank OF CAld
we'll and alleged 10 be responsible fo
the failure Of that institution a yea
ago.
From six TO eight carloads OF earl.
potatoes are being loaded for mar
ket daily by the growers Of the Dee'
Fiat section. The minimum cargo ha'
been increased from z4.8oo pounds q
80. 900 pounds, making the eapaeii'
OF four cars equal to that Of Eve carr
under the previous regulations,
That the northwestern apple erol